Monday, August 29, 2011

Grilled cheese with a tech twist in San Francisco (AP)

Grilled cheese with a tech twist in San Francisco (AP)

Grilled cheese with a tech twist in San Francisco (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 06:46 PM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 25, 2011, Jonathan Kaplan bites into a melt called the Italian Job made with fontina and provolone cheese on garlic bread at The Melt in San Francisco. First, Flip Video camcorder creator Kaplan made it easy for consumers to shoot cheesy home movies. Now, he’s hoping to popularize something cheesier and gooier by starting a grilled cheese restaurant business that combines fast food with high tech. The Melt opens its first location Tuesday in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. Kaplan hopes to open 25 to 50 restaurants within the next year, and to have about 500 locations up and running across the country within the next five years. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Jonathan Kaplan made it easy for consumers to shoot cheesy home movies when he founded the company behind the Flip Video camcorder. Now, he's hoping to popularize something cheesier — and gooier — by starting a chain of grilled cheese restaurants that combine fast food with high tech.

Irene takes out some East Coast cellphone service (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 07:24 AM PDT

AP - Wireless networks fell quiet Sunday in some coastal areas of North Carolina and southern Virginia, but calls were going through in most areas affected by Tropical Storm Irene, the Federal Communications Commission said.

AI chatbots engage in an awkward showdown, bring laughs (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 03:17 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - If you've visited an online chatbot site before, you know how incredibly ludicrous chatbots' responses are. Conversations with chatbots range from boring and repetitive to random and hilarious to anything and everything in between. But what happens when two artificial intelligence …

Fuel TV’s Pat Parnell talks sports and tech (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 02:56 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - If you're a fan of extreme sports fan but you're not keeping up with Fuel TV, you're missing out on coverage from skateboarding to wakeboarding and everything in between. As technology fans, we wanted to find out what tech made sports …

Eric Schmidt: If You Don't Want To Use Your Real Name, Don't Use Google+ (Mashable)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:43 PM PDT

Mashable - Already using Google+? Follow Mashable's Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform's new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. Google+ was meant to be an identity service, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this weekend, shedding some light on Google's reasoning behind Google+'s controversial real-name policy.

Australia regulator may delay Telstra separation plan (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:44 PM PDT

Reuters - Australia's competition regulator voiced objections on Tuesday to the terms of the proposed split of dominant phone company Telstra Corp, threatening to delay an historic reform designed to wire up the entire nation to high-speed broadband.

Amazon may sell 3-5 million tablets in Q4: Forrester (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:27 PM PDT

A dedicated iPad station is seen in front of an iPhone at the Apple store in New York May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Amazon.com Inc may sell as many as 5 million tablet computers in the fourth quarter, making the largest Internet retailer the top competitor to Apple Inc in this fast-growing niche of the consumer PC market, Forrester Research said on Monday.

Logitech announces iPad 2 folding keyboard, joystick accessories (Digital Trends)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:33 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Designed to work with the iPad 2, Logitech announced the Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad. Powered by Bluetooth, the keyboard attaches to the bottom of the iPad and is designed to travel with the Apple tablet.  When in use, two sides of the keyboard rotate out and lock into place to form a full-sized keyboard. When the keyboard is unfolded and locked into place, it automatically powers up for use with the iPad 2. It also turns off automatically when unfolded and can be recharged through a USB connection. It’s also compatible with the iPad 2 Smart Cover, thus both can be used to protect each side of the iPad 2. The keyboard also acts as a stand when in use and includes a variety of keyboard shortcuts to highlight areas of text within an app like Pages.

Smartphones to Dominate in Four Years, Led by Low End (NewsFactor)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 03:22 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Feature phones are still the majority in the mobile phone market, but smartphones are quickly creeping up. Low-end smartphone models are leading the way. So says a report from IHS iSuppli.

Facebook pays bug hunters $40,000 in less than a month (Digital Trends)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 07:00 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Exactly a month ago, Facebook launched a scheme that offered payments to bug hunters who reported flaws in the site’s security system.

BBC planning to broadcast 2012 Olympics in 3D and super hi-vision (Digital Trends)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:21 PM PDT

Digital Trends - If you thought HDTV was of a quality hard to beat, then think again. Apparently the BBC believes there is something 16 times better, and the British broadcaster is considering using it at the London Olympics next year.

Social media magazine app Flipboard turns its sights to TV and film (Appolicious)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Appolicious - Seems it's not just Two and a Half Men that Ashton Kutcher is taking over. As an investor in social media magazine app Flipboard, he no doubt had a hand in the company's decision to carry movies and episodes of TV shows by the end of the year.

Mobile ad firm Blyk names insider Eric Kip as CEO (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 02:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Blyk, a pioneer in the mobile-telephone advertising business, said on Tuesday it has appointed its chief commercial officer, Eric Kip, to take over as chief executive, replacing co-founder Pekka Ala-Pietila.

Twitter breaks tweets per second record thanks to Beyonce (Digital Trends)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:53 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Twitter has played a very active and vital role in several recent world events by being able to quickly spread information amongst its users.  Today Twitter announced that the service broke its previous tweets per second record during MTV’s Video Music Award show.  Moments after Beyonce finished her performance at the award show she proceeded to open her jacket which revealed the baby bump that set Twitter a blaze with 8,868 tweets per second.

Sprint Sales Force Told To Stay Mum on iPhone (NewsFactor)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:07 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Sprint Nextel has instructed its store employees to refrain from commenting on rumors about the arrival of Apple's next-generation iPhone for Sprint's nationwide network, according to an internal Sprint memo obtained by media outlets.

Samsung unveils 3 smartphones to run on own platform (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:18 PM PDT

Reuters - Samsung Electronics unveiled three smartphone models that run on its own operating system, as it seeks to expand market share in the low-end segment and diversify its lineups heavily focused on Google's Android software.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for PC to use Steamworks (Digital Trends)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Digital Trends - Valve confirmed today in a press release that the upcoming PC release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on Steam will take advantage of the service’s Steamworks. In practical terms for us gamers, that means you can expect the PC version of MW3 to support offline play, Achievemnts, auto-updates and dedicated servers. Modern Warfare 2 was notably built using Steamworks as well.
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