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Fernandez’s injury spoils

Blazers’ rout of Lakers
MAR 10, 2009 06:18A.M.
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ENGADGET
Super-rugged Dell Latitude

E6400 XFR is tougher than you
MAR 10, 2009 05:58A.M.
While it’s still not nearly as capacious as Western Digital’s latest green
hard drive, Samsung’s 1.5TB EcoGreen F2EG is still plenty roomy for
most. Of course, we’re still trying to decide if both “Eco” and “Green”
were really necessary in the model name, but we digress. The drive
sports 500GB per platter, and reportedly, it sucks down less power
(around 40 percent less, in fact) than most HDDs thanks to the
awesomely named EcoTriangle technology. Check it right this second for
a buck forty-nine.
[Via Physorg]
Filed under: Storage We’ve always been drawn to the rugged Latitude E6400 ATG, and now
we’re even more in love — Dell just announced the second-gen Latitude
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E6400 XFR. Carrying on in the tradition of the Latitude XFR D630, this Continue reading Super-rugged Dell Latitude E6400 XFR is tougher
newest model is a little more visually amped up than its all-business than you
Latitude roots would suggest, and we’d say some showing off is in order
— not only can the XFR handle the DoD’s MIL-STD 810F heat, dust and Filed under: Laptops
vibration requirements, the PR481 “ballistic” armor provides twice the
impact protection of magnesium alloy and the whole thing is well-sealed Super-rugged Dell Latitude E6400 XFR is tougher than you originally
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percent thinner and 5 percent lighter than the previous XFR. Yeah, we
want one. No detailed pricing yet, but you’ll have to save quite a few
pennies to get rough with this one — the starting number is $4,299. Hit
up a bunch of pics in the gallery and head after the break for a promo ESPN.COM
video of the XFR taking quite a beating.
No. 12 Gonzaga rolls Saint
Gallery: Dell Latitude E6400 XFR
Mary’s in WCC final
MAR 10, 2009 05:32A.M.
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ENGADGET
XRoad G-Map iPhone

navigation map gets reviewed,
patted on the back
MAR 10, 2009 05:16A.M.
While the world waits for a tried-and-true navigation app from Apple,
XRoad is taking advantage of the situation by offering up its G-Map app
in the interim. Kicking Tires decided to take the new software for a spin,
and while the map quality took a pretty harsh beating, the overall
offering was highly praised. More specifically, not every street name was
present during testing, meaning that you had to rely implicitly on the
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turn-by-turn instructions if you weren’t familiar with your surroundings. “identify, support and invest” in companies that are working on GPU-
Outside of that, however, it seemed to nail all the important points. based computing applications.
Accuracy, routing, ease of use and design were all smiled upon, and it
seems critics gave the street name snafu a bit of a break with the hope of
future updates solving the issues. If you’re still a touch hesitant to drop
your hard-earned cash, give that read link a gentle tap.
[Thanks, Ronald] SLATE MAGAZINE
Filed under: Cellphones There is a war against the rich,

XRoad G-Map iPhone navigation map gets reviewed, patted on the back but it’s being waged by other
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MAR 10, 2009 04:57A.M.
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Last week, I wrote that the Republican claim that Obama is fighting a
war against the rich was bogus. Over the weekend, I thought better of it.
It turns out there is a war on the rich. Only it’s not being waged by
TECHCRUNCH vicious overlords in Washington intent on depriving honest, hard-
working stiffs of their livelihoods. Rather, it’s a civil war, a war between
NVIDIA Announces Investment the rich. It’s Park Avenue marauding through SoHo, Buckhead
rampaging through Hilton Head, Palm Beach shelling Bal Harbour with
Effort For GPU-based the big cannons.
Computing Startups [more ...]

MAR 10, 2009 05:15A.M.
TECHCRUNCH
Paymo Strikes Deal With hi5 To

Use Mobile Payments For
Virtual Goods
MAR 10, 2009 04:54A.M.
NVIDIA is known primarily for their PC graphics cards, but they’ve been
in the news recently both for the expansion of their CUDA and PhysX
initiatives as well as (allegedly) developing a CPU to challenge Intel and
AMD. They’ve been proponents of parallel processing for quite a while,
naturally, and have made some investments in companies like
MotionDSP and Elemental Technologies, both of which are developing
software that really leverages the GPU. The success of these investments
is difficult to measure (NVIDIA’s been hit as hard as the other
Global mobile payments network Paymo and social network hi5 have
semiconductor-related companies, losing 50% of its revenue), but it’s
partnered to let members in 24 countries use their mobile phones to
hard to argue with the fact that parallel computing is where practically
purchase hi5 Coins, hi5’s virtual currency. Countries where Paymo will
the entire industry is heading. In light of this, NVIDIA has started what
be made available to hi5 users include the U.S., Canada, France, Hong
they’re calling the GPU Ventures Program, by which they hope to
Kong, Thailand, Russia and Colombia.
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Paymo’s mobile payment system doesn’t require users to have a credit

card or bank account. Users enter their cell phone number on the site,
reply to a Paymo text message and then all virtual charges on hi5 are
automatically charged to the user’s monthly cell phone bill. It’s pretty
easy and similar to UK mobile payments service, Zong. Paymo says that ESPN.COM
over 75 percent of the online community worldwide does not have a
credit card but 3 billion consumers own a mobile phone. With that in Hamilton, Pistons finish season
mind, the company is hoping their system, which avoids credit cards or
bank accounts, will take off. sweep of Magic
MAR 10, 2009 04:43A.M.
Unlike some of its competitors, such as Zong and Mobillcash, whose
systems are limited to certain regional areas, Paymo can be accessed in Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.
45 markets around the globe, enabling mobile payments in Europe,
North and South America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Paymo
recently expanded service in the U.S. after striking deals with mobile
carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile to allow users to make online ESPN.COM
purchases using their phone.
Wade buzzer-beater lifts Heat
Mobile payment systems are gaining traction from social networks, but
the issue of costly fees charged by mobile carriers to the payment past Bulls in 2OT
systems (which are then passed on to the consumer) remains a serious MAR 10, 2009 04:28A.M.
problem. Paymo says that it typically charges users a transaction fee of
10% of the purchase price. The company adds that different cell phone Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.
carriers charge varying fees but most are in a range of 20% to 40% of the
purchase price, which is a pretty large amount in transaction fees. As we
said in our earlier analysis, this could pose a significant roadblock to
these types of services, which channel user payments through mobile ENGADGET
carriers. It appears that it would be hard to sustain these fees in the long
term when transaction charges could be drastically decreased if payment HP rolls out Compaq CQ2000M
networks accepted credit card or bank account payments. Still, with such
a vast coverage area of the world, Paymo appears to be ahead of some of nettop for Europe
the more regional services. Paymo says that Facebook, which has a MAR 10, 2009 04:11A.M.
widespread international following, would be the next partner it hopes to
land in the social network space.
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SLATE MAGAZINE
How Barack Obama flatters

