An Oregon woman who wanted to let her neighbors know that she’s endorsing Senator Barack Obama for president has had two Obama-Biden 08 yard signs stolen from her front lawn. So she made a third herself, and had her teenage son set up a live feed on Ustream.tv in the hopes of protecting the sign and possibly catching any thieves. Right now, over 200 people are watching. A sign. In someone’s yard. What did we ever do without the Internet? [OregonLive.com]
International Talk Like a Pirate Day has spawned far more than its fair share of bad attempts at humor in the form of press releases from Internet startups. Even companies like Google and Facebook have indulged themselves. Please, leave the comedy to the professionals from the venerable Ask a Ninja franchise. Creators Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine are promoting their book, The Ninja Handbook, with a live call-in show on Ustream.tv featuring everyone’s favorite pirate-hating ninja — which may be the first intentionally funny live video broadcast in the history of Web 2.0.
Motorola has come out with a phone, the Cliq, targeted at a specific market and utilizing the power of Google’s Android platform. It is the first of a family of new Motorola phones, where the Cliq stands at the patronymic fore. As far as features go, Cliq is doing all right. The phone is complete [...]
For Microsoft Outlook users unfamiliar with Xobni, pay attention. The venture-backed company’s first piece of software, not even two years old, is a powerful advancement for e-mail organization, Outlook style. Wednesday, the new version of the tool is available, Xobni1.8 which provides additional power. In addition, the previously free plugin is offering an advanced version, [...]
Ever since June of last year there has been talks of Verizon and Alltel merging, but now it is official. Verizon wireless has now become the largest mobile carrier with over 83 million subscribers. Alltel will continue to run under the Alltel name until a complete merger of the two brands later this year. Now [...]
Pioneer has released a statement saying they have developed a Super Multi-Layered Disc that will play using current Blu-ray players. The disc consists of 16 layers that can hold 25GB of data each, which totals a 400GB Disc. They plan on having a read-only disc available by 2010, a rewritable by 2012, and a 1TB [...]
One of the biggest reasons most Windows users are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is Adblock Plus.
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