Before and After The Tsunami: Japan Slowly Rebuilds [Image Cache]

Japan is slowly rebuilding after a devastating tsunami destroyed parts of the country earlier this year. A series of before and after pictures show how far Japan has come and how far it still has to go to rebuild its shattered country. [Denver Post] More »


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Svenja Hoferichter Carola Auer Luca Liebe Finja Kerkhoff

Plastic Bag Manufacturer Sues Reusable Bag Manufacturer for "Loss of Sales" [Video]

Reusable bag-maker, ChicoBag, isn't some soulless corporation. Its face is Bagmonster, the plastic-bag covered mascot created by founder Andy Keller (seen above). The same cannot be said about its litigious-attackers, three of the nation's largest disposable, plastic bag manufacturers. More »


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Moritz Beller Gabriela Prell Sylvia Lösche Steven Walnsch

Pandora Prices IPO At $16 Per Share, Now Valued At $2.6 Billion

Music streaming service Pandora has priced its IPO at $16 per share, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to $9 per share, at a market cap of $1.3 billion; but upped the range last week to $10 to $12 per share, giving the company a valuation of $1.9 billion. Pandora's stock will begin trading tomorrow morning on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ?P.? The company expects to raise as much as $235 million in the offerring and will offer 6,000,682 shares of its common stock with the selling stockholders are offering 8,683,318 shares of common stock in the IPO.

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Gladinet maps Amazon Cloud Drive to your Windows desktop

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Amazon's recently-introduced Cloud Drive is a great place to store your files online. It offers 5 gigs of totally free space, and U.S. users also get access to the handy Cloud Player app (for Web and Android!) which streams music you upload to your Cloud Drive.

The service could be a little easier to use, however. Until Amazon releases a desktop client, Windows users might want to take another look at Gladinet. The multi-service cloud connector has now added Amazon Cloud Drive support and will let you map a network drive letter to your account with minimal fuss.

Once you've added your credentials to Gladinet, just pick the letter you want to assign to the drive and you're good to go. You can then copy files to and from your Cloud Drive, rename items, and manage folders like you would any local hard drive in your system.

The only downside is that the free version of Gladinet gives you a limited number of cloud interactions. Once you use those up, you'll need to upgrade to the paid version, which costs $49.99. If you work with a number of cloud-based storage providers, however, it could be well worth the price tag.

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Da-dum, Da-dum?Darkfin Gloves

With summer just about here,  you’re probably going to be spending at least a little bit of time in the water whether at the beach, lake, or backyard pool.  The Darkfin gloves might be just what you need to cut through the water like, well, a shark. The gloves are made of latex and with [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/06/13/da-dum-da-dum-darkfin-gloves/

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Keen On? Why a Squirrel Dying on Your Front Lawn Isn?t More Important Than Somebody Starving in Africa (TCTV)

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, Eli Pariser's New York Times best-selling new book, has been applauded by net skeptics like Jaron Lanier and Evgeny Morozov as well as digital optimists like Clay Shirky and Craig Newmark. It?s an important book which argues that leading websites like Google and Facebook are delivering personalized information to us, thereby shielding Internet users from the broad news and ideas that traditional newspapers delivered to us. Pariser, who is the President of the Board of MoveOn.org is concerned that the Internet isn?t living up to its original promise. And the Filter Bubble is a passionate polemic against Facebook and Google algorithms that simply serves up information that it believes the user wants to see. For Pariser, this is creating a less and less well informed public and compounding the ghettoization of contemporary intellectual and political life.

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Emilia Münchow Claus Rehberg Tobias Leinenbach Olga Kreibich

Android Tablets Come to First-Class Fliers

Attention all frequent flyers: Got the cash for first class? Those of you who do will soon get much more than a little extra legroom and some free drinks. On Monday, Samsung and American Airlines announced they will provide Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 10.1 to travelers in seated in premium cabins for a select number of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/american-airlines-galaxy-tabs/

Nathalie Donnerhacke Anna-Lena Baumgärtel Sabine Kinzler Frieda Falkner

Titanium Water Bottle Is Almost Pointless

If you regularly buy bottled water, you should probably stop ruining the planet for the rest of us and refill a bottle from the tap instead. An old water bottle will probably do just fine, but in case that’s just not cool enough for such a fashion conscious person as yourself, why not try the [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/titanium-water-bottle-is-almost-pointless/

Malin Hock Helmut Hölzer Maurice Giese Frederik Faulhaber

Colorfly Media Player Targets High-End Audio Snobs

For audiophiles in search of equipment with perfect sound reproduction quality, media players like the iPod are out of the question. If you don’t mind shelling out a wad of cash, you could score a slick, high-performance alternative: the Pocket HiFi C4 Pro. The Colorfly Pocket HiFi C4 Pro not only looks awesome — check out the [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/colorfly-media-player/

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