people he never intends to hire.
MAR 10, 2009 04:06A.M.
Howard Dean is not being considered for surgeon general. But, the
White House would have you know, he’s not not being considered,
either—even though he has said he’s not interested. “I would not dismiss
it,” one anonymous White House staffer told CNN last week after Dr.
Sanjay Gupta removed himself from the running.
[more ...]
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What’s the best way to break

your own leg?
MAR 10, 2009 03:43A.M.
Spanish authorities arrested a man wearing a cast of compressed cocaine

at the Barcelona airport last Wednesday. The would-be trafficker had a
HP’s mini-Q nettop first turned up in Taiwan way back in November, but genuine fracture of two bones below the knee; police are now
it looks to finally be making its way around the world, and it’s now investigating whether the injury was self-inflicted. What’s the safest way
shown itself in Europe in the form of the Compaq CQ2000M. There to break your own leg?
doesn’t appear to be any significant changes beyond the slight name
change, however, with the nettop still packing the standard issue 1.6GHz [more ...]
Atom Z230 processor, 1GB of RAM (expandable to 2GB), a 160GB hard
drive, Intel GMA950 graphics and, of particular note, a dual-layer DVD
burner. Unfortunately, there’s also still no indication of a release on this
side of the pond, but those in Europe can apparently grab one now
bundled with a 20-inch monitor for €349, or about $440.
ESPN.COM
[Via Engadget Spanish]
Another drug-related arrest for
Filed under: Desktops
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SLATE MAGAZINE
Obama scores an all-time high

of 65 on the Change-o-Meter.
MAR 10, 2009 03:15A.M.
Obama delivers a major victory for researchers in lifting the ban on

stem-cell research.
[more ...]
SLATE MAGAZINE
The bogus business of boosting

your computer’s performance.
MAR 10, 2009 03:03A.M.
The guy in the ad for My Faster PC clearly doesn’t know much about
computers. For starters, his go-to search engine is called Boggle,
displayed in oddly familiar red, yellow, blue, and green letters. Plus, he’s
searching for a URL—”MY FASTER PC.COM”—which he should have
entered (sans spaces) in his Web browser’s address bar, not Boggle. On
top of his ineptitude, his “darn computer” is slow as mud and constantly
crashing. And to make matters worse, he’s got an annoyingly inquisitive
wife who keeps pestering him for updates about what he’s doing. No
wonder the guy’s willing to shell out $30 for an instant fix.
[more ...]
ENGADGET Philips has been hitting us with some out-there lighting concepts lately,
but the company’s Master LED light bulb is actually already on sale in
Philips Master LED light bulb Europe and is set to brighten up Stateside lives around July. The 40W-
equivalent bulbs should run between $50 and $70, and expected lifetime
set for US release in July is set at 45,000 hours — just slightly more than a CFL’s 10,000 or a
MAR 10, 2009 03:03A.M. standard bulb’s 750 hours. The Master is certainly a damn sight nicer
looking than the other mutant LED bulbs we’ve seen, but we’ll see if
consumers are ready to jump on another more-expensive-upfront
lighting tech so soon after CFLs have hit the mainstream.
[Via Core77]
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our terms for use of feeds. Nations) that Hamas recognize Israel’s right to exist, renounce violence,
and agree to accept previous agreements between Israel and the
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Palestinians;
Whereas, in June 2006, Hamas crossed into Israel, attacked Israeli

forces and kidnapped Corporal Gilad Shalit, whom they continue to hold
SLATE MAGAZINE today;
How the 2600 forged the home Whereas Hamas has launched thousands of rockets and mortars since
Israel dismantled settlements and withdrew from Gaza in 2005;
video game future.
MAR 10, 2009 02:54A.M. Whereas Hamas has increased the range of its rockets, reportedly with
support from Iran and others, putting additional large numbers of
Born in the early 1970s, I’ve experienced only a few world-changing Israelis in danger of rocket attacks from Gaza;
events along the lines of the automobile, the telephone, and the
television. Sure, I was around the campus computer cluster when NCSA Whereas Hamas locates elements of its terrorist infrastructure in civilian
Mosaic was installed in 1994, but the Internet didn’t make a grand population centers, thus using innocent civilians as human shields;
entrance. (The UC Museum of Paleontology, a prominent early Web site,
was only so interesting.) The World Wide Web doesn’t compare with Whereas Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement on
1981, when my brother and I got an Atari 2600 for Christmas. Before December 27, 2008, that `[w]e strongly condemn the repeated rocket
Atari, no video games at home. After Atari, video games all the time. and mortar attacks against Israel and hold Hamas responsible for
Males of a certain age will regale you with tales of long mornings roping breaking the ceasefire and for the renewal of violence there’;
cattle in Stampede and the distinctive thumb cramp that the joystick
delivered. But enough nostalgia for now. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, Whereas, on December 27, 2008, Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert
two professors of media studies, have written a book, Racing the Beam, said, `For approximately seven years, hundreds of thousands of Israeli
that approaches the beloved machine from a new angle: What was it like citizens in the south have been suffering from missiles being fired at
to program for the Atari 2600? them. . . . In such a situation we had no alternative but to respond. We do
not rejoice in battle but neither will we be deterred from it. . . . The
[more ...] operation in the Gaza Strip is designed, first and foremost, to bring about
an improvement in the security reality for the residents of the south of
the country.’;
Whereas, on January 2, 2009, Secretary of State Rice stated that `Hamas

has held the people of Gaza hostage ever since their illegal coup against
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN the forces of President Mahmoud Abbas, the legitimate President of the
Palestinian people. Hamas has used Gaza as a launching pad for rockets
For The Record against Israeli cities and has contributed deeply to a very bad daily life
MAR 10, 2009 02:28A.M. for the Palestinian people in Gaza, and to a humanitarian situation that
we have all been trying to address’;
The Senate resolution on the Gaza incursion is after the jump. It’s not
totally one-sided, although it is clearly in favor of Israel’s interpretation Whereas the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including shortages of
of the events: food, water, electricity, and adequate medical care, is becoming more
acute;
Recognizing the right of Israel to defend itself against attacks from Gaza
and reaffirming the United States’ strong support for Israel in its battle Whereas Israel has facilitated humanitarian aid to Gaza with over 500
with Hamas, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. trucks and numerous ambulances entering the Gaza Strip since
December 26, 2008;
Whereas Hamas was founded with the stated goal of destroying the State
of Israel; Whereas, on January 2, 2009, Secretary of State Rice stated that it was
`Hamas that rejected the Egyptian and Arab calls for an extension of the
Whereas Hamas has been designated by the Secretary of State as a tahadiya that Egypt had negotiated’ and that the United States was
Foreign Terrorist Organization; `working toward a cease-fire that would not allow a reestablishment of
the status quo ante where Hamas can continue to launch rockets out of
Whereas Hamas has refused to comply with the requirements of the Gaza. It is obvious that that cease-fire should take place as soon as
Quartet (the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United possible, but we need a cease-fire that is durable and sustainable’; and
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Whereas the ultimate goal of the United States is a sustainable resolution

of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that will allow for a viable and
independent Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security
with the State of Israel, which will not be possible as long as Israeli
civilians are under threat from within Gaza: Now, therefore, be it ENGADGET
Resolved, That the Senate— Google issues first Android Dev

