Circuit City runs up the white flag 9. May 2008
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Circuit City’s days as an independent are numbered. The ailing US electronics retailer last month received an unsolicited bid from Blockbuster, the ailing video store operator.
Vote for my boot!
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Keeping with the CRAFT shoe theme — Dr Martin’s has a “design your own boot” contest, so I made a boot I always wanted, one with a circuit board on it, specifically one with the Wave Bubble open source RF jammer - vote it up if you’d like to see this become a real boot one day!
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Virgin Mobile USA and Korea's SK in talks: source (Reuters)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a comment<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/wr_nm/virgin_sktelecom_dc”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080510/2008_05_09t175250_450×326_us_virgin_sktelecom.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=md3h4XnvmvMZLU6GbuOXvA–” align=”left” height=”94″ width=”130″ alt=”Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson poses with a mobile phone during the launch of Virgin Mobile services in Mumbai March 2, 2008. (Punit Paranjpe/Reuters)” border=”0″ /></a>Reuters - Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile USA
Inc and South Korea's SK Telecom Co, which controls U.S. mobile
service Helio, are in early talks on a deal, a person familiar
with the discussions said on Friday.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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Apple to issue refunds for sparky, prematurely dying products
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Apple has agreed to give US and Canadian customers two separate settlement offers to make charges of faulty and misrepresented products go away.
Conference attendees in San Francisco sickened (AP)
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TapeDeck audio recorder debuts
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentTapeDeck is a new audio recorder app that looks like a cassette tape deck from the 1980s.
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Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits (PC World)
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RepTools 2008 sports rebuilt user interface
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DIY business @ Maker Faire
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Forbes talked to some Makers about their businesses, good stuff. Do-It-Yourself Success - “Why sell your idea when you can profit from it on your own?”
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Waste Paper Furniture
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Designer Jens Praet makes furniture from shredded paper. He compressed it with resin into a mold, and out comes a new piece of furniture. I’m not sure how eco-friendly that resin is, or how much paper it uses (I’m guessing a lot, which keeps it out of a landfill), but the material technique sure is neat, and strong! Via Core77.
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Codemasters Acquires Formula 1 License
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentThe license long-held by Sony will now make its way across all platforms.
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Foxy Brown pleads guilty to menacing Brooklyn neighbor (AP)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a comment<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_en_mo/people_foxy_brown”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.c8b4fa62dc9943fb8e1eadcf131863e4.people_foxy_brown_ny474.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=NroZ172e.mJxYdmgF8iUfw–” align=”left” height=”130″ width=”117″ alt=”In this Sept. 22, 2005 file photo, rapper Foxy Brown exits Manhattan criminal court in New York. Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)” border=”0″ /></a>AP - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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Microsoft to appeal $1.3 billion EU fine
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Combat robots, warring battleships @ Maker Faire
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Combat robots, warring battleships @ Maker Faire with Boing Boing TV.
Boing Boing tv’s embedded robo-combat reporter Xeni Jardin witnesses warfare inside Robogames and Combots at Bay Area Maker Faire 2008, where robots battle until death — or at least ’til one competitor busts a sprocket.
Next, BB-gun wielding battleships go BOOM!, with the Western Warship Combat Club. Participants painstakingly re-create historic battleships on small scale, and outfit each warboat with actual artillery. He who sinks last wins. The cameraman took a pellet or two in the pants, but the goofy safety goggles kept all eyes intact.
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Best Buy Enters Europe With £1.1bn Carphone Warehouse Deal
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Takes a 50 per cent stake in the large European highstreet retailer.
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O2: iPhone is no longer available in UK
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentO2 has confirmed reports that the iPhone is not currently available anywhere in the UK, and customers may have to wait for the putative 3G Apple iPhone.
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Texas may claim Amazon owes sales taxes (AP)
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Google takes Street View snaps in Paris; lawsuits may follow
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Pirates director to turn BioShock game into film (Reuters)
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said on Friday that “Pirates of the Caribbean”
director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of
“BioShock,” its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone
disastrously wrong.
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The Best of Maker Faire 2008
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Check out all the fun and excitement at this year’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Take a look at some of the highlights and make plans to attend the next Maker Faire.
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