Sneaky Thinkings

With some mobile operators making it difficult for people to use data services while roaming on their networks, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is now working to develop a rule that would require them to negotiate reasonable data roaming deals with other operators.

via FCC may require mobile data roaming | Phones | iOS Central | Macworld.

The Dipr Cookie Spoon Might Forever Change the Way You Dunk [Cookies]: “

Is there anything worse than not being able to fit your giant fist into a tall glass of milk, yearning for one last Oreo dunk? No. There is literally nothing worse. But the Dipr cookie peripheral will make dips easy. More »

(Via Gizmodo.)

Marchex Call Analytics Launches Keyword-Level Tracking; Enables Marketers to Capture Calls Tied to Search Terms: “

SEATTLE – Marchex Inc., (NASDAQ:MCHX) announced the introduction of keyword-level tracking to its Call Analytics product. Marchex’s proprietary technology enables search marketers and agencies to accurately track calls down to a specific keyword without using a unique call tracking line for every search term. The benefits to search marketers include: – eliminating search terms that [...]“

(Via AdOperationsOnline.com.)

Gold Is Not At A Record High:

Gold, gold, gold! Fools, fools, fools!

Ads are everywhere extolling the virtues of bullion, and they keep pointing to ‘record high gold prices’ as a reason for snapping up some piece of shiny yourself. The wisdom of jumping in on an asset that has already had a run-up in its price aside, gold is not at any kind of record high.

Once you adjust for inflation, gold is 40% below its peak value 30 years ago. Back then it was at $2,318 an ounce, in today’s dollars. This week it closed at only $1400. Don’t believe the hype.

(Via Consumerist.)

Google Can Index “Almost Any Text” In A Flash (SWF) File: “The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted an update on their Flash indexing capabilities. Google said, as of today, they are able to index and understand ‘almost any text a user can see as they interact with a SWF file on your site.’ Typically, Flash has been one of those big No-Nos in…

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(Via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing.)

Tractor sale gone bad ends with man eating own beard: “

Last May, Kentucky’s Harvey Westmoreland had a dispute with James Hill and Troy Holt over the sale of a tractor. Hill and Holt thought they were being cheated, so they allegedly drew knives and guns, shaved his beard off, and forced him to eat it.

Ky. Man Forced To Eat Own Beard

(Via Boing Boing.)

Scientists Discover How Cats Drink, After 4 Years of Research and High-Speed Photography [Video]: “

For the last several years, four professors from prestigious institutions have been looking for the answer to a simple question: how does a cat drink? This high-speed footage helped them figure it out. More »

(Via Gizmodo.)

Why Facebook Mail Can Kill Gmail and Everyone Else [Facebook]: “

Get ready for a new invasion wave from Facebook: Mail. According to Techcrunch’s sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. If I were Google, Yahoo or Hotmail, I’d be very nervous. More »

(Via Gizmodo.)

AMD Fusion chips coming to the Mac?: “

During AMD’s Financial Analyst day, the ‘GigaOM’ (http://gigaom.com/) and ‘Fudzilla’ (http://www.fudzilla.com/) sites picked up on a PowerPoint slide that AMD’s senior vice president and chief of sales officer, Emilio Ghilardi, displayed but didn’t discuss. The slide featured two iMacs and a Mac Prowith the AMD Fusion logo below them.

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(Via MacMinute.)

Foreclosures Drop 9% Over Fudged Paperwork Fallout:

For the first time in a long while, foreclosures actually dropped in October, falling 9%. The big drop came about as several big banks halted foreclosures across the board after news about the robo signers began to emerge. Foreclosures are expected to pick back up again November, albeit at a softened pace. It may be 3-4 months before the rate fully resumes. So take a gasp, homeowners behind on your mortgage, you just caught a temporary break.

US homes lost to foreclosure drops 9 pct in Oct. [Florida Times Union]

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(Via Consumerist.)