(1) expresses vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the Phone 1 update, clarifies paid
welfare, security, and survival of the State of Israel as a Jewish and
democratic state with secure borders, and recognizes its right to act in app situation
self-defense to protect its citizens against acts of terrorism; MAR 10, 2009 02:01A.M.
(2) reiterates that Hamas must end the rocket and mortar attacks against
Israel, recognize Israel’s right to exist, renounce violence, and agree to
accept previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinians;
(3) encourages the President to work actively to support a durable,

enforceable, and sustainable cease-fire in Gaza, as soon as possible, that
prevents Hamas from retaining or rebuilding the capability to launch
rockets and mortars against Israel and allows for the long term
improvement of daily living conditions for the ordinary people of Gaza;
(4) believes strongly that the lives of innocent civilians must be protected
and all appropriate measures should be taken to diminish civilian
casualties and that all involved should continue to work to address
humanitarian needs in Gaza;
(5) supports and encourages efforts to diminish the appeal and influence
of extremists in the Palestinian territories and to strengthen moderate
Palestinians who are committed to a secure and lasting peace with Israel;
and
Android Dev Phone 1 owners are pretty much expected to handle their
(6) reiterates its strong support for United States Government efforts to own business when it comes to firmware updates, but those of you who
promote a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a like to kick it official take note: El Goog’s just released Android 1.1 for for
serious and sustained peace process that leads to the creation of a viable its totally unlocked version of the G1. Most of the fixes are to do with
and independent Palestinian state living in peace alongside a secure POP3 accounts, and paid apps are now supported with a catch: you won’t
State of Israel. be able to access any paid apps that use Android’s hilariously weak-ass
copy protection features, because the ADP1 comes rooted out of the box
and thus able to read / write the folder protected apps are stored in. So
yeah, ADP1 owners now have access to paid apps that don’t have copy
protection — we’re guessing that’s not a large number. Honestly, we
don’t see the point of this: nothing’s ever going to stop piracy, and
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN pissing off the people willing to buy $400 unlocked phones that don’t
come with support doesn’t seem like the best way to build brand loyalty.
The New Nationalized Citibank Maybe you want to reconsider, guys?
MAR 10, 2009 02:05A.M.
Filed under: Cellphones
A new ad campaign (language NSFW):
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The New F***ing Citibank - watch more funny videos (hat tip: Ritholtz)
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Last month I wrote about a lawsuit filed by major record label EMI
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN against Seeqpod, the questionably-legal free streaming music site. The
suit isn’t Seeqpod’s first (Warner sued them last year), but it is notable
If They Fail To Blackball for taking the music industry’s war against the web to a new low. Beyond
naming a number of Seeqpod executives as part of the suit, EMI also
Freeman ... decided to sue a hapless third party developer named Ryan Sit, who
MAR 10, 2009 01:56A.M. happened to use the Seeqpod API in one of his projects. Now Sit is being
forced to shut down one of his projects - a lifestreaming service dubbed
... the Republicans will treat all intelligence assessments on the Middle Swurl that launched last summer.
East as suspect. Unlike all the brilliant intelligence that they treated with
such skepticism under Bush. Also: I’ll leave the legality of Seeqpod for the courts to decide (the site doesn’t
actually host any music files - it finds them scattered on pages across the
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair also wrote web and streams them into its media player). But as I wrote last month,
committee members late last week, CQ’s Tim Starks reports, its case against Ryan Sit is ridiculous. Sit is a prolific developer who uses
that Freeman’s Middle East Policy Council has received no many APIs from different web services, and used Seeqpod’s API just as
more than a twelfth of its annual budget from Saudi Arabia dozens of similar sites have before him. Suing him sets a precedent that
and that he never discussed the Chinese oil company could make developers weary of using any API, for fear that the service
CNOOC’s dealings with Iran while on the company’s board. they’re tapping into could be doing something potentially illegal.
The letter also disclosed that the MEPC job provided
Freeman with between $76,000 and $84,000 annually, Swurl allowed users to generate their own personal blogs using data
Starks reports. imported from other web-based services. Sit acknowledges that the site,
which he cofounded with Jonathan Neddenriep, didn’t receive as much
It looks as if he won’t be gotten on financial stuff. traction as they’d hoped. But the more immediate reason for the
shutdown is the lawsuit. Pet projects tend to become less fun when
you’ve got a rabid team of lawyers gunning for you.
Here’s the notice that now greets users on Swurl:
TECHCRUNCH Hello Swurlers,
EMI’s Outrageous Lawsuit We built Swurl as two guys doing something we love in our
spare time.
Against Developer Takes Its Toll Unfortunately, due to the pressures of our day jobs and other
MAR 10, 2009 01:48A.M. distractions, we can no longer support or maintain the service
at the
level that we think our users deserve.
Building Swurl has been a great experience for us. We want to

thank
all of the folks that used Swurl as a way to document their
lives
online and share with their friends and families. Thanks a
bunch to
those users that gave us lots of valuable feedback and
encouragement.
Thanks,
Ryan & Jonathan

PS You can also check out our other work at:
http://picclick.com
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scores a second beta phone that won’t turn on (yet), but we’re sure the
right tweaker could fix it up into the most amazing secondary phone the
world has ever seen. Forget all that bad economic news you’ve been
hearing — you best bring the bring the bank if you’re thinking seriously
about claiming this.
SLATE MAGAZINE [Via iLounge]
You just won the stem-cell war. Filed under: Cellphones
Don’t lose your soul. iPhone prototype surfaces on eBay, aims to fetch a pretty penny
MAR 10, 2009 01:42A.M. originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:42:00 EST.
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Today, President Obama lifted the ban on federal funding of stem-cell
research using destroyed human embryos. If you support this research, Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
congratulations: You won. Your challenge now is not to lose your soul.
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GIGAOM
Appistry Opens the Cloud to

(Almost) All Apps
ENGADGET MAR 10, 2009 01:30A.M.
iPhone prototype surfaces on

eBay, aims to fetch a pretty
penny
MAR 10, 2009 01:42A.M.
Enterprise adoption is the Holy Grail for cloud computing software

vendors, and Appistry is prepping to play the role of Sir Galahad. The St.
Louis-based company today released its new CloudIQ Manager
product,which offers the ability to port nearly any enterprise application
to the cloud, and makes it easy to move applications between both in-
house and public clouds.
As more companies move toward operating in the cloud, Appistry sees

