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  • Arbitron’s Portable People Media 360 uses *cell technology*

    Arbitron’s Portable People Media 360 uses *cell technology*

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like the radio industry (well, pretty much media industry, actually, but I'm pretty sure radio is the biggest user of Arbitron data) has a new people meter up its sleeves. It's called the Portable People Meter 360, and it's designed to make reporting your radio-listening habits all the more easy. It reports to Arbitron HQ using cell technology. Just like you can download books over a cell network on your e-book reader, so, too can you tell The Man that you're listening to The Fan as you sit in traffic on the LIE.

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  • Kindle DX failing out of Darden Business School

    Kindle DX failing out of Darden Business School

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    According to Ars Technica, Darden Business School students are unhappy with the Amazon Kindle DX in terms of academic usefulness. That's not to say that they're down on the DX in general: there's pretty high support amongst Darden students for the DX as a personal e-reader. It's just not quite the classroom supplement that Darden administration had hoped it would be.

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  • Are Caller ID spoofing apps in danger of becoming illegal? Maybe, thanks to H.R. 1258.

    Are Caller ID spoofing apps in danger of becoming illegal? Maybe, thanks to H.R. 1258.

    Posted on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
    The first time I jailbroke my iPhone and used SpoofApp, I called up a good friend of mine and (thanks to the voice changer) pretended to be a lusty old flame that just couldn’t get over him. Not exactly my finest moment — but if I had waited a few more months, it might have [...]

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  • Paying the Amazon tax

    Paying the Amazon tax

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Yay, taxes! It looks like more and more states are considering forcing the likes of Amazon and Overstock.com (note: I've never bought anything from there!) to pay taxes. This is good and bad: it helps, however little, state governments balance the books, but it also raises the cost of "doing business" in those states. It also makes it more expensive to buy things online. Boo!

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  • Is Samsung launching portable Blu-ray players tonight?

    Is Samsung launching portable Blu-ray players tonight?

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Samsung might be joining Panasonic in offering portable Blu-ray players if a Ben Lyons twoot is to be believed. Let me quote, “I just partnered w/ Samsung & they asked me 2 host an event in NYC tonight for their new line of portable Blue-Ray players that are amazing!” Interested? We are. Samsung does have an [...]

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  • Huge stash of HTC Android codenames found within 2.1 ROM

    Huge stash of HTC Android codenames found within 2.1 ROM

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    You know that leaked HTC Sense ROM with Android 2.1 underneath? Well, somebody did some digging and found a wild stack of HTC Android handset codenames buried within. It starts in the realm of the familiar, with mentions of Dragon, Passion, Dream and Hero, but then it starts to get a little wild. Here's the full list: Bahamas, Bravo, DesireC, Dragon, Dream, Espresso, Halo, HeroCT, HeroC, Hero, Huangshan, Incredible, Legend, Liberty, Memphis, Paradise, PassionC, Passion, Sapphire and Supersonic. Pretty wild, right? There's no telling what exactly this list implies, other than the fact that Passion and Dragon are indeed on the books, and that HTC's naming department can really let the superlatives fly, but we're sure all will be made clear over the next year or two.

    Huge stash of HTC Android codenames found within 2.1 ROM originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Blinking LEDs to give QR codes a run for their (ad) money

    Blinking LEDs to give QR codes a run for their (ad) money

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    We're still waiting for this so-called QR code revolution to hit North America, but our contemporaries across the Pacific are already looking to develop the next big thing. Reportedly, a smattering of mega-corps (including the likes of Toshiba and NEC) are joining hands in order to concoct a rivaling technology that requires even less effort to get content from billboards, books and posters to one's mobile. The heretofore unnamed system utilizes blinking LEDs to send data to phones, and so long as an ad has enough room for a minuscule light, consumers can come within five meters of it and receive the associated information by simply pointing their handset in the direction of the light. If all goes well, the technology will be ready for commercialization by 2013, or just after phase one of the Robot Apocalypse.

    Blinking LEDs to give QR codes a run for their (ad) money originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • PixelMags Turns Magazines, Newspapers and Books into iPhone Applications

    PixelMags Turns Magazines, Newspapers and Books into iPhone Applications

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    PixelMags today announced the launch of their new service that brings magazines, newspapers, books, catalogs, and brochures easily to the iPhone and iPod Touch through the iTunes store. Essentially you send a basic set of information to PixelMags like what type of content you are publishing, if the App will be free or paid, if it's a re-occurring publication, and how often the publication will be released. This information is then sent to the PixelMags team, and they will send you all the files and information needed to get your app up and rolling in the App Store.

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  • Shock: High school student whose Kindle 1984 was deleted sues Amazon

    Shock: High school student whose Kindle 1984 was deleted sues Amazon

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Years from now, people will look back on the year 2009 as the year A) Apple lost the goodwill of a sizable chunk of the Internet audience; and B) when a high school kid sued Amazon because it remotely deleted an illegal copy of 1984. The kid is suing because he annotated the copy of the book, and now is without said notes. So of course, sue right?

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  • Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle

    Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon’s Kindle now does sheet music. It seems like the perfect match, especially if you choose to read it from the oversized Kindle DX. The music, which can be bought in the Kindle Store, comes from Novato Music Press catalog of over 20,000 titles, including 650 from Dave Beeth-Oven himself. The books are cheap, too, starting [...]

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  • Secret Passage Hides Shame of Messy Office

    Secret Passage Hides Shame of Messy Office

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Problem: You have a messy room in your house, a home office in which, even when the rest of the house is neatly squared-away, the clutter nags at the edge of your mind, taunting you. The solution? For normal people, a few minutes of tidying would do the trick. For Alpha Nerd Agmak, the answer was [...]

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