Miro Launched - Formerly ‘Democracy Player’

Formerly known as ‘Democracy Player’, this new name, logo, and updated version of the software represents the next evolution of the project. We are hoping to reach even more people and build the open video movement. The software is more polished and stable than ever.

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Don't sleep

Well you can sleep 2 hrs a day

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10 virtually instant ways to improve your life

Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you

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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed

Read often your project may be changing.

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10 hot tips to being a better IT manager

It's easy for IT managers, especially those new to management, to get bogged down in day-to-day activities and lose sight of the bigger picture of leading staff. Whether you're a seasoned pro, or new to the game, the following tips from ZDNet Australia points you in the right direction to effectively manage your team.

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Windows Home Server 1.0 finished, code goes RTM

Windows Home Server has been christened 1.0, and the code has been released to manufacturing. System Builder versions as well as initial products from several ISVs are expected this September.

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7 Online Video Aggregators Reviewed

Nice review of video aggregators


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1500 HDTV Channels simultaneously - Possible with new broadband technology

40 Gigabits per second, 1500 HDTV streams simultaneously, download a DVD in about 2 seconds --- It's probably a few years before we can get this but I like those speeds! Remember the days of 14k connections? We've come so far.

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This is what the web looked like in 1994

Time travel back to 1994, see the video digital used to sell the net.

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Microsoft on your telly: a history of the company's Internet TV strategy

From Web TV, MSN, Windows Media Center, Media Room, to Xbox Live Video Marketplace. Microsoft has it covered pretty well.

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Streamy -- The Digg Killer?

Streamy is one part Pageflakes + one part Digg. Users get their home page which is divided into topical sections but then via the wisdom of the Streamy crowds you get personalized recommendations on other stories and publications.

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10 Most Beautiful Social Networks

If you asked most MySpace-haters what's their problem with the service, they'd probably say: it's ugly. Meanwhile, people tell us they are switching from Twitter to Pownce because it's prettier and easier to use. For those who prize beauty above all else, we brought together 10 of the prettiest social networks.

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All Hotkeys for software

We're here to help you to increase work speed, a collection of all the shortcuts you need on your computer software

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17 Things You Didn't Know About Your Brain

But soon your brain will know...

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10 Essential Habits for Freelance Workers

The key, I’ve found, is to develop certain habits that will keep you not only disciplined but successful. Simple habits, to be sure, but ones that can go a long way towards taking you from a broke freelancer to a happy and productive one. Here are 10 essential habits for freelance workers...

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Google vs Everyone: 10 Markets Where Google Wants to Win

Google is the 600-pound gorilla: the company that no one wants to see build a competing product. Google dominates many of the markets it enters, whether by building a superior product or acquiring one. But Google isn't perfect: in some areas, they come out behind. Today, Mashable takes an in-depth look at 10 markets where Google wants to win.

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Ever Wondered Who Really Owns the Media?

Check out these resources to learn how big Big Media really is.

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Linux developers considering move to Eclipse

When you're talking Linux development tools, chances are you're talking about decades-old programming editors like vi and EMACS. These are fine for an older generation of programmers, but today's developers, weaned on Microsoft Visual Studio want integrated development environments.

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iPhone shatters AT&T record, dwarfs RAZR

Apple over the weekend sold more than 700,000 iPhones to rocket past analyst predictions and shatter AT&T's record by selling more iPhones in three days than Motorola's RAZR did in its first month. Apple's supply of iPhones depleted at more than half of its retail stores less than a week after the cellular handset hit store

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In Italy, CIA Agents Were Undone By Their Cell Phones

James Bond's gadget guru surely would have warned the agency about how easy it is to track calls made via cell phone. Now 25 of its agents are facing trial in absentia in Milan, Italy, this summer — undone by their pathetic ignorance of technology

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Links for creating a video web site

FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu)
Mplayer + Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)
flv2tool (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2)
Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads)
LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net)

5 Social Media Millionaire Milestones - youtube, digg, craigslist, myspace

Youtube, digg, craigslist, flickr, myspace and facebook: what do their creators have in common? The Kings of social media who created them successfully navigated through the 5 milestones to be crowned Web 2.0 millionaires. Ignore them and your brilliant brainwave won't boost your bank balance.

