October 2010

107 Stories

Eric Schmidt Wants To Get Creepy

Eric Schmidt Wants To Get Creepy

"There is what I call the creepy line," Eric Schmidt said last Friday at the Washington Ideas Forum. "The Google...

Windows XP Still The Most Widespread Windows OS

Windows XP Still The Most Widespread Windows OS

After the reasonable success of Windows 7, and long after the train wreck that was Windows Vista, PC users are...

Uh Oh.. Twitter Ready To Monetize, And It Ain’t Good

Uh Oh.. Twitter Ready To Monetize, And It Ain’t Good

Twitter has finally began moving towards paying gigs, probably fed with being only worth a paltry $5 billion. But you...

Downloading Torrents: There’s An App For That

Downloading Torrents: There’s An App For That

Many have tried but all have failed to get an app approved that works with BitTorrent. All have failed, that...

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

What's your kid wearing for Halloween? He's not going as Batman, is he? I see, like, a trillion child Batmans...

XM Radio Is Alive And Well: Sirius Projects 20 Million Subscribers

XM Radio Is Alive And Well: Sirius Projects 20 Million Subscribers

In 2008, many tech sites and bloggers pronounced that XM radio was dead. Today, Sirius declared otherwise. Mel Karmazin, CEO...

No, Facebook Does Not Make You Narcissistic

No, Facebook Does Not Make You Narcissistic

A couple of weeks ago, a study came out of Toronto's York University about Facebook and narcissism that suggested there...

DIY Weather Balloon Camera Records Blackness Of Space

DIY Weather Balloon Camera Records Blackness Of Space

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/15091562[/vimeo] Yeah, we landed on the moon forty years ago. Yes, Bruce Willis and his daredevil team of drillers placed...

Facebook Finally Allows High-Res Image Uploading

Facebook Finally Allows High-Res Image Uploading

People love Facebook, but believe it or not there are actually some things it doesn't do very well. Like messaging,...

Ballmer Punished For Kin And Lack Of iPad Competitor

Ballmer Punished For Kin And Lack Of iPad Competitor

Steve Ballmer did not receive his maximum bonus this year because of missteps at Microsoft. The bald sweaty blob received...

Google’s Reinvention Of The Web Continues

Google’s Reinvention Of The Web Continues

Google just can't leave anything alone. Give them two minutes with a computer and a couple of engineers and they'll...