Microsoft is incorporating what your friends do on Facebook right into its Bing search engine. With the help of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the software maker rolled out a new feature that can show what someone’s friends “like” in searches. (Oct. 14)
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During the Vietnam war, US secretary of defence Robert McNamara was so cocksure of an American victory that he propagated a ‘strategic’ bottom line: “Two plus two is four, and we will win the war” . The trouble with this line was that, as one CIA official once put it, McNamara could never define what ‘two’ represented. Parallels are increasingly being drawn between the current US military campaign in Afghanistan and the one in Vietnam, but this time, the Americans could be said to have had a handle on the objectives. For a brief period, from the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, ‘nation building’ was an oftheard refrain. It no longer is. “I’m not doing long-term nation-building . I am not…
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Highlights of this day in history: Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier; Britain’s Battle of Hastings takes place; Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize; Former President Theodore Roosevelt shot; Singer Bing Crosby dies. (Oct. 14)
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After more than two months underground, the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine may have trouble adjusting to life on the outside and the inevitable changes they face. (Oct. 13)
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Cafepress teams with TomTom to slather your GPS in color, make it totally unsellable
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Has Colorware started a revolution that’s now impossible to stop? Here’s hoping the answer is contrary to the obvious. TomTom has — for reasons unknown — decided it best to give consumers the option of coating their future navigator in… well, whatever they want. We aren’t generally ones to gripe about choices, but the demonstration photo here definitely caters to those in favor of all things vivacious. The outfit has teamed with Cafepress in order to make the magic happen on “select models,” and amazingly, privilege of destroying any and all resale value will cost you absolutely nothing. Talk about an incentive to buy. Continue reading Cafepress teams with TomTom to slather your GPS in color, make it totally unsellable Cafepress teams with TomTom to slather your GPS in color, make it totally unsellable originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A 19-year-old woman found murdered in a men’s bathroom at San Diego City College appeared to be the victim of domestic violence, school officials said, dispelling fears that a random killer had come to campus. (Oct. 13)
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RUADH�N MacCORMAIC in Paris FRENCH UNIONS voted yesterday to extend their strikes over the government’s pension reform plans, with trains disrupted and blockades halting fuel transport from eight of 12 refineries. However, a day after nationwide protests attracted the largest crowds so far in the unions’ campaign, President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would push the reform “right to the end”. “Irrespective of the difficulties in putting in place such a…
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The last of the Chilean miners has been raised from deep beneath the earth. All 33 men have now been delivered from the longest underground entrapment in history. (Oct. 13)
Continue reading …Netgear Roku XD Player gets official, coming to big box retail everywhere
October 14, 2010 No Comment
We knew something was up when we saw a Netgear-branded Roku XD hit the FCC and subsequently turn up at Fry’s , and now it’s official: Netgear will be selling the Roku XD as the — wait for it — Netgear Roku XD Player. Hardware and functionality-wise, it’s the exact same Roku XD you’ve come to know and love — 720p Netflix and Amazon streaming with support for 1080p on certain channels — but Netgear’s vast distribution network means that it’ll be sold in Best Buy, Radio Shack, Fry’s and anywhere else Netgear products routinely show up. It’s a pretty aggressive move for Roku, which was previously online-only — the company has been saying its goal is to put a box by every TV in your house, and the XD is certainly cheap and flexible enough to tempt quite a few big-box shoppers. Of course, you’re be paying a little extra for that extra silkscreen and distro love: Netgear’s MSRP is $89.99, $10 more than the straight Roku. (Fry’s selling it for $79.99 after “instant savings,” though.) That’s not exactly impulse-buy pricing, but it’s still $10 cheaper than the Apple TV, so it looks like the heat is on — check out our Roku XDS review and just ignore the part about USB playback to get a feel for the XD. Update : Did we say “coming” to big box retail? One tipster tells us the Netgear Roku Player at the Salt Lake City Best Buy store right now. You’ll find pictures of the box immediately below. [Thanks, Jeremy] Gallery: Netgear Roku Player at Best Buy Netgear Roku XD Player gets official, coming to big box retail everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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