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Interview with Richard Clark

Ben Barden — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:50:37 UTC

This post is part of our ReadWriteHack channel, which is a resource and guide for developers. The channel is sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program. Today sees our first full interview here at ReadWriteHack, with Richard Clark, a web developer from New Zealand. Richard is a coder who runs a...

Insights and Opinions: Instant Reaction to Google Instant

www.socaltech.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:34:00 UTC

I'll admit upfront that the folks at Google who came up with this are smarter than me. I also realize that they tested this and must have had more positive feedback than negative. I'm guessing that AJAX developers are also happy. That said, I'm not a big fan of Google Instantyet. In face-to-face communication...

Catch Important Tweets You May Have Missed with Cadmus

Jennifer Van Grove — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:33:11 UTC

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Quick Pitch: Cadmus is a real time filtering service...

Firefox 4 Against Internet Explorer 9

www.reddit.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:32:10 UTC

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Build a DIY Microphone Shockmount on the Cheap [DIY]

Adam Dachis — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:30:00 UTC

Hard drives aren't the only things in need of some suspension. If you handle a microphone too roughly it'll pick up that handling noise in your recording. This is especially true with shotgun mics, and hence the need for shockmounts. Generally these microphone accessories run about $50, but Instructables...

Newsday's Ad For Its iPad App Is Brilliant (Jay Yarow/Silicon Alley Insider)

www.techmeme.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:25:05 UTC

Android Will Blow Past Apple And RIM To Become Second Biggest Mobile OS This Year - Google's Android will become the second-biggest mobile operating system in the world sometime this year, according to the latest report from Gartner. Nokia appoints Stephen Elop to President and CEO as of September...

Can Microsoft's Elop reboot Nokia?

tech.fortune.cnn.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:23:57 UTC

Elop must help the Finnish cellphone maker take on Apple and Google on their own turf.

Is Google Instant ad trying to annoy Steve Jobs?

news.cnet.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:23:47 UTC

Oh, I know he's a very fine musician, autobiographer and performer at corporate functions. But does he still symbolize the idea that the times are a-changin' and your brain needs re-arrangin'? This vexing question occupies the part of my mind normally reserved for baseball and scones because Google...

The End of Bloglines is Nigh - Will Close October 1

Frederic Lardinois — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:20:57 UTC

RSS is not dead, but with Bloglines, one of the most venerable web-based RSS readers is about to close shop next month. According to a report on TechCrunch, Bloglines' parent company IAC will make an official announcement later today and shut the service down on October 1. In the early days of RSS, Bloglines...

Ancient Online Shopping Cart Patent Still Biting Retailers

Mike Masnick — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:20:07 UTC

This one goes way back. If you've been following the absolute ridiculousness of software patents for a while, you're probably aware of the infamous Open Market "online shopping cart" patents (7,272,639, 5,715,314 and 5,909,492). While Open Market failed, the patents have lived on. There was an internet...

Android Might Be Top Mobile OS Globally By 2014 [REPORT]

Christina Warren — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:17:29 UTC

Gartner has released a report predicting that by 2014, Android will be second only to Symbian in mobile operating system marketshare worldwide, with the two platforms accounting for nearly 60 percent of the mobile OS market within the next four years. The news follows numerous recent bullish reports...

Facebook's Rise: What Does it Mean for Google?

m.cnbc.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:17:00 UTC

Lets start with what it doesnt mean. This doesnt mean Facebook is eating Googles lunch in the short term, because theyve got two different core businesses. Facebook is the biggest display advertising player on the web thats basically brand advertising and thats stuff that you want people to spend a lot...

Google Voice May Return to the App Store [Google Voice]

Whitson Gordon — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:15:00 UTC

It's been over a year since the Google Voice App Store Fiasco, and iPhone users willing to jailbreak have been able to get third-party GV Mobile on Cydia ever since. But, with Apple releasing new rules for the App Store, GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs has decided to work with Apple to get his app back...

More On Instant Search - Since this week's launch of Instant Search ... (Jeff Gillis/Google Analytics Blog)

www.techmeme.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:10:04 UTC

Instamedia Raises $4 Million From Times Of India Owner

Joseph Tartakoff — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:05:24 UTC

Instamedia, which is best known for its Instablogs citizen journalism platform, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Times of India-owner Bennett, Coleman Co. Ltd. The Instablogs site lets anybody submit an original article a la NowPublic or link to an existing news story anywhere...

Android SMS Trojan Uses SEO To Spread

Mathew J. Schwartz — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:04:00 UTC

Disguised as an adult media player, the malware sends $6 text messages until a user's mobile phone account runs out of credit.

Obama: Recovery has been 'painfully slow' -- CNN

www.cnn.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:03:33 UTC

Obama once again urged the Senate to pass his small-business jobs bill, arguing that it has been blocked by "a partisan (Republican) minority." He praised Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, for announcing that he would not help GOP leaders block the bill. Still, he said, there is "room for discussion"...

WordPress.com Launches Blog Subscriptions

Alex Wilhelm — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:02:01 UTC

Claiming that RSS feeds are "tricky to manage for a non-technical person," WordPress.com has built a simple method for their users to subscribe to other blogs in the network. They call it rather originally, 'Subscriptions.' The system allows for users to, with a single click, follow a blog on the network...

Why It So Darn Hard To Hire A Decent Engineer - Even In This Job Market

Nick Saint — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:02:00 UTC

Unemployment in the United States is still at a brutal 9.6%, but for software engineers the job market couldn't look much better. Everyone in tech knows that there is a serious engineering deficit, but apparently no one outside tech knows about it, so new talent isn't flooding in to fill the...

On the GreenBeat: China beats U.S. in cleantech investment, BrightSource IPO projected within 3 years

Iris Kuo — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:57:10 UTC

Here's a list of cleantech news we're reading today: China has become the top country for cleantech investment , outstripping the U.S., according to a report from Ernst & Young. China's renewable energy investment dollars outdoes the U.S. nearly two to one, Green Chip Stocks reports, and installed...