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NYTimes.com Shares Its Homepage, Readers With Other Sites (NYT) — Another neat tech offering from the New York Times: A new edition of its site called TimesExtra, launching today, which adds related headlines from around the Web directly to its homepage. TimesExtra uses the Times' Blogrunner tool to add related links to homepage stories, as illustrated at right. (See below for a screen shot of the whole top section of the homepage. It's not very intrusive above the fold.) TimesExtra does not turn on automatically. You have to activate it, which lasts for 24 hours. The next day, you'll need to activate it again. This isn't for everyone -- we... [Tags: apis, bloggers, bold move, cto, editors]

Greystripe Brings Flash to the iPhone, Sort Of — Adobe may be hard at work creating a version of its Flash Player that works on the iPhone, but until Apple gives its OK, iPhone users must muddle along without viewing most online video content. Except that on Monday, Mobile ad network Greystripe announced it can now deploy Flash ads to the iPhone. What's that you say? Last we heard, Flash implementation on the iPhone wasn't going to happen any time soon. In fact, Apple's terms of service prohibits the use of Flash. So how did Greystripe get around those hangups? Well, they're not really using Flash. They've just created... [Tags: advertisers, apple, creative power, cto, developers]

Dell opens doors on Design Studio for jazzing up Studio 15 / 17 laptops — It was HP who made the PC "personal again," but don't think Dell isn't doing its darnedest to make it ultra-personal... again. After seeing a number of Dell laptops get unorthodox paint jobs and hearing that it would make Art House machines CTO in 2009, we've now learned that Dell has swung open the doors to its all new Design Studio. Naturally, said studio was built to customize the outfit's Studio 15 and Studio 17 lappies, and it features an interactive gallery of original artwork commissioned exclusively for this initiative. Available for browsing right now, each unique image costs... [Tags: artwork, cto, dell laptops, doors, engadget]

Alden Hart's LED "lessons and gotchas" — At the most recent Dorkbot DC, we had a wonderful, extremely informative presentation given by Alden Hart. By day, Alden is an electrical engineer and the CTO of a technical consulting firm, by night, he messes around with LEDs and microcontrollers, especially for elaborate holiday light displays he does at his home in Northern Virginia. Alden's talk was entitled "Practical Microcontroller LED Designs - lessons and gotchas from prototype to production." It was a very well-presented survey of software and hardware methods he's explored. Some of the programming was over my head, but he presented everything clearly enough that... [Tags: alden, all sorts, angle modulation, bam, conversions]

CBS Web site bitten by iFrame hack — TV network CBS has become the latest big name to have it Web site used to host malware, a security company has reported.It appears that Russian malware distributors were able to launch another iFrame attack on a subdomain of the cbs.com site so that it was serving remote malware to any visitors. A user's vulnerability to the malware attack launched by the site hack would depend on a number of factors, including the type of security used on a PC, the operating system, and possibly the browser version.[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog... [Tags: anti virus, based solutions, cbs web site, code obfuscation, cto]

FCC Chair To Push Free Porn-Free Internet — During the FCC's December meeting, chair Kevin Martin plans to push for a free, but porn-free Internet service that would be available to all Americans. Reports the Wall Street Journal: The proposal to allow a no-smut, free wireless Internet service is part of a proposal to auction off a chunk of airwaves. The winning bidder would be required to set aside a quarter of the airwaves for a free Internet service. The winner could establish a paid service that would have a fast wireless Internet connection. The free service could be slower and would be required to filter out pornography... [Tags: byers, chunk, consumer groups, cto, customer base]

Pixel Qi Laptop Could Run for 20-40 Hours on Standard Battery [Pixie Dust] — Mary Lou Jepsen—the XO Laptop's designer and OLPC's CTO before defecting and founding Pixel Qi—has even grander ambitions for new laptop project than hitting a mythical $75 pricetag. Pixel Qi is working on a laptop will be able to run on a standard for 20 to 40 hours, no pixie dust required. How? It's all about the screen. Just just like she reinvented the LCD screen for the XO, making the project possible both costwise and practically (with the flip of a switch, the color LCD can switch to one that's monochrome and highly reflective, making it easy to... [Tags: ambitions, batteries, battery life, color lcd, cto]

Pixel Qi conjuring up black magic technology for 40-hour laptops — Sure, you can go out and get yourself a laptop right now that'll go 12.5-hours strong, but what if your portable computer could nearly outlast your Aigo A215? While L's mythical quad core lappie came close in theory, Mary Lou Jepsen's (the former CTO at OLPC) startup is hoping to eventually create a machine that can last between 20 and 40-hours between charges. Pixel Qi is being pretty closelipped right now (and understandably so) about what exactly it has going on, but we get the idea the secret sauce is in a highly efficient display that will require far less... [Tags: 2h, aigo a215, cto, jepsen, laptop]

The 2008 geek gadget gift guide: Gyroxus Game Chair — Why you must have it: Sitting in your chair playing games is absorbing, no doubt, but if you've been to Disneyland or a similar theme park, you know you're missing the dimension of motion. No matter how much the game moves, you sit still. That's why InfoWorld CTO Council member Marvin Anderson's gaze lingered on the Gyroxus Full-Motion Game Chair from 4th Motion. As you move your body while controlling the game, the chair amplifies your actions, so the next time you're flying in space or weaving in and out of traffic, it will feel real. You can even buy... [Tags: council member, cto, disneyland, gadget, game chair]

