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Society RSS FeedsNimbuzz VoIP app on Apple App Store - Nimbuzz is a free app that lets you call (VoIP), chat, message, and send photos, music and video on your iPhone, which was recently made available on the Apple App Store. Using a centralized contact list you can connect with all your buddies on Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, StudiVZ, Hyves, Jabber and Twitter, plus popular social networks including Facebook and MySpace. It features presence (who'...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Killing off Vampire Power for Good! - It's been called both "vampire power" and "phantom load" -- likened to the power-hungry HAL 9000 computer (at left) in Stanley Kubrick's classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's the little unblinking red light on the television set that is silently drawing energy from the grid; studies have shown it can add 10% or more to a household energy bill.Now Spanish entrepreneurs claim to have invented a way to end the problem that has bede... It's Black Friday! America's Retailers Need You! - Yes, Black Friday it is!(And did you know about Black Friday the movie?)And gadget retailers (and all others, too!) are looking for you to make your contribution to their coffers!Now, I know it may have been hard (very hard), even too hard, to get up before the rising sun to hit those eager merchants at 5 AM when the best (very best) deals could be had, but there is still plenty of time today to either hit the pavement for a real physical visit o... Making Black Friday Deals Easy - You know I scoured all of the flyers and online ads to put together a great list of Black Friday deals, but seems Gizmodo has just plain beat me to it! So just like last year, they have rounded up and sorted through all of the real deals for you, broken down by category and merchant. If you know how to survive, this is the only Black Friday deal list you need. Get it all here.
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... Need more Terabytes this Christmas? - Looking for a faster, bigger hard drive this Christmas? (Two days till Black Friday sales by the way) Well, I came across this funny Youtube video of the day - filmed at famous Mac Store Tekserve in Manhattan, New York and paid for by drive manufacturer Seagate. It's a tad long, but it features a hip-hop office drama and the desire for "A new disk drive. 1.5 Terabytes ." (don't let that little jingle get stuck in your head) Just in time for the... HTC Touch HD - HTC's Touch HD is arguably the best touch-screen Windows Mobile-based phones you can buy. In fact, even before the HTC Touch HD, I always felt HTC mobile phones were the best Windows Mobile phones you could buy. I own an older HTC-based "Apache" XV6700 Windows Mobile with a cooked ROM upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 and I'm still pretty happy using it. I still consider my xv6700 one of the top 5 Windows Mobile phones available. Installed on it I... VoxOx 1.0.1 Released - VoxOx just released a new version of their "Universal Communicator", which aims to combine VoIP, video, and social networks. VoxOx aims to take on Skype by offering more social networking features. Last year, I wrote an article titled Skype Could Trump Facebook in Social Networking, but Skype still hasn't added social networking functionality.In any event, today version 1.0.1 was released, less than a month after their initial launch. I was neve... Sony Phone Home for Gaming Future - For Sony, Home is where the future of gaming is -- or where they would like it to be. In its battle for the hearts and minds of gamers, Sony is developing a robust social-networking component to its PlayStation 3 console. The new element, to be called Home, has been in beta testing for weeks and allows users to explore an online world with avatars that can travel from one virtual place to another. While it's not exactly a world like... NFL Goes 3-D - When the National Football League broadcasts next week's San Diego-Oakland game to theaters in three cities, it will mark the first time that the league has used 3-D technology during a live event. The game will be shot using special cameras and broadcast via satellite to theaters in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston on December 4.The event will be a demonstration to show how the technology can be used to provide a more realistic experience ... Blockbuster Sees Beauty of On-Demand - Making its first foray into on-demand video, Blockbuster has started offering customers a small box made by 2Wire that, when attached to a TV set, can play the company's videos once they've been downloaded the movie over a broadband line. The move is an attempt to blunt the success of such competitors as cable companies, with their vast on-demand offerings, and Netflix.If you do it, let us know!More at The Washington Post/The Associated... Power Down Those Gaming Consoles! - Gamers: Power down consoles when not in use to save cash! National Resources Defense Council and consulting firm Ecos have found that gamers could save $100 a year if they turn off their consoles when they are not in use. That means you guys in the photo! The pair also recommends that game console manufacturers look to include power management features in their next generation of consoles. The authors said the industry should adopt automatic p... Get Ready for a Really Crazy Black Friday - The Friday after Thanksgiving is the day that all retailers look forward to -- known as Black Friday, it's the day that retailers sell so much stuff that they get into the black and are now profitable for the year. (Or at least they hope to be.)With this awful economy, retailers are going to all kinds of extremes to entice shoppers into their stores and move those goods and gadgets.Are you willing to get up early -- really, really early -- and be... Palm Going the Way of the Dodo? - At a moment in time when smart phones are one of the few hot tech products, Palm, the industry's pioneer, appears to be dying. This morning, Global Crown Capital analyst Pablo Perez-Fernandez cut his rating on the company to Underweight from Neutral, setting a $1.50 price target, well below the current level. Perez-Fernandez provides a damaging list of factors now facing the company and the stock, all of which add up to a deteriorating positi... Alan Colmes Leaves Hannity & Colmes - FOX News Channels' Alan