5Words: A Really Short News Roundup
By Harry McCracken | Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 7:36 am
You’re a really busy person. I’m a really busy person. Enter our new feature, 5words. It consists of quick news hits from around the Web–and just to keep things moving right along, every item will be five words long. (If that leaves you hungry for more, click the links to get more words on these stories elsewhere–hundreds of them, sometimes.) Here we go…
Google’s Latitude: Track your friends.
Facebook celebrates its fifth birthday.
Palm’s Pre arriving March 15th?
Asus keeps introducing Eee PCs.
15,000 Panasonic staffers are toast.
India’s $10 laptop: thumb drive?
Firefox update patches security holes.
Cloud computing for…slot machines?
Amazon starts selling downloadable games.
Rumors of iPhone background tasks.
A two-million-laptop supercomputer.
Toshiba introduces another “iPhone killer.”
NVidia’s Ion netbook platform impresses.
MySpace’s 90,000-sex-offender list.
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February 4th, 2009 at 7:56 am
I’d call this a fine example of blatant false advertising… According to my calculations, this post contains 137 words! 😉
And whilst I’m burning electroncs, I gotta say I don’t get Google L attitude – is that the best they could do with Jaiku and Dogdeball?
February 4th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Extra points for alliteration.