It sure is nice to see some new developer action over at Flickr. The relatively slow-moving photo-sharing service has just announced a new sharing update, which consists of several new and easy ways to embed or link to your photos: Share from Photo page: There’s a new sharing option on each and every photo page. When logged off, the button shows only Facebook and Twitter options. But once you log on, you get Tumblr and [...]

Score another win for big content against online innovation. Last Friday, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that the spunky streaming movie startup Zediva agreed to close down permanently and to pay the studios $1.8 million and end its court battle with Hollywood. Zediva?s service, which debuted to the public in March, let users watch recently [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/streaming-movie-service-zediva-pays-hollywood-1-8m-shuts-down/ Victoria Beckham Victoria Pratt Victoria Silvstedt

Nortel, once one of the biggest telecoms company in the world but now in the death throes of bankruptcy, has selected Google’s $900 million bid for its patent portfolio as the stalking horse bid. This doesn’t mean that Google will automatically win Nortel’s massive array of telecoms patents, but it does mean that Google is the preferred buyer. Google, which has a history of lobbying for patent law reform, has been the target of many [...]

Moments ago, Mozilla stripped the release candidate moniker from Firefox 4 Mobile and pronounced it fit for public release. If you have a Nokia N900 phone, or a fairly-modern Android 2.0-or-later device, go ahead and install it from the Market, by using scanning the QR code after the break, or by visiting Firefox.com/m. Accompanying the release is the launch of Spark, a cute social game that’s designed to fuel the adoption of Firefox 4 Mobile, [...]

It seems impossible, but we live in age when robots can clean our floors for us. You don’t have to be Donald Trump or Emperor of Mars—this is science fact. But which floor-bot is dominant? We have answers. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/cqGabN2w0wQ/which-robot-maid-will-clean-your-floors-the-best Monica Bellucci Monica Keena Monica Potter