Easy site building service Synthasite, which we first covered way back in 2006, has acquired Y Combinator startup Clickpass, which launched earlier this year.

There are no details on the purchase price or terms of the deal. Synthasite has raised $5 million in capital, Clickpass just raised the Y Combinator seed round.

The press release talks about theoretical synergies between the companies, specifically that… Continue reading

Burger King launched a new brand of perfume today called Flame by BK. “The Whopper sandwich is America’s favorite burger. Flame by BK captures the essence of that love and gives it to you. Behold the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”

My guess is that the controversial advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky is behind the new perfume, which apparently is actually… Continue reading

Advertising/blog network Glam Media held a company wide meeting today where employees were told about the company’s 2009 operating plan. Q4 was surprisingly strong, the company told employees, with only the auto and finance advertising sectors down significantly.

But the company is making changes anyway, they say, mostly to control expenses. The executive team will take a “25-60% reduction in pay” with an offsetting bonus based on performance… Continue reading

mobile-review has got the Asus P835 Galaxy 7 PDA Phone and shows us hands-on photos. The Asus P835 Galaxy 7 is powered by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, and 256MB ROM. There is also 4GB flash storage.

The Asus P835 Galaxy 7 features a 3.5-inch 800×480 LCD touchscreen, 5 Megapixel autofocus camera, WiFi, integrated GPS, Bluetooth and a microSDHC card slot. The Galaxy 7 runs Windows… Continue reading

This is Phantom Keystroker V2, a “high-tech office-based prank device”. The Keystroker V2 looks like a harmless USB thumb drive but it actaully makes your co-worker’s computer malfunctional.

When attached to victim’s PC, the Keystroker emulates a keyboard and mouse and periodically makes random mouse movements, toggles caps-lock and types out odd garbage text and phrases.

Features

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Green House Japan offers the GH-SSDE64GU-M 64GB and GH-SSDE32GU-M 32GB portable SSD drives. The small, lightweigh GH-SSDE64GU-M and GH-SSDE32GU-M use USB 2.0 interface and offers 20MB/s read speed and 18MB/s write speed. They have a aluminum enclosure and meausres only 117 mm x72 mm x 10 mm for just 63g.

Green House GH-SSDE64GU-M 64GB and GH-SSDE32GU-M 32GB external… Continue reading

The 10.5.6 update for Mac OS X Leapord that Apple released earlier in the week prevented Mac from recognizing iPhone in DFU mode, making it impossible to jailbreak and/or unlock it using PwnageTool or QuickPwn. The iPhone Dev Team had provided some fixes for the DFU problems which needed some…
Original Post: Simple Steps to Re-enable DFU Mode in Mac OS X 10.5.6 to Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone - IPhone

Visual Dial which is available on the App Store and Callme which is available via Cydia for jailbroken iPhone are two iPhone apps that are aiming to bring the missing speed dial feature to the iPhone. The iPhone apps allow users to add their friends photos as speed dial icons…
Original Post: iPhone Apps - Visual Dial and Callme Allow Users to add Photos as Speed Dial Icons to their

iPhone firmware 2.2 gave iPhone users the ability to create and view messages with Emoji icons. But it was available only to iPhone users on Japan’s SoftBank network. There are couple of ways to enable it: use the hack that an iPhone developer had figured out or install Emoji app…
Original Post: Trick to Enable Japanese Emoji Icons on your iPhone; No Jailbreaking Required - IPhone Hacks

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New York, the state that brought us taxes on items bought over the internet is at it again. This time governor David Paterson is considering a 4% tax on music and other digital media downloads.To be fair, times are tight and Paterson is also proposing raising taxes on soda… Continue reading