http://truemors.nowpublic.com Tell the world Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:52:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apple's planned exit from future Macworld expos has IDG World Expo, the show's producer, feeling the pressure for 2010. With no Steve Jobs stage strutting or hyped-up gadget announcements, plans for the future of Macworld remain fuzzy, but rest assured, the show will go on, with or without Apple. Banners ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35542 Bill O'Reilly is gay, CNN's resident twitterer Rick Sanchez may skip work to smoke crack and Britney Spears boasts a four foot wide vagina with razor sharp teeth. Well, at least according to Twitter. The Twitter phishing scam that popped up over the weekend has managed to claim some of ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35534 In a break from the usual candid underwear, nose-picking and crotch-grabbing shots, Google Street View has captured pictures that Porsche probably doesn't want the average Joe lurking around on Street View to see. A Google Street View car zipping around Colorado nabbed photos of the German automaker testing new, previously ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35499 The Apple factory elves apparently have a new gadget in the works as TechCrunch reports that Steve Jobs and the crew will release an iPod Touch featuring a 7- to 9-inch screen in late 2009. One source claims to have handled a prototype of the rumored gadget that reportedly includes ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35471 Fear not Macheads, Apple has assured Mac users that their computers will account for the so-called "leap second" tacked on to the end of 2008 by the time-loving folks at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service. So, if you broke out all the Y2K emergency gear that seemed ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35461 Presidential inaugurations can't just be tossed together with some balloons, streamers and an endless supply of Fanta; no, Washington's biggest party of every four years requires oodles of planning and oodles of dough to pull the whole shindig off. While most of America closed their wallets to post-election donations, some ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35441 FCC boss Kevin Martin has apparently had a change of heart regarding porn (and really, who hasn't?!), saying that the free internet service currently in the works will no longer require a porn filter. The FCC's free wireless internet access scheme still has plenty of hurdles to clear, but at ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35439 The Democratic National Convention's Zune give-away had the Apple faithful scratching their gadget-loving noggins wondering if the future prez harbored a real fondness for the Microsoft MP3 player or if he just liked freebies. Well, turns out Barack Obama did tune in to a Zune for the DNC, but a ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35423 Itching for a little voting action now that election season has long since passed? Well, get your voting on over at TechCrunch for the annual Crunchies, the nerdy awards honoring the hottest startups, products and entrepreneurs. The site about all things 2.0 received 180,000 total nominations and narrowed the field ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35409 The cutsey, teeny-tiny laptops that have everyone from business execs to soccer moms looking like squinting giants caused a selling bonanza on Amazon. Netbooks nabbed 17 of the 25 top-selling notebook spots on the shopping giant, putting big smiles on the faces of laptop manufacturers, who had spent the last ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35400 Online quizzes usually just determine your hottest celebrity match or what ice cream flavor matches your personality, but if you have grown tired of hearing you should be boinking Helen Mirren and have a Chunky Monkey disposition, then try the Web 2.0 logo test. Test your smarts on 33 different ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35398 Surging iPhone sales have turned into Apple gadget dominance amongst camera phones on Flickr and, more surprisingly, impressive competitiveness with the most popular SLRs on the photo sharing site. The introduction of the 3G model in July vaulted the iPhone over every other camera phone, leaving the second-place Nokia N95 ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35371 Netbooks' surging popularity helped push global laptop shipments over desktops for the first time ever. Notebook PC shipments climbed nearly 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008 over the previous year, while desktop shipments took a hit and dropped 1.3 percent. Hewlett-Packard remained top dog, edging out Dell and ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35360 Hubspot's "State of the Twittersphere" has provided enough tiny Twitter tidbits to impress and probably annoy your family throughout Christmas dinner because really, who doesn't want to hear about the microblogging service's stellar year over a honey-baked ham? A few interesting items from the report: 70 percent of all Twitter ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35351 Only 41 days until some of the most brilliant and innovative minds come together to spread ideas and spark endless conversation at the annual TED Conference and now we know who will take the stage. TED 2009 speakers include Bill Gates, Seth Godin and Herbie Hancock. Wannabe attendees would have ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35328 Blogger Steve Rubel crunched some numbers (more work than the Truemors gang with our TI-82s was willing to do) and found that re-tweets make up two percent of all Twitter volume. Out of the approximately 1.8 million daily tweets, 34,500 included the word 'retweet' or 'RT.' Interesting. Ok, now go ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35325 Google has turned into that painfully unhip aunt that buys Catholic magazine subscriptions and bedazzled knick-knacks for everyone at Christmas. The internet giant decided to forgo the usual year-end cash bonuses in favor of stuffing staffer's stockings with the HTC G1 Android phone, causing employees to monotonically exclaim "oh, super." http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35333 Forget Tweet-Ups filled with booze, name tags and posturing -- a Vancouver gathering of Twitterers swapped Spritzers and chit-chatting for sweaters and warm fuzzies as the group decided to turn their meet-up into an event benefiting the local homeless population. After snow forced the cancellation of a scheduled Tweet-Up, planned ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35317 Web golden boy Kevin Rose boasts a loyal following, due in large part to the perceived success of Digg, but a peak at the news aggregator's financials show the company doesn't exactly enjoy champagne wishes and caviar dreams. Business Week's investigative peepers got a gander at Digg's money numbers that ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35305 Santa Claus and his gang of busy elves have entered full-on pack the sleigh mode, but if you forgot something on your Christmas list, there's still time to ping the jolly chubster on Twitter to make sure that puppy or pony or Tickle-Me-Elmo lands under the tree. NORAD's Santa Tracker ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35301 We do love our lists here on the web. Time once again for the best and worst gadgets of 2008! Oh, and I promise that this article won't be about Twitter or Facebook. http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35276 An anonymous tipster with a big mouth has told Cell Phone Signals that the T-Mobile G2 will hit shelves January 26, 2009. Yes, the G1 came out less than two months ago to an underwhelming reception and the chatty nameless source has about zero supporting evidence, but that hasn't stopped ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35251 Despite smaller wallets and a little thing called a recession, music fanatics preferred legal downloads over pirated music in the third quarter. Legal music downloads rose 29 percent over the same time a year ago, outpacing increases for illegal music downloads over peer-to-peer networks, which grew only 23 percent. The ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35237 Twitter egos took a hit this week when the microblogging service decided to do a little spring (or middle of winter) cleaning and give the boot to thousands of spammer accounts. With spammy members sent the way of the Fail Whale, plenty of twitterers woke up to find follower numbers ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35233 Twitter has made its first move towards finally raking in some revenue with a job posting for a product manager, so who should lead the site's rag tag team towards the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Leprechauns need not apply (looking at you, Illinois Gov. Rob ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35201