You don’t often see sports here on ReadWriteWeb, but next week there’s an interesting event happening in Melbourne, Australia: the Digital Sport Summit . It’s going to look at how “social media and mobile technology is taking fan engagement to a whole new level,” with topics ranging from iPhone app development to “social media from an athlete’s perspective.” More info inside. You can import individual events in the Events Guide into Google Calendar using the link beside each entry, or download the entire thing as an iCal file (which is importable into Google Calendar, Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, etc.) or even view it as a world map .
With the PS3’s plethora of USB ports scattered across the front, you’d think it’d be a no-brainer that all shooters on the console would support keyboard and mouse controls to make the FPS purists happy. Sadly that’s not nearly the case, so it’s up to companies like Penguin United (creators of a fine array of silly Wii peripherals) to fill the void. The Eagle Eye is its attempt, a surprisingly sizable box with an unfortunately short 2-foot USB cable and inputs for mouse and keyboard.
Remember how awesome and clever Futurama was the other night ? Well, if you missed it, your chances to see it in its original form might be slowly dwindling. It seems that Comedy Central has wiped out the reference in the dialogue to the “EyePhone 2.0.” So, while we don’t have any conspiracy theories brewing about what happened, it’s a pretty odd thing to scrub, and we figure there are two possibilities: either Comedy Central is trying to cover their <censored> on this one, or they got a late night email from…
If you’ve been glued to the World Cup, you’ll know that there’s more to the matches than soccer ( football for our international audience). I’m talking about those incessant horns — the vuvuzelas . They’re really catching people’s attention, for all the wrong reasons. It got me thinking .
They say history is written by the victors, but the reality is that Hollywood prefers a sexy story. The upcoming movie, “ The Social Network ,” is based on the semi-fictionalized accounts of those jilted during the founding of Facebook. Starring Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield (who’s about to be the next Spider-Man), written by Andrew Sorkin, directed by David Fincher, produced by Kevin Spacey, scored by Trent Reznor, and about a massive cultural phenomenon, there’s a good chance people are actually going to pay attention to this movie. “ The Social Network ,” due in theaters October 1, was inspired by “The Accidental Billionaires,” an unauthorized, dramatized account billed as a non-fiction work by Ben Mezrich, who popularized the (similarly embellished) story of MIT students taking over Vegas in “Bringing Down the House.” Mezrich’s book is told from the perspective of three early influences on Facebook who were screwed out of their roles in the company by founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Tyler Winklevoss (who, along with his brother, informally hired Zuckerberg to build a similar site, which Zuckerberg bailed on while creating and launched what was then called thefacebook; they sued and received $65 million), Eduardo Saverin (Zuckerberg’s Harvard friend who financed the early days of the company and was diluted out of his stake after it raised outside funding) and Sean Parker (who was Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley role model, but was kicked out of the company after getting busted at a party where there were drugs and an underage Facebook employee)
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Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner. Should you pay to trademark your product or service? – Trademarks protect your company’s service or product, but can cost thousands of dollars. Attorney Curtis Smolar notes, though, that you may be able to get the same protections without paying anything at all.
Review of Evernote Application for BlackBerry Smartphones [ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] With the growing desire to capture information and access it later in a simple manner, a problem yet to be solved has come up: organization. Organizing our digital lives can be a tough procedure, but thankfully many services are available out there to help us take control of our data. Evernote is one of them, which makes note-taking simple and intuitive.
In the literature of watch geekdom we often bump up against watches that cost well into the six figures, some even in the seven. I take a populist stance on the purchase of watches and encourage the intelligent watch collector to purchase what they can afford or, better yet, save up for a nice watch they can wear forever. I also, for the most part, scoff at any watch over, potentially, $20,000.
Anybody out there remember the Rockman ? It was this little personal guitar amplifier, about the size of a Sony Walkman (adding “man” to anything portable was all the rage in the 80s, you know).The Rockman let you play distorted guitar through headphones and it curiously made everything you played sound like BOSTON. The AmpliTube iRig combo for the iPhone is kind of like the Rockman except WAY cooler. WAY, WAY, WAY cooler.
Details about Android 3.0 — aka Gingerbread — are already appearing on the web , and it sounds like Google is trying to stem the fragmentation caused by having so many versions of its platform in the market. One reason for this image of fragmentation is the special interface enhancements some vendors are putting on their Android phones, and a major change to appear in Gingerbread is a locked-down user interface that will give Android a more uniform look. This will certainly help the platform’s image with consumers, but it does raise concerns as to whether or not these limitations will restrict handset makers from creating brands through interface enhancements, such as HTC’s Sense and Samsung’s TouchWiz. Amazon created a platform around the Kindle reader by producing apps for smartphones that can use content in the Kindle book store without requiring the electronic reader
Tired of iPhone news? Then you’ll like this week’s top-stories list: None of them are about an Apple product. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Watch out for an Orange Cone on the Internet of Things ; augmented reality from Qualcomm is coming to Android this fall; and Google makes the news more real-time than ever. Read on for more.
Unboxing one of the newest superphone, the Droid X for Verizon Wireless. Motorola DROID X is an Android 2.1 powered smartphone with a 1GHz processor, huge 4.3-inch display with 480×854 pixels resolution, 8-megapixel camera with 720p motion video capture and many other features. [Via] Read Comments / Comment this post
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On precisely July 3rd 2010, the movie Back to the Future turn celebrate 25 years since its debut to American audiences. The Stephen Spielberg movie which spanned into a trilogy turned into a blockbuster and cultural icon featuring Michael J. Fox as a teenager Marty McFly who unwitting sent on a time-traveling adventure starting in 1955. Aided by eccentric but good-natured scientist Dr.
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