Facebook Outpaces Yahoo to Become No. 2 Site on Web
Posted Thursday, February 18, 2010
FROM PCWORLD.COM: Facebook is now the second most popular Web site in the United States, passing Yahoo with 133 million unique visitors in January, according to new research...
MORESkype-Enabled HDTVs Coming from Panasonic, LG
Posted Tuesday, January 05, 2010
FROM EWEEK.COM: Skype announced that high-definition video calling will be coming to televisions by the middle of this year. Partners Panasonic and LG will release HDTVs embedded with Skype software, as well as Webcams optimized for Skype video calls...
MOREAT&T vs. Verizon: There's a lawyer for that
Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009
FROM NEWS.CNET.COM: It was bound to happen. AT&T is suing Verizon Wireless over its "There's a Map for That" advertising campaign...
MOREICANN okays non-Latin domain names
Posted Friday, October 30, 2009
FROM NEWS.CNET.COM: ...IDNs will allow domain names to be to be written in native character sets, such as Chinese, Arabic, and Greek. In charge of managing domain names, ICANN has argued that IDNs are necessary to expand use of the Web in regions where people don't understand English...
MOREFive Things You Should Know About Windows 7 Security
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009
FROM PCWORLD.COM: Microsoft says Windows 7 is the most secure version of the Windows operating system ever developed. Big deal, right? I am pretty sure that Microsoft has made that claim for every new version of Microsoft Windows in the past 15 years, and that it is a valid claim.
What else would you expect? Is Microsoft going to come out with a new operating system and make it less secure than its predecessor? I think not...
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PS3 Netflix: The best use of BD-Live yet
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009
FROM BETANEWS.COM: Finally, Sony's PlayStation 3 home video game console and Blu-ray player will be receiving Netflix Instant streaming, a feature which has appeared on a number of other pieces of hardware, including rival console Xbox 360 and connected Blu-ray players from manufacturers such as Samsung, LG, and even Sony itself...
MOREA Phone That Google Can Call Its Own?
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009
FROM PCWORLD.COM: The device will supposedly run Android (of course) and will go on sale at retail stores this year (and hey, that means soon–there isn’t very much 2009 left). It would be an unlocked phone that would run on AT&T, T-Mobile, and most carriers around the world, and Google is supposedly undertaking the project to get more control over the integration of the device with its own services...
MORESexist? Pepsi Has an App for That
Posted Monday, October 12, 2009
FROM PCMAG.COM: In an effort to push its new Amp energy drink, Pepsi has released an iPhone app dubbed "Amp Up Before You Score" that's intended to help guys score with 24 "types" of women...
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Apple Allows Adobe Flash on iPhone — Via App Store
Posted Monday, October 05, 2009
FROM WIRED.COM: Adobe on Monday announced plans to roll out mobile versions of its Flash platform to several smartphones. Apple’s popular iPhone, however, is gaining a lesser Flash experience...
MOREFive reasons to watch Google Wave
Posted Friday, October 02, 2009
FROM MACWORLD.COM: Google Wave is part social networking, and part unified communications, and all Google. Wave combines e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, document sharing, wikis, and multimedia content to provide a seamless communications platform...
MOREMicrosoft's New Free Antivirus Hits the Streets
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009
FROM PCWORLD.COM: Microsoft today lifted the curtain on its Microsoft Security Essentials, the free successor to its OneCare security program. MSE uses the same antivirus engine as the phased-out OneCare, but the new free program focuses only on malware blocking. It doesn't include a firewall, system optimizer or other security suite-type features...
MOREApple App Store hits 2 billion downloads
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009
FROM NEWS.CNET.COM: Apple announced Monday that over 2 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store since the e-commerce shop's launch in July 2008. The company also said that there are now more than 85,000 apps available...
MOREVerizon Scraps Palm Pre Plans, Another Sign of their Decline?
Posted Friday, September 25, 2009
FROM PCWORLD.COM: Verizon has reportedly ditched plans to offer the Palm Pre early next year. Poor sales at Sprint -- the Pre's exclusive U.S. carrier -- as well as interest in handsets from Research in Motion and Motorola contributed to the decision...
MORENASA Finds Ice on the Moon and on Mars
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009
FROM ABCNEWS.GO.COM: International space missions have found ice on the moon and more evidence of ice on Mars -- good news for future settlements and also for scientists looking for extraterrestrial life...
MOREGoogle Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009
FROM WASHINGTONPOST.COM: Sidewiki is part of Google Toolbar (and it will be built directly into Google's Chrome browser). Users activate the service by clicking on a button and a sidebar appears to the left of whatever website is being viewed. The user can then leave a comment on the entire page or a selected piece of text, and share the URL via email, Twitter or Facebook (stalwart Google partner MySpace is left off for now, but Google says they'll add more partners later). Users can also embed videos into the Sidewiki...
MOREMicrosoft to take on the Apple tablet?
Posted Monday, September 21, 2009
FROM CNET.COM: With the hype around Apple's near-certain upcoming tablet PC seemingly cooling off, our attention now turns to Microsoft--as the company is rumored to be preemptively working on its own Apple-tablet killer...
MOREHow Motorola's Cliq Could Click With Customers
Posted Monday, September 14, 2009
FROM PCWORLD.COM: Motorola's new CLIQ, seems like a great new phone, ripe for tailoring to specific user segments. Looking at the specs and watching a demo, shows Motorola has done pretty much everything right...
MOREThe iPod nano: The New Family Video Camera
Posted Sunday, September 13, 2009
FROM PCMAG.com: By now you have read a lot about Apple´s new line of iPods: The more affordable iPod touch, the new iPod shuffle, and the new line of nanos. All of these updated iPods will help Apple retain its 75 percent share of the portable music and video market, and they will be big sellers this holiday season. But one of these new products is disruptive enough to completely change the way families integrate video capture into their lives—it might even make video more important to families than still images...
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