Okay, so we’ll go ahead and crush a few dreams up front — there’s
lack of support for existing as a huge gap in the market, particularly for
nothing here that proves this isn’t some funky KIRF iPhone or just an ad
enterprise customers that have hundreds of Java, .NET, C/C++ or legacy
hoc or jailbroken app making things look completely funkadelic. Now
applications apps they need to move to the cloud. “They haven’t found an
that our skepticism is out in the open, we’ll be honest and say we really,
application management approach that allows them to easily get there,”
really hope this is legitimate. According to the eBay description, this here
says Sam Charrington, Appistry’s VP of product management and
iPhone prototype was constructed a few months prior to the real
marketing. Most current cloud offerings are designed for Web
iPhone’s release, and it actually powers on, makes calls and receives
applications or single-application deployments; that means they’re
SMSs. It sports a totally beta plastic matte screen, and the software is
optimal for web startups and SaaS providers, but not as useful for larger,
obviously pre-release. Oh, and the best part? The auction winner also
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enterprise customers. GIGAOM
CloudIQ Manager aims to solve this enterprise-readiness problem by Appistry Opens the Cloud to
letting customers create service definition templates that tell the
software how to manage each existing application’s lifecycle (i.e., how it’s (Almost) All Apps
installed, started, stopped, etc.) — all from a single interface. Templates MAR 10, 2009 01:30A.M.
and configurations for deploying common application types (Apache or
Tomcat, for example) will be available in a user-driven library and will
save new users the legwork required to establish best practices.
Compared with VMware’s widely publicized hybrid cloud tools, the

difference is in the focus: VMware focuses on managing and deploying
virtual machines, whereas Appistry focuses on the application. While the
entire application stack is locked up in the virtual machine in VMware’s
model, Charrington says CloudIQ Manager users can update VMs with
impunity because the resources are completely abstracted from the
application. Elastra recently announced its hybrid cloud plans, too.
CloudIQ manager offers limited intercloud portability, as well, via a

drag-and-drop functionality within the console. Users will be able to
move their apps between and among both in-house clouds and Appistry’s Enterprise adoption is the Holy Grail for cloud computing software
public cloud partners, which currently include Amazon, GoGrid and vendors, and Appistry is prepping to play the role of Sir Galahad. The St.
Skytap. Louis-based company today released its new CloudIQ Manager
product,which offers the ability to port nearly any enterprise application
However, there are still many interoperability issues between the public to the cloud, and makes it easy to move applications between both in-
cloud offerings, and this product only addresses “practical portability” of house and public clouds.
applications. Charrington notes that the cloud-to-cloud migration
feature is designed initially to ensure applications get migrated and As more companies move toward operating in the cloud, Appistry sees
deployed successfully in test-dev environments; over time, he says, it will lack of support for existing as a huge gap in the market, particularly for
evolve to address production-level concerns like intercloud load- enterprise customers that have hundreds of Java, .NET, C/C++ or legacy
balancing. applications apps they need to move to the cloud. “They haven’t found an
application management approach that allows them to easily get there,”
Appistry recently announced 200 percent year-over-year growth, which says Sam Charrington, Appistry’s VP of product management and
Charrington attributes in large part to its existing products’ cloud marketing. Most current cloud offerings are designed for Web
computing capabilities. Given the positive reports I’ve heard from other applications or single-application deployments; that means they’re
cloud vendors thus far in 2009, I won’t be too surprised if Appistry’s optimal for web startups and SaaS providers, but not as useful for larger,
CloudIQ Platform suite — the new moniker for version 4.0 of its flagship enterprise customers.
software — has an almost immediate impact on the company’s bottom
line. CloudIQ Manager aims to solve this enterprise-readiness problem by
letting customers create service definition templates that tell the
software how to manage each existing application’s lifecycle (i.e., how it’s
installed, started, stopped, etc.) — all from a single interface. Templates
and configurations for deploying common application types (Apache or
Tomcat, for example) will be available in a user-driven library and will
save new users the legwork required to establish best practices.
Compared with VMware’s widely publicized hybrid cloud tools, the

difference is in the focus: VMware focuses on managing and deploying
virtual machines, whereas Appistry focuses on the application. While the
entire application stack is locked up in the virtual machine in VMware’s
model, Charrington says CloudIQ Manager users can update VMs with
impunity because the resources are completely abstracted from the
application. Elastra recently announced its hybrid cloud plans, too.
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CloudIQ manager offers limited intercloud portability, as well, via a down tonight on NBC, let us know how Josh did in comments and make
drag-and-drop functionality within the console. Users will be able to sure to include #joshtops in your tweets!
move their apps between and among both in-house clouds and Appistry’s
public cloud partners, which currently include Amazon, GoGrid and Showtimes:
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feature is designed initially to ensure applications get migrated and Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
deployed successfully in test-dev environments; over time, he says, it will
evolve to address production-level concerns like intercloud load- Reminder: Josh is on Jimmy Fallon tonight! originally appeared on
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use of feeds.
Appistry recently announced 200 percent year-over-year growth, which
Charrington attributes in large part to its existing products’ cloud Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
computing capabilities. Given the positive reports I’ve heard from other
cloud vendors thus far in 2009, I won’t be too surprised if Appistry’s
CloudIQ Platform suite — the new moniker for version 4.0 of its flagship
software — has an almost immediate impact on the company’s bottom THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
line.
How Nuts Has The Right
Become?
MAR 10, 2009 01:18A.M.
ENGADGET They’re promoting the bizarre notion that returning a bust of Churchill
and canceling a Rose Garden press conference because of the snow
Reminder: Josh is on Jimmy means some kind of attack on the US-UK relationship. Surreal. But not
as surreal as believing that embryonic stem-cell research is about
Fallon tonight! creating a master-race. Oh, well. It will get worse before it gets better, I
MAR 10, 2009 01:30A.M. suppose.
ESPN.COM
Tampa Bay Buccaneers

linebacker Geno Hayes stabbed
in head, neck by girlfriend
MAR 10, 2009 01:17A.M.
Authorities say the girlfriend of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Geno

Hayes stabbed him in the head and in the neck.
Hey, just a reminder that our very own Joshua Topolsky is a guest on
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight! Not only are we excited to see JT
reconnect with Jimmy for his network debut, he’s got a totally sweet
surprise in store, and honestly, we don’t think you want to miss it.
Scratch that — there’s no way you want to miss it. Seriously. It all goes
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THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN there was the interview itself. Am I being an adult scold here, or did Tyra
blow it the minute she kept the college counselor waiting by saying she
Taxes And Entrepreneurs, Ctd. had to take a call on her cell phone (from Cash, natch)? Big forces, little
MAR 10, 2009 01:16A.M. choices—they add up to more than Tyra can push up the hill.
Manzi responds to his critics: [more ...]
There are many, many factors that drive new company

formation, and the expected future tax bite is only one them.
This is why argument that “Hey, we had higher tax rates and
lots of new companies under Clinton, so therefore tax rates
don’t affect new company formation” is so empty. ENGADGET
Consider an analogous case where Andrew and I disagree Palm selling some stock to help
about taxes.
with Pre, pay off Bono before he
Andrew has frequently argued that we should increase gas
taxes in order to reduce climate change, dependence on breaks kneecaps
unstable oil suppliers, and so on. He believes that higher gas MAR 10, 2009 01:02A.M.
taxes will, all else equal, discourage use. But the federal tax
on a gallon of gas was stable at about 9 cents per gallon from
1983 to 1990. It was roughly doubled in steps from 1990 to
1997 to 18.4 cents per gallon. But, look, gasoline consumption
in the U.S. kept rising steadily over this period. So can we
conclude that proposed future increases in taxes on gas won’t
lead to a reduction in use? Andrew doesn’t think so, and
neither do I. The price of gasoline and its relative economic
benefits are impacted by many other factors. The same is true
for entrepreneurship.
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Friday Night Lights: Tim

