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Lessons From Haiti Will Aid Chile - O’Reilly Radar

Earlier today Chile experienced a massive earthquake (you can see images of the damage on The BIg Picture). Now, just hours after the event online disaster relief sites are being spun up to aid the survivors. These are all variations on sites that were created to help Haiti survivors.
Google quickly sprang into [...]

Google ditches Google Gears in Google ditches Google Gears in favor of HTML5 developmentfavor of HTML5 development

Google is saying “Hello, HTML5” and goodbye, Google Gears. In a message posted on the Gears API Blog, Gears Team member Ian Fette explained why development has been slow:
“If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort [...]

Dell Mini 5 prototype impressions

Dell Mini 5 prototype impressions — Engadget
Dell’s puzzled the world for quite some time with its outlandish Mini 5 — at first glance it’s just another Android-based MID, but a quick fiddle with it reveals the full-fledged 3G phone inside. So will it fit in a pocket? Can we carry it around like a normal [...]

Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder’s gaming start-up

Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder’s gaming start-up | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

Tiny Speck, a company started by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and three partners, is unveiling its new game, Glitch, on Tuesday. The company has been under the radar since it was founded last March, and no one has known what was being [...]

Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free

Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.
“The dominant operating system provider [...]

Intel Details Upcoming Mobile and Six-Core Processors

Intel Details Upcoming Mobile and Six-Core Processors - HotHardware
With the International Solid-State Circuits Conference less than a week away, Intel has released additional details on its hexa-core desktop, next generation mobile and dual-core Westmere processors. Much of the dual-core data was revealed last month when the CPU manufacturer launched Clarkdale (our review is here if [...]

The Apple iPad: It’s just ahead of its time

 | Molly Rants - CNET News
It’s hard to argue the fact that this week’s Apple iPad launch disappointed the tech crowd, and not just because of that inexplicable name. Despite its lovely design, beefier core apps, and new e-book features and store, the iPad is hampered by a well-documented string of missing features: a camera, [...]

The Nexus : Whats Inside ?

Amazon adds media streaming to content delivery service

Amazon adds media streaming to content delivery service | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld

Google & Audi take Google services in a car to the next level in the new Audi A8

Nowadays, it seems like everything is connected to the Internet: mobile phones, laptops, netbooks, portable game consoles, personal navigation devices. Think of how applications such as Google Maps for mobile have changed the way you find locally relevant businesses or addresses, or real-time traffic along your route. We can even get [...]