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500,000 iPhones Sold This Weekend

With one of the most anticipated product launches of the year over, how did the iPhone do ?According to analyst, Blackfriars, which has been monitoring stores, claimed that sales should top 500,000 for the first weekend.

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How-to-Unleash Your Strategic Business Potential : Making Decisions

Whether you are a CEO, a owner, a director, a manager or a team leader, this set of effective decision making tools is for you and will be very useful to anybody who has an interest in designing, reviewing or re-engineering business processes. Meet the 'Decision Maker'.

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The Technology that Powers Digg

A slideshow all about the technology (PHP, MySQL, Apache, etc.) behind Digg.



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The Definitive Guide to Joost: Channels, Features, Hacks, and More

If you haven't yet heard about Joost, it's the Internet on-demand video program that's bound to change the way we watch TV. Here's how to do anything and everything possible with Joost.



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Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?

The growth of Youtube and it’s subsequent $1.65 billion buyout left behind a bevy of competing video sites. Since then competitors have been seeking to differentiate themselves by focusing on longer videos, higher (bitrate) quality videos, professional content, and paying their users.



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Browser based Joost competitor coming soon (Apple TV compatible)

Just found out of a new Joost competitor from Italy appearing on the scene. But unlike Joost it will work on within a browser on a website, work on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and export content to Windows Media Center, Apple TV and Xbox 360.



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Swap my mobile phone for a million pounds? "No way" say 1 in 3

This might seem hard to believe, but according to research carried out by the Carphone Warehouse and the London School of Economics, one in three people aged 16 to 24 would not give up their mobile phone for a million pounds.



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Nokia Mobile Server for Nokia S60

Nokia Mobile Server allows you to access the following type of content from your mobile device via HTTP from a PC/Mobile web browser: Create,Share,Use & Access Contacts, Calendar, SMS, Emails, Phone Log & Gallery



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Verizon offers shop with your phone

Verizon Wireless customers will soon have another option when they shop other than just cash or credit – they will be able to pay using their wireless phones



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Fring for windows moble phones

fring announced that it has further expanded its mVoIP (mobile VoIP) community by adding all Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 series devices to its list of compatible handsets



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Domino Best Practices

The following link is a checklist for Domino Best Practices designed to provide Notes/Domino administrators, application developers, and IT managers with information needed to ensure a successful Notes/Domino environment.

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Microsoft's IPTV platform to challenge AppleTV

Now called Mediaroom, the company has added a number of new features to its IPTV platform including PC to TV media sharing (photos and music), third party development support, and over-the-air DTT functionality.



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Starting Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Read this before you start.



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Are you Lazy? How to Make Laziness Work for You!

You’re feeling lazy right now, and reading blogs instead of doing what you’re supposed to be doing. That’s OK — we all do that. But let’s look at how to make that laziness work for us, and how to turn lazy into productive.



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10 Weaknesses that Cripple Web Developers from Turning Entrepreneurs

Also check out the 7 things you should do



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Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming

Abject-oriented programming is a set of practices for encouraging code reuse and making sure programmers are producing code that can be used in production for a long time.abject: utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.



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If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start

These tutorials are set up so you can move through them over a week's time. One tutorial per day. However, if you can go faster, do it!



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Youtube Mobile, now live to the public.

Previously limited to 1-2 specific mobile networks... as of today YouTube Mobile is live to the public. MMS uploads from your phone have been possible for almost a year, but now we can waste awesome amounts of time watching the tube from anywhere!



