Archive for October 6th, 2009


Oct 6

Google PowerMeter + TED 5000 = energy monitor device

Google partnered with Energy Inc. to supply TED 5000 energy monitor device for their PowerMeter software. TED 5000 measures electricity usage in real-time (TED stands for "The Energy Detective"), when combined with Google PowerMeter can help you understand your electricity usage to save energy and money. Now, anyone in North
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Oct 6

Wp-Thumbie WordPress plugin display thumbnail in related posts

Wp-Thumbie is WordPress Plugin to Display Thumbnail Related Posts on WordPress blog. You can use Wp-Thumbie plugin on any self-hosted WordPress blog without need of modifying your existing posts. The plugin automatically extracts first image from posts and on fly resizes to defined thumbnail size. You can set number of thumbnail related posts to be displayed with
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Oct 6

Courier Tablet: “is it real and coming out in June 2010?” No, I’m not prepared to tell anything, Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer is never at a loss for words, but that doesn't mean he always spills the beans. “When asked about the reality of the top-secret Courier dual-screen tablet that Microsoft is said to be working on and if it's coming out in, say, June 2010? Ballmer replied: Huh. No, I'm not prepared to tell CNET anything.” But
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Oct 6

Artist Themes for Google Chrome browser

Google launched new Artist themes for Google Chrome, a fusion of art and technology, with a hundred artist themes that’ll enrich and personalise your web browsing experience. You can now choose from a gallery of 95 themes designed by top artists like Jeff Koons, Yulia Brodskaya or Wes Craven. "We invited leading artists, architects, musicians, illustrators,
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Oct 6

SEVEN Mobile Instant Messaging app for Windows Mobile

SEVEN Mobile Instant Messaging application is available for mobile operators and device manufacturers to further enhance their device and service offerings. SEVEN Mobile IM supports multiple IM accounts – including Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk (Gtalk) – and delivers on SEVEN's mission to provide users with easy access to
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Oct 6

Microsoft’s UIST Mouse Prototypes – video

At the User Interface Software and Technology Conference, Microsoft’ll show five new mouse prototypes that combine normal mousing with multitouch controls. Here’s a video that gives you a brief introduction to each of the controls:
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Oct 6

Windows Mobile Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, Windows Phone website Live now!

Windows Mobile Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, slated for today’s release is live now. Along with Windows Mobile Marketplace, a new version of MyPhone, Windows Live for Windows Mobile is included. Also note that the new Windows Phone website is up. Picturepan2 posted some early screenshots: MyPhone includes Photo Sharing
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Oct 6

Google Health added ‘APWU Health Plan & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’

At Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Google added two new health insurance companies to the Google Health platform. With these additions and Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA, Google now’ve three health insurance plans connected to Google Health: American Postal Workers Union Health Plan (APWU Health Plan) is a not-for-profit department
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Oct 6

Directory Watcher add-in for Windows Home Server

Daniel Buschke released a new Windows Home Server add-in “Directory Watcher,” that’ll give the ability to set up a list of shared folders that’ll be monitored for file changes (adds or deletes) and’ll send out a notification to a list of registered users detailing the information on what has changed on the shared folders. The notification could be
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Oct 6

Google Homepage Prototype – Video

Google is testing a new effect in which everything on the Google homepage aside from the search box and Google’s logo, only revealing the rest of the navigation elements with a nifty fade effect when you move your mouse. A few notable omissions from the ‘fade-in’ homepage though, you’ll notice that “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” button are both missing.
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Oct 6

“Wir lieben Windows 7 (We love Windows 7)” – Windows 7 Video Ads

Christian Decker from Microsoft Austria Partner Marketing Team, posted four videos created by a German colleagues who love Windows 7 “Wir lieben Windows 7 (or We love Windows 7)”:
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Oct 6

“parameter handling” to manage duplicate content in Google Webmasters

Google added a new “Parameter handling” feature to Webmaster tools to assist you with managing duplicate content and allows you to view which parameters Google believes should be ignored or not ignored at crawl time, and to overwrite our suggestions if necessary. With the "Parameter Handling" setting, you can now provide
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Oct 6

In-Game Advertising Five Facts from Massive unit

J.J. Richards, of the in-game ad business at Microsoft, writes that the Massive ad business actually saw a double digit increase in revenue last fiscal year. And, Richards writes, things’re looking even better so far this year. "We're seeing light at the end of the tunnel and Massive already exceeded first
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Oct 6

US regulators to crack down on ‘blogger payola’

US regulators are to crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose money or gifts received from companies when reviewing their products. In the new policy from the Federal Trade Commission, offending bloggers could eventually face fines of up to $11,000 (£6,900) per violation. In a statement the FTC said "the revised guides specify that while
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Oct 6

Ask.com launches ‘Ask Deals’ – Online coupons and bargains service

Ask.com launched a new service “Ask Deals” that offer consumers access to online coupons and bargains. Ask uses 40 coupon feeds as well as indexing forums for breaking info on deals. “Searches for coupons on Ask.com’ve shot up almost 50% in 2009. With holidays approaching, we know this service’ll help us make an impact with our users.” Mr. Garrell describe this Ask Deals
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