The reason for strangling the infant in its crib comes in a Google blog post:

Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.

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Read about it on AP.

Stereo equipment billionaire Sidney Harman has purchased Newsweek from the Washington Post for the bargain basement price of $1. He’ll be assuming $70 million dollars in debt, but hey, this the founder of Harman Kardon (which pioneered the now well-known consumer electronics practice of selling separate components to be custom-tailored into a home sound system AND brought the world the first hi-fi receiver) as well as Harman International — so, hey maybe he’s on to something. Jon Meacham will be out as Newsweek editor.

Yahoo Finance: Dr. Sidney Harman to Purchase Newsweek from The Washington Post Company
Ad Age: Harman Signs Deal to Buy Newsweek From Washington Post Co.
HuffPo: Sidney Harman Buys Newsweek

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This is a patent pending touch capable mirror was conceptualized by Alpay Kasal of Lit Studios and Sam Ewen of Interference Inc. Kasal writes on his blog:

In an effort to dive deeper into HCI (Human Computer Interaction) by hacking together parts easily acquired, I set out to build something especially “non-computery” – introducing the Interactive Mirror. On paper, this construction looked like it’d be novel and fun. I was pleasantly surprised to see it was way more fun than expected once I fired it up. The cognitive machine that is your brain automatically deals with things like size and distance and perspective, a job it hopefully does fairly well, you don’t have to give a mirror’s reflection much thought. However, interacting with buttons and animation layered on your reflection and the world behind you is unlike any other touchscreen experience. This unexpectedness, to me, is precisely the allure of HCI and all things touch-capable. I thought to build this version of the Interactive Mirror after I saw some dielectric glass mirrors with LCD panels built into them. They’re meant to be the bathroom of the future, complete with news and weather to accompany your toothpaste in the morning. Sounds nifty, but it looked completely un-fun. It lacked a human touch. I brainstormed with friend Sam Ewen and soon started cutting aluminum t-slot. There are some tricks built into this installation: like internal mirror bounces for greater projection throw (wide angle lenses are expensive) and a projection running at an aspect ratio of 9:16 rather than 16:9. I’m also using mouse emulation, which is key in my opinion. Much like the Lasergames set up, I’m able to repurpose some of my previously created flash work or set up any game on the installation for instant action, making it a very dynamic system.

Interference is the guerilla marketing company known for the 2007 Boston bomb scare, where police thought that small Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED placards were improvised explosive devices.

Audio track for the video: Necro – Beautiful Music For You To Die To from the album The Prefix For Death, Instrumentals.

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The folks over at Macwrold used the built-in camera of the iPhone 4 to shoot the cover photograph for this month’s issue. Additionally, two photo apps were used to process the image: the $3 PhotoForge to remove a slight green cast from the image, and the $1 Resize-Photo to increase the photo from 216 dpi to 290 dpi in order to meet our printing requirements. WATCH the video above to see timelapse of the whole process. We find it amusing, with the front-facing camera and all, that the iPhone 4 needs to use the back camera to take its self-portrait.

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Read more in detail at MacWorld.

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PatentlyApple reports the über tech company has been granted a patent for the iPhone’s original broadband antenna — a design which has nothing to do with the iPhone 4 death grip design.

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Oh what doors get flung open when a company has a PR problem to solve.

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Advertising Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab, USA
CCO/ECD: Duncan Milner, Eric Grunbaum, Scott Trattner
ACDs: Jamie Reilly, Kevin Tenglin
Sr. CW: Pete Figel
Agency Producers: Hank Zakroff, Ben Bragg
Production Co: Epoch Films
DP: Harris Savides
Editorial Co: Nomad Editing Company, Inc.
Editor: Glenn Martin, Jared Coller
Post Co: Company 3
Artist: Brian Robinson, Stefan Sonnenfeld