August 2010

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Because You Still Want An iPad Right The Hell Now

Because You Still Want An iPad Right The Hell Now

In case you wanted a giant phone, you'll be tickled previously-undefined shades of pink to know that you no longer...

Reddit To Cheezburger: Maybe You Can Haz Us?

Reddit To Cheezburger: Maybe You Can Haz Us?

When you are a social bookmarking site/community owned by a huge mega-empire like Reddit is (Condé Nast for those not...

Tickets to Space now Available for $200,000

Tickets to Space now Available for $200,000

I was bored and decided to check out the Virgin Galactic site earlier. I ended up accidentally swallowing an entire...

Alien Pez Dispenser Destroys Your Childhood… In the Best Way

Alien Pez Dispenser Destroys Your Childhood… In the Best Way

Today is Toronto's FanExpo. In celebration of utter geekdom for all, I present to you this day the Alien Pez...

Old People Finally Getting Hip to Social Networks

Old People Finally Getting Hip to Social Networks

A new study by Pew Internet suggests that more old people than ever are using social networks. Now, before the...

H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

The big news announcement of the day is that MPEG LA, license holder for a number of high profile video...

Microsoft Works With Microsoft To Bring ActiveSync To Hotmail

Microsoft Works With Microsoft To Bring ActiveSync To Hotmail

The tech world is a heated place, with cutthroat competition and backstabbing commonplace. Microsoft has been known to be as...

Movie Studios Unite To Solve A Common Problem

Movie Studios Unite To Solve A Common Problem

Two big studios have joined forces to tackle a problem facing the industry. Which is great news, except they're working...

New Gmail Feature Racks Up A Million Calls

New Gmail Feature Racks Up A Million Calls

Google's new calling feature, typically poorly named and chucked out there to exist somewhere between Google Chat and Google Voice...

September 15th, Official Switch From Facebook Day

September 15th, Official Switch From Facebook Day

If you hate Facebook, mark the date September 15th in your calendar. The guys from Diaspora, the anti-Facebook, have announced...

Three Things Digg Needs to Fix In v4 (And Three It Doesn’t)

Three Things Digg Needs to Fix In v4 (And Three It Doesn’t)

Regular readers of Techi know that we love Digg and that, most of the time anyway, Digg loves us.So when...

Sharp’s Upcoming E-Reader Set to ‘Rival the iPad’

Sharp’s Upcoming E-Reader Set to ‘Rival the iPad’

Mikio Katayama, Sharp's president, is a man not in the business of making weak-assed claims, touting Sharp's upcoming e-reader as...