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| Disney World 3D in Google Earth |
 (10 votes - 3 comments - 278 views) After looking at this, it makes me question why we haven't had a mod map of walt disney world in call of duty yet... |
| Huge protests expected at political conventions |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters are expected to jam the streets of Denver and St. Paul at the Republican and Democratic conventions in a noisy counterpoint to the parties' carefully scripted speeches.
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| Cell Phone Chooser Test - Question 14 |
| Diana's butler faces 'perjury' probe - CNN | ||
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| Freedom plea for Tariq Aziz, Saddam's dying apologist |
| Tariq Aziz, the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime who has been held for nearly five years without charge, is now so ill that he will probably die before he is tried. |
| Skydeck API Fuses Mobile Phones and Social Networking |
 Skydeck announced their new APIs, with the objective of enabling developers to create applications that integrate personal cell phone data into their daily online experience, including email and calendars, Facebook, MySpace, and Salesforce. "Very few developers have ever had the chance to work with cell phone data, so we're excited to see what people come up with." |
Indeed, there are some unique opportunities for developers building apps on the Skydeck API. The new API provides access to your mobile phone call log, address book, minutes remaining on your monthly plan, etc. Skydeck API applications can also access this information for accounts other than your own account, provided that the people have given permission for others to access the information. In this sense, Skydeck is like many online social networking sites. The screenshot below shows their dynamic “smarter address book”.
The Skydeck API is REST-based with returned in JSON format. All applications that use the API must implement OAuth, which enables users to set permissions for what data they’d like to make available to Skydeck API applications. API calls are secured through the use of an API key. The Skydeck API Documentation provides detailed information on the API methods, calling URLs, and the structure of the API’s data types. See our new Skydeck profile for an overview of the API. With Skydeck, people’s cell phones are transformed into an infrastructure that is the basis for a new kind of social networking. As Kristen Nicole wrote in her Mashable.com post “Skydeck API: Turn Your Phone Bill Into a Facebook Application”, Skydeck will:
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| [Cartoon inspired by recent Techcrunch post etc.]... |
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| why is my video quality so horrible? |
| High Quality is relative. Yes, youtube has higher quality than it used to have. That doesn't make it high quality, just better than complete crap. |
| Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 to Hit Streets First in Europe, September 30 |
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Sony Ericsson's upcoming Xperia X1 smartphone is due to go on sale at first in Europe in just 20 days. It'll hit the streets in the UK, Germany and Sweden then, followed by many other countries throughout the remainder of 2008. To "start the countdown" SE will be launching a live global webcast on September 15 at 1PM London time, demonstrating the handset's fucntions. That's fab news, and confirms that rumor the phone | Mobile Marketing : Apple’s iPhone Rocks the Cell Phone Industry |
| Paul Carton (ChangeWave Alliance) submits: It’s not often that we say “it rocks” when analyzing a consumer device trend. But the findings of our latest ChangeWave cell phone survey invite extremes to describe the startling impact the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is having on the cellular industry. Our survey of 3,489 Alliance members – conducted April 4-10 [...] |
Paul Carton (ChangeWave Alliance) submits: It’s not often that we say “it rocks” when analyzing a consumer device trend. But the findings of our latest ChangeWave cell phone survey invite extremes to describe the startling impact the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is having on the cellular industry. Another 7% say they are likely to buy the iPhone as a gift for someone else. These are big numbers, especially when you consider the worldwide market for cell phones is around 1 billion and Apple’s goal is to get to 1% of that market in year one – which would mean selling about 10 million phones. Clearly the current results, while similar to our January survey findings, provide strong evidence that Apple should exceed its iPhone sales goals for 2008 – providing the device lives up to consumer expectations. The iPhone’s overall integration of iPod, Phone, Camera and Email/Internet capability (28%) remains the top selling point among likely buyers. Importantly, the survey has also uncovered an additional surge in demand if the iPhone’s proposed price point is lowered. To find out how far the price has to drop to attract additional customers, we asked the rest of our respondents who aren’t yet considering the iPhone the following question: For those not considering buying an Apple iPhone, at what price point would you consider buying an iPhone?
A total of 10% say they’d consider buying a 4GB iPhone if the price falls to the $200-$299 range, while a total of 20% said they’d consider the 8GB model in this price range. The Explosive Impact on Cell Phone Manufacturers To gain a full sense of the iPhone’s looming impact on manufacturers, we compared their current market share in our survey with planned consumer purchases for the next six months. Currently, Motorola (MOT) (33%) remains the leading manufacturer among Alliance cell phone owners, with LG (LPL) (15%) second and Nokia (NOK) (14%) third. But when you look at planned future buying the iPhone’s impact becomes clear. For the second-consecutive survey, Motorola’s future share among consumers has seen a dramatic decline – falling from 33% last October to just 17% currently. Nokia has also fallen from 11% to 9% during this period.
