In good news for music streaming sites (and their users) it seems that advertising can support letting users play free music. Music streaming service we7 is announcing that it has had its first month where all of its on-demand music…
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Poll: as ad-supported music streaming turns a profit, where do you get your music?
Google announced that it has acquired Israeli-based company Labpixies – which develops gadgets for iGoogle (the customizable startpage similar to My Yahoo!), as well as games and apps for Android , iPhone and social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Orkut). Naturally, as part of Google, Labpixies will further develop content for iGoogle (mainly for Europe, Africa and the Middle East)
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Google buys Labpixies, launches new Place Pages for Android and iPhone
Spotify has temporarily stopped installations of their app as demand rocketed following the updates to the service announced yesterday. Everyone with a Spotify account will get the new version of Spotify rolled out to them, but might have to wait…
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Spotify shuts down new installations after massive demand
Construct the city of your dreams in HappyVille: Quest for Utopia! Design and plan your town to keep your citizen’s content! Anticipate your people’s needs, design freely, and have the initiative to expand and grow your city. Inspire and create happiness as you adapt to new challenges and deal with drastic changes in this fun Simulation game. Unlock new buildings and create gorgeous neighborhoods in Happyville! * Gorgeous graphics * Friendly citizens * Create your own Utopia! HappyVille: Quest for Utopia | 64 Mb DOWNLOAD HERE
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HappyVille: Quest for Utopia
In 18th century France, you are a young, unknown architect looking for your big break and a chance to impress the Queen. In this building Simulation game, set in the romantic upper class world of French aristocracy, you will design and manage the construction of the most beautiful structures in the kingdom.
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The Palace Builder
The Magellan 1700, hugescreen (7-inch) GPS is available at Costco for $179, after a $50 discount. The Magellan 1700 offers some pretty good features like one touch commands, giving you access to key functions in the swipe of a finger, lane assist, text to speech and maps of the US and Canada. The partnership between AAA and Magellan also brings a great set of POI information with ratings and reviews of certain locations around you when you are on the road. One feature I like is the highway exit POI lookup, giving you the ability to figure out what’s available at the next exit; good food or bad, gas station or not….
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Magellan 1700 – Hugescreen GPS – $179 at Costco
Eden Hunt, a world-famous archaeologist, has received a call from a mysterious man, inviting her on a fantastic treasure hunt! Find the ancient treasure of Akua to win a huge sum of money, and finance Eden’s future adventures. Take on the other competitors head-on as you track down the hidden treasure. Eden’s Quest – The Quest for Akua takes you around the world on an exciting Adventure! The 1st episode of a series of adventures A subtle blend of adventure and challenges, with a smattering of hidden objects 20 magical settings to be discovered with a lot of contextual interactions A whole host of appealing and intriguing characters More than 100 challenges to solve: puzzles, hidden objects, riddles,… Animated sets, interactions with a lot of characters! A treasure hunt full of twists and turns! Eden’s Quest: The Quest for Akua | 250 Mb DOWNLOAD HERE PART 1 DOWNLOAD HERE PART 2
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Eden’s Quest: The Quest for Akua
Breed beautiful and exotic fish in this unique aquarium-sim puzzler. These are your fish and like real fish, you need to care for them. You can feed them, cure them if they get sick and make lots of babies! The game runs in true real time: new surprises every time you check back into your game. Buy supplies, ornaments and special chemicals for your virtual tank
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Fish Tycoon
Travel to 19th century Europe in this unique and mysterious Hidden Object game! Important documents have been stolen from a ship, and it’s up to the well-known Detective Cunning to find them. Track down a shadowy figure and discover who is behind the mask to unravel the case! Find valuable items in gorgeous Hidden Object scenes, as you travel across Europe in It’s All About Masks! Mysterious atmosphere Tricky case to crack Find the documents! It’s All About Masks | 63 mb DOWNLOAD HERE
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It’s All About Masks
Buffalo America has quitted flash memory business altogether after an infringement lawsuit filed against the company by Sandisk, but that didn’t stop the Japanese division from rolling out exciting new flash memory gadgets. Here’s Buffalo SHD-PEHU3 – the latest SuperSpeed USB SSD in almost the same glossy black plastic case as its hard drive sibling . Unlike the HDD version, the Buffalo USB 3.0 SSD is built to rake in money and to impress early adopters in mind. Nearly all models carry a jaw-dropping price tag, from $281 for 64GB to $476 for 128GB and $1075 for 256GB.
