From moconews.net February 9th, 2012

Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian (and action figure!) who recently partnered with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to republish a handful of out-of-print titles each year, tells the New York Times and Seattle Times that based on the reaction she’s received it’s a “hard question” whether she’d do it again. Read More

From techcrunch.com February 9th, 2012

I remember my freshman year of college. It was a tiny campus, but I still found myself looking for classes and wandering through a maze-like library for most of the first year I was there. At the time, my phone wasn't much help to me, but now that smartphones are taking over the market, Modo Labs is ready to help college students spend even more time on fiddling around on their phones. The company today made the latest version of its Mobile Campus Solution available, which is meant to give Universities the ability to create a mobile platform for their students. The platform will work on mobile web, iOS, and Android, just to make sure no one's left out. Read More

From google.com February 9th, 2012

(Credit: DirecTV) TiVo and DirecTV's on-again, off-again, really off-again, kinda on-again relationship is now completely back on again. After a 10-city roll out in December of a new TiVo HD box to DirecTV customers, the satellite TV provider is making the box available nationwide. The TiVo HD box mainly gives users access to TiVo's excellent interface and features like WishList Searches so you can automatically record programming based on things like an actor's name, sports team, or personal interests and TiVo's Swivel Search will find shows across TV and DirecTV Cinema. Related stories TiVo Premiere Elite HD interface (screenshots) Android Atlas Weekly 80: It's a camera, it's a phone, it's a tablet! (Podcast) DirecTV TiVo DVRs coming to select markets this week? The box itself is capable of recording up to 100 hours of HD or 400 hours of SD programming and has two tu Read More

From yahoo.com February 9th, 2012

Appolicious - It’s Thursday, the day to grab yourself the week’s biggest game releases. A new version of the zombie city simulator Rebuild leads our selection, bringing the strategy title from the iPad to the iPhone and iPod Touch for the first time. Following that is Pinball Arcade, a touchscreen game that puts classic pinball tables in your smartphone or tablet. ... Read More

From yahoo.com February 9th, 2012

Reuters - Oracle Corp said it will buy recruitment software maker Taleo Corp for about $1.9 billion, as it expands its portfolio of cloud-based software. Read More

From yahoo.com February 9th, 2012

Reuters - There are magazines, television shows and books about food. So why not a social network? Read More

From google.com February 9th, 2012

Raw photos store data from an image sensor before it's been converted into a JPEG. Typical image sensors capture only red, green, or blue for a pixel, and through "demosaicing" convert that data into a useful image with all three color elements for each pixel. (Credit: Adobe Systems) Photography enthusiasts have seen the light when it comes to shooting raw images, but plenty of them have yet to convert to Adobe Systems' DNG format for storing those images. But Adobe could bring some new sheep into the Digital Negative fold with abilities arriving in Adobe's Lightroom 4 software and its Photoshop CS6 cousin. Adobe isn't evangelizing heavily, but it is offering new features that could convince people that DNG is a better alternative to the profusion of proprietary raw formats that higher-end cameras produce. Three significant improvements are coming to DNG, two for speed a Read More