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TECHNOLOGY
Last month, Xbox LIVE launched its highly anticipated forum for indie gamers, called the Community Games Channel . The new forum allows independent game developers and designers to take their Xbox 360 creations public within...
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Fast growing virtual world Stardoll has partnered with Elle to launch Stardoll Magazine , a fashion focused web publication gearedtoward tween/teenager girls. The new Stardoll Magazine , an animated representation of a...
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Twingly is the newest addition to the world of blog searching. Unlike Technorati and its other competitors, it offers a spam-free blog search. It only tracks blogs with proven legitimacy, rather than...
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Polo Ralph Lauren recently announced the launch of a mobile commerce (m-commerce) service that will allow consumers to buy products through their mobile phones. Consumers whose phones can read Quick Response (QR) codes will be able to shop by simply...
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Technology
CitySense is a new, mobile map application that automatically shows where the hotspots are in a city. Currently only available in San Francisco (Chicago is next), users are given a real-time view of how busy the city is, as well as where the...
- TECNOLOGY TidalTV is the newest entry into the online TV category, offering on-demand programming in a user-friendly format that mimics the look and feel of watching a real television. TidalTV offers both branded entertainment and news from the likes of Vogue , Dow Jones...
- Technology A collaboration between Ford and Microsoft has front-lined a new standard for staying connected on the road. The Sync program will allow you to control almost all of your portable devices from a central computer via Bluetooth, and a USB for media devices, within the car...
- Technology Penguin Publishing has launched the world's first community written book. A Million Penguins is a wikinovel experiment where anyone can write and edit a novel-in-progress. www.amillionpenguins.com was launched last week, and the...
- Technology IQONS is the first social network devoted specifically to the fashion industry. Launched at the end of February, IQONS serves as a platform for indie designers, retailers, makeup artists, photographers, editors, publicists and financiers to display their work and...
- Technology New social communication service, Jaxtr , is hoping to close some of the communication gaps currently found in e-correspondence. Jaxtr gives users a click-to-call option that can be placed on a social network page, blog, eBay posting, Craigslist...
- Technology GoTV Networks is the first studio to create television shows exclusively for mobile phones. GoTV focuses on lightweight shows targeted at a younger audience, with categories such as music, sports, news, Latin, comedy and women's interests. Sprint-Nextel started a...
- TECHNOLOGY The convergence of blogging and video clip culture has created lifecasting - live video streaming self-documentation. Much of the hype around "lifecasting" is due to the success of Justin.tv , the live stream of San Francisco-based...
- Automotive In the quest for greener and fun-to-drive cars, little-known carmaker Tesla is unveiling its first electric sports car this fall. The Roadster, Tesla's flagship model, is a $98,000 electric vehicle that achieves 0 to 60 mph in four seconds. American consumers haven't...
- Technology Cell phone privacy screens are popping up all over Japan. Even more so than here in the US, people in Japan are addicted to text messaging, due to the fact that making a private cell phone call in public is considered extremely rude. Text messaging in public spaces,...
- Technology The Zonbu is what’s new in environmentally responsible computing. Ready to go out of the box, with nothing to install, the Zonbu works solely off of a broadband connection. Comparable to the Mac Mini in size, the Zonbu starts at $99. The Zonbu uses just one-tenth...
- Technology Nintendo DS games are known for exercising the mind (i.e. Brain Age - reading and math exercises that help stimulate the brain). Soon, they will be known for exercising the body. "Face Training," the new beauty focused game aimed at women, features a...
- TECHNOLOGY A new Web site takes the Google Earth concept – satellite imagery & 3-D maps – a step further. EveryScape is a virtual world that enables users to check out popular places, hotels, restaurants and shopping from a...
- TECHNOLOGY S ophisticated formal surveys are typically expensive and take weeks to prepare and execute. Online polling site Ask500People allows its users to gauge popular opinion on almost any topic and see the results within hours. For $100-$500, a company...
- TECHNOLOGY Cell phone novels — composed on cell phone keypads — have infiltrated mainstream literary society in Japan. Of last year’s ten best-selling novels, five were originally cell phone novels. Most are love stories written...
- Technology TrackMyShipments is a free service that tracks all of a customer's shipped packages in one place. Standard "Your Order Has Shipped" e-mails, sent out by companies when a package leaves their warehouse, require multiple steps each time a customer wants to track the...
- Technology Picnik is a free, ad-supported online application that offers many of the photo-editing capabilities of Photoshop. Users can upload photos from their desktop and alter their color, brightness and other characteristics, and when done, post them on popular photo-sharing or...