The White House reboots — As the president-elect gets ready to take office, he offers a fresh take on technology, with plans to hire a CTO, give weekly YouTube addresses, promote green tech, and more.... [Tags: cto, president elect, white house]

NBA star Shaq O'Neal has only been using Twitter for a week, and -- no surprise -- he's already one of the most popular Twitter users. Around 11 a.m. today, Shaq had some 11,538 "followers," or subscribers, pushing him past tech blogger Om Malik, who has 11,515 followers. That's a lot of people reading Shaq's tweets, but he still has a long way to go to catch up to Twitter's star users. Barack Obama's Twitter account has 137,000 followers, though his staff hasn't used it since Nov. 5. Digg dude Kevin Rose has almost 75,000 followers. He's followed by more... [Tags: acq, alex albrecht, barack obama, blogger, cto]

So long, Sandy: Rael Dornfest heading to Twitter — Rael Dornfest is joining Twitter. Formerly an editor and a CTO for O'Reilly books, his most recent project is a software house called Values of n, which makes the clever app (and Webware 100 winner) I Want Sandy and the virtual sticky note service called Stikkit. Both products will shut down at 5:00 PM PST on December 8, according the Values of n blog. However, the Twitter blog says, "The technology... will live on and potentialy re-emerge as part of Twitter's systems." It'd be pretty cool if the auto-concierge of I Want Sandy made it into Twitter somehow. Chances... [Tags: blog, business model, co author, concierge, content standards]

Twitter Acq-Hires Former O'Reilly CTO Dornfest — Twitter has brought on another Web tech guru -- former O'Reilly CTO Rael Dornfest -- via an acquisition of his tiny startup. Twitter CEO Evan Williams writes: Today we're thrilled to announce that Twitter has acquired the assets of Values of n, which include an intelligent sticky-note application as well as a personal productivity application that works over email, SMS, and the Web. Rael has already started adding energy and momentum to the team as a full time Twitter engineer. Twitter will shut down Values of n's products; they might emerge someday as Twitter features or as open-source libraries. No... [Tags: acq, acquisition, assets, ceo, cto]

Hot on the heels of news that it rejected an acquisition offer from Facebook, Twitter has announced that it has acquired Values of n, a startup that produced information management applications including Stikkit, a post-it note application and I Want Sandy, an Email assistant. The primary goal of the acquisition appears to have been to bring Rael Dornfest to the Twitter team. Dornfest is the founder of Values of n and former CTO at O’Reilly Media, whose responsibilities also included editing the O’Reilly Hacks series. He was also the head of the RSS-DEV group, which created the RSS 1.0... [Tags: acquisition, crunch, crunchboard, cto, hacks]

Blip.tv adds iPhone support for mobile viewing — Video host Blip.tv has just launched support for QuickTime, allowing users on iPhones to view the entirety of its video collection on the go. Like visiting the site on your computer, you can both browse and search through Blip's videos and get them to play without having to download a special application. It's the latest service to offer such a feature; others include Break.com, the KickApps platform, and DailyMotion. As a result of the upgrade, a change to Blip.tv's Flash embed code is in the works, which will soon point iPhone users directly to the .m4v QuickTime stream. Unfortunately... [Tags: backwards compatibility, blip tv, cto, dailymotion, flash embed code]

TV Startup Sezmi Closes on $30 Million Funding, Even As It Lays Off Staff — Sezmi, the ambitious TV startup founded by Phil Wiser, former CTO of Sony (NYSE: SNE) America, has raised about $28 million in new funding, and aiming to close this third round at $50 million. However, the hopes of raising more might have to be tempered for a while with the economic conditions, and in keeping with that new reality, last week the company cut about 20 employees off its staff of 100. Founded in 2007, Sezmi raised $17.5 million in its first round from Morganthaler Ventures, Omni Capital, and others, but no word on how much the second round was.... [Tags: 30 million, 5 million, 50 million, broadcasters, cto]

As sure as clockwork, whenever there is a discussion of the advances the internet and technology provide, someone will bring up the digital divide. Not sure what they expect the folks in the discussion to do about it - hold all progress until the divide is conquered? Of course, it’s the progress itself that will close the divide by creating demand and efficiency and thus scale and affordability. Once upon a time in America, there was a literacy divide, a print divide, a radio divide, a phone divide, a TV divide, a mobile phone divide. They are all just about... [Tags: affordability, broadband, confidence, cto, efficiency]

Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation — On the night of the historic U.S. presidential election, news outlets across the country streamed live video of the news coverage on their Web sites. Obviously, the Web traffic that night, compared to others, was exponentially greater. But it’s not as if news organizations went out and spent boatloads of money to build massive datacenters [...]... [Tags: amazon, cto, datacenters, election news, infrastructure]

Industry Moves: WaPo Appoints Ravindran As New Chief Digital Officer — The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has created a new position of chief digital officer, and has named Vijay Ravindran to it, who will start in Feb next year. Ravindran is currently the CTO of of Catalist, a startup political tech firm that built a national voter database. This past election cycle, Catalist worked with Obama for America presidential campaign, among others. Prior to that Ravindran was a director at Amazon.com for the ordering services group. More details in release. Not clear: if his responsibilities are on the tech side, similar to what a CIO does, or if this is... [Tags: amazon, business position, cto, digital businesses, election cycle]

Mozilla CTO offers glimpse of Firefox's future — Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks to Dan Farber about why the company now commands 20 percent of the browser market and what they're doing to grow... [Tags: brendan eich, browser market, cto, glimpse]