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BBC America fans are quite familiar with a delightful show called, Cash In The Attic. The premise of the show is that antique experts go to someone’s house and find things which might look like trash but end up being valuable, selling for a lot of money at an auction. Same can be said of [...]

I stumbled upon this cool application for Skype which allows you to change from headset to speaker phone, or any other audio device using Hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts) or voice command. It is highly unlikely that I am going to use the voice command, but the Hotkeys-based switching is already coming in handy. The product is [...]

Rumors have been flying since Mark Pincus posted to Tribe yesterday saying he’d taken back control of the company. Pincus had founded the social networking startup but had since turned over operations and served as a board member.
“as of today jan and the board are gone,” he wrote. “i’ve taken over tribe and you’re going [...]

Social event planning is one of those things that makes “web 2.0″ seem like such a good idea. Every time we have to click through an Evite, we cringe. We can’t say we use Skobee, Renkoo, or even aggregator sites like EVDB’s Eventful, Zvents, and Upcoming on a regular basis — that would require a [...]

Paidcontent, the digital media and content publication was one of the first to realize that niche job boards were the future, and introduced its Digital Media Jobs board, when we were rank amateurs in comparison. Since then vibrant communities like 37Signals, TechCrunch, Alarm:Clock, and more recently ProBloggers have introduced their own twist on the job [...]

Nokia is starting to push the wireless technology unlicensed mobile access, or UMA, in the U.S., and will offer a cell phone for T-Mobile’s planned UMA launch in September. Earlier this month Nokia’s CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told the WSJ that Nokia had developed a UMA phone specifically for T-Mobile.
Nokia makes both dual WiFi-cellular UMA handsets [...]