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Iterasi getting public RSS feeds and widgets

31 Jul 2010

I’ve embedded an example of the new widget after the break. It’ll continue to update as more pages are saved.

Web page archiving tool Iterasi is getting a small but important update Tuesday morning. Users can now share their stream of archived pages with others as an RSS feed, letting anyone view their saved items either [...]

Report Dell phasing out XPS gaming systems

31 Jul 2010

(Credit:
Alienware)
This will effectively leave Alienware as the sole high-end PC game offering from Dell which acquired the Miami-based game system maker in 2006.
Alienware gaming system: Dell XPS game PC line ate into Alienware sales
UPDATE: Dell Inc. will begin phasing out its line of XPS desktop game machines, according to a report in The [...]

Inside Mascoma’s ethanol-making bug lab

31 Jul 2010

It also announced that investor General Motors’ director of Global Energy Systems, Andreas M. Lippert, has joined Mascoma’s scientific board. GM invested in Mascoma’s $61 million series C round in May of this year, along with refiner Marathon Oil.

Ethanol being produced now is blended with gasoline at 10 percent concentration. But for cellulosic ethanol to [...]

The world’s most expensive (and tasteless) iPhone

31 Jul 2010

But wait, this touching work of art has a unique feature. No, it does not polish your shoes while you talk on the phone. And no, it doesn’t have a built-in vibrator to massage your ear. It does, however, have a “home button” that carries a rare 6.6-carat diamond.
However, when I look at the [...]

HOPE conference highlights everyday hacking

31 Jul 2010

Corley has placed symbolic black coffins in the registration area and suggested people donate flowers instead of monetary contributions to the event. The cover of the program features artwork of a boy holding the hand of a scythe-carrying Death and walking toward the Hotel Pennsylvania.
The conference program makes for entertaining reading. If [...]

TravelMuse aims to be the Netflix of traveling

31 Jul 2010

TravelMuse brings Web 2.0 functionality to the task of group travel planning.

At this point, the service produces a list of potential destinations that meet the criteria defined by the group.

But the service has many other features as well.

The service starts with what the company calls its “inspiration planner,” which is designed to help a group [...]

Smokestack heat Fuel of the future

31 Jul 2010

The efficiency of power plants in the United States has not improved in 50 years, while industry in Denmark has managed to increase efficiency 60 percent in the last three years, he said.
Efficiency, in general, is less sexy than renewable-power generation, an area that attracts more entrepreneurs and investors. But the economics of [...]

Microsoft trying to live up to interop pledge

31 Jul 2010

“Customers want the interoperability at the document level,” Craig Shank, general manager of interoperability at Microsoft. “They would like to be able to use documents in different ways.”

The first involves Microsoft working with China’s Beihang University to develop translators to allow Excel and PowerPoint to open and save files in China’s UOF format. In the [...]

Web 2.0 gets to work in Boston

31 Jul 2010

You can get $100 off admission to the full conference, or a free exhibits-only pass, by signing up here with the priority code, “CMBMEB03.”

Our buttoned-down and moneyed East Coast friends might want to check out the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference from June 9 to 12 in Boston, where businesses wonks will be arguing about [...]

iPhone apps a major trend at DemoFall

31 Jul 2010

“Right now, (the iPhone is) the platform with the most immediacy,” said Richard Bryce, CEO of Mapflow, a company here with a product centered around an iPhone app. “Especially for the consumer market.”

This week, the trend–at least as I’ve seen it–has been the number of companies here with
iPhone applications. Not every one of them is [...]