If you've always wanted to how the Waffle House got its start, order up. The original DeKalb County location was refurbished in 2007.
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Should the Google/China spat over censorship start a trade war that puts an end to Chinese-made computers? One international trade lawyer argues that it should: "If China shuts out our Internet companies, we need to shut out their hardware that the Internet runs on."
The sentiment comes from Gil Kaplan, a former Commerce Department official who is now in private practice . Writing Tuesday at...
SlashGear (blog) Is "Google TV" on the Way? CBS News ... make it as easy for TV users to navigate Web applications, like the Twitter social network and the Picasa photo site, as it is to change the channel. ... Google and Partners Seek a Television Foothold New York Times Google TV and Android Coming to the Living Room SlashGear (blog) Google TV Br...
Google is working on Android-based set-top box software with Intel and Sony, the New York Times reports . It's the latest in Google's ongoing efforts to enter the TV industry .
Here's what we learn from Nick Bilton's article for the Times :
Google is working on a platform called Google TV with Sony and Intel.
It's based on Google's Android OS, and will be open source.
Users wil...
Georgia has the 13th best roads in the country, according to a special report in Reader's Digest. The state's roads are also among the more dangerous.
YouTube has just announced that it has surpassed yet another milestone, and this one’s a doozy: 24 hours of video is now uploaded to the social video site every sixty seconds . Every second you are browsing YouTube, a full 24 minutes of video is uploaded to the site. On May 20th, 2009, YouTube announced that its users were uploading 20 hours of video per minute . That means in a 10 month ti...
Chrome: If you're a fan of previously reviewed Firefox add-on YouTube Cinema , you'll want to grab a copy of Turn Off The Lights for Chrome to enjoy the same screen-dimming focus for video, document editing, and more. More »
All the nerds are in one place this week at SXSW, but, let's face it, we all have a little bit of nerd in us. These days geekdom is large and diverse enough for everyone. Where do you fit in? More »
In a Twitter exchange, Anil Dash just reminded me that the word "avatar" comes from from the Sanskrit word Avatãra . The word means, more or less, "descent." More, from a related blog post at Heritage Key :
What is an Avatar? Creators Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer Trace the Ancient Roots of the Latest Buzzword (Heritage Key, thanks, @ xlent1 / Image: " Vishnu Dreaming ," a Creat...
News Corp. remains committed to social networking site MySpace, the conglomerate said Wednesday after suggestions it was looking to sell it.
Google Books has scans of every issue of Spin , the music magazine Bob Guccione Jr. founded in 1985 with a loan from his father, Bob Guccione Sr., the publisher of Penthouse . It's interesting to see how awfully dated the design of the magazine is.
Every issue of SPIN magazine available on Google Books (Thanks, EdA!)
The Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship, USS Freedom, netted a pair of cocaine seizures on its first operational deployment in the Caribbean, even running down a “go fast” boat; with its embarked MH-60 helicopter. “This is a perfect demonstration of what the LCS was designed for,” LCS builder Lockheed Martin’s Paul Lemmo tells Ares defense blog . Yet, acting as naval constabulary is only one of the ...
Siemens To Reportedly Cut 1,000 Jobs, Revamp IT Unit - Update
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(RTTNews) - German conglomerate Siemens AG ( SI) plans to cut at least 1,000 jobs in its SIS information technology business to prepare the unit for a possible sale or initial public offering ...