Goo.gl good, fb.me bad: a study finds who’s quick off the mark in the link-shortening world URL shorteners have become a fact of life, given the proliferation of short messaging services (and also the demands of print, which finds URL shorteners mean you can link to long URLs in a few characters). But they’re sometimes a roadblock – at least, the one from Facebook is.
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Why short links can take a long time to get you around the web
It’s far and away one of the most genius concepts we’ve seen in the past year, and we couldn’t possibly be happier for one Min-Kyu Choi. Said designer, who recently graduated from the Royal College of Art, was recently showered with laud after the above-pictured Folding Plug nabbed the gold in the Brit Insurance Design contest. Unfortunately, we’re still no closer to understanding when some moneyed manufacturer will pick this up and start producing it, but hopefully this prize will reinforce its awesomeness and catch someone’s eye.
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UK Folding Plug takes home design award, emerges in USB-infused flavor
A case of mistakenly used outdated graphics in Apple’s online adverts has put some Mac fans in panic mode, suggesting significant price increases across the board. Are Macs overpriced? Of course, I’ve written about this before
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Price hike advertised on new Macs blamed on outdated graphics (Geek.com)
A little more than a week ago, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google and DISH Network had begun testing a set-top box that uses Google as a search algorithm. In a story published late Wednesday, The New York Times went a step further, claiming that a “Google TV” platform is in the works, from Intel, Google, Sony and Logitech. The Times reported that the Google service will run on Atom-powered set-top boxes, and that Logitech is developing complementary remote controls.
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Google-Powered Google TV" Set-top Box Concept Surfaces Again
While America is trying to figure out how to connect Disney and Vegas with a maglev train, China is going forward with plans to connect a whopping 17 nations with a high-speed rail network. The plan right now is for three major lines: one that connects Beijing to London via the Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel) and continues on to Singapore; a second line that covers Malaysia, Burma, Vietnam, and Thailand; and a third that would bridge China, Russia and Germany to other European railways. And, just when you thought it wouldn’t get crazier: China wants to get this done in the next 10 years.
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China plans massive high-speed train network across Asia and Europe
This one looks to have largely gotten lost among the hubbub of CeBIT earlier this month, but it seems like Archos quietly announced a followup to its Archos 13 laptop, which is now set to debut sometime next month. Complete details are still a bit light unfortunately, but the revised model will sport that always desirably “classy look,” along with an Atom D510, Windows 7 Home Premium for an OS and, presumably, a 13.3-inch display
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Updated Archos 13 laptop to roll out next month
The Winter Paralympic Games are currently going on in Vancouver and fearless athletes are out on the snow and ice pushing their bodies (and some medgadgets) to the limit. Gene Ostrovsky, one of our editors, spoke with Dr.
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Interview With Dr. Mike Wilkinson, Chief Medic of 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
For years, heat issues have plagued (or have been said to plague) the Xbox 360, with fans and foes alike claiming that they have been a leading cause of the infamous Red Rings of Death. Now, a Chinese forum member has reportedly snapped a picture of an upcoming motherboard, with an integrated CPU and graphics chip. Naturally, if the performance can be maintained, the integrated controller should provide a single thermal hotspot to cool
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"Xbox 360 Slim" May Have Leaked on Chinese Forum
It’s been a year or so since RIM announced that push APIs had become available to its Alliance Program members, and now it looks like the rest of us are finally able to get in on the action (at least those of us who are BlackBerry devs). Starting today, access comes in two packages: either BlackBerry Push Essentials (the free version) or BlackBerry Push Plus with a number of tiers that reflect different options and price points.
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BlackBerry push framework now available to all developers
Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented the mothers and wives of dissidents from marching on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday to demand release of their loved ones, shoving them into a bus when they lay down in the street in protest.
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Cuban security agents break up protest march (AP via Yahoo! News)
GE Healthcare has released an iPhone app aimed at radiologists which shows off sample images and videos from GE Healthcare imaging systems. It was demonstrated recently at RSNA 2009.
