According to The Wall Street Journal, Google will release the successor to its G1 phone next week, and they may well be calling it the myTouch 3G. Thankfully the new device--which has also been dubbed Ion or Magic in other ...READ»
On the spectrum of menacing devices, the lowly server falls somewhere between a toaster and... an evil toaster. Which is to say that most people don't think the "clouds" that store so much of their email and files as being ...READ»
A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion about climate change where former Vice President Al Gore referred to the United States as an oil "junkie." At the time, it occurred to me that Americans have another ...READ»
The Palm Pre has only been in customers' hands a few weeks, and already the hackers are hard at work tearing down the guts of the software to make it do wonderful, unnatural things.READ»
Why is Philip Morris Backing Antismoking Bills?
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed legislation giving the FDA authority to regulate the tobacco industry. Just 10 years ago, when Senator John McCain introduced a similar bill, ...READ»
This week AOL News launched a Sears-sponsored news site that only reports good news. It's called GNN, or Good News Network. Is the world really so dark that we need our online news filtered through a Lexapro-colored ...READ»
If you're an iPhone user, you watched the announcement of iPhone OS 3.0 with lip-smacking enthusiasm. But Apple wants you to wait until June 17th to download the new software--an unbearable seven days away. Why not get the new ...READ»
Lest you had forgotten, antenna TV is being forcibly retired by the FCC in favor of a hard-wired digital connection that will offer better picture and sound. Earlier this year, the transition deadline--the date that antenna TV would ...READ»
In April, I wrote about a clever feature that Google added to its accounts: users could create a public "profile" with a vanity URL that was simple and easy to remember: google.com/profiles/your-name-here. As of yesterday ...READ»
The secret is out: the most innovative abilities of the new iPhone OS 3.0 are hamstrung by AT&T's idiotic inability to keep pace with Apple. And people are pissed.
Once, that knowledge was the purview of the few, the ...READ»
Maybe you just bought a Palm Pre, or you're a BlackBerry diehard. Now
you see the new iPhone 3G S, and you're listening, incredulous, as all your iPhone 3G-owning friends are counting down the days until they can pay $200 or $300 ...READ»
Stephen Colbert Goes Iraqi
Late night faux-newsman Stephen Colbert will be broadcasting four shows
from Baghdad, Iraq next week in a USO tour entitled, "Operation Iraqi
Stephen: Going Commando." Colbert is ...READ»
The former Vice President, clean-shaven in a dark suit and black cowboy boots, pauses. "Junkies find veins in their toes, when the veins in their arms and legs collapse," he says to Charlie Rose. The audience suffers an ...READ»
In five days, Apple will likely loose a new iPhone operating system on the world, and with it, new expectations of what a phone can do. Less glamorously--but no less importantly--it will usher in a new phase of innovation for ...READ»
Not to be outdone by Hulu's gorgeous desktop application, the video team at Google has just released YouTube XL, a simplified version of the video Web site meant to be displayed on your television.
Unlike Hulu's app, YouTube XL ...READ»
According to Ars Technica,
Apple's Safari Web browser--both the iPhone mobile version and the desktop version for Mac and Windows--has
been slowly gaining marketshare in the browser wars. Ars takes this as
a tribute to the slow ...READ»
This
week, Hulu released its
desktop player for Mac. If you're a TV-loving Mac user, you
probably tried Boxee to disastrous affect. So is Hulu's homegrown app
any better?
Not only is it better, it's downright amazing. ...READ»
More
and more elderly people
are joining social networks, according to The New
York Times, and it may be saving
them from death by boredom.
Among senior citizens who ventured online in 2008, the number that
visited social ...READ»
Sequoia Capital announced yesterday that it will give a third round of cash to a quick-growing media network, Sugar Inc., bringing the Valley-based company's total VC purse to $31 million. Sugar also announced that it would hire the ...READ»
Facebook has begun testing a proprietary payment system with three of its applications. You can now use these apps--which include GroupCard, PackRat, Birthday Calendar and Facebook's own credits ...READ»
The recent IPO’s from SolarWinds and OpenTable are welcome sights as we in the tech sector continue to look for good news. Will the offering push open the flood gates and ignite the IPO market? Will they do the same for ...READ»
Harvard's shocking fiscal incompetence, a cave of hobos in L.A., murderous robots, and innate female aggression: it's been a fun week in human nature, if you trust the stories that have gone viral on the social news ...READ»
Google Wave, announced today at Google's I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system that will fundamentally change the way we think about electronic messaging. This is foreboding ...READ»
Today marks the end of Google's I/O developer conference. Just
days shy of Apple's own WWDC, which kicks off next week, Google took
the opportunity to tell us two things: Android 2 is going to be killer, and Google will pay you ...READ»
There are plenty of tools out there for adding "friends" to your social network: Glue lets you connect with others who like the same media and entertainment sites as you, Twinkle lets you discover people tweeting near you, ...READ»
