1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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Google’s Chrome OS: Why It’s Not a Layup Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch   —  Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.

2. Open Access to Content and Applications  permalink

Open Access to Content and Applications
Kevin Lynch / Adobe Featured Blogs

Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device. Ironically, Flash was originally designed for pen computing tablets, about 15 years before that market was ready to take off. Flash exists now only due to its finding an alternate route in its use -- first filling a niche on the Web by enabling low- ...

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3. Kings hold off Rangers for seventh straight win  permalink

Kings hold off Rangers for seventh straight win
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Anze Kopitar scored a short-handed goal and Jonathan Quick made 20 saves in the Kings' seventh straight victory, 2-1 over the punchless Rangers on Tuesday.

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Niittymaki bests Thrashers for 16th straight time   —  Antero Niittymaki stopped 26 shots for his 16th straight win over Atlanta and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Thrashers 2-1 on Tuesday night for a rare road victory.

4. Important Flex 3.5 Update  permalink

Ryanstewart / Digital Backcountry

If you have updated to Flex 3.5 you want to be sure to grab the new version of the SDK. There is a bug that has been fixed which caused issues with the auto-update UI. Here’s the scoop. The Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based [...]

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Update to Flex SDK 3.5   —  The Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based AIR auto-update UI packaged within the SDK (SDK-24766). The refreshed build, SDK 3.5a, has only a few files modified in order to fix this issue and this change does not affect the signing and caching of the SDK 3.5 RSLs originally released in December.

5. Evernote, Now Playing On Nokia N900  permalink

Evernote, Now Playing On Nokia N900
Om Malik / GigaOM

Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that says that Nokia has developed a version of its web service that allows users to capture and store information using the built-in sharing functionality of the device. It is made possible using a plug-in using the Evernote API.

6. 48 Hours, 31 Hacks - Stockholm Music Hack Day  permalink

48 Hours, 31 Hacks - Stockholm Music Hack Day
Matthew Casperson / ProgrammableWeb

Two days, a room full of hackers and one theme: music. This is the premise behind the Stockholm Music Hack Day , which resulted in 31 projects including hardware hacks, mobile, web and desktop applications. A number of the web applications are live and available for anyone to use.

7. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go  permalink

Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go
Www.mobilecrunch.com

As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

8. Mike Cammalleri of Montreal Canadiens out six weeks with knee injury  permalink

ESPN.com news services / ESPN.com

Cammalleri was injured during a 3-2 overtime loss Saturday in Ottawa when he fell awkwardly into the boards after being hit by Anton Volchenkov. Cammalleri has a team-leading 26 goals and 48 points in 56 games. The Canadiens will be without him for the first time this season when they host the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.

9. Giguere denies 33 as new Leafs shine in shutout  permalink

Associated Press / ESPN.com

Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Dion Phaneuf made the most of their Maple Leafs debut, leading Toronto to a 3-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night that snapped a six-game losing streak.

10. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market  permalink

3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

11. Street Scenes of Munich:  permalink

Street Scenes of Munich:
Omis.me

Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.

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12. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack  permalink

Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

13. SA backs down on internet comment control  permalink

Steven / Library Stuff

ABC – “South Australia’s Attorney-General Michael Atkinson admits he misjudged public opinion on the state’s attempt to curb political comment on the internet. Mr Atkinson says he will repeal a law which would have meant that anyone posting comment or blogs during an election period would have had to publish their real ...

14. Adchemy Makes Advertising Personalized in Real Time  permalink

Adchemy Makes Advertising Personalized in Real Time
Liz Gannes / GigaOM

Adchemy has figured out a way to tweak web ads to make them dramatically more effective. The company performs a crazy real-time technical dance to optimize the ads and landing pages shown to searchers. We visited its new office this week to learn more.

15. Online effort erases language barrier between Haitian quake survivors, aid worker  permalink

Online effort erases language barrier between Haitian quake survivors, aid worker
Www.thestarphoenix.com

A man writes on a wall "Crisis Committee" in Creole, in front of the rubble of the municipal asylum, January 22, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. More than 110,000 people were confirmed killed in the Haiti earthquake, the interior ministry said January 22, making it the deadliest quake on record in the Americas.

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16. Love your jailbroken iPhone? Don’t update to 3.1.3  permalink

Love your jailbroken iPhone? Don’t update to 3.1.3
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch

Consider this a PSA from one person with a jailbroken iPhone to another: Don’t upgrade to the just released iPhone OS 3.1.3. The iPhone dev team — the guys who make all of this jailbreaking stuff possible — have just confirmed that the PwnageTool and redsn0w jailbreak/unlock tools do not work with iPhone OS 3.1.3. [...]

17. Verizon Finally Advertising Pre Plus ...to your Mom  permalink

Verizon Finally Advertising Pre Plus ...to your Mom
Www.precentral.net

Verizon is finally advertising the Palm Pre Plus. This time around Palm and Verizon decided that rather than give you the creeps directly, they'll give you the creeps by scaring you with visions of the past.

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18. Banned in Texas prisons: books and magazines that many would consider classics  permalink

Www.statesman.com

Ask the Texas Department of Criminal Justice how many book and magazine titles it has reviewed over the years to determine if the reading material is suitable for its inmates, and officials will give you a precise number: 89,795.

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19. Launch: AngelList, a curated list of angel investors  permalink

Launch: AngelList, a curated list of angel investors
Venturehacks.com

I’m psyched to announce AngelList, a curated list of super high-quality angel investors. And how to reach them. Investors like Jeff Clavier, Dave McClure, Rob Hayes, Aaron Patzer, Brad Feld, and 50 other investors have already joined. I want to thank all of the angels for taking the time to fill out these extensive profiles.

20. LunaScript: A new language and platform to take your Web 2.0 apps to the moon?  permalink

LunaScript: A new language and platform to take your Web 2.0 apps to the moon?
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian » Front Page

A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc). Well, they may not have been in a pub.... but [...]