Colmes is leaving Hannity & Colmes (H&C) at the end of this year. Well there goes my 9 o'clock nightly timeslot. What the heck am I going to watch now? Reality TV? Ack! Well, the good news is that not watching the at-times heated debates should be good for shaving off a few points off my blood pressure. So you're probably wondering if Sean Hannity finally got under Alan's skin, he got tired of debating Sean and he... Toktumi Now Offered on Dell VoIP Website - Toktumi recently announced a partnership with Dell to distribute its small business VoIP service through a co-branded site on Dell.com (www.dell.com/voip), which also features Fonality, Nortel, and Bandwidth.com. So what's so special about Toktumi, (a word play on 'talk to me') and it's USB-based plug-in device? Well, Toktumi is very ... Single Texting Addicts - Meet Speed SMS Dating - Texting (SMS) is certainly popular, especially amongst the younger crowd. In fact, one teenaged girl sends more than 600 text messages in a day -- almost double what an average American sends/receives in a month. A 29-year-old man travelled from San Francisco to Green Bay to meet a woman he met via text message. It was love at first texting. We've all heard of the term "speed dating", which allows you to meet many people on several mini-dates u... NatGeo Gets into the Gaming Mood - National Geographic Ventures is working with video game makers on branded games for PCs, consoles and handhelds, with such forthcoming titles as National Geographic: Panda for the Nintendo DS and Sony will have National Geographic: Africa. For the Panda title, look what you will be able to do! Interact with pandas - play with, help, teach and nurture your very own cute panda bear Learn about pandas - view pictures and read stori... BlackBerry Storm Launch Crashes Verizon Network - I was on the phone with TMC's Verizon representative to discuss changing our mobile phone plans. The Verizon rep told me it was bad timing since their entire intranet ordering system had completely crashed as a result of the Blackberry Storm launch. TMC's business Verizon rep couldn't even make changes to our account as a result. Well, it certainly looks like the Storm is having a tremendously successful launch. Should the iPhone be worried? ... Netflix's 'Napoleon Dynamite' Problem: Worth Solving! - The Napoleon Dynamite problem is driving Len Bertoni crazy. Bertoni is a 51-year-old "semiretired" computer scientist who lives an hour outside Pittsburgh. In the spring of 2007, his sister-in-law e-mailed him an intriguing bit of news: Netflix, the Web-based DVD-rental company, was holding a contest to try to improve Cinematch, its "recommendation engine." The prize: $1 million. Cinematch is the bit of software embedded in the Net... Broadband-enabled Game Consoles: Bye-Bye Pay TV? - A report from research consultancy TDG predicts that portals like Microsoft's Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network will soon become formidable competitors to incumbent Pay TV services. Leveraging broadband-enabled game consoles as the next-generation video platforms -- and bypassing cable and satellite TV operators, these companies will offer a compelling alternative to traditional TV programming by providing a more immersive, interactiv... How about a Waterproof TV for You? - Pantel debuts the latest in waterproof TVs!Pantel is preparing updated versions of its waterproof Mirror TV line: LCD TV sets that are mirrors when not in use and can go in wet environments such as outdoors, a shower or a sauna. The new offerings will come in four screen sizes ranging from 17 to 32 inches and are expected to begin shipping to retailers by the end of the year. Now what will they think of next!More at TWICE.
Tags: pantel, ... Converter Coupon Expired? - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Robert McDowell recently fielded questions from the public about the DTV transition in Philadelphia, including this one: "I thought I lost my converter coupons I received in the mail, but later found them in my desk drawer at work, the coupons had expired and I was told I could not get replacement, even though I told them I could send back the coupons I received. Is there a way to receive anot... More Proof That Gadgets Are Good for You - See -- as if we needed confirmation -- gadgetry is good for you. Well, maybe I'm taking a small step here, but a new study from the MacArthur Foundation has found that all those hours that teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing. (And how to they get access to the Internet? Gadgets, of course!) "It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it's on MySpace or sending instant mes... Vudu Does HD VOD Big Time - Vudu, a startup that sells and rents movies via its Internet-connected set-top box, has boosted High-Definition library to 1,100 on-demand titles -- for now, outdistancing any cable operator's HD video-on-demand service. To build what it claimed is the largest library of HD content available to consumers, Vudu added on average of 150 HD titles per week in October. The service requires a minimum 4-Mbps connection for instant playback of HD titles... HP Debuts First Multi-touch Notebook -- Yes HP, Not Apple (Now That's a Surprise!!!) - From the first time Steve Jobs demonstrated "the pinch" -- the two-finger gesture used to zoom in and out of photos and Web pages on the iPhone -- some Apple observers assumed it was just a matter of time before a multitouch-enabled screen showed up on the Mac.That hasn't happened yet. But now Hewlett-Packard has beaten Apple to the punch, announcing the first multitouch-enabled notebook PC, the tx2. We are all wondering -- aren't we -- why Apple... PC Magazine Stops the Presses - Online Only - I grew up reading PC Magazine and I looked forward each couple weeks to picking up my copy of PC Magazine at the local grocery store. But today, Ziff Davis has announced that the legendary PC Magazine print publication is shutting down its print publication and focusing exclusively on online content. This is truly a sad day Hold on while I grab some tissues... Anybody Like the New Xbox Live? - The new Xbox Live look is supposed to kick off today so be sure to take a peek.The gaming platform now includes customizable avatars, an iPod-like display and easier viewing of Netflix downloads. It's got to be an improvement over what was there before or at least we hope so!Let's hear the feedback!Louder!
