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YouTube to Jump Officially Into Online Movie Rental

YouTube to Jump Officially Into Online Movie Rental

Want to watch a movie but too lazy to go to the movie store to rent one? YouTube has come...

The Changes at Facebook: The Good, The Bad and The Very Ugly

The Changes at Facebook: The Good, The Bad and The Very Ugly

With its most recent changes, Facebook is aiming for a more social and accessible web. But at what cost to...

This Charger Will Charge Everything You Own

This Charger Will Charge Everything You Own

Ever had your battery running low on a device and you could find every other charger except for the one...

3D: Half-Baked Tech Not Ready For Prime Time

3D: Half-Baked Tech Not Ready For Prime Time

A couple of years ago, after much delay, I finally got my own HDTV. Even got a PS3 to go...

Farmer’s Homemade Robots Pour Drinks, Chop Food, Paint, and More

Farmer’s Homemade Robots Pour Drinks, Chop Food, Paint, and More

Chinese farmer turned inventor, Wu Yulu, is finally getting some recognition after designing and building homemade robots. Yulu has faced...

Blu-Ray Players Use Apple Devices as Remote Controls

Blu-Ray Players Use Apple Devices as Remote Controls

Pioneer announced their new line of Blu-ray players yesterday. These new models are exactly the same as older versions, except...

LinkedIn Gets Little More Like Facebook

LinkedIn Gets Little More Like Facebook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er3WevF-Zps Some may affectionately know LinkedIn as “Facebook for suits” in some quarters, but somehow the service has managed to...

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....