Cody Taylor

Engadget is reporting that Amazon has announced the new Kindle 2 for release on February 24th at a price point of 9. Thinner than an iPhone and coming standard with “Read-to-me” text-to-speech capability, the new device also has seven times more storage, faster page turning, a 16-level e-ink display, longer battery life, and a new five-way joystick. Looks like life just got a lot more interesting for fans of the original device. Engadget also has live coverage from the Kindle 2 press conference.

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These Firefox Extensions are Capable of saving money by replacing a fully functional application and time by simplifying complicated tasks…

suraj.sun writes to tell us that in preparation for nearly a quarter of a million people descending on Tampa for the Super Bowl, the Tampa authorities are deploying new tech for security communications and response. All of the incidents and communications will be plotted and tracked on a new implementation of Microsoft’s Surface. Hopefully it wont have to reboot after every new incident report. “The Microsoft Surface device will display a Microsoft Virtual Earth map of the entire region tracking events, incidents, resources and tasks in real-time using its unique large display, multi-user, multi-touch and interactive capabilities, also allowing it to communicate with remote devices and PCs. With a quick hand-gesture, the map can zoom in and display a 3D image of the city, including detailed views of buildings and streets and real time resource tracking.”

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theodp writes “At the World Economic Forum, Michael Dell’s pitch to help Russia with its computers got the cold-as-Siberia shoulder from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. ‘We don’t need help,’ shot back Putin. ‘We are not invalids. We don’t have limited mental capacity’ (video — rant starts at 1:24). ‘Our programmers are some of the best in the world,’ Putin continued. ‘No one would contest that here — not even our Indian colleagues.'”

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These haunting, hybrid images of past and present St Petersburgh – formerly known as Leningrad – are the works of Sergei Larenkov. After studying old images of the city, Larenkov visited the same spots, capturing them on film. He then digitally superimposed the old image over new, producing these eerie and thought-provoking shots.

The San Jose Business Times reported Thursday afternoon that the car company could not get the 0 million in venture capital it needed to build the plant.