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There’s not a lot of information to be found about YourNight.com, a
currently invite-only portal that’s slated for launch this quarter, but the information
we’ve received about its parent company Extreme Enterprises raising
a relatively small amount of cash for a valuation of tens of millions of dollars made us curious,
so we looked a little closer.
Here’s what we know about the service: YourNight.com will be publishing “dozens of
internal search engines in an array of online services located within one portal”, and
ultimately hopes to give “every person and business in the world a free web presence,
multiple free search engine placements, free advertisement, and free entertainment from TV,
radio, email, chat, games, networking, dating & more ...”
The company is certainly ambitious enough, openly boasting about becoming a serious threat to
“companies such as Google, Yahoo, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, Yellow Pages, Microsoft and
several more” and billing itself as “The World’s Largest Interactive
Entertainment, Information & Shopping Search Portal”. Last December, EEI even put out a
press release about receiving a $30 million valuation based on a stock purchase to the tune of
$180,000 for 0.6% ownership made by PlanLogix, a software development company that’s going
to be working on YourNight.com. Since its inception in 2004, EEI has reportedly raised over $2.5
million in private equity investments, both cash and in-kind, still according to the release.
A couple of familiar names pop up in the story as well: one of the investors is Mike Alstott, the
recently retired Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl champion and six-time Pro Bowl star. George
Wendt, that would be the actor who portrayed Norm in the sitcom “Cheers”, is a family
member to the founder of EEI and is expected to be endorsing the company, with the terms still in
negotiation. Then there’s attorney Ken Keefe, a former U.S. Diplomat and ex-President of
Eupen Cable USA who will be assuming the role of President / CLO for the company.
And then there’s this bizarre gem, straight from the press
release:
EEI recently announced its nationwide search for a CTO. Starting from the top, EEI has contacted
Aber Whitcomb, current MySpace CTO, as well as Sean Parker, Founder of Napster and Former
President of FaceBook. “No offers have been agreed upon yet so the search continues”,
says EEI CEO RJ Garbowicz.
The press release also states that the company will ‘let its purpose and presence be
known’ as soon as they reach their goal of raising a Series A capital round of $10 million.
We’re very curious about the upcoming launch and future of this one.
Crunch Network: CrunchGear
drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
Tonight’s Crunchies award ceremony in
San Francisco is now totally sold out. We’re sorry if you didn’t get a chance to grab
a ticket, but you’ll still be able to watch the show streamed live via Ustream (click here to start watching once the show begins at
7:30).
The awards show, which is co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat,
Silicon Alley
Insider, and TechCrunch, highlights some of Silicon Valley’s best startups,
technological innovations, and breakthrough leaders of 2008. The nomination process saw nearly
170,000 total votes to pick out the finalists in each category, and then another
350,000 to pick the final winners.
We’ve got some big surprises for the show, and the
afterparty in SF City Hall is also shaping up to be a blast. We’ll see you there!
Crunch Network: CrunchGear
drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
Never mind computer gadgets. The Adult Entertainment Expo, also running in Las Vegas right now, is
the place to be for anyone in--or interested in--the porn industry.
If you've been listening to the Engadget
Podcast, you know that Taiwan's Dr. Mobile is our new favorite fly-by-night Asian netbook
vendor, and VIA's showing off its Nano-powered Freestyle Mini here at CES in a darkened restaurant.
(Seriously!) Internally, it's basically a smaller version of the 11.6-inch Freestyle we
played with a few days ago, but it's in a more traditional netbook package with an 8.9-inch screen.
We were pretty blunt in asking the VIA rep why the Nano's basically been a no-show during 2008's
Atom explosion, and while we didn't get a straight answer, it sounds like 2009 might be the year
the battle for netbook platform dominance is finally joined -- the Freestyle and the Freestyle Mini
should be available in the next few months. Dr. Mobile, paging Dr. Mobile.
If you’re a developer utilizing BenHur’s PSP font library for homebrew, then it’s
come time to rebirth your brainchild with the latest version of intraFont. And if you’re not
a developer, sit tight — we’ll no doubt have something for you later. intraFont 0.24
changes: added column printing with automatic linebreaks - no need to worry [...]
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width="804" height="503" style="display:block;float:none;" /The a
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released today/a to anyone who wanted to try it out. Microsoft claimed "unprecedented server
traffic" ended up crashing the site. Still, have you tested it via a
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We just bumped into LG's X120, a barely-differentiated followup to the X110 that's floating around the show floor. There's still a
1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, Windows XP and a 10-inch WSVGA screen, but
what's new is the Splashtop-powered "LG Smart
On" OS, which does the quick boot thing we've come to know and love on many ASUS products, the
Voodoo Envy 133 and elsewhere. The effect, as always, is pretty stunning, and the OS should be
helpful for a quick look at the web or to hop on IM over the laptop's WiFi connectivity. The
netbook itself seems to have been tweaked a tad on aesthetics, but it's still a bit thicker than
we'd like at this point for the netbook market. We're short on further details, but since the X110
did 3G, there's a good chance that'll be in play as well -- we're still waiting on PR from LG. In
the meantime, you can check out a video of the startup after the break.
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guess, but that would just be lame now, wouldn't it. Oh, and you can still buy Globbies if you want
to give your Globulos a moustache or whatever.)
