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  1. GDC: Sid Meier and his mind games

    Cnet News &bull 55 Minutes Ago

    SAN FRANCISCO--Legendary game developer Sid Meier took to the stage at the Game Developers Conference with a simple message to those who want to create the next best-selling title. The secret of making a great game, Meier said, is to… Full Story »

  2. Twitter helps spread Formspring.me hoax

    Venture Beat &bull 1 Hour Ago

    Twitter is abuzz today with a story attributed to popular news wire service The Associated Press. The new trending topic spotlights Formspring.me, a social network that lets users create profiles to post and answer questions anonymously, and its CEO, who… Full Story »

  3. Sony VAIO VPCW111XX/W Netbook

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    The Sony VAIO VPC-W111XX/W Netbook is the perfect computer for the entire family. At only 2.6-pouds, it’s so light that anybody can carry it easily. With its onboard 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, and the Windows XP Home operating system, the Sony VAIO VPC-W111XX/W Netbook has...Full Story »

  4. Facebook turns out to be a pretty good friend to Foursquare

    Venture Beat &bull 1 Hour Ago

    In fact, the world's largest social network drives the largest share of the location-based game's web traffic, accounting for 33 percent of all upstream visits last week, according to web research firm Hitwise. Google follows closely behind, with a 22… Full Story »


  5. Will Shatner Creates Sci-Fi Social Network Site MyOuterSpace

    Daily Tech Internet &bull 2 Hours Ago

    William Shatner has been a pitch man for a host of companies, including Priceline.com. However, he is best known, of course, for his contributions to the science fiction genre for his time spent playing Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the originalStar Trek.… Full Story »

  6. 'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names

    Cnet News &bull 2 Hours Ago

    Some of the industry's biggest brands are also the blandest. Intel? And so the open-source companies wore "source" proudly on their sleeves: XenSource, MuleSource, SpringSource, SpikeSource, SourceSense, Sourcefire, and more. Matt Asay is chief operating officer at Canonical, the company… Full Story »


  7. ICANN postpones decision on .xxx domains

    Cnet News &bull 3 Hours Ago

    Larry Magid is a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate. He's been writing and speaking about Internet safety since he wrote Internet safety guide "Child Safety on the Information Highway" in 1994. He is co-director of ConnectSafely.org, founder of… Full Story »


  8. Tweetmaster General Evan Williams Touts Twitter as a Worldwide Force for Democracy

    FastCompany: Technology &bull 3 Hours Ago

    Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, has given a lengthy interview to the BBC World Service, in which he claims that social media is fundamental to the spread of democracy. Or should that be the other way around?… Full Story »


  9. Plastic Logic Que e-reader delayed till summer

    Cnet News &bull 4 Hours Ago

    Hunkered down in New York City, Executive Editor David Carnoy covers the gamut of gadgets and writes his Fully Equipped column, which carries the tag line "The electronics you lust for." He's also the author of "Knife Music," a novel.… Full Story »


  10. FunTweet spices up your Twitter streams with visuals

    Venture Beat &bull 4 Hours Ago

    The saying a picture is worth a thousand words just got another real-world illustration. FunMobility, a mobile content community, today announced the launch of FunTweet, a website that adds a visual component to tweets that are related to the text.… Full Story »

  11. Beijing official warns Google to obey China's laws

    Cnet News &bull Today

    A Chinese government minister has issued a stern warning to Google in the event the company stops filtering search results at its Chinese Web site: Follow our laws, or else. Speaking to reporters at the National People's Congress on Friday, Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said he hopes Google will respect China's rules and regulations.… Full Story »


  12. Tweets 'fundamental to democracy'

    BBC News Technology &bull Today

    Twitter co-founder Evan Williams believes social networks will be the fundamental way the public communicates with government. Full Story »

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  13. Too busy at SXSW to RSVP? No problem

    Cnet News &bull Today

    The party invites come in batches, and it can be a serious mental task to keep up with the ones that require reservations. And that's to say nothing of the dozens of spur-of-the-moment booze-and-conversation fests that pop up on Twitter,… Full Story »


  14. Net clash for web police projects

    BBC News Technology &bull Today

    One disgruntled supporter of MyPolice.org has set up a parody website called MyHMIC.org to collect comments about the clash. Many others have vented their feelings on micro-blogging service Twitter. In a statement an HMIC spokesman said: "We spoke with the… Full Story »

  15. Google tweaking Buzz to declutter Gmail inbox

    Cnet News &bull Today

    We've heard loud and clear that buzz in your inbox can get noisy--we feel it too," the Google Buzz team said in a Buzz on Thursday. Two changes, currently in testing to work with Gmail's 50 supported languages, are coming… Full Story »

  16. HootSuite Buys Android Developer Swift App

    Paid Content Yahoo &bull Today

    Twitter client HootSuite, which recently raised $1.9 million in funding, has now made an acquisition, buying up Android app developer Swift App. HootSuite says that Swift App was behind the development of HootSuite's own Android app, which was released last… Full Story »


  17. Hootsuite acquires developer Swift App to bolster its Android efforts

    Venture Beat &bull Today

    Fresh off its recent Android launch, Canadian social media startup HootSuite acquired developer Swift App to beef up its presence on Google's mobile platform. Sebastian Delmont, the developer behind Swift App, will join HootSuite as a mobile adviser. His company… Full Story »

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  18. Best New Mashups: All About Status Messages

    Programmable Web &bull Today

    Microblogging status messages may be small, but they pack quite the mashup punch. Mashups built with the Twitter API make-up 8% of all mashups on ProgrammableWeb. So, it's to be expected that two of the three status message mashups below… Full Story »

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  19. The Apple Approach to Design

    The Next Web 2008 &bull Today

    Kevin KorpiBased in Saitama, Japan but often found attending tech events in Tokyo. Enjoys playing video games on Wii and Nintendo DS; occasionally tinkering with GNU/Linux and Mac OSX; and actively following blogs and tech sites about the latest tech… Full Story »

  20. Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling

    ZDNet Asia &bull Today

    A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgment that Microsoft infringed on another company's patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007. Enterprise 2.0 Vince Casarez, vice president of product management at Oracle, explains… Full Story »

  21. Sequoia backs free mobile app company Snaptu

    Venture Beat &bull Today

    Snaptu, a startup bringing an iPhone-style application experience to thousands of mobile devices, just announced it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital. Previously known as Moblica, Snaptu says it works on any phone that can run… Full Story »

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