Riggins would make a great
wife.
MAR 10, 2009 01:06A.M.
Hanna, yes, Tim is like a wife, but of the rare sort who knows when it’s
time to be an ex-wife. Like Lyla in the previous episode, he is helping
Jason by letting him go. His mush face is what it feels like to watch an
old, irreplaceable friend walk away from you. For the first time, the show
is recognizing that these teenagers have to grow up. Meghan, I can totally
see Tyra gone bad at 20, swinging around a Landing Strip pole. When I
was ruing her decision to ditch school, my husband pointed out that
what the show got right was why. In her FNL world, it’s a choice that
makes sense. Tyra’s mom is the ultimate underminer: She is constantly
Pre fever’s in the air, yes, but beneath the elation and excitement of
upping the man-pressure and tearing down college. Tami is there for
Palm’s mega-launch, there’s a cold, hard reality: bills are piling up. To
Tyra, but in this episode, she was a realist about the results of that
that end, the company is looking to queue up a “secondary offering” of its
college interview at a moment when Tyra needed a cheerleader. Then
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stock to the tune of 18.5 million shares, which — thanks to a nice bump NU.NL - ALGEMEEN
in value since the Pre’s announcement — should rake in over $100
million in capital. Some $49 million of that would be used to repay part Politieman doodgeschoten in
owner Elevation Partners, while the rest would be funneled directly into
Pre launch activities and future product development. Palm wants to Noord-Ierland
wait until market conditions are just right for the offering to take place, MAR 10, 2009 12:49A.M.
but it’d like to have the stock sale wrapped up by the 31st; look for a
hands-on from us shortly thereafter. BELFAST - Een politieman is maandagavond doodgeschoten in
Craigavon in Noord-Ierland. Dat heeft de politie laten weten.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
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Man vermoordt ex op haar werk
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments MAR 10, 2009 12:46A.M.
WILLEMSTAD - Een 54-jarige man heeft maandagochtend (lokale tijd)

op Curaçao zijn voormalige echtgenote van 43 jaar op haar werk
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN doodgeschoten.
Can Obama Legally Take Over

Citi? LIFEHACKER
MAR 10, 2009 12:57A.M.
Remains of the Day [For What
FDIC chairman Sheila Bair doesn’t think so. Justin Fox looks at how
much of Citigroup was a “domestic commercial bank that the FDIC could It’s Worth]
take over, and how much was multinational financial stuff outside the MAR 10, 2009 12:30A.M.
FDIC’s jurisdiction.” Read it all. It’s a very important aspect of the debate
that needs further exploration. Fox concludes:
Citigroup has liabilities of $1.797 trillion. The deposits that

the FDIC has some responsibility for (up to $250,000 per
depositor) add up to $241 billion. So we have this reasonably
sensible system for winding down troubled banks, but when
it comes to the most troubled big banking company in the
country, said system only covers a fraction of the overall
operation. Which leads to a couple of conclusions:
1. I get why the administration is so reluctant to take over Citi

completely.
2. I don’t get why we all (I’m including myself in this) thought

it was okay to allow the creation and growth of gigantic
financial companies for which we had absolutely no plan for
winding down in case of trouble.
Got a little more room in that capacious head of yours for a few more life
hacking gems? Here’s what just missed the full-post cut:
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• How to Delete Accounts from Any Website

• Wanna get out of a bad social network fast? PC Mag can help. [PC SLATE MAGAZINE
Mag]
Is the 6 Hour Power secretary
• Apple Building ‘Netbook’ — Is This The ‘iPod Touch HD’? (AAPL)
• Why not? [Silicon Alley Insider] spot the most sexually explicit
• Please Don’t Jailbreak Your iPhone ad ever?
• It’s not that the article isn’t on the money, but none of these MAR 10, 2009 12:19A.M.
security concerns are altogether that new, making the post feel
overly alarmist. [PC Mag] The Spot: A sexy secretary answers her intercom. “It’s time,” says her
boss, calling her into his office. We next see the boss experiencing violent
• UStream’s iPhone Video Broadcasting App is Live For Jailbroken spasms of ecstasy. He’s seated at his desk, and the secretary is notably
iPhones, Still Not For App Store not visible. “It’s working! I can feel it!” he shouts, his face contorting. We
• So if you still feel like jailbreaking, you can get your hands on cool cut to a shot of the product: 6 Hour Power, a concentrated energy drink.
apps like UStream’s live video streamer. [Gizmodo] “Feel it fast. Energy that lasts. No crash,” says the announcer. “Now I’m
ready,” says the boss, standing up from his desk, sweaty and disheveled.
• Cydia Opens iPhone App Store for the Jailbroken Community
• Oh right, then there’s also the new Cydia App Store, the [more ...]
jailbreaker’s rival to the iTunes App Store. [Gizmodo]
NU.NL - ALGEMEEN
Politieman neergeschoten in
Noord-Ierland
MAR 10, 2009 12:14A.M.
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN BELFAST - Een politieman is maandagavond neergeschoten in
Craigavon in Noord-Ierland. Volgens politiebronnen zou de man zijn
The Economy Has A Case Of overleden.
The Mondays?
MAR 10, 2009 12:28A.M.
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
Barry Ritholtz sighs:
America’s Immigration Idiocy
Confidence is a symptom, not the cause of what ails us. It is MAR 10, 2009 12:03A.M.
ironic that so many economists make what is essentially a
classic causation/correlation error. Healthy economies have Lexington continues his campaign.
confident consumers and businesses; if we short up
confidence, goes this misguided thinking, things will
improve. But healthy economies also have expanding
economic activity, gaining jobs, wage improvements, active
home sales, free credit activity. Confidence flows from the
improvements in these basic economic activities; it is not an
isolated state of mind independent from the rest of the
universe.
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ENGADGET LIFEHACKER
Olympus exec declares “twelve Simple User-Interface Trick

