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Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown view story
18 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- about 18 hours ago
- (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10...)
The entire stock market is taking another drubbing today, and Google is no exception. Its shares tried to rally in the morning, but are now trading below the $329 they closed at yesterday.
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A New Science of Music: Digital Cantometrics and the Evolution of Music view story
17 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 1 day ago
- (http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008...)
Armand Leroi is an Evolutionary Biologist with the Imperial College in London. Leroi is leveraging the ability of computers to analyze sound to create a Cantometric description of traditional music from various cultures.
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High-tech bank robbers phone it in view story
21 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 1 day ago
- (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3...)
Through a method called skimming, a digital copy of your debit card is made at a compromised ATM, and then the data is sent over SMS to awaiting criminals. Read this blog post by Robert Vamosi on Defense in Depth.
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How to Convert LPs Into MP3s view story
20 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 1 day ago
- (http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Conve...)
Behold the secrets of the LP-to-MP3 conversion...
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YouTube Adds Click-to-Buy Links on Some U.S. Videos view story
17 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008...)
Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube has begun placing links to purchase music and games on the pages of related videos on its site in the U.S., with initial partners that include Amazon (NASD: AMZN) MP3, Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes Store, EMI and EA Games
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Steve Wozniak predicts death of the iPod view story
20 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 2 days ago
- (http://www.pcauthority.com.au/New...)
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known in the industry as 'Woz', believes that the iPod is on its way out and has revealed his discomfort with some aspects of the iPhone.
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Last.fm Brings Back Some of the Album Jacket With Song Lyrics view story
15 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 2 days ago
- (http://mashable.com/2008/10/08/la...)
Last.fm unveiled a partnership with LyricFind to insert some 800,000 lyrics among Last.fm’s song catalog. It includes many popular artists old and new, from The Beatles to Pearl Jam to Radiohead, enough to satisfy plenty of list
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Yahoo’s stock hits where it was in October…1998 view story
12 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 2 days ago
- (http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/08...)
While its counterparts, Google, Microsoft, Apple, eBay and Time Warner all were in the black, Yahoo once again saw its stock drop around 3 percent. Now hovering around $14-a-share, you can forget a 52-week low — the stock is at a 5-year low.
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Google’s Mail Goggles Prevents Drunk Emailing view story
17 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 3 days ago
- (http://blog.wired.com/business/20...)
Google released a useful new Gmail feature yesterday in its labs, which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they might regret in the morning.
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Lethal Weapon 5 on the Fast Track view story
11 votes- Submitted by charbarred
- 4 days ago
- (http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/10/...)
Back in August it was reported that Shane Black had handed in a detailed treatment to Joel Silver for a Lethal Weapon 5, which he hopes to direct....