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Tags: gridnetwo... RNB Roundup: Atheism ads get tax support; Holland bans Magic Mushrooms; Fritzl turns to Buddhism; More? - Today's RNB Roundup includes items about Islam, Christianity, Atheism, and Sikhism.Also: those seeking religious highs by munching on 'magic mushrooms' can no longer do so in Holland as the growth and sale of the plants is now banned.... Two teens file lawsuit against evangelist Tony Alamo over beatings - A beating administered by evangelist Tony Alamo and the man described as his ?enforcer,? John Kolbeck, at Alamo?s religious compound in Fouke last year caused ?serious and permanent injury? to a teenager?s left hand and wrist, according to a lawsuit filed by the teenager and another former church member.
Eighteen-year-old Spencer Ondirsek said in the lawsuit that Alamo struck him three times during the beating. At one point, he said, Alamo taun... UK pastor who claimed to produce ?miracle babies? another step closer to extradition - A controversial pastor who claimed he could give infertile couples "miracle babies" is a step closer to extradition on child abduction charges.
Two High Court judges have refused to give Gilbert Deya permission to appeal to the House of Lords against the order to extradite him to Kenya.... Europe court says no to turban on Sikh?s driving licence - In a statement, the court recognised that the rule on photographs 'amounted to interference with the exercise of the right to freedom of religion', but judged that this was justified
Freedom of religion 'did not always guarantee the right to behave in a manner governed by a religious belief and did not confer on people who did so the right to disregard rules that had proved to be justified,' the court said.... Mercy Ministries exorcism books leaked - Handbooks allegedly used to perform exorcisms on sick girls at the controversial Mercy Ministries residences in Sydney and on the Sunshine Coast have been leaked to LIVENEWS.com.au.The documents, obtained clandestinely by a girl who ?escaped? the group?s clutches, shows counsellors how to rid ?demons? from girls struggling with anorexia, depression and drug addiction.... Child of Jehovah?s Witnesses can be given blood, judge says - A High Court judge has directed that a Dublin, Ireland hospital can, provided it is absolutely necessary, give a possible life-saving blood transfusion to a four-year-old girl despite the religious objections of her Jehovah's Witness parents. The hospital made an emergency application to Ms Justice Mary Laffoy on Tuesday seeking an order allowing it to administer a transfusion after the parents refused to give consent.... Netherlands will extend burqa ban to universities - Face-covering Islamic robes known as burqas and niqabs are to be banned from Holland's colleges and universities, education minister Ronald Plasterk said on Wednesday.Health minister Ab Klink is also looking at extending the ban to cover hospitals and healthcare staff.... California county OKs limits on picketing in response to anti-Scientology protests - The Church of Scientology's concerns about protesters outside their Gilman Hot Springs base led Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone to seek and gain approval Tuesday for county restrictions on picketing in residential neighborhoods.
Only Supervisor Bob Buster voted against the ordinance, which forbids demonstrators from coming within 300 feet of a home they are targeting in unincorporated Riverside County.
Buster said a 300-foot buffer woul... Hate incidents in U.S. surge - Barely three weeks after Americans elected their first black president amid a wave of interracial good feeling, a spasm of noose hangings, racist graffiti, vandalism and death threats is convulsing dozens of towns across the country as white extremists lash out at the new political order.Even more ominously, America's most potent symbol of racial hatred - the Ku Klux Klan - has begun to reassert itself, emerging from decades of disorganization a... AUM Shinrikyo bankruptcy procedures to end, victims get 40% of compensation - Bankruptcy procedures for AUM Shinrikyo have effectively ended, but victims of the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo's subway system and other crimes by cult members have received only 40 percent of the compensation that they should have been paid, the receiver said Wednesday.The victims will also receive up to 30 million yen each from the central government depending on their degree of suffering under a relief law set to take effect Dec. 18. ... Copyright © 2008, StartMyEbiz.com. All Rights Reserved. |