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16 Steps to Creating a Bulletproof Startup

Got a great idea? There's never been a better time to turn it into a great company. Here's a 16-step guide to help you do it right.



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Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How Rake turned me into an alchoholic)

In this article we're going to discover why Rake was created, and how it can help our Rails applications. By the end you should be able to write your own tasks, using rake in no less then three steps.



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How to make Windows Mobile more like Windows

One of the biggest reasons PalmOS and Windows Mobile are designed to look the way they are is because you need to fit the most vital information on a tiny screen. Good, now that we've got that out of the way, let's take a look at some ways you can make your Windows Mobile PDA look more like a full desktop operating system



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The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources

A comprehensive list of all the RSS readers, tools, browser plugins, tips, hacks and directories available on the web.



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Prove Your Knowledge at Windows Mobile Training Website

Do you think you have what it takes to be a true knowledge master in the world of Windows Mobile? Well now you can prove it. WindowsMobileTraining.com has a series of courses and exams that you can take for free and prove your knowledge.



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How to Check RSS Feeds on Your Phone

Several Web-based RSS services can help. Most of them require that you simple create an account (for free, of course), add some RSS feeds and then fire up your mobile browser. Check out my picks:

• Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/mobile)
  
• Feedalot (http://www.feedalot.com)
  
• Litefeeds (http://www.litefeeds.com)
  
• RSSHome (http://www.rsshome.com)

Coke promoting a MySpace for cellphones

Will it last?? Why reinvent the wheel maybe the they should have gone to MySpace and worked with them.



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New Streaming Application - Radio365

If you like streaming radio, then you may want to check this app out. It's still in Alpha testing, but can be downloaded for free here.It currently works on Windows Mobile 5/6 (PPC & SM) via your data network or WiFi. Note: an unlimited data plan is recommended for streaming any type of media. It has a 2mb footprint.



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Mail For Exchange 1.6 Available

The new version, Mail For Exchange 1.6 includes support for Nokia E90, adds a few new features and fixes a number of bugs.



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Google promises mobile software platform to challenge Windows

The most critical battle in the wireless world is to take the reins of the mobile internet as it evolves, and that means all the majors are trying to create a software platform that will make the web even more usable on a small device than it is on a PC, and so drive new applications and revenue streams.



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Asus Eee PC 701 to take on the Foleo and NanoBook

The Asus Eee PC 701 (can you really stack three e’s together to make a name?) is a 1.9 -pound ultraportable/UMPC hybrid with a 7-inch screen and a full keyboard. It will see 512MB of RAM and a SSD drive ranging from 4-16GB. Other niceties include built-in wireless, mic and webcam



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A New Display Lengthens Gadget Life By Up To 50 Percent Longer

"Cell-phone and laptop batteries could last up to 50 percent longer, thanks to a new type of display technology. It could allow cell-phone, digital-camera, and laptop makers to develop power-saving displays that could dynamically adjust their backlight and color intensity based on the color and brightness of the content."



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Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows, how it works. Find more from here ...



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Everything you ever wanted to know about video codecs.

Puts the nuts and bolts of the most popular video codecs under the microscope; then pits the codecs against eachother.



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MIT Cracks The Code of Déjà Vu

MIT researchers report the identification of a mechanism in the brain that's tied to the experience of déjà vu, French for "seen already." The neuroscientists studied how subregions of the hippocampus--a part of the brain responsible for creating memories--contribute to our ability to differentiate between distinct places that are very similar.



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HTC launches smartphone to challenge the Apple iPhone

The HTC Touch offers a new and unique way of controlling touch screen-based devices by recognising and responding to the sweep of a finger across the screen. It is intelligent enough to distinguish between finger and stylus input and then respond accordingly. It just needs to come in white.



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Democracy Player 0.9.6 Released!

Tons of new features. Democracy is free and open source with a beautiful interface. It downloads video RSS feeds, including torrent feeds, and plays / organizes videos all in one. It can play almost any type of video. New features include the ability to watch any local folder to see if there are new videos ready to watch.



