Monthly Archives: February 2010
Leo Laporte Caller Talks About How She Wants Her Stolen Wi-Fi Back [VIDEO]
Leo Laporte, the founder of the podcast called The Tech Guy! had a recent caller that is upset that her stolen wireless connection went away. She claimed that her stolen Wi-Fi “disappeared” and she was not happy about it. This is one of the most epic calls I’ve heard on Laporte’s show.
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University of Oklahoma Professor Kieran Mullen Destroys Laptop Using Liquid Nitrogen [VIDEO]
University of Oklahoma physics professor Kieran Mullen made it a point for his students not bring laptops into class by destroying one with liquid nitrogen. “This is just liquid nitrogen, so it alone won’t hurt the computer. But this will. ” [Engadget]
Categories Kieran Mullen, University of Oklahoma
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Blizzard Entertainment Gives $1.1 Million To Make-A-Wish Foundation
The Make-A-Wish Foundation has announced that Blizzard Entertainment, the company that designs World of Warcraft has donated $1.1 million. This donation is based on 50% of total sales during November and December 2009 of a special in-game pet called the Pandaren Monk within World of Warcraft. “We’ve had a long relationship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and we’re proud to support the priceless work they do for children,” stated Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. “This donation also reflects the spirit and generosity of our players – their enthusiasm for World of Warcraft and for supporting a good cause made this possible.” [Blizzard PR]
Categories Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Morhaime
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Popular YouTube Singers Come Together To Sing We Are The World [VIDEO]
Fifty seven YouTube artists came together to sing “We Are The World.” This video emulates a similar video that many pop culture artists put together in the last couple of weeks. The collaboration was put together by Lisa Lavie.
Categories Lisa Lavie, YouTube
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Grants Google Energy To Act As A Utility Company
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted Google Energy the right to behave like a utility company. This means that Google Energy has the power to sell energy and services at market rates. Why is Google interested in being a utility? The company wants to be more green and become carbon neutral. Google will now have the ability to build as many solar panels and install as many fuel cells as they want to. And then the company can sell off the extra energy that they have created. [Wired]
FarmVille Passes 80 Million Users
FarmVille, the game created by Zynga has passed the 80 million mark as of yesterday. Thats about 20% of Facebook’s total user base. Recently Zynga created a fund raising campaign for Haiti and Farmville users donated about $1 million. [AllFacebook]
Categories Farmville, Zynga
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Poll: What Do You Think About Toyota’s Appearance In Congress?
I read this opinion piece on InvestorPlace.com by Jim Woods about the media frenzy surrounding the Toyota recall. As many of you know, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda will be appearing before the United States Congress to testify at a hearing next week. There are a certain number of politicians that will be biased against Toyota because of the government’s ownership in General Motors. But Toyota has many production facilities across the United States which account for nearly 18,000 jobs, including the states of Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky.
The governors of these states wrote a letter last week to the heads of the two house committees. The governors “described Toyota as a victim of an overly aggressive press and said the company had responded to its safety problems in a more ‘emphatic manner” than any other car company under scrutiny by the Department of Transportation.” These governors asked federal regulators to be fair because of their obvious conflict of interest due to financial stakes in GM and Chrysler.
There’s some interesting comments floating around. What are your thoughts?
Categories General Motors, GM, Toyota, United States Congress
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Facebook Buys Malaysian Based Contact Importing Startup Octazen Solutions
Facebook has acquired a small Malaysian startup company called Octazen Solutions. Octazen Solutions created an e-mail contact importer tool that social networks users for encouraging users to join a social network. The acquisition was intended to be for the talent behind the company. [GigaOm]
Categories Facebook, Octazen Solutions
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Apple Declares War On Sex-Related Apps
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has decided to ban almost all applications related to pornography. Over the past week Apple sent out a notice to developers telling them that their applications will no longer be sold on the App Store. In the letter sent, Apple points out that “overtly sexual content” will not be allowed going forward. On The Go Girls had 17 applications removed which was about half of the applications that they released. Jens Ltd. has only about one application remaining. Even Maxim had some of their applications removed.
My opinion on the situation is that the Apple application store has its risks. When these developers plugged these applications into a market that Apple has full control of it, they are taking on a risk. Apple makes the rules and we as developers must abide by them if we plan to capitalize on the market.
Disclaimer: Pulse2 LLC sells over 20 applications on the Apple App Store.
Categories Apple App Store, Apple Inc.
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Rumor: iPad Presales May Start Next Week
AppAdvice has a source that says that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will start pre-selling the iPad as early as next week. However it might not be possible to get your hands on one until March 29th. This is 60 days after the original announcement. The date for the rumored presale is February 25th. The presale would only be available in the U.S. and will be for the Wi-Fi version. [AppAdvice]
Categories Apple Inc., Apple iPad
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