| 6:31 PM: | BlackBerry Bold review. 3G, GPS, Wi-Fi, QWERTY keyboard, camera, great screen, clean styling, and more. Boy Genius. | |
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| 6:25 PM: | WordPress updates to 2.6, adds Gears support. Blogging platform WordPress updated to version 2.6 late last night. Webware. | |
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| 6:24 PM: | How to Optimize Your Surround Sound System. No matter how humongous your HDTV happens to be, your home theater isn't truly complete unless you've got a booming surround sound system. Wired. | |
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| 6:23 PM: | Podcast: Our favorite travel sites. There are dozens of good travel sites we know of, and probably hundreds we don't. So we broke down our discussion into sections (planning, booking, organizing, social, and air travel) and discussed our favorite sites and tips. Webware. | |
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| 10:54 AM: | Netflix streaming movies hit Microsoft's Xbox 360 (legitimately) Microsoft on Monday morning announced upcoming support for movie rental service Netflix as part of its system software update for the Xbox 360. Console owners who are also Netflix subscribers will be able to take advantage of Netflix's Watch Now streaming movie service on their consoles without any additional software or hardware. Webware. | |
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| 10:52 AM: | Delver launches open alpha of its social search engine. One of my favorite companies from the January, 2008 Demo conference was Delver, a search engine that takes into consideration who your friends are and what they've said and bookmarked in its results. Webware. | |
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| 10:52 AM: | SanDisk WORM Write-Once SD Cards Can't Be Altered. SanDisk has created the first write-once SD memory card after over a year of talking about it. The WORM (Write Once Read Many) cards cannot be altered or deleted. Gizmodo. | |
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| 10:51 AM: | Delver Launches Social Search. When you do a search on Delver, the service taps into your social graph to return its search results. It organizes and ranks publicly displayed content that comes from various online services like social networks, web sites, blogs, bookmarking services, and photo and video sharing sites that your friends belong to. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 9:30 AM: | Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free. With push email, your phone gets an alert as soon as new mail arrives it's pushed from the server to your phone as soon as it's available. Lifehacker. | |
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| 8:19 AM: | Pheedo Launches Analytics for Distributed Feed Advertising. The dashboard will provide advertisers on the Pheedo ad network the ability to track details on where their ads were served and to whom. The concept is to help advertisers increase the ROI on their feed ad campaigns. CenterNetworks. | |
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| 8:17 AM: | Apple's Joswiak on iPhone Copy and Paste, GPS Driving Directions. ExtremeTech reports that they were able to talk to Apple's head of iPod and iPhone marketing, Greg Joswiak, on launch day. They asked two very common questions about possible features of Apple's iPhone. MacRumors. | |
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| 8:15 AM: | Lenovo ThinkPad X200: Like the MacBook Air, but drab and business-y. The Intel Core 2 Duo (2.26-2.40 GHz)-powered ThinkPad X220 is supposed to compete with the useless MacBook Air, and has similar specs. CrunchGear. | |
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| 8:13 AM: | Four new laptop lines from Sony. Sony has announced four new laptop lines, each taking advantage of Intel's new Centrino 2 (Montevina) platform: The FW Series of multimedia notebooks, the SR Series of ultraportables and the Z Series of ultraportables, along with the BZ Series of business notebooks. CrunchGear. | |
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| 8:10 AM: | Test feature shows social news may be on the way for Google. A Google user has taken screenshots of what appears to be a Digg- or StumbleUpon-like voting system; it might never see public release, but shows that the company continues to be interested in building social search and news technologies in-house. News.com. | |
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