1. Apple Leads Smartphone Race, while Android Attracts Most Recent Customers 4 hours ago permalinkThe race for the lead in U.S. smartphone operating system (OS) consumer market share is tighter than it has ever been. According to November data from The Nielsen Company, the popularity of the Android OS among those who purchased a smartphone in the last six months (40%) makes it the leading OS among recent acquirers.
2. Man eats iPhone 4 at New Year's Eve celebration 21 minutes ago permalinkWe admit, we tricked you a bit with that headline -- India's Krishna Kalyan actually ate a cake for New Year's Eve, which is not nearly as extraordinary (or painful) as actually chowing down on a Retina Display and an A4 processor. But it was a cake that looked remarkably like an iPhone 4 -- as you can see to the right, the screen is very ...
3. VideoDrive 2.3 beta RC1 - Add movies to iTunes without converting them.. 6 minutes ago permalinkVideoDrive makes it easy to add videos to iTunes without converting them or losing quality. VideoDrive supports all current formats, including mpg, mpeg, mp4, avi, wmv, swf, m4v, m2v, flv, wma, mkv, asf, divx, xvid, dv and YouTube video formats. With VideoDrive, your video collection will look stunning in cover flow in iTunes. Videos in iTunes ...
4. Apple's market cap passes $300 billion 51 minutes ago permalinkAfter blasting through the $330 per share for Apple's stock today, the company now has a market capitalization valued at around $302 billion dollars . While market cap isn't everything, this is a substantial shift from the way things used to be. Apple used to be the underdog! Remember when Apple was on life support in the '90s after a series of ...
5. Mac ChiSquare Analysis 2.5 - Calculates chi-square statistic and more.. 55 minutes ago permalinkMac ChiSquare Analysis... Calculates chi-square statistic as well as contingency, phi, and kappa coefficients for up to 10 x 10 table. Version 2.5: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated. Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Download Now
6. Karaoke! Espionage! Haute Cuisine!: Adventures in the North Korean Government's Restaurant Chain 12 minutes ago permalinkDishes are approved by the Dear Leader but guaranteed not to make you Il. By expanding into Dubai and Amsterdam, the NK government's eateries are providing an alternative to arms sales in raising foreign capital. Food not bombs, indeed! A chain of restaurants affiliated with the North Korean government recently opened a Dubai branch. Visitors to ...
7. Some rumors 6 hours ago permalinkAfter exchanging New Year’s wishes with some of our best sources, we collected some information that could pave the way of release of new products, software or technologies. Here they are:
8. Would You Buy Toshiba's Glasses-Free 3-D Laptops? 29 minutes ago permalinkWill 3-D succeed? The technology has always been hindered by the viewing experience's central component, 3-D glasses, which have been awkward and annoying to wear ever since the flimsy red-and-blue framed spectacles of yore. But with 3-D tech creating a blockbuster boom in Hollywood, everyone involved in the industry--from Sony to 50 Cent --is ...
9. Siemens Invests in Expanding Wind Power 11 minutes ago permalinkClean energy is a big moneymaker for Siemens, and the company wants to become one of biggest suppliers of wind power equipment. 10. HandBrake 0.9.5 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more.. 13 minutes ago permalinkHandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded video encoding tool. Supported Sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files Most any multimedia ... 11. Pete Postlethwaite dies aged 64 16 minutes ago permalinkOscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite has died in hospital in Shropshire at the age of 64, a spokesman announces. 12. 2010 in IP addresses: 225 million down, 496 million to go 20 minutes ago permalinkAs of January 1, 2011, the number of unused IPv4 addresses stands at 495.66 million. Exactly a year earlier, the number of available addresses was 721.06 million. So we collectively used up 225.4 million addresses in 2010. 242 million, really, if we ignore the unusual circumstance that Interop gave back nearly 17 million addresses . At first ... 13. December 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® 21 minutes ago permalinkDO NOT CONFUSE THIS NATIONAL REPORT with the various regional purchasing reports released across the country. The national report's information reflects the entire United States, while the regional reports contain primarily regional data from their local vicinities. Also, the information in the regional reports is not used in calculating the ...
14. Apache, WANdisco duel over Subversion 24 minutes ago permalinkA dispute that has emerged between the Apache Software Foundation and a corporate participant over the Subversion software version control system actually puts the two parties on the same side of the argument. The two organizations are both in agreement about improvements to the popular open source project, which has millions of users and is ... 15. Japan Keeps a High Wall for Foreign Labor 31 minutes ago permalinkImmigration provides one remedy to Japan’s lethargic economy, but Tokyo is resisting accepting young workers. 16. US offers Gbagbo 'dignified exit' 37 minutes ago permalinkIncumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is offered refuge in the US as a means to end the country's political crisis. 17. PhpMyAdmin 3.3.9 - MySQL administration via the web.. 43 minutes ago permalinkphpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. Currently it can: Create and drop databases Create, copy, drop and alter tables Delete, edit and add fields Execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries Manage keys on fields Load text files into tables Create and read dumps of tables Export data to CSV values Administer ... 18. API Growth Doubles in 2010, Social and Mobile Are Trends 2 hours ago permalinkWas 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this each of the last five years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. There were 1,019 new APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the number added in 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as social APIs were the most popular and the influence of mobile is clear.
19. Delicious, Spotlight and OpenMeta tags, revisited 48 minutes ago permalinkI’ve taken a little time to improve the script I’d posted previously. It saves bookmarks you add to Delicious as webloc (Safari bookmark) files on your local hard drive, optionally with thumbnails and OpenMeta tags. 20. Media Decoder: John Roberts Goes to Fox 49 minutes ago permalinkExecutives at CNN confirmed Monday that John Roberts, who served as the morning anchor for the network since April 2007, would be joining Fox News as a national correspondent. |
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