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GE Healthcare Releases Clinical IMAGES iPhone App for Radiologists
We know, BJ Snowden is an American artist — but since her song “In Canada” is probably on every iPod and computer up north, we have to wonder whether a proposed amendment to the Canadian Copyright act will help her finally get what’s coming to her. The brainchild of the New Democratic Party’s Charlie Angus, the bill would extend 1997’s Private Copying Levy “to the next generation of devices that consumers are using for copying sound recordings for personal use.” Proponents of the plan says that it ensures that artists get paid for their work — essentially, the government wants you to pay upfront for the music you’re likely to steal anyways by taxing your next digital audio player purchase. Of course, much about the plan doesn’t make sense (it doesn’t address digital video, for instance, or the computers that people use to download and store their music in the first place) but we guess we’ll let the Canadian government hash that one out
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Is Canada’s iPod tax back? And if so, will BJ Snowden get her cut?
It’s not much fun grilling burgers in the middle of a snowstorm. That’s why we’d like to plug in this Flama Chakall Grill, place it under our super-powerful range hood that can practically suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, and see if the grill can leave those luscious carbon stripes on our slaughtered animal flesh — no matter what the weather. It’s unclear whether it’s even possible or safe to use this grill inside, but there’s certainly enough power on board to properly fire up those meats — there’s a 2.3kW heating element blazing away under the grates.
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Chakall Grill brings char-broiled goodness inside
At TED2010, Chef Dan Barber drew a standing ovation with his unlikely love story about fish: sustainably farmed, outrageously delicious fish, which offers a model for the future of food production. A key figure in the farm-to-table movement, Dan occupies an unusual space as chef-scholar: His op/eds appear regularly in The New York Times and elsewhere; and he prepares genius menus nightly at his two Blue Hill Restaurants — one in New York City and one at the Stone Barns farm in Pocantico Hills, NY. We caught up with Dan in New York to better understand the meaty issues he raised in his talk
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Q&A with Chef Dan Barber: Can organic farming feed the world?
I would say that the bulk of attention in the industry is paid to the handful of big vendors and multitudes of smaller ones that create products and solutions, and then sell them direct or through partners, and systems integrators. The industry and analysts talk about “the channel”, but don’t talk a lot about the channel, typically because of the vast amount of announcements that require our attention from the big manufacturers, such as the Cisco’s, Avaya’s and IBM’s of the world
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A Look at the Importance of the channel and mobility applications
Possibly confirming those leaks suggesting that the first volley of Droid updates to Android 2.1 would be limited to just a quarter million folks, Verizon just shot out a statement to let everyone know that the over-the-air push is “being deployed to a small number of Verizon Wireless test users tomorrow afternoon.” Beyond that, no dates are given for the rest of us to get in on the action — probably because Verizon and Motorola need to see how the first group manages before sending out the remainder — so for the moment, just hope that you’re one of these incredibly blessed “test users” and stay tuned. Droid’s Android 2.1 update going to ‘a small number’ of users tomorrow originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
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Droid’s Android 2.1 update going to ‘a small number’ of users tomorrow
Palm might be able to use a bit of good news right about now, but it looks like it may not be able to count on that coming from AT&T. As AllThingsD ’s John Paczkowski reports, Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek is now saying that Palm’s still as yet unconfirmed launch on AT&T has been pushed back from its rumored April debut to June or July
On Sunday, Naomi Natale — installation artist, photographer, social activist and TED Senior Fellow — launched her latest project, One Million Bones . She writes: One Million Bones is a fundraising art installation designed to recognize victims of present genocides.
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TED Senior Fellow Naomi Natale launches One Million Bones
CareFusion of San Diego, California has announced the release of the AVAmax Vertebral Balloon that can be used to treat spinal compression fractures. It consists of a small balloon attached to a catheter which is inserted in the vertebral body and then inflated in order to create a cavity.
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CareFusion AVAmax Vertebral Balloon Kyphoplasty Device
Google just launched a new stable version of Google Chrome , the company’s increasingly popular browser, which introduces a number of new features and more advanced privacy controls.
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Latest Version of Google Chrome Adds Auto-Translation and New Privacy Features