April 2010

360 Stories

Alan Kay Notebook Guru Takes Scratch To Apple

Alan Kay Notebook Guru Takes Scratch To Apple

He may have predicted that Apple’s iPad would ‘rule the world’, but the man who invented the notebook concept isn’t...

Adobe Pans Its Flash For iPhone Backdoor Plan

Adobe Pans Its Flash For iPhone Backdoor Plan

Adobe has ceased development of its tools to export Flash content into a format suitable for the iPhone. “We will...

YouTube Kills Our Hitler Parodies

YouTube Kills Our Hitler Parodies

  http://vimeo.com/11086952 No self-respecting Internet user can possibly have missed the many and varied Hitler parodies based on scenes from...

Washington Town Sold On eBay

Washington Town Sold On eBay

Welcome to Wauconda, Washington, a small town that sold for $360,000 on eBay this week - a bargain if you’re...

Google Stands Up For Free Expression

Google Stands Up For Free Expression

Google takes on the world’s governments today, publishing details about how often countries around the world ask it for user...

Apple iPhone Drives Record Quarter, iPad Sales ‘Shocking’

Apple iPhone Drives Record Quarter, iPad Sales ‘Shocking’

Strong iPhone and Mac sales and the continued dominance of Apple’s iPod drove the company to deliver a new record...

Will Google Ultimately Fail Because of Twitter, Facebook, and Social Media?

Will Google Ultimately Fail Because of Twitter, Facebook, and Social Media?

Twitter and Facebook are the two powerhouses in social media right now. There isn't a day I watch television without...

iPad Rumored To Be Getting OLED Screen

iPad Rumored To Be Getting OLED Screen

The iPad has only been out for a while but there are already rumors of a new version in the...

Thrifty Phone Watch Distracts People in a Whole New Way

Thrifty Phone Watch Distracts People in a Whole New Way

The Thrifty Phone Watch - because we don't already have enough gadgets that keep us distracted from important work and...

Is An Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Inevitable? Let’s Hope Not

Is An Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Inevitable? Let’s Hope Not

Four or five years ago, a single mentality dominated the world of web startups: build a service, amass as many...

New Headphones Will “Light Up” Your Day

New Headphones Will “Light Up” Your Day

Time to have your own personal musical light show with new light-up headphones. Designers Min-guk Ji, Hong-joo Kim and In-oh...

Sexy New Solar Plane Soars Higher Than Expected

Sexy New Solar Plane Soars Higher Than Expected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa-DPz0K1S0 The sun-powered Solar Impulse HB-SIA is the  brainchild of Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg and the futuristic vessel has...