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A Grant from Mozilla to Democracy Player

More on Democracy Player…it is soon to be named Miro and it is a cool desktop application that’s sort of a mashup of a video player, an RSS reader, an FTP & torrent client, and a channel guide — the experience is that video is regularly delivered to your desktop. They also make a server and have built a ton of great docs to help you



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View Your Google Calendar on Your Mobile Device

Google Calendar is an excellent online application for those that want a way to create and share public calendars. Now you can view (and only view) your calendar on your mobile device if you go to google.com/calendar

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Mobile phone rays paralyse cars

"Cellphones kept near Nissan's I-Keys -- wireless devices designed to allow drivers to enter and start their cars at the push of a button -- can erase the electronic code on the keys, rendering them unable to unlock or start the cars"

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Mahalo - We're here to help

"Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides." Jason Calacanis (of weblogs inc/engadget fame) latest venture launched today - check it out.



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Mahalo - We're here to help

"Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides." Jason Calacanis (of weblogs inc/engadget fame) latest venture launched today - check it out.



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Palm Foleo

I posted before that palm was doing a new OS, it was for the Foleo. A new toy from palm tat offers a laptop experience to the mobile user.

" With its 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard, the Palm Foleo mobile companion connects wirelessly with your smartphone to help you do more on the go. Unfold it, press a button, and it's on instantly—while just one touch brings your email to the big screen.¹ Use your Foleo to view attachments, type longer emails, or to get a bigger look at web pages and photos you'd normally view on your smartphone. And with up to five hours of battery life packed into such a compact design, you'll do big things wherever you go."

The top 10 presentations on scaling websites

Ten resources for making sure youur web service doesn't crumble under the strain of your millions of users.



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26 Reasons Why What You Think is Right is Wrong

A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases.



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A Search Engine, Better Than Google

Google is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader. MyLiveSearch is fundamentally different in the way that it works. Read more...



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9 Driving Secrets from Police Officers

"With feedback from officers in the field, law enforcement driving instructors have compiled numerous tips to help their students avoid becoming a statistic."



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How Big is AppExchange? The Salesforce.com Guessing Game

If, as Benioff claims, AppExchange is to challenge the ecosystems of IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft, it needs to show that partners are actually making money selling add-ons to the larger Salesforce. what are the total revenues??



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10 Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload

E-mail provides a window into your workplace status, work habits, stress levels. Has trying to keep up with your inbox got you feeling like a hamster on a wheel, running faster and getting nowhere? Here's a great guide from the people over at Fortune magazine.



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The Market Function of Piracy

In marketing the most effective way to introduce new products is the free sample. In 1978 Lever Brothers spent $15 million ($47.55 million in today's currency) delivering a free sample of Signal Mouthwash to two-thirds of all US households. The strategy was a success and the product remained on the market well into the 1990s.



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PC World's Best Products of 2007

(1) Google Apps Premier Edition, (2) Intel Core 2 Duo, (3) Nintendo Wii (4) Verizon FiOS (5) RIM Blackberry 8800 (6) Parallels Desktop (7) Pioneer Elite 1080p PRO-FHD1 (8) Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV (9) Apple Mac OS X (10) Adobe Premiere Elements 3... (58) Digg.com



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Nokia Beta Labs releases GizmoProject S60 Voip/IM mobile client

Nokia Beta Labs has released a Beta version of the Gizmo Voip and Instant messaging client for Nokia N80 Internet Edition and Nokia N95. This version supports free call’s to any Gizmo Project, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, or Windows Live user.

With a WLAN connection you are able to use all the features, and IM and presence are available even when you are connected over 2G or 3G.

You will first need to install the Nokia Internet Services Support Package available on the download page before installing the Gizmo for S60 client. Also note that the client needs to be installed on the main memory.