megapixels is enough” Makes Your Remotes Idiot
MAR 10, 2009 12:01A.M.
Proof [Clever Uses]
MAR 10, 2009 12:00A.M.
The megapixel race has been declared over plenty of times before, but
we’re guessing that there will be more folks than ever in agreement with
Olympus exec Akira Watanabe’s recent statement that twelve megapixels
is “enough for covering most applications most customers need.” In
addition to that blanket declaration, Watanabe said that Olympus has
“no intention to compete in the megapixel wars for E-System” (its line of
DSLRs), adding that it would instead focus on other features like Ever written out detailed schematics so visiting friends or family
dynamic range, color reproduction, and a better ISO range for low-light members could operate your home theater setup? It’s annoying, right?
shooting. On that latter front, Watanabe predicts that autofocus could be Web site Designing Interactions highlights an incredibly simple but
one of the big areas of innovation in DSLRs, with current “phase detect” surprisingly workable solution.
systems giving way to new and improved image sensor-based autofocus
systems. So, what do you think? Is twelve enough, or is the more It’s a bit silly and, you know, ugly, but the simplicity and effectiveness is
megapixels the merrier? Sound off in comments. undoubtedly a win. Just grab a piece of paper, cut a few holes where
necessary, label, and you’re done. No, this isn’t necessary for the remote
[Via Ars Technica] wizards in the audience, but it’s a great idea for quickly dumbing down
your remote for anyone to pick up and use.
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Chapter 4 – Adopting Technology [Designing Interactions via Gizmodo]
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appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see
our terms for use of feeds.
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ALL THINGS DIGITAL do in a New York minute, but related to its search assets.
MicroHoo: Stop Them Before In an interview with the Times of London, referencing new CEO Carol
Bartz:
They Publicly Negotiate Again!
“We’ve certainly made her aware and the Yahoo! board aware that if they
[BoomTown] are ever interested in an opportunity to partner with them on search,
MAR 09, 2009 11:59P.M. we’d like to sit down and at least have the conversation. It has to make
economic sense to both parties.”
Turner’s words come after similar sentiments were recently expressed by

both Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell and the very-on-the-topic CEO Steve
Ballmer.
We’ve seen this pubic tactic before, of course–actually, ever since

Ballmer’s ill-fated attempt to take over Yahoo ended badly. Since then,
he and others at Microsoft have not failed to either insult Yahoo’s
prospects or say how very much it would like to do a deal with Yahoo.
The recent carrot approach, of course, is because Microsoft is now facing

three important challenges.
First, for now, it looks like Yahoo’s search share seems to have stabilized
and even improved, after years of decline.
Second, for all its efforts at hiring top search guns, spending heavily and
generally declaring war on market leader Google (GOOG), Microsoft’s
share has remained puny and static.
And third, it is facing a much different kind of Yahoo leader, who–while

not necessarily as Web savvy as she should be–is not someone who is
likely to be rolled or rattled as easily as former CEO Jerry Yang.
Because, as Bartz recently quipped–this woman likes to throw out the biz
bromides more than Warren Buffett–at the Morgan Stanley Technology
Oh dear, one endless, screwed-up global airline ride without Internet conference:
connectivity and when I finally manage to get online (looking right at the
Spanish Steps in Rome–sweeeeet!), BoomTown finds that a new round “I said this to Mr. Ballmer, I will not negotiate with you and 30,000 of
o’ MicroHoo is apparently on again. my closest friends. I will negotiate privately….If something happens, you
will know about it then.”
(In the immortal words of Michael Corleone–see video below–in the
otherwise awful “Godfather: Part III”: “Just when I thought I was out, Still, despite Bartz’s cool demeanor, she and Ballmer will surely soon–if
they pull me back in!”) they have not already, that is–be meeting in some “secret” airplane
hangar or other remote place dealmakers like to reconnoiter.
Except, judging from exactly how loud the loudmouthed chatter from a
trio of Microsoft execs has become–the latest being COO Kevin (Here’s a we-have-a-lot-in-common opening chit-chat topic: How
Turner–it’s actually not. snarky/rude/pushy you both think bloggers like me are!)
Because if there were real and substantial talks going on right now Because in order to get some traction on Google in the search arena,
between Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) about a new deal to Microsoft has little choice–except perhaps making a big, sloppy bid for
partner, of course, you likely would not hear a peep from them. Facebook or Twitter–but to find a way to partner with Yahoo.
Nonetheless, Turner is the third exec from the software giant to mention Yahoo too. As much as Bartz has been bragging that she has tons of
that Microsoft would love to play let’s-make-a-deal with Yahoo–not to leverage (she both does and she doesn’t), she also needs a powerful and
necessarily go back and swallow it whole, a deal that Yahoo would now rich friend in the years ahead in the search game, which will get uglier
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and more expensive as growth slows and massive innovation is needed. not looking back, we’re looking ahead. We’re continuing to invest in
R&D, in strategic acquisitions, in growth initiatives— and most
Already, reports of that slowdown–spurred by the economic crisis–are importantly, during these difficult times, in our people. In other words,
here. It is in these down times that doing a deal, to get ready for the we will not simply ride out the storm. Rather, we will take a long-term
inevitable revival, seem most fortuitous. view, and go on offense.”
That is, if everyone can stop talking and start, well, talking. Ignoring for a moment the irony of a company that’s laid off 4,600
employees in the past few months professing to invest in its people,
Until then, here’s the great Al Pacino, delivering the classic line: Palmisano’s remarks are quite interesting. Certainly, they’re anomalous
to much of what we’ve been hearing lately. No gloom and doom from ol’
Sam, only contrarian bluster. Perhaps just enough to justify that 14
percent pay increase he accepted in 2008 …
ALL THINGS DIGITAL
Will This New “Long-Term

ALL THINGS DIGITAL
View” Approach Also Include
Microsoft Gets Brainy New
Layoffs? [Digital Daily]
MAR 09, 2009 11:55P.M. Board Member: Maria Klawe
(and Announces 13-Cent
Dividend) [BoomTown]
MAR 09, 2009 11:54P.M.
Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College, has just been
named as the 10th member of the Microsoft board.
The company also announced “that the board of directors declared a

Whatever does not kill us will make us stronger. That’s the view of IBM quarterly dividend of $0.13 per share. The dividend is payable June 18,
CEO Sam Palmisano, who says the recession will not do to Big Blue what 2009, to shareholders of record on May 21, 2009.”
it is doing to so many others. In an exhuberant letter to shareholders
today, Palmisano wrote that IBM (IBM) will not cower before the current Klawe’s appointment is interesting. She is rather sharp–what a
economic turmoil. “Many companies are reacting to the current global shock–according to her bio, which lists impressive credits as a computer
downturn by drastically curtailing spending and investment, even in scientist.
areas that are important to their future,” he said. “We are taking a
different approach. Of course, we must continue to improve our Said a Microsoft (MSFT) spokesperson:
competitiveness. But while we maintain discipline and prudence in the
near term, we also maintain the discipline to plan for the future. We’re “Klawe has made significant research contributions in several areas of
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mathematics and computer science including functional analysis, front—the Riggins/Street trip to the Big Apple has a gimmicky feel, but
discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, and the design and the show pulls it off. The sequence about trying to buy a suit at Paul
use of interactive multimedia for mathematics education.” Stuart illustrates so much about how easy it is to feel like a pie-eyed
outsider in moneyed New York. I remember feeling similarly as a
Klawe is the second woman on the board, after Dina Dublon, former teenager sometimes, even though I grew up in Brooklyn. My parents
chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase (JPM). were teachers, and I went to few fancy stores until I was an adult;
sometimes I still get nervous in them, and I love how the show brought
In a statement, Klawe said she would make sure Microsoft would pay that feeling to the fore. “Why would you want to leave Texas?” Riggins
more attention to gender issues. asks Street in disbelief after Jason reveals his grand plan to head to the
Big Apple. It’s a measure of the show’s success that the statement can be
Said Klawe: taken at face value (who would want to leave this place with its deep
comradeship and warm football-filled nights?) and heard from an ironic
“The underrepresentation of women in the fields of science and distance (who wouldn’t want to leave this place, with its flat landscape
engineering is one of the critical issues facing the computing and its sense of being isolated from larger opportunities?).Tyra is in
industry….I’m looking forward to helping the company continue to make danger of falling subject to that isolation. I think the writers are going to
progress on this important issue.” save her in the end, but it would be Wire-like of them to sacrifice her to
apathy and lassitude; if this were The Wire, we’d see her three seasons
BoomTown is with you on that, Maria. from now dancing at the Landing Strip, unable to excavate herself from
the world where she grew up, despite her smarts and her desires.Ugh,
Here’s the full press release, after the jump: how annoying Joe McCoy is! He defines smarmy and pushy. Most Joes
come in a less obvious form, but from now on I’m going to be playing a
(more…) parlor game with my acquaintances and colleagues. Which ones are
Erics, and which ones are Joes? Eric, after all, is the model of
cooperation underneath all that brusqueness. Joe, by contrast,
epitomizes self-serving deafness to the needs of others.Meanwhile,
SLATE MAGAZINE anyone notice how tall all the women on this show are?
Friday Night Lights: Will Tyra [more ...]
end up dancing at the Landing

