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World of Good Sells Brand And Assets To eBay, Wholesale Division To GreaterGood

World of Good , a five-year old venture that connects artisans from developing communities with mainstream retail markets, has been working with eBay for the past few years, with the ecommerce giant essentially powering the company’s multi-seller marketplace for socially and environmentally responsible shopping. This morning, World of Good announced that it is selling its wholesale division to GreaterGood/Charity USA , while eBay has moved to fully acquire its main brand and related assets.
Feb 25th, 2010 | Filed under Tech News Review, Uncategorized -
Late Last Year, Google Overtook Apple In WebKit Code Commits

Today, the blog Chromium Notes , which is written by a developer who works on the open source project (that Google Chrome is built on top of), posted a very interesting graph: one that shows the number of code commits to WebKit . Notably, it appears that Google has overtaken Apple as the organization that contributes the most commits to the open source project. Now, the author is quick to point out the caveats of the graph (and does so for four paragraphs), and notes that he was hesitant to even publish it because of how easy it is to misinterpret
Feb 6th, 2010 | Filed under Tech News ReviewTags: Apple, between-the-two, black, blue, built-on-top, chromium-notes, code, google-chrome, meaningful, Nokia, open, posted-the-code, project, safari -
AMD is proud to unveil affordable ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card

The fight between video cards has had its fair share of champions and losers in the past decade, and we have seen the scene settle between two giants – leaving all the other contenders laid to waste (3DFX, Matrox, S3), with NVIDIA and AMD now left standing. The battle for supremacy hasn’t let up for a long time between the two, and they have traded positions as top dog quite a fair number of times
Feb 5th, 2010 | Filed under featured -
Intel teases six-core Gulftown, discusses tera-scale computing

The 32nm dual-core Clarkdale processors that recently made their debut are about to pave the way for Intel’s next performance crown chaser, the six-core Gulftown .
Feb 4th, 2010 | Filed under Gadgets Review -
Adobe employee ups passive aggressive stance on iPad while Apple promo forgets its limits

Man, Adobe and its kin are not letting up here. In addition to the company releasing a terse, carefully worded response to the Apple iPad’s apparent lack of Flash , the Flash Blog took a much more truculent approach. Exhibit A: a post entitled “The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?” followed by several mockups of sites laden with the infamous Blue Lego Block of Ambiguity[TM].
Jan 29th, 2010 | Filed under Gadgets ReviewTags: adobe, Apple, apple ipad, apple-insider, appleipad, between-the-two, entry, flash, insider, Iphone -
MySpace Music Resurrects Imeem Playlists

Last month, MySpace finally completed its deal to acquire troubled music startup Imeem . Unfortunately for imeem fans, the bank shut the service down as soon as the deal was completed, redirecting them to a MySpace Music splash screen. MySpace was subsequently trashed by outraged users who wanted their playlists back.
Jan 15th, 2010 | Filed under Tech News Review
