gadgets | Kris Smith has read these articles about "gadgets" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "gadgets" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpDying for 3G 6 cell-tower technicians fall to death in 5 weeks- May 30, 2008 A rise in cell-tower deaths is being attributed to the breakneck rollout of 3G cellular services, which require equipment on the tall installations to be upgraded. Fortune's Apple blog tallies five deaths in only 12 days, following months of accident-free operation. April 12: A 34-year-old cell tower technician from Oklahoma man died after falling 150 feet from monopole antenna in Wake Forest, NC. It was the nation's first death in 2008 of a communications worker falling from an elevated...http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/300750420/dying-for-3g-6-cellt.html Ubuntu moving into UMPCs and subnotebooks- May 27, 2008 In an interview with the Guardian, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth just came out and admitted that a version of the OS specifically aimed at Asus Eee devices was, indeed, in development: TG: Will you be coming out with a tailored version of Ubuntu for the ultraportable sector MS: We're announcing it in the first week of June. It's called the Netbook Remix. We're working with Intel, which produces chips custom-made for this sector Fantastic news. You can slap Ubuntu on a subnotebook as it.http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/299128479/ubuntu-moving-into-u.html Get started in the DS homebrew scene- May 22, 2008 Taking part in Nintendo DS homebrew isn't nearly as maddening as the PSP homebrew scene, which still requires Job-like patience and the ability to compile and translate a thousand fragments of Internet-scattered instructions from a vast armada of nigh-illiterate Russian teenagers into a hacked PSP. Unlike a PSP, which requires custom firmware, all a Nintendo DS requires is a flash card. But with a hundred different no-name Chinese manufacturers vying for your money when they're not changing...http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/22/get-started-in-the-d.html Hulu Shares Usage Stats, Expands Distribution Network- May 20, 2008 Hulu, the online joint video venture between NBC and News Corp that officially launched two months ago, is sharing some stats on its viewership. According to the Nielsen Net Ratings, Hulu led all network sites in total video streams and overall engagement time in April. Hulu users are streaming over 63 million videos and, on average, are watching over two hours of video per month each. Hulu is not just a destination site; it also syndicates content to a network of other sites, such as AOL,...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/294440831/ Userplane Gets Into Video Hosting- May 20, 2008 Userplane, the company behind Webchat and a number of other online communication services, has introduced a new video app dubbed Mediaplayer. The free white-label app will allow web publishers to add hosted video uploads to their sites under an ad-supported model. Mediaplayer users will be able to upload videos as large as 100MB, and there is no limit on the amount of upload or streaming bandwidth they can consume. For the time being, all ad revenue from Mediaplayer will go to Userplane, but.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/294253280/ I Am Failing To Get Excited About Napster's 6 Million Songs- May 20, 2008 Napster just announced that they are now selling their entire catalog of 6 million songs for $0.99each, no DRM. And for some reason I'm having trouble getting excited about it (CNET, however, has more than enough excitement for both of us, saying This is a huge day for digital music. Whatever.) The fact is that Napster is still unprofitable and still makes most of its revenue from all-you-can-eat subscription sales. Both AOL and Yahoo bailed out of this business, since consumers don't seem to...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/294145788/ Twitter: Now As Powerful as The Clapper- May 20, 2008 Control Lights with Twitter from Justin on Vimeo. If you can't get enough of Twitter why not try Twitter-enabling your home By connecting his cellphone with his Twitter account, Justin Wickett has created what amounts to a remote switch triggered by Twitter messages. Read more Free Video Hosting Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. Tags: twitter justin free video messageshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/294197969/ Arrington Finally Makes It Onto The Cover of Time (If You Squint Real Hard You'll See Him)- May 1, 2008 Time magazine has come out with its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. You've got your Tony Blair, Rupert Murdoch, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. All the usual suspects. Digg CEO Jay Adelson squeezes onto the list, as does our own Michael Arrington as the token blogger. (See full list here). The way the list is put together is that Time tries to get one famous person to write about another. So you have...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/281469838/ EBay Wanted Craigslist- May 1, 2008 The mystery of the legal clash between eBay and the online classifieds service Craigslist has been solved. At the heart of the dispute, as Megan Barnett speculated last week, was that eBay liked Craigslist so much that it launched a direct competitor, Kijiji, in some U.S. markets in 2007.In a redacted lawsuit that was released late on Wednesday, eBay does not deny that Kijiji would compete, but contends that Craigslist went too far in its response under the terms of a 2004 agreement that gave...http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/05/01/Details-on-eBay-Craigslist-Suit |