Brandon LeBlanc /
The Windows Blog:
Update on Windows 7 Beta Availability — Due to very heavy traffic
we're seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional
infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta. We
want to ensure customers have the best possible experience …
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At the Macworld Expo, Google engineer David Phillip Oster, displayed a program that allows people
to drive around the Earthís surface in a virtual milk truck, by using the Nintendo Wii
Balance Board with the Google Earth API. By interpreting Bluetooth data transmissions from the Wii
Balance Board, a user can shift their weight in order to change the movements of the truck. Oster
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PlayStation 3, that's bound to sound familiar. The clever (or fortunate) ones will manage to keep
the fun rolling with a PSP or Nintendo DS, but at least one child has taken things a step
further.br /br /When the six-year-old son of David Eugene Dodson and Jacqulyn Deana Waltman of
Wicomico Church, Virginia, missed the bus to school in the morning, he grabbed the keys to the
family's Ford Taurus and drove himself. Well, almost. The young driver made it surprisingly far,
over a bridge and around a few corners, until he crashed the Taurus into an electrical piling...and
then proceeded on foot, determined to make it to school. br /br /The child is now in protective
custody together with his four-year-old brother while his parents face child endangerment charges.
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height="345" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" /CES 2009 brought us a new player in the smartphone
upper-echelon. Let's drill down and see how the a
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touchscreen/gesture control/strong: All three are capacitive, only the Pre and iPhone have
multitouch. The Pre's glowy little "gesture area" has dropped the touchable real estate all the way
down tto the bottom of the phone, which is great for being able to navigate with one hand and not
interfere with the screen at all. The wavey dock you bring up from the bottom looks awesome, but
can you use it out of the box without a second thought or page through the manual? That's my
question. emAdvantage: iPhone/Pre tossup.br / /embr / strong2. Multitasking/strong: One of the
beefiest of our beefs with the iPhone SDK is its insistence on Apps running one at a time. The G1's
notifications drawer was definitely a step in the right direction, but the Pre's interface is the
first smartphone OS that was a
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Expose even, the Pre's "Cards" interface always places you in the context of every app running for
fast switching, and notifications from other apps don't pull you away completely from the task at
hand. Multitasking is hugely important on a phone, and it's a good sign that Palm recognizes.
emAdvantage: Pre/em/p pstrong3. Hardware:/strong Adrian says: /p blockquotepWhile the hardware is
definitely high quality, I'm not entirely blown away by the design. It looks really nice, and
original, but it's a little too cutesy in shape and kind of reminds me of an oversized pebble. A
slightly larger screen could have definitely been put to good use, and I really don't like the
black space on the sides of the screen./p/blockquote pA phone with a built-in QWERTY still hasn't
touched the iPhone in terms of sleekness and pure sex. And it might still be a while. emAdvantage:
iPhone /em/p pstrong4. Development platform:/strong The Pre's "Web OS" sure sounds
nice—all developers need to know is JavaScript, HTML and CSS? Sounds good in
theory, but building a mobile app will never be as easy as cranking out a new theme for your
Tumblr. Palm's stressing ease of development, though, so it will be interesting to see how it
stacks up against Apple's solid, familiar-to-devs OS X-based SDK and Android's fully open source
approach. emAdvantage: Pre? If it's straight-up JavaScript, that's a ulot/u of programmers ready to
go. Note: we had iPhone here before, but we've switched with a qualification. Developer community
still goes to iPhone for volume. /em/p pstrong5. Web Integration/strong: The Pre subtly integrates
the internet into the phone at every opportunity, and it's awesome. Contacts get pulled in from
Facebook, Gmail, IM and and scanned for dupes; the messaging app shows your last several emails,
IMs and SMS with that contact in a single window. Really, really smart stuff.em Advantage: Pre/em/p
pstrong6. App Store/developer community:/strong A smartphone is only as good as the software it
runs. On the Pre, Palm is still keeping application delivery details like pricing behind the
curtain, but they did say the app delivery will be entirely handled by the phone (without a desktop
app), which is a shame. They're saying that they're not going to duplicate Apple's Hobbesian app
approval black box mistake, which Android has also hasn't fallen for, but there emwill/em be an
approval process based on "security and stability." But as we know with Android, a dev community
needs enough devices in the hands of consumers to reach critical mass, which the Pre will have to
match. emAdvantage: iPhone, even with the black box, but Android and Pre's more open stances are
reassuring. /em/p pstrong7. Wireless charger:/strong We've seen wireless charger tech for years at
CES, but it's taken this long for a major consumer gadget to come bundled with its own wireless
charger in the box. Bravo. emAdvantage: Pre/em/p pstrong8. The Network:/strong Dan Hesse, Sprint's
CEO, gave our a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5111989/the-definitive-coast+to+coast-3g-data-test"coast-to-coast 3G
test/a a shout out in his press conference. Of course he did: Sprint won (in download speeds).
Sprint was the only major carrier without a powerful, hype-catching smartphone choice, and now they
have one. The Pre is a data-centric phone with a network we've proven to be strong in a large
swatch of the country—that's a good combo. But would you switch to Sprint for
the Pre? Ugh. emAdvantage: Not cut and dry for everyone, but we stand by our numbers: Sprint is the
best 3G network in our tests. /em/p pstrong9. Physical keyboard:/strong It's preference, but one
held by a large swathe of the gadget buying public: physical QWERTY keypads are still the
mainstream input of choice. Touch is getting better all the time, but a emlot/em of people still
want physical keyboards. But better yet is the ability to choose; unfortunately, the Pre doesn't
have a soft onscreen keyboard, and its slide-out is the same meh QWERTY from the Treo Pro.
emAdvantage: It's preference, but on me, the iPhone's soft k
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