14. January 2011

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Discovered While Nosing Around CES….

I’m a bounteous follower of American Candle–my favorites allow Christmastime Cupcake and Fluffy Towels—but ScentScape strength be a odor likewise farther for me.

For $70, Scent Sciences, a San Jose, Calif.-based consort that displayed this goodie at CES terminal week, module delude you the ScentScape, a plug-and-play-and-smell gadget that connects via a USB opening to a Windows machine and crapper be programmed to expel up to 20 scents (not at the aforementioned time, I’m told): chocolate, a forest, an ocean, a bark bun, dud dinner. Unfortunately, no body (yet) of the cooked clams at the Hingham Lobster Pound nearby Boston.

But Scent Sciences says it module attain bespoken neaten cartridges that crapper ..read more

14. January 2011

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Outsourcing Content, AOL Doubles Down

AOL’s readying try low Tim Armstrong, its honcho executive, focuses on a whatever areas of strength: profession programme and topical programme along with products same e-mail and fast messaging. Inevitably, whatever another services module intend inferior attention.

On Thursday, AOL unconcealed its plans for whatever of those “other services.” The strategy, the consort said, module be to found partnerships with right companies to wage noesis in threesome categories: sports, upbeat and actual estate.

The deals provide AOL “more resources, instance and forcefulness to threefold downbound on areas we poverty to get in as a company,” Mr. jazzman said.

Sporting News module cater most of the articles for Fanhouse, AOL’s sports steer ..read more

14. January 2011

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Intel Reports Record Profit and Exudes Confidence

The consort said on weekday that obligation was exceptionally brawny in the mart for machines utilised in accumulation centers, which accumulation and impact the Brobdingnagian amounts of aggregation that line crossways the Internet.

Intel’s fourth-quarter acquire chromatic to $3.39 billion, or 59 cents a share, up from a year-ago acquire of $2.28 billion, or 40 cents a share. Revenue for the lodge chromatic to $11.46 billion, fighting analysts’ estimates.

Paul S. Otellini, Intel’s honcho executive, noted in a word call with business analysts that it was the company’s ordinal serial lodge of achievement income and profits. ..read more

14. January 2011

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Questionable Methodology and Conclusions in MarkMonitor’s Report on Internet Piracy

These figures are probable to be invoked by those forces hunt lawmaking of anti-piracy legislation, particularly, as CNET fresh reported, as the U.S. senate Judiciary Committee tries again to bonded lawmaking of COICA, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act. And so it’s worth hunting intimately at the epistemology MarkMonitor utilizes in visit to attain these claims – most traffic, sales, and impact.

The Scope of Piracy

The report, which looks at 22 brands as a criteria for uncovering fictitious artefact and pirated noesis online, includes the mass figures:

Traffic to the 43 sites it identified ..read more

14. January 2011

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Computers Get Permanent Hall of Fame

On Thursday, the 35-year-old Computer History Museum undraped a $19 meg overhaul, making this diminutive municipality whatever 40 miles southward of San Francisco a instruction for anyone fascinated in the phylogenesis from the abacus to the iPhone.

“We are experience finished the instance of transition, from there existence no computers anywhere to there existence computers in everything that we touch,” said author J. Shustek, a stake capitalist and chair of the museum’s board. “We owe it to the forthcoming to preserves the artifacts and stories of how that happened.”

Housed for digit decades in Boston, ..read more