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Android 2.2 Sucks 450% Less Than 2.1

Android 2.2 Sucks 450% Less Than 2.1

For a point upgrade, Android 2.2 has high aspirations. Google's latest upgrade is 450%, that's right, 450% faster than it's...

Like Facebook, But Minus The Suck?

Like Facebook, But Minus The Suck?

Facebook is one of those things you hate yourself for using, but you keep using it and hating yourself because,...

Geeks Knew It, Now Science Proves It

Geeks Knew It, Now Science Proves It

Geeks have known this for a long time, but science has has finally proven it: Technology makes people feel good....

Indie Developer Beats Facebook To The iPad

Indie Developer Beats Facebook To The iPad

With it's hot shot iPhone developer Joe Hewitt gone, Facebook has gone some time without an update for iPhone, and...

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

Apple has a host of patents to its name, and rifling through them can offer some fascinating insights into the...

Windows Phone 7 Release Nears

Windows Phone 7 Release Nears

I'm probably not one of Microsoft's biggest critics, but I'm certainly no fan. I was however pleasantly surprised when they...

Was Apple right to dump Flash on iPhone?

Was Apple right to dump Flash on iPhone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7XJI4NN7k Fresh in from the historical inevitability department comes news of a failed Adobe Flash demo -- and an all-new...

7 Ways Technology Could Kill Us All, As Told By Hollywood

7 Ways Technology Could Kill Us All, As Told By Hollywood

We have bestowed technology with the task of improving our lives, and as technology becomes more intertwined with our lives,...

Bitter Twitter Bugs Celebrities

Bitter Twitter Bugs Celebrities

Twitter says it has now fixed the bug which allowed people to force others to follow them. The loophole, that...

Video: iPad-touting Waiters Take Orders With An Apple Smile

Video: iPad-touting Waiters Take Orders With An Apple Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inRsSyJ2bNY Next time you sit down for a slap-up meal out keep an eye on the waiter - he (or...

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

Cool UK gadget retailer, Firebox, has begun selling the SmartSwipe, a handy USB device which reads, encrypts and transmits your...

Girls, Not Boys, Drive Download Culture New Info Shows

Girls, Not Boys, Drive Download Culture New Info Shows

Forget preconceived ideas that the techi world's digital destiny is run by the boys, for the boys - it looks...

Farmville May Deal Facebook Some Harmville with Zynga Live

Farmville May Deal Facebook Some Harmville with Zynga Live

Seems everybody's just about had it up to here with Facebook, and it looks like this is the case with...

Obama Is Wrong: Why iPads and Xboxes Will Save Our Youth

Obama Is Wrong: Why iPads and Xboxes Will Save Our Youth

Yesterday, among the challenges and inspiring messages in President Obama's commencement address at Hampton University, was something a bit unexpected:...

Obama Calls Tech Gadgets ‘Distractions’. Well, YEAH, Is There a Problem With That?

Obama Calls Tech Gadgets ‘Distractions’. Well, YEAH, Is There a Problem With That?

“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes...

Nano Cannon Is Tiny But Deadly

Nano Cannon Is Tiny But Deadly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltGP7HHP8ww If you've ever wanted to blow up something really small, you know how difficult it can be to find...

Don’t Like New Google? Predictably, Google Has An Answer

Don’t Like New Google? Predictably, Google Has An Answer

Last week Google released it's updated search page, with a slightly new look and easier navigation in the sidebar. Predictably,...

Twannotations? You Know You Twant Them

Twannotations? You Know You Twant Them

The laws of new technology dictate that when one technology trend is successful, it can, nay must spawn a thousand...

Now U Can Txt Ur Pope

Now U Can Txt Ur Pope

It's what you've been praying for - you can now send the Pope a text. The Vatican has launched a...

More iPhone 4G Details Surface

More iPhone 4G Details Surface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRTE0cQywgE Cupertino is leaking like a rusty sieve these days. If this video is to be believed, you are looking...