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March 10, 2010

For power users, the Twitter website is often just a thing of the past. We've moved on to third party interfaces with multiple columns, special user list navigation, search, and so on. But what about the novice user that wants something more than Twitter.com?

For that, there's Brizzly, a web-based Twitter client that today is announcing the release of its awaited iPhone app, along with a neat feature or two.

March 10, 2010

Tuesday night Google announced the creation of the Google Apps Marketplace, a place for third-party applications developers to share their work with the community of Google Apps users. Currently, businesses can use enterprise versions of Google's popular suite of web apps, and with the new Apps Marketplace, they can integrate outside applications into these services.

March 10, 2010

Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers and by attempting to introduce a virus into the computer system, according to news sources.

March 9, 2010

Having filled our business laptop lust with a T410 undressing yesterday, today we've come across a comprehensive teardown of Alienware's gamer-friendly M11x ultraportable.

March 9, 2010

Company working with satellite provider on feature that would let users search both TV content and web videos on set-top boxes

March 9, 2010

From Mashable: Despite CEO drama, plummeting traffic and even declining mobile website usage, MySpace Mobile for Android is the most popular social app in the Android Market and the third most popular downloaded application overall.

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March 8, 2010

It was just about a year and a half ago now that we were hearing the bells toll for Internet radio service Pandora, but, as evidenced in today's New York Times profile of the decade old stalwart, the service seems to be going nowhere but up.

March 8, 2010

Since we published our Never Mind the Valley article on the growing startup scene in Chicago, I have received several emails about various events and startups that call the city home. The technology culture in Chicago is quickly expanding, just as it is in most major metropolitan areas, because startups as a culture are breaking further and further into the mainstream.

March 7, 2010

The most important day in the gay calendar, Oscar Sunday is important not only for the glorious shining awards handed out to a lucky few. There's also the dresses! Here are some red carpet low/highlights.

All images via Getty

Anna Kendrick doesn't look like Fritzi anymore.

Amanda Seyfried: "It's that whole country club formal dinner napkin look that I've always loved."

Zoe Saldana: "I'm doing a whole 'Under the Sea' musical number with Vera Farmiga."

March 6, 2010

Independent research boutique ChangeWave surveyed 3,171 consumers and found that consumer pre-launch interest in t

March 6, 2010

We certainly wouldn’t advocate turning your office, cubicle or home office into some kind of over-the-top dork theme park, but a few witty items carefully placed here and there can brighten up the dullest work space with some geek c

March 6, 2010

U.S. commuters spend an average of 50 minutes in their car each day, and that leaves a lot of room for improvement. Make the most of your commute with these 10 tips.

Photo by mattlemmon.

March 5, 2010

(As part of his research for a book he's writing on microfinance, Bob Harris took a trip through the Peruvian Andes, including Cusco, Lake Titicaca, Machu Picchu, where he studied the architecture, refused to try corn-and-human-saliva beer, imbibed in coca tea ("maybe the best damn thing I ever drank"), and visited with people who live on floating islands made out of reeds. His photos and comments are fascinating. -- Mark)

March 5, 2010

The move to virturalization leaves no stone left unturned. It touched the public network via EC2 (and now a host of hosts) it formed the Cloud and fused a new generation of the Internet. Service orientated also hits the data centers and this means things like switches, servers, and disk.

At the core of the movement of virtualization movement is freedom of the physical environment. Optimize hardware performance and set the workload free. In the process of doing this, a promise of cost savings has set a off a storm in re-factoring the data center.

March 5, 2010

I'm a big fan of maxims and technology. It should be no surprise, then, that Melvin Kranzbergs six laws of technology really speak to me. Perhaps my favorite is, "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." There have always been - and will always be - winners and losers. Lately I have been wondering if there have been too many of the latter and not enough of the former.

March 5, 2010

The source code for reMail, the email app for the iPhone recently acquired by Google, is now open source and available on Google Code.

reMail downloads all of your email to your iPhone, and provides a powerful search tool to work through it.

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March 5, 2010

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The New York Times launched a new, free iPhone app catered to apartment hunters.

The "New York Times Real Estate" app, released March 2, allows users to search for listings and refine results; view detailed property listings with photos, floorplans, maps and directions; calculate monthly mortgage payments; take their own own photos and notes; and more.

March 5, 2010

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March 4, 2010

Just what makes this mighty media organisation tick? An exclusive extract from a new book about the company offers some insights

March 4, 2010

Crowdsourcing may be stretching the geo-political landscape much the same way that cloud computing is redefining the data center. In short, nothing is safe and yet everything has the promise of being better.

March 4, 2010

According to Gartner, the worldwide market for mobile devices with touchscreens will grow over 97% this year. Last year, consumers bought 184 million devices with touchscreens. Gartner predicts that this market will surpass 362 million units this year. By 2013, Gartner predicts, touchscreen mobile devices will account for 80% of all sales in North America and Europe.

March 4, 2010

Many of us take the disaster readiness of servers and data centers for granted. But for IT admins from both small and large companies, being prepared for disaster and emergency situations is complicated and expensive issue. Google has made an announcement today for any enterprise users of Google Apps; assuring IT admins that the suite is now fully prepared for disaster recovery.

March 4, 2010

Valtteri Halla -- Nokia employee and one-half of MeeGo's Technical Steering Group -- has blogged up a storm this week about the first baby steps that'll get the platform off the ground from its Moblin and Maemo roots, and from the sounds of things, we'll be able to get our first glimpse at it on production hardware before the month's out.

March 3, 2010

Do you want free rent in Manhattan? This Craigslist user's got a deal for you: All you need to do is walk on his back for an hour each day. And give him your leftovers. And find him a wife.