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Gates predicts death of the office phone

So do I with VOIP take your phone every where..



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HTC takes a gamble with new brand and OS strategy

Despite making gains in the enterprise and becoming a fairly robust and well recognized, if relatively minor, smartphone platform, Windows Mobile will clearly be just an element in the mobile picture, and probably a small one compared to Linux and the growing family of Java-oriented OSs like Symbian/Series 60 or Sun's new developments.



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Mobile TV will reach 244 million by 2011, says report

TV enabled handsets will reach a staggering 244 million devices by 2011, according to a new report.

This is almost double the number previously forecast, and was reached by a detailed look into the likely mobile TV launch dates and the uptake rate expected in 55 countries.

The report was published in the US by Multimedia Research Group, but was written by Rethink Research Associates in the UK. It shows the rapid increase anticipated in handsets annually, with huge leaps during 2009 especially (see graph below), when 53 million broadcast TV enabled handsets are expected to ship.

"There are over 80 mobile TV trials all over the world and already there are a handful of services launched. The bulk of those trials are already committed to turn into genuine services, in some cases with a nationwide footprint, in other countries in limited regions," said report author Peter White, principal analyst at Rethink.

"This forecast is not including video services which are streamed over a cellular network, because that has largely been a slow burn business, due to its low screen resolution and the careful management it needs so that it doesn't interfere with voice. Most of these new handsets will deliver QVGA quality screens, where voices and lips are synchronised, where there is no shadowing on the screen, and where the resolution is good enough to watch for 30 minutes at a time and beyond," White said.

Initiatives in Japan and South Korea have been launched for some time using technologies which are largely unfavoured in the rest of the world, but last year Italy launched two DVB-H based services and now Qualcomm's MediaFLO is aggressively going after the US market with deals that take in Verizon Wireless and AT&T as resellers.

Around 80 pilots have been carried out globally and the trickle of current services will reach a torrent of some 50 to 60 services during 2009, led by developments in China and Asia Pacific, where the report says 105 million handsets will ship. It says this will be followed by strong showings in Western Europe and the US, which will ship 73 million and 40 million mobile TV capable handsets by 2011 respectively.

According to the report, service revenues from the global mobile TV market will exceed $24bn annually by 2011, with Western Europe likely to lead in revenue terms at over $10bn, followed by the USA and Canada at $7.7bn, and China and the Far East lagging at $5bn, despite higher usage levels

Millions of Chinese Hit by Symantec Foul-Up

Symantec virus signature disabled critical system files in Chinese PCs, crippling Windows XP for millions of users.



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How To Add Music To Your Ipod Without Itunes

a review of 3 programs that give you more functionality then Itunes.



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Microsoft PopFly

Microsoft takes aim at Yahoo! pipes and other mashup tools



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Top Ten Sources of Interruptions

In no particular order, here are the top ten interruptions we see most often with our clients that are affecting their productivity. - lifehack



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50 Ways to Increase Your Productivity

Nice list with from the good hack site.



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What I Learned

If it’s any help to other entrepreneurs

1. Make no assumptions when it comes to roles and responsibilities. “Someone’s gotta call quittin’ time.”
2. Communication between partners is mandatory. And you cannot communicate with someone who is not communicating with you.
3. Decisions aren’t decisions if you have to keep making them. Set on the course and stick to it. If you keep talking about things that have already been decided, nothing will ever get done.
4. When someone says one thing, but acts in a contradictory way, you have a choice between believing their words or believing their deeds. Believe their deeds.
5. Never let anyone tell you what you want. When someone says, “You don’t want that,” what they really mean is, “I don’t want you to have that.”
6. Don’t stay where you’re not wanted, respected, or happy. Even if it’s your company.

Shaping the Future

Charles Stross talks about his personal predictions when it comes to the next 20 years of Technology, What it will bring us, limitations and expectations.

