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Style Watch — In an unusual move, the reality star replaces her husband with a Malibu psychic to guide her career

TechCrunch — With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful cross-platform systems for graphics, audio, and parallel processing . You may remember OpenCL from its debut on the Mac in Snow Leopard, and OpenGL ES of course powers the UI on the iPad . OpenAL is still a ways from being brought under the public eye, ...More but it’s getting there. In the meantime, OpenGL 4.0 was announced today at GDC, and clearly it has DirectX in its sights. ~ Read the rest of this story on CrunchGear… ...Less

Gossip Cop — (GettyImages.com)The people asked, and they have received. ~ After a successful Facebook campaign by her fans,  Betty White is set to host “Saturday Night Live” on May 8. ~ The gig is part of a special Mother’s Day episode, which will also feature female SNL alumna  Tina Fey , Amy Poehler , Maya Rudolph , Rachel Dratch ,  Molly Shannon , and Ana Gasteyer , most of them moms. ~ Although White does not have any kids – though she considers her golden retriever, Pontiac, her child – SNL’s ...More creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels explained, “She’s the mother of us all in comedy.” ~ Follow @GossipCop on Twitter for accurate celebrity news! ~ Visit GossipCop.com for the latest! ...Less

Ars Technica — One complaint commonly leveled against the iPhone is that it can't run multiple apps at the same time. However, sources for AppleInsider say that Apple is finally planning to incorporate a task manager that will integrate with the established iPhone user interface in the next major revision of iPhone OS, expected to be available this summer. ~ Like Mac OS X on which it is based, iPhone OS is fully capable of running multiple processes at once. In fact, it does run multiple processes—iPod, Mail, voicemail and phone processes ...More continually run in the background. What it doesn't do is run multiple third-party apps at the same time. Want to listen to Pandora while answering e-mails? Run a GPS tracking app while checking your tweets? Sorry, no can do. ~ Apple has given a number of reasons for enforcing this limitation. The company claims that multiple apps running simultaneously will run down the battery faster, or could lead to more out-of-memory errors as apps contend for resources of the iPhone. Also, since non-Apple apps can't run in the background, there's virtually zero chance that malware could run without a user noticing. Finally, limiting the iPhone to one app at a time keeps things simple enough for even the most tech-adverse users to understand how it works. ~ However, the latest rumor says that Apple has a "full-on solution" to the problem coming in iPhone OS 4.0. No specifics were revealed, so there are no details about how Apple has implemented managing multiple running apps. Remember, it took three major versions of iPhone OS before there was system-wide cut-copy-paste functionality , and the interface ended up working extremely well. We expect Apple has likewise put extensive work into making running multiple apps as straightforward as possible while still offering reasonable levels of stability, battery life, security, and ease of use. ~ Read the comments on this post ...Less

RealClearPolitics - Articles — 11:30 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. And thank you, John, for that generous introduction. Congratulations to you and Fabienne and Luis for the recognition your companies so richly deserve. And thank you to the Chairman of the Export-Import Bank, Fred Hochberg, for having me here today, and for all the important work the Ex-Im Bank is doing to help American businesses sell their ideas to the world. I also want to recognize the Secretary General of the OECD, Angel Gurría, for his leadership at that institution. ...More (Applause.) Let me also acknowledge some members of... ...Less

TechCrunch — Betaworks, the New York City-based holding company investing in the realtime Web, just raised a $20 million Series B. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY, Lerer Investments and Founders Collective, also participated, along with investors from the last round, which was $7.5 million ~ The company both invests and incubates realtime media startups, including Summize (acquired by Twitter for realtime search), bit.ly, TweetDeck, StockTwits, ...More SuperFeedr, Outside.in, OMGPOP, and gdgt. ~ CEO John Borthwick says that the funds will be used to do more of the same, invest in and create realtime media startups. ~ CrunchBase Information Betaworks Information provided by CrunchBase ...Less

Style Watch — The actress calls her boyfriend's mother, Lynn Harless, the "most wonderful woman"

Ars Technica — Individual Pink Floyd songs will soon disappear from online music stores. The British High Court has ruled against EMI, the band's record label, saying that the band's contract requires EMI to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums." In this case, that means keeping all the tracks together and in the order they were meant to be in, leading some to worry whether Pink Floyd's music will disappear from popular online music stores altogether. ~ When Pink Floyd signed with EMI back in the late '60s, its members probably ...More did not imagine an age when we would be ditching physical media en masse in favor of cherry-picked songs on a series of Internet tubes. It's unsurprising then that the contract stipulated for the label to maintain the artistic integrity of the album itself—back then (and today as well, but perhaps to a lesser degree), musicians spent painstaking amounts of time crafting the entire album as a whole artwork. Those who only listened to select tracks were totally missing out. ~ Indeed, as EMI has discovered, that still appears to be the case, at least when it comes to Pink Floyd. The High Court ordered EMI to pay £40,000 in court costs with the possibility of future damages and EMI may have to pull Pink Floyd's individual offerings from places like the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3. (As of this writing, the albums with per-track purchases were still available. Get 'em while they're hot.) In addition, EMI must pay Pink Floyd an undisclosed amount in royalty payments. ~ This doesn't mean they wouldn't become available again as full-album purchases, though—iTunes, for example, regularly offers albums that have one or two tracks that only come with a full album purchase. We wouldn't be surprised to see Dark Side of the Moon come back to iTunes with every track marked "Album only." ~ Read the comments on this post ...Less

The Next Web — As relations between Google and the China become even more strained, Microsoft have reached a deal with Motorola that will see Bing search and mapping tools featured on phones that run the Android mobile operating system. ~ Motorola are set to launch a new range of Android powered handsets aimed at reversing their fortunes in China and will seek to reduce their reliance on Google by offering handset owners search alternatives. ~ With this in mind, Motorola have also announced a similar deal where they will let Chinese consumers ...More choose to search using the country’s market leading Baidu Inc. ~ Motorola said the partnership with Microsoft means that a Bing bookmark and search widget will be loaded on cell phones, starting in the coming weeks with phones in China. ~ Motorola handsets roll out Bing integration in the first quarter of 2010, coming with a Bing bookmark pre-loaded inside the mobile browser and a widget that allows users to search from their homescreen. ~ Currently the deal only extends to China but the partnership is said to be global, so we could see Bing coming to handsets in other countries soon. ~ [Source - ZDNet ] ...Less

NY Daily News — Though ex-boyfriends Tony Romo and John Mayer have not made things particularly easy for the her in the last year, the 29-year-old pop songstress said that she still admires both of them.