Archive for the Category ‘Technology’

Want to sleep with Android? Now you can.

Want to sleep with Android? Now you can.

Do you love Android? Like, really love Android? So much so that those Android action figures just don’t seem like enough? Well, now there’s a way for you to show the world how much you really care about your favorite OS: by bringing it to bed with you. Now, now, get your [...]

Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support

Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support

While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac, he hasn’t given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasn’t been updated since late November, a new build is due shortly with one big addition: native Foursquare support. What this means is that anytime [...]

Hard drive evolution could hit XP

Hard drive evolution could hit XP

By Mark Ward technology correspondent, BBC News Windows 7 is one of few operating systems that are “4K aware” Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years.By early 2011 [...]

Paying the Amazon tax

Paying the Amazon tax

Yay, taxes! It looks like more and more states are considering forcing the likes of Amazon and Overstock.com (note: I’ve never bought anything from there!) to pay taxes. This is good and bad: it helps, however little, state governments balance the books, but it also raises the cost of “doing business” in [...]

Sony to start selling 3-D TVs in June (AP)

Sony to start selling 3-D TVs in June 
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AP - Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers to embrace the technology for their living rooms.[Read more...]

Never Ending Goldrush: Doodle Jump for iPhone Smashes Through 3 Million Sales

Never Ending Goldrush: Doodle Jump for iPhone Smashes Through 3 Million Sales

Doodle Jump for the iPhone is something like a developer’s fairy tale: two brothers set out to make a game using only the talents they’ve got at hand, and end up striking gold. They keep pushing out minor updates, and the game just keeps selling. Tomorrow morning, Lima Sky will be announcing [...]

CauseWorld’s Checkin For Charity Gets More Citi Money

CauseWorld’s Checkin For Charity Gets More Citi Money

CauseWorld, a mobile app that lets users check in to retail shops for credits that can be donated to charity, is clearly on a roll. The app first launched in December as “the first mobile application that let’s you do good deeds simply for walking into a store.” CauseWorld app users earn “karma [...]

US eases sanctions for freer web

US eases sanctions for freer web

Opposition groups in Iran used social networking sites to organise protests The US treasury department has eased sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of web services and support opposition groups.US technology firms will now be allowed to export [...]

Stay tuned: More fee disputes over local TV coming (AP)

Stay tuned: More fee disputes over local TV coming 
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AP - Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups.[Read more...]

Why are we so afraid of technology ‘ruining’ soccer? It’s not like technology hasn’t been all over the sport since its inception.

Why are we so afraid of technology ‘ruining’ soccer? It’s not like technology hasn’t been all over the sport since its inception.

There’s a myth out there that technology will ruin soccer, what Pelé (and others) once called “the beautiful game.” Let me ask you something: is this Cristiano Ronaldo free kick any less beautiful because he’s wearing the latest Nike boots? Do you have any idea how many hours are spent developing the [...]