“As more and more consumers switch to the iPhone, we are going to see a huge migration from cell phone manufacturers like Motorola to the hipper, cooler iPhone,” says Tobin Smith, founder of ChangeWave Research and editor of ChangeWave Investing. The Effect on Cellular Service Providers We see the same pattern among service providers. Currently, Verizon (VZ) (30%) holds the market share lead among our respondents while AT&T’s (T) Cingular (27%) – which is Apple’s exclusive service provider for the United States – is in second. We note that third place Sprint/Nextel (S) (12%) has fallen 1-point to a new low. But going forward we find a dramatic turn of events. Cingular (28%; up 6 points) has surged ahead of Verizon in terms of future planned buying among consumers, and is now the top choice among those likely to switch service providers.
Verizon (22%; down 3 points) has continued to trend downward among this critically important group – falling to second place for the first time since we began asking this question in a ChangeWave survey. Thanks to our early adopters of the ChangeWave Alliance we are able to see with stark clarity how the Apple iPhone is set to rock the cell phone industry. Ultimately the real issue for Apple isn’t meeting its first year iPhone sales goals. The survey shows that’s very doable. The real issue is whether they can keep up with consumer demand – including having enough parts to fulfill orders – while maintaining product integrity. Its competitors had better hope the iPhone can’t get a dial tone – because if it does, the rest of the industry’s in for a big shakeup. Jim Woods co-wrote this article. Apple’s iPhone Rocks the Cell Phone Industry - Seeking Alpha technorati tags: mobile, mobile alley, mobile news, mobilemarketing, mobile marketing, marketing mobile, interactive marketing, marketing interactif, marketing, digital marketing, digital advertising, Mobile advertising, Mobile Internet, Apple, Apple iPhone, Cell Phone Industry         |
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| 7 Crappiest "Super Heroes" in Comic Book History |
| Some ideas for "super heroes" should have never been spoken aloud, and when they were the creator should have been laughed out of the room, preferably through a tenth story window. Instead, seven of them were fitted with origin stories and sent to the presses giving us unintentional hilarity like: |
| SnapStream adds placeshifting to BeyondTV PVR software |
Filed under: Video, Windows, Commercial, Beta  But the latest beta version of BeyondTV adds a nifty placeshifting feature utilizing Microsoft's Silverlight technology. Users can login to the web administration interface for their accounts to see a list of recorded programs. In the options menu is a button that says placeshift. Click it and BeyondTV will analyze the recorded show and your internet connection and transcode the video in real-time for streaming over the internet. In other words, if BeyondTV is a TiVo killer (for ubergeeks who would rather build their own, anyway), BeyondTV 4.9 beta is a Slingbox killer (again, for the ubergeek set). BeyondTV is available for $70 or you can download a free trial version.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments |
| "First FLIGHT" I watched this Hummer getting up on his "First Flight" and aiming for a sweet nectar from his nest.....wambling to the left and to the right...Stepping up from branch to bran ... |
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| Christian Bale off the hook in assault case |
| British prosecutors: Christian Bale will not face charges relating to incident with mother |
| A Tribute to William Powell |
| A tribute to the suave and debonair actor who began his career playing silent villains and ended up as one of the most popular actors in Hollywood, starring in one of the most beloved movie series ever made! |
| Electronic Arts sees China among top 3 Asia markets |
| SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc expects China to join Japan and South Korea as one of its three largest markets by revenue in Asia-Pacific in two to three years.
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| Holloway disappearance hits cold case file |
| None of the three suspects in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway will be charged, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said today. Hans Mos, the island nation's chief public prosecutor, said there was not enough evidence to take the case to trial.
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| Storing A Snowboard for the Summer |
| When the snowboarding season is over, it's easy to just throw your board in the garage or under the bed and forget about it. However, if you take a few... |
| Newcastle have began their search for a new boss |
| Newcastle have begun their hunt for a sixth manager in four years after Kevin Keegan resigned. David Moyes and former Didier Deschamps are among the names being considered. |
| For 60 years, the ad game has been fodder for scripts |
| The popularity of the AMC series "Mad Men" is renewing interest in efforts to portray the advertising business on TV and in film. |