Archive for March, 2010

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ReQall gets useful link to Evernote

I’m most interested in this addition since I’m a big Evernote user, and one of Evernote’s biggest weaknesses is that it doesn’t have a to-do list manager. This isn’t quite that, but if you do use ReQall for to-dos, now they’ll hook into related topic pages from Evernote.

The Related Items button links you to Evernote and ReQall entries that share keywords. In the rightmost of these screenshots, the image items are in Evernote. The others are in ReQall.

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British Steam Car Think quick

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Will they be cooking with, um, gas later this month when officials of the record-vetting Federation Internationale de l’Automobile join them in the desert? We’ll know soon enough.

But then, we’ve grown accustomed to cars with internal combustion engines. The record in question, which could finally fall this month after standing for more than a century, is held by a Stanley Steamer. In 1906, a gent named Fred Marriott drove a cigar-shaped steamer a

Posted on March 30th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Live Blog Microsoft, Yahoo discuss deal

Executives from both companies will discuss the deal in a conference call from Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., at 5:30 a.m. PDT. Follow the live coverage here.

6:03 a.m.: How can Yahoo innovate if Microsoft is in charge of the technology?

As part of a 10-year pact announced early Wednesday, Microsoft’s technology will power the two companies’ search sites, while Yahoo will handle ad-selling duties.

“We really are trying to run a long-term busine

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Georgens takes command at NetApp

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Georgens didn’t go to NetApp to sell the company. He went, I believe, because he wanted continue on NetApp’s growth trajectory established years ago by Warmenhoven, Tom Mendoza, and Hitz. Selling would be letting someone else win. That’s not in character for Georgens.

NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz tells us that one of Warmenhoven’s personal goals has been to retire at age 60. He’s one year away from that milestone. Rather than continue to lead NetApp into a new

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CNET News Daily Podcast Getting paid to play game

Shooting the boss (and getting paid for it)

Start-up helps teachers learn their lesson

At more and more companies, employees are being encouraged to play video games together as team-building exercises. CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman has more.

Plus, Microsoft confirms Zune HD details.

Energy Department eyes superfast Ethernet

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Zune HD packs a big processing punch

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Ning officially launches apps platform

Correction: The number of Ning users has been updated in this post. Ning has 32 million users. 1.5 million social networks have been built to date on the Ning platform.

Forbes says the company, co-founded by Silicon Valley pioneer Marc Andreessen, is valued “at a lofty $750 million following a $15 million investment in July from Lightspeed Venture Partners.”

Ning App only furthers users’ ability to customize their sites and thus drive traffic, no doubt an important c

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Cyberbullying case to test Megan’s law

“This didn’t just happen in an isolated incident,” he said. “There is context to the transaction. But my client never initiated contact with the victim. Your typical harassment statute would be a series of threatening or harassing statements, maybe some stalking, maybe threats of abuse or something of that nature. This is nothing of the sort.”

Thrasher was then charged with the crime of cyberbullying under the statute 565-090, passed in Missouri in August 2008. Unofficiall

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ATK successfully test fires Ares 1 booster

Until the White House and the Office of Science and Technology Policy make a decision on what space architecture to support, NASA is pressing ahead with development of the Constellation program and the Ares 1 rocket.

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Hundreds of sensors were used to collect data as the test motor consumed 1.4 million pounds of solid propellant.

“After witnessing what we just saw, it’s pretty easy to become speechless,” said Alex Priskos, first stage manag

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CNET News Daily Podcast Game-changing evidence in

All that and more on Tuesday’s CNET News Daily Podcast.

Popular Mechanics awards highlight innovators

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Today’s stories:

Gmail also hit by e-mail phishing scheme

IBM Research jumps into genetic sequencing

Tech pioneers win 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

Windows mobile app store, My Phone service officially opening

Report praises Apple’s environmental efforts

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Fuze Box offers elegant mobile videoconferencing

It’s designed to make it possible to add participants easily and quickly from various social-networking services’ friends lists–like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter–to a real-time meeting session.

Once a meeting is initiated, users can share a wide range of media with each other, including PowerPoint presentations, business documents, 3D geospatial maps, photos, video, and more. In addition, any URLs used in a meeting can be posted, with one click, onto Facebook or Twitter