Author: Angela West

If you love Reddit as much as Reddit users love Reddit, the thought of the popular social bookmarking site shutting down makes you scream “Oh Noes!” inwardly. Reddit is hoping to translate this same love into cash to keep the site humming along smoothly rather than crashing every time a new meme rears its awesome head. In a blog post that went up on blog.reddit.com, the four engineers who run the service explain that they are working full time around the clock to keep the site going, and that they need more resources. While many of the subscriber only features they describe are great ideas, we’re going…

Blackberry is hoping to get all up in the iPad’s business with a new tablet device being released in November, claim a fuzzy source of “two people familiar with RIM’s plans”. The device will be roughly the same dimensions as the current iPad. The name of the device will be Blackpad, and will feature a full touchscreen and a slideout QWERTY keyboard for typing e-mails, which, let’s face it, would be a nice addition to the current iPad. The Blackpad is just one of many tablet devices slated for later this year and in early 2011 to try to grab some of the market share away from Apple’s iPad….

If you have any Imax home movies lying around the house that you were dying to put on YouTube one day, that day has come. YouTube now supports a video resolution (1096×3072, or 4096p) that was designed for a twenty-five foot screen. Make sure you are watching the above video in its original resolution to see every vein, wrinkle, and arm hair. The news was unveiled today at VidCon 2010 by Hunter Walk, YouTube’s Manager of Product Development in the keynote speech of the event. YouTube’s blog illustrates the scope of the size well: “To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a…

If you thought Jar Jar Binks was the craziest George Lucas could get, hang on to your midichlorians. He’s topped it with a cease and desist letter sent to Wicked Lasers Inc. for having the audacity to sell the most powerful laser available to consumers, with a hilt that he thinks looks like a Star Wars lightsaber. If you look at the product itself, the resemblance is not even close to a light saber. The company, Wicked Lasers, has been selling similar products for over seven years without any legal repercussions, nor any intention of copying the Star Wars franchise. The specific charge is that the hilt…

Patrick Boivin, a French Canadian autodidact director, shows us all what it is like to be a happy-go-lucky AT-T, if just for an afternoon….

What do these new privacy rules mean for your Facebook account? Are there any holes that have been left open by the Facebook team? Here is our breakdown that will tell you exactly what you need to know about the new rules. One Control to Rule Them All Facebook has announced that there will now be only one privacy setting for your entire account. This saves logging in after every Facebook update and changing all of your settings individually back to “Only Friends” or whatever your preferences were. The control will work historically, meaning that all past content will be blocked as well as all content…

THAT JUST HAPPENED. No really, it did. In trading today, Apple eclipsed Microsoft’s total market capitalization value for the first time ever. Apple stock was trading earlier today for $247.62, giving Apple a total value of $225.57 billion. Its rival, Microsoft, was trading at $25.38 with a total market cap of $223.83 billion. This marks the first time that Apple’s market capitalization value has trumped Microsoft’s. Source: CBC Money…

Privacy has been the buzzword all over the Techi web lately. Facebook has been stomping all over it and then promising to do better, and now Google has made a huge improvement to securing personal data. In order to take advantage of the new feature, all you have to do is type “https://www.google.com” in your address bar rather than “http://www.google.com”, and instantly all of your searches will take place with secure socket layer (SSL) encryption in place. Instead of rehashing how this is an improvement over Google’s regular search, we’ll quote them here: SSL encrypts the communication channel…

Yahoo and Nokia have formed a partnership to serve mutually exclusive content on their differing platforms. Nokia has offered to be the exclusive content provider for maps and navigation for Yahoo, and Yahoo has offered to be the exclusive e-mail provider for Nokia. “It’s a deeper collaboration than many expected,” said MKM Partners analyst Tero Kuittinen. “It could really help broaden the reach of Nokia’s email and messaging services in emerging markets, where they already have decent traction.” The move by Nokia launched its stock price up by 0.4 percent, while Yahoo’s stock saw a 0.8 percent…

No new details on the new iPhone 4G, but some sweet pictures previewing what may possibly be a white front. A Taiwanese website, Apple.pro, posted the photos this weekend. Does this represent a move by Apple to break away via design and color from all the other smartphones bursting onto the market? Are they trying to incorporate the Mac classic white into the iPhone design? At this point, it’s all speculation. What are your thoughts on the potential new iPhone 4G design? Break them out in our comments section. Source: Apple Insider…