Archive for June, 2011

Investing like it's 1999: Tech bubble 2.0 is here

Jun 13 by JD Rucker | 4 comments

With alarmists sounding the alarms and naysayers saying, “nay,” it’s certainly looking very similar to the way things were over a decade ago right before the dotcom bubble burst. Did we learn our lesson back then or are we in the process of repeating our mistakes? Few can argue against the concept more »

Kinect

Jun 13 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

The designers at Loft117 and programmer Jason Belmonti have teamed up to tap the Kinect for something that has been suspiciously absent from its ever-growing palette of applications: advertising. Behold the slick, stylish, and interactive ad potential exhibited in this installation, and more »

1/3rd of China still uses IE6 while the worldwide number approaches single digits

Jun 12 by Rocco Penn | 7 comments

The most recent statistics according the IE6 Countdown shows that the world as a whole is at 10.9% usage on IE6. The United States, Turkey, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Autstralia, New Zealand and the UK are at the top (bottom) of the list with under 3% of overall browsers running as IE6. Norway leads everyone at 0.4% and more »

Chickenosaurus: Paleontologist attempts to reconstruct dinosaurs from chickens

Jun 12 by Rocco Penn | 2 comments

Michael Crichton and Steven Speilberg were onto something with Jurassic Park. Unfortunately, it wasn’t real science. This is. Paleontologist Jack Horner and his team are attempting to reconstruct and grow dinosaurs by genetically engineering chickens. Yes, chickens. As one of the most common more »

Two-thirds support Amazon's bid to keep affiliates from paying state sales tax

Jun 12 by Connor Livingston | 1 comment

Regardless of which side of the debate you’re on, one thing is clear: Jeff Bezos and Amazon are fighting with everything they’ve got to keep states from imposing sales taxes on affiliate sales. In March, we reported the cutoff notices sent by Amazon to many affiliates in certain states.  The fight continues and Bezos is going more »

17 tips to tame Google's immense wealth of data

Jun 12 by Rocco Penn | add comment

Google has never really had a problem with getting or presenting data. They have so much information stored in rows of petabyte servers spanning the world that acquiring data has become second nature. Finding the data… that’s the hard part. In these 17 videos, Google demonstrates in nice 16-second more »

"As Seen On" YouTube pages promotes those who promote YouTube

Jun 11 by Connor Livingston | 3 comments

When you’re hold the attention of hundreds of millions of users, it’s good to “give back” every now and then. YouTube is doing just that with their new “As Seen On” pages that are designed to “celebrate content curators,” specifically large blogs and other sites that embed YouTube videos and drive views to them regularly. more »

96% of small businesses rely on mobile technology

Jun 11 by JD Rucker | 3 comments

Mobile devices have become an integral part of every day life for millions of people. Small businesses are following this trend and adopting the use of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices in ways that help manage, monitor, and promote themselves. As the digital world gets larger by more »

Time-Saver: Website lets us know if Sony has been hacked this week

Jun 11 by Rocco Penn | add comment

Sony product owners, get your bookmark ready. HasSonyBeenHackedThisWeek will save you some time. It’s a sign of both ingenuous concern and indignant humor, but there’s a site available that tells us in a single word whether or not Sony has been hacked this particular week. Included is a timeline of recent Sony hacking news more »

Trolltendo

Jun 10 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

When Nintendo came out with Gamecube, many believed that it was their end. Sony and Microsoft had consoles that were miles ahead and Nintendo seemed like the under-13 consolation-market contender. Fast forward to 2006 when the Wii revolutionized the gaming industry and opened the doors to wonderful more »

Where 'toy' ends, and 'badass' begins

Jun 10 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Add to your personal list of things that don’t need to exist (everyone keeps one of those, right?) this remote-controlled car, which has the singular distinction of being the world’s fastest. Nic Case designed the Schumacher Mi3 with one purpose in mind: to break the world record for fastest toy car – and more »

Apple's iCloud takes on cloud services from Microsoft, Google

Jun 10 by David Lux | add comment

At the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, Apple introduced iCloud, a set of free new cloud services that work with applications running on numerous devices automatically. In addition to being able to send content to iCloud automatically and wireless from your iPhone, iPad, more »

TV, coming soon to an Xbox near you

Jun 10 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Back in the day, we used to watch television. That was before the internet, gaming, and iPads. Xbox is making a move to revive the old television channels that many people once watched. At E3 today, Microsoft announced that they will partner with regional cable companies to bring live TV onto the more »

Big names top list for insecure data storage on apps

Jun 9 by Rocco Penn | 4 comments

App watchdog group ViaForensics has been running popular Android and iPhone apps through their system to see who is encrypting sensitive data such as passwords, user names, and application data, as well as over 20 other pieces of details normally stored through apps. The results have been expected, albeit more »