Strip?
MAR 09, 2009 11:48P.M.
It’s funny, I’m less bothered by the “father knows best” (as Emily aptly
put it) aspect of Eric and Tami’s marriage than either of you. Hanna, you Red, White, And Healthy?
say that the quickness with which Tami caved to Eric grated on you. You MAR 09, 2009 11:38P.M.
connected it to Tyra’s wishy-washiness. And I take the point, but I read
this scene differently: The episode, I thought, was trying to draw a Carl Zimmer reviews research that suggests nativism has its roots in
distinction between Tami’s compromise and Tyra’s. After all, a feminist biology:
marriage/partnership isn’t one in which the woman gets her own way all
the time or even digs in her heels to make a point. It’s one where you Over the past few years, Mark Schaller, a psychologist at the
learn to hear when your partner is giving you good advice—acting as a University of British Columbia, has been developing an
counterweight. And Tami was getting overexcited about something intriguing theory that behavior can be just as effective as
impractical. This is what’s so hard about relationships: learning when a microbiology at warding off disease. According to this theory,
“we” is more important than an “I.” In this case, there was no way Eric we have what Schaller calls a “behavioral immune system.”
could feel like part of the “we” if they bought the house, because, as he It’s a way of responding to the outside world, and to the
sees it, he has almost no job security. At the same time, though, he people around us, that is so deeply embedded in our minds
doesn’t handle it well at first, going rigid instead of just trying to talk to that we are hardly aware of it.
Tami. I actually like this scene, because Tami got what she really wanted:
Eric’s attention, his willingness to enter the fantasy with her for a Schaller and his colleagues have been busily running
second, his ability to make her feel it is a partnership even when he can’t psychological experiments to test his hypothesis. The results
give her what she really wants. If she says she doesn’t “need” the house so far are preliminary but provocative. If Schaller is right, this
to make him feel better—well, that’s part of what keeps their spark alive, behavioral immune system may prove to have a big influence
isn’t it? And he does it too, at least a bit. Meanwhile, on the N.Y.-Texas on our day-to-day lives. It might even influence human
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nature on a global scale, shaping cultures around the world. TECHCRUNCH
Thesixtyone Is Building a Digg

For Indie Music
MAR 09, 2009 11:28P.M.
ALL THINGS DIGITAL
Nokia Stumbles in Patent

Dispute [Voices]
MAR 09, 2009 11:34P.M.
Nokia (NOK), the world’s largest cellphone maker, has lost a legal battle
to avoid defending itself at the U.S. International Trade Commission
against a patent-infringement lawsuit by InterDigital.
InterDigital, of King of Prussia, Pa., has received more than $1.5 billion
from its wireless patents and has issued licenses for technology used in
Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry
devices.
But the company has gone to court to sign up the biggest cellphone
makers by sales, such as Nokia and Samsung Electronics, which agreed The concept of building a Digg for music has been tried before (see
to pay InterDigital $400 million on the eve of a November decision by Contrastream or iJigg), but a music streaming site called thesixtyone is
the ITC. The ITC has the power to ban imports of products containing the closest I’ve seen so far to getting the formula right. It features only
infringing technologies. about 50,000 tracks self-uploaded by indie artists and music labels, but
visitors can listen to the full stream of each track and vote their favorites
In a little-noticed decision on Thursday, a U.S. judge in the Southern up the rankings by hitting the “heart” button. The results are highly
District of New York denied Nokia’s request to force InterDigital to listenable playlists by genre, tag, or just what’s hot right now.
arbitrate its dispute, rather than proceeding against Nokia at the ITC.
Nokia claimed that the technologies at issue were covered in earlier The key to making the site work, however, is not simply the Digg-like
contracts that stipulated arbitration to resolve conflicts. voting system. By now, that is becoming a pretty common feature (even
the Hype Machine uses hearts) and is fairly easy to manipulate. The
Read the rest of this post voting on thesixtyone is combined with some concepts learned from
video games. Listeners cannot just indiscriminately heart up any song
they want. They are given a limited number of heart points on a daily
basis. More points can be earned for identifying good music early or
ESPN.COM recruiting friends to the service. Songs can only be given positive heart
Montreal Canadiens fire Guy points, however. They can’t be demoted for being really bad. But the fact
that the number of points are limited means in theory that only the most
Carbonneau, Bob Gainey behind deserving songs will get enough to make it to the home page or the top of
any given category.
bench Members also earn reputation points, and can level up as their
MAR 09, 2009 11:28P.M. reputation grows. The higher level a member achieves, the more hearts
he or she can distribute. Reputation points are earned by hearting a song
Canadiens GM Bob Gainey fired Guy Carbonneau on Monday and will early before it becomes popular. Members also receive a portion of the
take over behind the bench. reputation points earned by their friends. This rewards people with good
taste in both music and friends. So when you sign up, say that
erickchonfeld sent you.
Besides the game play elements, every song can be commented on or

shared, and you can see who else liked the song. There are listening and
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leaderboards, showing the members with the highest reputations and NU.NL - ALGEMEEN
their playlists of hearted songs. Artists can be subscribed to so that you
can be alerted when they upload new songs to the site. As you are Stroef verloop
listening to a song, it keeps playing no matter where else you jump to on
the site. onderhandelingen coalitie
MAR 09, 2009 11:24P.M.
The site also makes it easy share music elsewhere on the Web by posting
individual songs to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or the Global Grind. DEN HAAG - De onderhandelingen van de coalitie over de aanpak van
You can email a song link or embed the entire stream on another page. de economische crisis worden er niet makkelijker op.
(Although, it is not easy to find these options. You have to click on the
tiny “comments” link to open them up). For instance, I’ve embedded
“Repetition Kills” by the Black Ghosts below. It would be better if you
could embed entire playlists. NU.NL - ALGEMEEN
Thesixtyone is a Y Combinator startup that launched a year ago. It is Honderden Tibetanen na jaar
now attracting about 100,000 unique visitors per month and 10 million
pageviews, say the founders. That suggests a high level of engagement. nog steeds spoorloos
The average session is 40 minutes, and registered users typically spend 2 MAR 09, 2009 11:16P.M.
hours a day on the site (although much of that is no doubt is simply
listening to it with a browser tab open while doing other things). Still, Y WASHINGTON - Een jaar na de Tibetaanse rellen in China zijn nog
Combinator’s Paul Graham says the service is “ramen profitable” from steeds honderden opgepakte Tibetanen spoorloos.
ads and Amazon affiliate links.
(Photo by Michael Karshis)

