Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:20pm

You probably checked out the super slow mo videos of Serena Williams, Elena Dementieva, Kim Clijsters, Victoria Azarenka, Sam Stosur and Vera Zvonareva that the New York Times produced – along with a story about the WTA power game – before the US Open. Really cool stuff. And now we have a video to see [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:19pm

The Japanese are clearly very big when it comes to robots, and Toshiba’s ApriPoco will definitely appeal to those who have plenty of house chores to finish each day and need other forms of domestic companionship to provide a boost to the spirit. After all, this 8.4-inch tall bot is full well capable of functioning as a universal remote control, relying on infra-red technology to get the job[...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:18pm

We recently wrote about comic book writer Mark Waid's supposedly controversial keynote speech at the Harvey Awards, where he talked about copyright, the public domain and learning to embrace file sharing. Beyond the general controversy, a lot of people apparently misinterpreted his talk to be anti-copyright and anti-making money (we get that a lot around here too). So he's now posted a written o[...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:16pm

Tony Award winner Frances Ruffelle will release her first new solo recording in more than seven years later this month.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:15pm

Mike Yang / The Official Google Blog: Trimming our privacy policies  —  Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason.  Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand.  —  So we're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:11pm

When you create a new Orkut.com account you will be asked to ‘Create your Google account’ which is actually the login which will be used to allow you to get access to your profile. You will have to enter ‘Your current email address’ with passwords twice to create the account. In order to cancel or [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:08pm

Katy Perry was seen around London yesterday for a BBC Radio One interview and she was wearing a summery ensemble. Her polka dot dress had a red rosette detail and retro thin white belt, and she pulled the whole look together with ankle-strap platforms.Polka dots are always classic, if a bit kitschy, so we've selected some options after the jump.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:05pm

What is the competitive differentiator in your life? What sets you apart in the office, the playing field, or your personal life. Organizations compete through innovation, price, efficiency, service, etc. But what do individuals do to become successful in their 'markets'. What specific and unique things do you or others do to strengthen their brand. This question is not just about the office.[...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:01pm

One of the greatest things new digital platforms like openNASA is that they allow us to easily connect, share, discover and expand our experiences.  This includes sharing with each other those experiences that inspire us and impact the way we see the world.  Today, I thought I’d share a talk I heard the last semester [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:01pm

Marco Rubio will not be debating Kendrick Meek on Meet the Press Sunday. Miami, FL – Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate campaign spokesman Alex Burgos today issued the following statement:  “Unfortunately, the health of Marco’s father, Mario Rubio, has significantly deteriorated in the last 48 hours.  As a result, Marco plans to stay with his father and family [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:01pm

I just saw Denise O’Berry’s post Credit Becoming Available to Small Business Again (Slowly) on her Small Business Expert blog. Denise knows this territory very well because she focuses a lot of her work on the financial side of small business management. She says: It’s been a long, dry spell, but I think things are slowly [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:00pm

As a reader of Black Web 2.0, you are probably very active on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.  As your use of these sites grows, the number of people you are connected to also tends to increase.  Eventually, you can find yourself overwhelmed by the volume of information being thrown at you by [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:00pm

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Apple Building 2 Million iPads Per Month, But Shooting for 3 Million  —  “Shocked” by demand for the iPad after it launched, Apple (AAPL) has ramped up production of the device to meet it, but there's work left to do yet.  Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty says Apple recently doubled its monthly iPad builds to 2 million.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:58am

Nine months after Avatar’s theatrical release, it’s still regarded as the pinnacle of 3D entertainment. So it’s too bad that only buyers of Panasonic 3D televisions will get the movie when it’s released on 3D Blu-ray in December. For an undisclosed period of time, Avatar will be bundled with Panasonic’s 3D televisions, and won’t be [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:52am

Gerrard Backs Capello Ahead Of Euro 2012 Qualifiers English captain Steven Gerrard has defended Fabio Capello ahead of England’s first Euro qualifiers versus Bulgaria and Switzerland, calling the cries for his ousting “crazy.” “It’s important Fabio is still given a chance. Who out there, that’s an English manager, has the CV Fabio Capello has got?” [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:52am

As we all know Ryanair has scrapped dozens of flights in rows over airport expansion and passenger fees, but they have added to the list now scraping all flights to Belfast! This week the Irish low-cost carrier announced it is to cut all its flights between mainland Britain and Belfast from October 31. The airline [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:51am

Fred points out apps and services that are "Mobile First Web Second." I don't like the distinction. To me, it's all the web. It's this kind of thinking that leads to Wired's ill-considered proclamation that "the Web is dead." (I debate that in the second half of this thread...

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:49am

Anyone that has been in Spain this summer can’t help to have noticed that the supermarkets have been packed this year, far more so than in previous years. Little doubt that it refects the ongoing economic crisis as people opt to eat in far more than they used to. Seems like that has been extremely [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:46am

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Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:45am

Patrick Goss / TechRadar.com: Angry Birds arrives on the Android platform  —  iPhone smash hit broadens  —  One of the iPhone's biggest gaming hits has finally arrived on the Android platform, with Rovio Mobile's phenomenally addictive Angry Birds making the jump to a new platform in beta.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:45am

Chester Wisniewski / Chester Wisniewski's Blog: Apple gets Ping'd with comment spam - They didn't see this coming?  —  Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-only venture to blog/forum comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms.  But apparently Apple didn't consider this when designing Ping …

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:44am

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) -- Brian McBride, whose scoring touch and tenacity earned him fans on both sides of the Atlantic, is calling it a career.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:44am

At last the Western seaboard of Europe get's real surf with some surf spots recording 20 second swell period which is amazing for Europe. It was just a case of pick a spot on the map, pack boards and go.....

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:42am

Bosnian police say they've identified the teen filmed throwing puppies in a river. (She now faces a $6,400 fine for animal cruelty.) The girl lives in a town called Bugojno, which means 4chan was probably correct in its identification. More »

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:42am

There was a very strong urge to let the picture posted above stand on its own merit. In the last eight years nothing has spent more days and weeks as my desktop background that than perfect image frozen in time from June 5, 2002 in Suwon, South Korea.As much as the news earlier this week on the U.S. National Team bringing back Bob Bradley as head coach divided the American Inter-nets soccer

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:41am

There is no avoiding the fact that Fantasy sports are subject to luck. No one can predict, with any certainty, the health of athletes. Did anyone guess Jacoby Ellsbury would fracture his ribs in a collision with his own teammate, and miss the majority of the year? Of course not. Do I need to remind anyone about Tom Brady and the first game of 2008? Not a chance.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:40am

The Giants/Dodgers series in LA starts tonight! Nothing like a good rivalry in September to get the

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:40am

Consumer Watchdog, the consumer group that has long a thorn in the side of Google over privacy issues, has taken its fight against the company to new heights. On Thursday, the group began running a JumboTron ad in New York City’s Times Square that depicts Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a maniacal ice cream truck driver [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:40am

I am not sure if this is a good way to protect pedestrians, but a team of Japanese researchers developed them: airbags for use on the outside of vehicles. It may sound bizarre at first, but this is not some silly experiment. The air bags (or special car body panels, to be more exact) are the brain child of several Hiroshima-based companies and the local university.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 11:40am

Nilay Patel / Engadget: iHome teases first AirPlay-compatible portable speaker dock  —  No surprise that iHome is first out of the gate with a speaker dock that's compatible with Apple's newly-open AirPlay music streaming system, but unfortunately the teaser page is maddeningly light on details …