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One Grand Gets you a Buffalo 256GB USB 3.0 SSD Flying at 240MB/s
Huaqi Technology is now going after the companies who it believes to have infringed its “USB Plus” patent right. The so-called “USB Plus” is like a eSATA / USB 2.0 hybrid port that allows compatible devices to draw power from USB while enjoying SATA speed advantage from the same jack
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Chinese Company Suing HP, Toshiba over "USB Plus"
Earlier this week, Robin wrote a great eulogy for the good old floppy disk . I’d bet my bottom dollar that you have a stack of unused ones somewhere in your house. I am pretty sure that if I pay my parents a visit, I will find a heap of them covered in dust. Those disks are wrapped in so many memories that I just couldn’t find it in myself to throw them away! If you’re anything like me, you might want to find ways to make use of these practically useless disks
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Immortalize Your Old Floppy Disks
Lok-it has a new take on the padlock flash drive and wants to show it to you. They’ve added a rechargeable battery to the padlock drive which powers their in-line security system. The correct key sequence has to be entered before the drive will even show up as active hardware. The security system essentially prevents any communication from the host computer to the drive until the password is physically entered. As a result, this removes the easy options for snoops
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Lok-it Adds Electric Keypad to Secure Flash Drive
The folks over at Eye-Fi have yet another 802.11n card they’d like you to know about, and this one is an Apple Store exclusive. The Geo X2 sits nicely between the $49.99 Connect X2 and the $99.99 Explore X2, and will cost $69.99. For all intents and purposes, the Geo X2 appears to be similar to the Explore X2, but it packs in 4GB of memory instead of 8GB. It rocks the same Endless Memory Mode that automatically deletes photos after they safely been wirelessly synched and backed up, the Class-6 flash memory, and the automatic geotagging support as well
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Eye-Fi announces Geo X2 Apple-exclusive, expanded Wi-Fi support
We’re not sure what type of games TiVo thinks they are trying to play here, but the company has finally gotten around to getting their AN0100 802.11n wireless adapter to retail , and they’ve decided it best to charge more than just about any other wireless device of this kind on the market. That’s right, the TiVo Wireless N Network Adapter can be yours for a shocking $89.99
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TiVo Wireless-N Network Adapter available now
This morning at WES 2010, RIM finally took the wraps off of their upcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system, introducing it with the video you see above. While it’s easy to be captivated by the dancers, when you focus on the actual screen activity being teased here, you see that this is all focused on touchscreen gestures, but we are sure that RIM won’t be throwing away that true QWERTY keyboard anytime soon. Also, interestingly enough, the web browser got almost no play at all in the video. Maybe they’ve still got some work to do on that one
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BlackBerry 6 OS shown at RIM WES 2010 keynote
Features of Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint is basically a document management system . It is a set of server abilities that improve the efficiency of an organization by providing services of enterprise search, content management, and facilitation of information sharing and acceleration of shared business processes. For IT developers and professionals, it serves as tool for interoperability, application extensibility and server administration.
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Features of Microsoft SharePoint
We recently mentioned that Google announced that the Nexus One wouldn’t be hitting Verizon , and the reason behind the decision is that there is a better option in the Droid Incredible from HTC. We recently got our hands on a Droid Incredible, and we’ve been playing with it for a couple of days now, steadily forming our opinion of the device. While the full review isn’t ready yet, we can comfortably say that we like the Incredible quite a bit more than the Nexus One. Look out for our review in a few days, but in the meantime, we’ve got a Droid Incredible gallery for you, giving you a look at the aesthetics of the device.
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Verizon HTC Droid Incredible unboxing gallery
Nexcopy announced an all new microSD duplicator line of products which range from 20 ports to 60 ports for data loading to microSD media. Nexcopy is known for their USB duplicators , and has since expanded out to Secure Digital, Compact Flash and now microSD duplicators. They had a microSD solution before but it used microSD to SD adapter cards. This new line of product uses only the microSD media itself, no adapters. Nexcopy reports this could increase production throughput by as much as 30% because of reduced labor involved with the SD adapter cards. “The microSD duplicator is ideal for telecom recycling centers who need to process and format microSD media left in cell phones and SmartPhones after a contract has expired. With the new duplicators, formatting, erasing, verifying and data loading is a very simple and straight forward process.” I’m sure many system integrators who are embracing the small flash memory type will also rejoice in seeing a product that will speed up production. In addition, with telecommunication companies and service providers getting on board with data loading free content and promotional campaigns to microSD as incentives for cell phone purchases. To learn more about the microSD duplicator visit Nexcopy’s product page
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microSD Duplicator From Nexcopy
This tasty looking thing is the latest addition to the never ending stream of weird computer accessories. It’s a 4-port USB 2.0 compliant hub designed to look like a chicken burger. Features: USB 2.0 4-Port hub Chicken burger shaped design Made of Polyresin Fully compliant with USB 2.0 specification Backwards compatible with USB 1.1 Transfer rate up to 480Mbps Plug and play Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX and Linux Dimension: 88 x 88 x 60mm (approx.) Weight: 336g You can get your hands on the USB Chicken Burger 4-Port Hub ($19) over at USB Brando.
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Chicken Burger USB Hub
The next Blackberry OS 6 has surfaced in a video demo showing off some of the cool features that the next generation OS will sport. The new OS is rumored to be landing on that ugly flip phone spied in leaked shots a while back
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Blackberry OS 6 preview, Nokia N8 sample photos surface, Nokia N8 gets official