“The eBay auction expires on May 23rd and 100% of the sale price will go to OLPC. This couldn’t have been done without the help of the fantastic hosts of ROFLCon, a collection of great Internet meme-creators who were happy to smear some Sharpie for this project, and of course, breadpig’s friends at OLPC. Thanks to all of you and happy bidding!”

TechCrunch had written a great article on the OLPC and Windows vs. Linux here.

Kenshoto has officially released their call-for-ninjas regading Defcon 16’s Capture The Flag (CTF) competition.

When questioned about this shocking revelation, Dr. Shoto responded palm-to-forehead, “What you say?!” He further elaborated, “The recent challenges with cyber-infrastructure and the threat of cyber-attack from cyber-terrorists plotting devious cyber-crimes has been troublesome. So let’s all get together and cyber-bitchslap each other in all out cyber-warfare!”

You can find the entire announcement here.

ReadAir is an OSX Themed Desktop Client for Mac or Windows. Built with Adobe Air. ReadAir accesses your Google Reader account and runs on your desktop as a web-app. This is just one of the many examples of the power Adobe Air has giving developers, Pownce is another great example.

Here is a quick comparison between Wikipedia, Powerset & Google of the search term “Who is the princess of Wales?” Lets take a quick look;

Wikipedia Results

Wikipedia clearly shows that Camilla is the current princess.

Google’s Results Read more »

You can find more of 1AEON’s work here.

Equals is a social networking utility distributed through Facebook that enables users to initiate an instantaneous group phone chat*, adding voice to social networking. Party Line™ allows up to five people to talk for free**, simultaneously with no complex set-up, dial-ins or pass-codes. Instead of having to call multiple people at different numbers, you can now call one number or with one click of the mouse, be connected live with your group without having to download any software. Read more »

The BlackBerry 9000 gets official with the new name of Bold.

Official Spec are the same as rumored but we can recap here:

• 624 Mhz Processor
• Mini-SD slot
• HSDPA (3G)
• GPS
• Wi-Fi
• 2 Mega-Pixel Camera w/ flash and Video capabilities
• New OS with tons of new features

All in all this will be one of the most exciting new phones to be released by RIM in quite some time and their recent 8% jump in their stock price is proof that other agree on that. The release date is not solid but is somewhere around June 18th, being released on the AT&T network first in the US.