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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