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...Google may have surprises yet to come for the iPhone. The portal partnered with LG in March to offer a blogging tool, and a related widget for the iPhone would be a logical next step. Google already offers a GMail widget for Macs, and a similar program on the iPhone would complement the pre-installed Apple mail software...
...upstart company providing the technology, Netvibes, announced yesterday the creation of more than 100 “universes,” widget-packed portals tailored for users such as washingtonpost.com addicts, Mandy Moore fanatics, or, in this case, Harvard students...
...HarperCollins have loftier goals than Amazon: they want to bring literature to the Facebook generation. Both publishing houses are introducing tools that will allow readers to export text from their books to other forums. Readers can use Insight to post content on personal Web sites, while HarperCollins’ widget can place content on social networking sites like MySpace.com. Has the publishing industry really sunk to level of MySpace? Will chunks of Ulysses soon co-exist with millions of pictures of sulky teenagers? Maybe the eventual triumph of MySpace was inevitable. Publishing houses have only held out thus far because...
...This device actually won an innovation award at CES, with the following tagline: "Why wait by the grill to find out when dinner is ready?" Apparently there's no need to actually watch what you're cooking. Just buy another widget. The $50 thermometer goes a step beyond other models in reading its findings aloud, wirelessly, far from the grill. So if your dinner is already burning, you can run right over to put out the flames...
...This $1,000 widget takes the Roomba one step further. The 18-pound UBot behemoth not only vacuums and sweeps, but it wet mops your floors as well. If you're a diehard robo-fan, you can set up special flooring with invisible barcodes that the UBot reads to determine how best to mop. Future models will clean carpets as well, and might even clean out your wallet...