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By David Pescovitz at 5:54 pm Tuesday, Dec 15 The Type n Walk iPhone app enables you to see in front of you, via the iPhone's camera, while typing. I haven't tried it yet, but it's a cute concept. I'd imagine their lawyers wouldn't let them call it Type n Drive. Type n Walk (Thanks, Jason Tester !)
It is currently going through final testing and could be released before the end of the year, said Jay Sullivan at Mozilla, the group behind Firefox. Apple is very restrictive. It doesn't allow other browsers The browser will be available to download from the Mozilla website and then offered in Nokia's Ovi store, so that N900 owners can download the software.
BBC News - Firefox for mobile 'days away' from launch
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Joel Tenenbaum said his fine was excessive A US student who was fined $675,000 (£421,000) for illegally downloading music has asked a judge to reduce the damages or offer him a retrial. The court admitted that initially the market for online music was "unfair" because there were not many legal alternatives to illegal downloads. The case, between Sony BMG and Mr Tenenbaum, was one of the first to acknowledge that consumers did not have much choice in the early days of digital music. But Mr Tenenbaum was fined more heavily because some of his illegal file-sharing activities were detected after Apple established its iTunes store, the court said.
BBC News - File-sharing student fights fine
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Google Wave Presents the Year 2009 - Google wave 2009 - Gizmodo
I cannot, I will not use the pun Google wants me to use. But this video kept my attention for the whole two-and-a-half minutes, which is no mean feat in this easily distractable time we bananas are surprisingly filling! In case you couldn't figure it out, the pun is: Google Waving the year goodbye. That's so cheesy I've even decided on a specific type of cheese it most resembles: Brie. Anyway, this video is fun. Everyone loves playing a game of "remember that!
Teens Banding Together to Cut Down on Facebook
There’s no doubt that for many of us, Facebook consumes a goodly proportion of our time; on average, we spend 5 percent of our time online . For some teenagers, time spent on the 350 million-strong social network has gone beyond time spent and into time sunk. It’s prompted a spate of young users to devise ways of cutting down, taking breaks or simply deactivating their accounts altogether, according to The New York Times . Some are even banding together to provide social support for curtailing the Facebook obsession. Two teens at San Francisco University High School, Hally Lamberson and Monica Reed, made a pact to only log in on the first Saturday of every month.
Debunking The Silly Complaints From People Who Don't Like Social
from the yes,-it-sucks,-get-over-it dept Cory Doctorow has a fun column over at The Guardian responding to three of the common quips used by people to dismiss social networks , and pointing out why those complaints miss the mark. He responds to the following three: It's inconsequential -- most of the verbiage on Twitter, Facebook and the like is banal blather, by noting that what's inconsequential to you is most likely not inconsequential to those it's actually targeted at.gaming
In a new study conducted by Scott Owens out of the University of Mississippi, the Wii Fit was loaned to eight families and the usage and fitness impact was tracked over time -- three months before they got the Wii, and three months after. The verdict? "No significant changes" in family fitness from the Wii. Interestingly, over the period of three months the daily Wii Fit usage declined a staggering 82 percent, from 22 minutes a day for the first half of the time all the way down to an average of four minutes a day for the last six weeks.
Wii Fit found to have 'little effect' on family fitness level, b
Gordon Brown to promise free laptops and broadband for poor fami
Gordon Brown today promised free laptops and broadband access for 270,000 low income families so that they could better follow their children's progress at school. In what aides described as a sign of his commitment to "aspiration", the prime minister said he wanted every household to have broadband access to the internet. The aim is to get all families linked up to their children's schools via the internet and access progress reports on attainment, behaviour and other needs.youtube
You tried going to http://carolinebeavon.com/2010/01/14/my-top-5-online-tools/ , and it doesn't exist. All is not lost! You can search for what you're looking for.
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Christopher Rawlings, head of strategy at Consumer Focus, said greater use of social media to solve problems was to be welcomed but warned firms not to neglect consumers who "cannot access, or are simply not interested in using, the likes of Twitter or Facebook". He said: "There is a risk that too much attention is paid to customers those who have online influence and it is important that the traditional ways of getting problems resolved remain open. "We are conducting researching into ways consumers can benefit from social media. Equally, we recognise that there are those who do not have online access or do not want to share their personal information over the internet." The Convergys research, published last month, found one in three of those affected by bad customer service share their problems on the internet.
Silent majority risk worse customer service as companies monitor
Wagner James Au sez, "Jonathan Lethem's latest novel Chronic City includes a virtual world inspired by Second Life, so fittingly, this Sunday Lethem is promoting his book *in* Second Life on the Copper Robot show, using an avatar named PerkusTooth Riddler, based on the character Perkus Tooth from the book. If you don't have an SL account you can watch on the web ." Share this post Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.