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Shortcuts for Special Gmail Labels

In Gmail every built-in view (e.g.: inbox, trash, read mail) is actually a label. So if you want to view all the unread messages from the inbox, you could search for: label:inbox label:unread.You can combine these built-in labels with your labels and create interesting queries. But these queries can become long and hard to write. Fortunately, you can replace label with l and everything with still work fine. The previous query will become: l:inbox l:unread.If you still think the query is too long, Gmail has shortcuts for the special labels.
^b chats
^f sent mail
^i inbox
^k trash
^r draft
^s spam
^t starred messages
^u unread mail
That means our query could become: l:^i l:^u. What about all the unread messages that aren't in the inbox? Search for: -l:^i l:^u.



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Fidgt - Unify your social networks here

Your Social Networking address book .. bring all your friends and media to one place ..

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Comparing 5 Ways to Tag Videos

There's so many videos flying around online these days and both thesheer number and impact of those videos are only going to increasewith time. Video tagging tools let you archive and share favorites,subscribe to video tag feeds in iTunes or display tagged videos on awebpage using SplashCast..

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Bored Mathematician Discovers An Unusual Numerical Pattern While Doodling

The Ulam spiral is a simple method of graphing the prime numbers that reveals a pattern which has never been fully explained. It was discovered by the mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963, while doodling on scratch paper at a scientific meeting. Ulam, bored that day, wrote down a regular grid of numbers...

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Learn to Ruby: 74 Quality RoR Resources and Tutorials

As is the case with any language, learning Ruby on Rails from scratch can be quite a pain. Here is a compiled a list of the best Rails resources the Web has to offer, covering installation (both manual and automatic, plus web hosts), tutorials (beginner and advanced topics), books, blogs, forums, cheat sheets, code snippets and API documents.

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Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles - Free Download

Photoshop Layer Styles are the easiest way to speed up the design process. Here is a set of 100+ Photoshop Layer Styles created in .ASL ( Photoshop Layer Style ) format.

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DIY Electric Bicycle

Learn step by step exactly how to make your own electric bike. Although it isn't that stylish, it will will save you thousands in gas money!



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IPv6 firewalling knows no middle ground

The need to have several computers share a single IP address means that today's home routers perform some basic firewalling. Applications have learned to overcome the problems this creates over time. With IPv6, all these problems-and their fixes-will disappear, but they come back with a vengeance when people need to setup IPv6 firewalls


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Absolutely HUGE List of Color Related Sites!

Someone put together a list of just about every color related resource (worth mentioning) in the known universe. Designers rejoice!



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10 Simple Ways to Speed Up Windows XP

Do it now... You need the speed.



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Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition announced

Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition is aimed at "small, handheld, graphical tablets which are Internet-enabled", and will be developed together with Intel.



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Top 5 *free* content management systems

The top five free content management systems. Which one do you use?



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Top 5 javascript frameworks

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100+ Ubuntu Tutorials and Growing Fast!

How to do practically anything with it. As a popular section, you can expect this number of lessons to continue to grow every day.



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Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them

One of the new terms on the horizon is Microformats - formats, which make it possible to create meta-content which can be not only read, but also understood by machines. This post is supposed to give you an idea, what Microformats actually mean. Use them to enrich your content and make it more visible and understandable for search engines.



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Top 12 Geek Watches

I am sure I have owned a few of these..



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PhoneTunes - Series60

PhoneTunes provides an Apple iTunes interface for a Smartphone, allowing you to control your music collection from the comfort of your phone.

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Hutchison Australia Shareholders Approve A$2.85 Billion Raising

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/23551.php

"Hutchison Australia, which competes with Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications's Optus unit, will use proceeds to pay down debt related to its third-generation mobile phone network to around A$1.1 billion.

The group, which reported a 2006 net loss of A$759.4 million, expects the lower debt position to slash A$250 million a year off its interest bill"

with only "one million" customers that is $2,850 per customer.. they do not even get that much in ARPU