http://www.mindancer.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:26:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Other features of the app include: The app takes advantage of the BlackBerry's trackball for a quick and simple way to find, discover, and buy products from Amazon.com, as well as from thousands of other retailers. There you go. Now you have no excuse not to shop, at least for inexpensive things. ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/09/04/shop-amazon-from-your-blackberry/ Updated at 8:45 a.m. PT with information from Google App Engine blog on planned data migration tools. But it's also possible that this is one more sign that one of the big guys is forgetting the principles--the Internet as a platform (not "my company as a platform"), harnessing the power of ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/29/does-platform-as-a-service-mean-developer-lock-i/ Forrester Research published a report on the music industry earlier this week entitled "The End of the Music Industry As We Know It," and it offers some conclusions that shouldn't surprise anybody who's been following the music industry for the last few years: as users have shifted their behavior to ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/surprising-statistics-from-forrester-report/ Not only does the Prius look like a gerbil, but it drives like one. I was actually worried that the gerbils would get hungry, but they seemed to do fine (though I burned a lot more gas in one day than I would have expected, and only drove 100 miles ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/one-day-of-the-gerbil-powered-toyota-prius-is-enou/ Fittingly, the two will be rowing together. They'll be in the men's straight pair event, which pits heats of two-person boats (each rower has one oar) against one another for the standard distance of 2000 meters. Recently, the Winklevoss twins have been in the news because of their long-running lawsuit against ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/connectu-founders-score-spots-on-u-s-olympic-rowi/ (Credit: CNET Networks) Also worth reading: a California company has developed a mobile fuel cell that can power a rugged laptop; Engadget has "in the wild" photos of the oh-so-shiny Voodoo Envy 133; Newmarket Technology acquired Everex, manufacturer of the CloudBook, from its Taiwan-based parent company; and the U.S. Congress ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/dells-studio-line-and-sony-rumors-the-week-in-la/ Seesmic, aka video Twitter, is still in private beta, but CEO Loic Le Meur is here at Demo 2008 anyway, showcasing a few new features. Nothing revolutionary, just a few nice tweaks. First, you can now easily see video responses to a video post, and in fact play all the ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/seesmic-gets-good-tweaks-goes-mobile-updated-in/ Shares of software-as-a-service company Salesforce.com fell Thursday in morning trading after the company announced cautious guidance for the upcoming third quarter. Net income for the quarter was $10 million, or 8 cents per share, up from $3.7 million, or 3 cents per share, in the previous year. On Wednesday, Salesforce announced it ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/salesforce-com-shares-drop-on-outlook/ "You may not use ... Google's products, software, services and web sites ... and may not accept the Terms if ... you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google. What about MySpace?: "We're not in a position to verify the age or legal status of any user, ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/google-no-kids-allowed/ Panasonic DMP-BD55 Key step-up features of the Panasonic DMP-BD55: Panasonic DMP-BD35 Key features of the Panasonic DMP-BD35: 7.1 multichannel analog outputs High-end internal audio components The DMP-BD35 looks to have a pretty solid feature set. Profile 2.0 support means you'll be able to take advantage of BD-Live features available on some newer Blu-ray discs, ... http://www.mindancer.com/index.php/2010/08/24/panasonic-announces-dmp-bd35-dmp-bd55-blu-ray-pla/