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Low Power, Long Range Bluetooth 4.0 Is Here

Low Power, Long Range Bluetooth 4.0 Is Here

Soon you too could be sending or receiving unsolicited messages via Bluetooth from up to 65-metres (200-feet) or more away,...

Alan Kay Notebook Guru Takes Scratch To Apple

Alan Kay Notebook Guru Takes Scratch To Apple

He may have predicted that Apple’s iPad would ‘rule the world’, but the man who invented the notebook concept isn’t...

Adobe Pans Its Flash For iPhone Backdoor Plan

Adobe Pans Its Flash For iPhone Backdoor Plan

Adobe has ceased development of its tools to export Flash content into a format suitable for the iPhone. “We will...

YouTube Kills Our Hitler Parodies

YouTube Kills Our Hitler Parodies

  http://vimeo.com/11086952 No self-respecting Internet user can possibly have missed the many and varied Hitler parodies based on scenes from...

Washington Town Sold On eBay

Washington Town Sold On eBay

Welcome to Wauconda, Washington, a small town that sold for $360,000 on eBay this week - a bargain if you’re...

Google Stands Up For Free Expression

Google Stands Up For Free Expression

Google takes on the world’s governments today, publishing details about how often countries around the world ask it for user...

Apple iPhone Drives Record Quarter, iPad Sales ‘Shocking’

Apple iPhone Drives Record Quarter, iPad Sales ‘Shocking’

Strong iPhone and Mac sales and the continued dominance of Apple’s iPod drove the company to deliver a new record...

Will Google Ultimately Fail Because of Twitter, Facebook, and Social Media?

Will Google Ultimately Fail Because of Twitter, Facebook, and Social Media?

Twitter and Facebook are the two powerhouses in social media right now. There isn't a day I watch television without...

iPad Rumored To Be Getting OLED Screen

iPad Rumored To Be Getting OLED Screen

The iPad has only been out for a while but there are already rumors of a new version in the...

Is An Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Inevitable? Let’s Hope Not

Is An Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Inevitable? Let’s Hope Not

Four or five years ago, a single mentality dominated the world of web startups: build a service, amass as many...

Sexy New Solar Plane Soars Higher Than Expected

Sexy New Solar Plane Soars Higher Than Expected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa-DPz0K1S0 The sun-powered Solar Impulse HB-SIA is the  brainchild of Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg and the futuristic vessel has...

Glowing USB Stick Changes Color According to Contents

Glowing USB Stick Changes Color According to Contents

A USB stick that shows you what's on it, without having to actually plug it into your computer? Yes please!...

The Most Social-Media Savvy Company Is… Not Who You’d Think

The Most Social-Media Savvy Company Is… Not Who You’d Think

Which company is the most social-media savvy? It's not Apple. It's not Twitter. It's not Google. It's not even Facebook....

The Dream of Endless Surfing Becomes Reality

The Dream of Endless Surfing Becomes Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEo3VP5wDT0 No, we are not talking about some fake, artificial wave generated at a water park. We are talking about...

Microsoft Is Broken: Time To Pick Up The Pieces

Microsoft Is Broken: Time To Pick Up The Pieces

Microsoft is in big trouble. The company hasn't been a force of innovation for what seems to be a decade...

The (Potentially Grim) Future Of Firefox

The (Potentially Grim) Future Of Firefox

Having entered the browser wars during a period of utter stagnancy, Firefox's success can be largely attributed to its pristine...

Songr Promises Music Discovery, Return of Silly Web 2.0 Names

Songr Promises Music Discovery, Return of Silly Web 2.0 Names

You know, it's been a long time since we've had one of those slightly ridiculous Web 2.0 names that drops...

Silk May be Future Material for Brain/Computer Interface

Silk May be Future Material for Brain/Computer Interface

Silk is being used to make electronics that stick to the brain. A far cry from fabric but doctors are...

Hate What Apple’s Become? Blame Microsoft. And Sony. And RIM. And…

Hate What Apple’s Become? Blame Microsoft. And Sony. And RIM. And…

At any point over the last year, you could be forgiven for momentarily thinking the sheen had come off Apple....

‘The Page’ Newspaper Concept Lets You Fold Screen Like Paper

‘The Page’ Newspaper Concept Lets You Fold Screen Like Paper

http://vimeo.com/7283259 In light of the tablet buzz of the past few weeks, we've been lucky enough to see some amazing...