Gaza
MAR 09, 2009 11:13P.M.
Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and
hardware.
Some have not forgotten:
It’s worth recalling what Israel did in Gaza in response to

sporadic Hamas rockets. It killed upward of 1,300 people,
many of them women and children; caused damage
estimated at $1.9 billion; and destroyed thousands of Gaza
homes. It continues a radicalizing blockade on 1.5 million
people squeezed into a narrow strip of land.
At this vast human, material and moral price, Israel achieved
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almost nothing beyond damage to its image throughout the for an actual rollout, or even a confirmation of the exact type of 3D
world. Israel has the right to hit back when attacked, but any system that’d be used, saying simply that they’re continuing to test
response should be proportional and governed by sober different systems and that he envisions it to be “glasses-based in some
political calculation. The Gaza war was a travesty; I have form.” He also added that Sky is focused on building a content library
never previously felt so shamed by Israel’s actions. “over the coming year,” so that would seem to suggest that an actual
launch would come very near the end of the year, if not later.
And yet this assault on top of a blockade, carried out with an “iron fist”
as the US was in transition from one president to another was backed by [Via Register Hardware, thanks SK]
a resolution carried by unanimous consent in the Senate, and with only 5
votes against in the House. American public opinion, as Glenn Filed under: Displays, HDTV
Greenwald noted, was evenly divided, and Democrats sided more with
the Palestinians enduring a blitz with some white phosphorus thrown Sky suggests UK homes could see 3D TV by the end of the year originally
into the mix. Is there any plausible explanation for this discrepancy apart appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:12:00 EST. Please see
from the Walt-Mearsheimer one? our terms for use of feeds.
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ESPN.COM
Joe Mauer’s lingering back pain

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Sky suggests UK homes could MAR 09, 2009 11:10P.M.
see 3D TV by the end of the year Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer has been hampered by back pain,
MAR 09, 2009 11:12P.M. hurting his rehab from offseason kidney surgery.
“Mentornship”
MAR 09, 2009 11:06P.M.
You gotta love it when a malapropism becomes language.
GIGAOM
Why I Think Apple’s

Touchscreen Netbook Is Real
MAR 09, 2009 11:00P.M.
Sky has already successfully tested its 3D broadcasting capabilities, and

Some Asian news outlets are reporting rumors that suggest Apple is
hinted that the 2012 London Olympics could be comin’ at ya like never
working on a touchscreen device. This larger format iPod touch has been
before, but it now looks like the broadcaster could be set to roll out the
rumored for a while, and it’s said to be a “netbook” type device. The
service even sooner than many expected. According to Sky’s Chief
question is: How likely is it that Apple will release a touchscreen, no-
Engineer Chris Johns, Sky now has the “capability for homes to see 3D
keyboard netbook? My best guess is that Apple is indeed working on a
by year-end,” although he unsurprisingly didn’t offer any firm timeline
device similar to that being talked about in the blogs today.
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Just as it redefined the MP3 player experience and reinvented the the PC showed up. Compared to the OLPC, the intuitive
iPhone, Apple is going to pursue the netbook opportunity. But it won’t be factor is high: within an hour he [Rodriguez’s 6-year-old son]
with anything like the cheap, anorexic laptops being sold as netbooks was using the web browser and with just a teeny bit of
today. coaxing he was sending emails like a pro. This is the platform
of the future and we might as well get used to it. Netbooks?
When Apple COO Time Cook was asked about netbooks during his Come on, give me a break!
conference call with analysts in February 2009, he said that the company
was “watching the space,” but he dismissed the idea of offering a device I know Antonio well, and he is not known to gush. His measured
that had “smaller screens, cramped keyboard.” In other words, if Apple enthusiasm is one of the reasons he and I get along well, but I still might
does make a device that sits between an iPod touch/iPhone and a laptop, have dismissed it as one man’s opinion. However, another good pal of
then it would mostly likely be a touchscreen device. mine, Andy Payne (investor in Lookery and FanSnap), feels the same
way about touch devices. After watching his kid play around with an iPod
Some other clues that point toward the development of this device are touch he echoed Antonio’s sentiments.
found in the user interface on the recently released Safari 4.0 Beta.
Charles Ying, who develops for WebKit, notes on his blog the similarities If you read our past coverage, we are pretty bullish on connected devices
between Safari 4.0 and the iPhone Safari browser. and consider them to be be part of an uber-trend I described in a
previous post (”iPod, Kindle, Facebook and a Nomad Called Me“). I think
I’m guessing that multi-touch user interactions are more these devices facilitate our inner digital nomad. There is one company
positionally accurate due to direct user manipulation. That that understands cultural shifts better than most, and that is Apple.
might explain some of the slight inconveniences Apple is
making to pursue a unified multi-touch but full computing
interface. I don’t know if Apple’s Netbook will run full Mac
OS X, but I’m pretty sure that Safari 4’s user interface will at
least be consistent.
This issue contains posts from between
At the same time, Apple is pushing hard on its web applications. The Mar 09, 2009 06:20a.m. and Mar 10, 2009 02:21a.m..
iWork web site and a much improved Mobile Me would make good To change your settings, visit
companions for an Apple touchscreen device, whatever it might http://www.tabbloid.com/28993.ba65d735
eventually be called. These developments seem to point to a device that
could be broadly called a “cloud client.” (Related: What makes a Cloud
Computer.)
I think there are social and economic reasons why Apple will pursue this
opportunity, as well.
First of all, people are looking for a cheap, connected Internet device that
is “not a laptop.” I was recently watching an interview with Amazon’s Jeff
Bezos on Charlie Rose, in which he talked about the Kindle being flexible
enough to encourage new kinds of media consumption, including
multimedia books and newspapers with immersive content and
interactivity. I think he is spot on — and just from that perspective,
Apple has to be thinking really hard about this looming opportunity.
Secondly, I think the emergence of the iPod touch/iPhone is changing

how we perceive and interact with computers. My friend Antonio
Rodriguez, who founded and sold his startup Tabblo to Hewlett Packard,
thinks that a whole generation of kids is now growing up with
keyboardless computing as a default way to interact with machines.
These keyboardless laptops are the future of computing, no

question. For about $200 you can put something in a kid’s
hands that can a) surf the Internet, b) consume media, and c)
do just about anything that a general purpose computer can
do. Forget about it— the old desktop/laptop paradigm of
computing is about as toast as the minicomputers were when
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