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iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App 269

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 15, 2008 @07:55PM from the late-to-the-party-but-getting-ahead dept.

walterbyrd notes that new data from Gartner indicates that the successful launch of the iPhone 3G was enough to push iPhone market share over that of Windows Mobile devices — the entire range of them. And reader Spy Hunter writes: "Seadragon Mobile is Microsoft's first iPhone application. Seadragon is a technology for streaming zoomable user interfaces, and this iPhone incarnation allows viewing huge collections of gigapixel-sized images over WiFi or 3G. If you don't have an iPhone, you can also try Seadragon in your browser via Seadragon Ajax."

Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 15, 2008 @07:03PM from the jump-start-on-the-competition dept.

JuliusSu writes "A Chinese auto manufacturer, BYD, is introducing today the country's first electric car, a plug-in hybrid vehicle. It plans to sell at least 10,000 cars in 2009 for a price of less than $22,000. This put the company ahead of schedule against other entrants to this market, such as Toyota, due to release a similar car in late 2009; and GM, whose Chevy Volt will be launched in late 2010. The company is best known for making cellphone batteries, and hopes its expertise in ferrous battery technology will allow it to leapfrog established car manufacturers."

Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer 349

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @05:34AM from the malt-does-more-than-milton-can dept.

mernil sends in an article from the NYTimes that casts a glance at a study done in the Czech Republic (natch) on what divides the successful scientists from the duffers. "Ever since there have been scientists, there have been those who are wildly successful, publishing one well-received paper after another, and those who are not. And since nearly the same time, there have been scholars arguing over what makes the difference. What is it that turns one scientist into more of a Darwin and another into more of a dud? After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex, and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists — beer."

Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? 485

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @08:44AM from the you're-blocking-the-view-of-the-big-game dept.

S1mmo+61 writes "Salon is analyzing a Time Magazine article today, a piece that essentially claims Americans do not care about the domestic spying. The analysis of the Time magazine piece (which is longer than the article itself) is interesting, if only as a quick history of domestic spying in the last eight years. 'Time claims that "nobody cares" about the Government's increased spying powers and that "polling consistently supports that conclusion." They don't cite a single poll because that assertion is blatantly false. Just this weekend, a new poll released by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University proves that exactly the opposite is true. That poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is "very secretive" has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%)'"

Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera 370

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @08:05AM from the but-is-it-as-efficient-as-a-red-stapler dept.

Edy52285 writes "Ars Technica has an article showing benchmarks pitting Firefox 3 Beta 4 against other browsers. Contenders include IE7, Firefox 2, Opera 9.5 Beta, and Safari 3.0.4 Beta. The piece includes a graph depicting FF3's memory usage well below that of the other browsers. The in-testing browser even trumps Opera, which has long been regarded as the fastest browser around."

One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News 184

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @07:21AM from the you-don't-learn-things-by-watching-the-news dept.

ideonexus writes "The Pew group has released its annual study into the state of news media. They conclude that science and technology content is a rare treat for cable newscast viewers; some five hours of programming could pass with the average viewer seeing only one minute of science news coverage."

Comment Trent's relationship with labels has always.. (Score 1) 327

by jonesboy_damnit on Monday March 03, 2008 @12:36PM (#22624494) Attached to: Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album

..been extremely rocky. His experience with TVT, especially, was pretty terrible - to the point where he worked with one of the mastering engineers to sneak two 'secret' tracks onto the original release of Broken, since the album's producer said 'no' to them. It's been said before: the fact that he's made enough money to continue producing his own music (and the music of artists he respects), then distributing it himself, is the reason this works. Same with Radiohead. He can make his own publicity due to his fanbase (full disclosure: I'm a member of that fanbase). On top of that, he's got good instincts for marketing and hype. I will third the recommendation that you download the first 9 tracks; they will convince you to immediately surrender $5 for the other 27. It is very, very good stuff. -Matt

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