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GoodReader For iPad Gets an Update

GoodReader For iPad Gets an Update

GoodReader, the iPad PDF viewer gets an important update today. The app now supports annotations, including notes and sketches. The...

Sony’s Five Biggest (Recent) Mistakes

Sony’s Five Biggest (Recent) Mistakes

It is, I admit, sometimes hard not to feel sorry for Sony. The electronics giant, who own some of the...

Toshiba Launching Glasses-Free 3DTV by Year’s End

Toshiba Launching Glasses-Free 3DTV by Year’s End

You're an early adopter, right? Remember that LCD HDTV you bought to replace that faulty, wooden, 27-inch console television? Remember...

How The MPAA Is Using The Law To Protect Its Business Model

How The MPAA Is Using The Law To Protect Its Business Model

In what appears to be another shocking attempt to constrain and limit the functioning of the internet, US lawmakers are...

Eric Schmidt Wants To Get Creepy

Eric Schmidt Wants To Get Creepy

"There is what I call the creepy line," Eric Schmidt said last Friday at the Washington Ideas Forum. "The Google...

Windows XP Still The Most Widespread Windows OS

Windows XP Still The Most Widespread Windows OS

After the reasonable success of Windows 7, and long after the train wreck that was Windows Vista, PC users are...

Uh Oh.. Twitter Ready To Monetize, And It Ain’t Good

Uh Oh.. Twitter Ready To Monetize, And It Ain’t Good

Twitter has finally began moving towards paying gigs, probably fed with being only worth a paltry $5 billion. But you...

XM Radio Is Alive And Well: Sirius Projects 20 Million Subscribers

XM Radio Is Alive And Well: Sirius Projects 20 Million Subscribers

In 2008, many tech sites and bloggers pronounced that XM radio was dead. Today, Sirius declared otherwise. Mel Karmazin, CEO...

No, Facebook Does Not Make You Narcissistic

No, Facebook Does Not Make You Narcissistic

A couple of weeks ago, a study came out of Toronto's York University about Facebook and narcissism that suggested there...

Facebook Finally Allows High-Res Image Uploading

Facebook Finally Allows High-Res Image Uploading

People love Facebook, but believe it or not there are actually some things it doesn't do very well. Like messaging,...

Google’s Reinvention Of The Web Continues

Google’s Reinvention Of The Web Continues

Google just can't leave anything alone. Give them two minutes with a computer and a couple of engineers and they'll...

7 Reasons People Fear E-Commerce

7 Reasons People Fear E-Commerce

The transition over the last decade from brick-and-mortar store purchases to e-commerce purchases has been dramatic. The 2nd quarter of...

Google Street View: At Least Penguins Can’t Sue

Google Street View: At Least Penguins Can’t Sue

As you're well aware, most bodies of authority aren't terribly thrilled with Google's Street View these days, looking down upon...

Bookies Place Odds on Who AOL Will Buy Next

Bookies Place Odds on Who AOL Will Buy Next

Following AOL’s acquisition today of technology news site TechCrunch and video service 5min Media, industry insiders are left to wonder what’s next...

How Popular IS the iPhone? About This Popular.

How Popular IS the iPhone? About This Popular.

On any other day, I'd tell you I hate infographics. I'm really, really sick of seeing everything turned into a...

Why I Still Want a Desktop Computer

Why I Still Want a Desktop Computer

Almost everyone in the tech world agrees that the future is mobile. In fact, I do too. Being able to...

Titanium+Geo Lets Businesses Track If Local Promotions Are Working

Titanium+Geo Lets Businesses Track If Local Promotions Are Working

Appcelerator®, a platform for mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, and FortiusOne, a location analysis software provider, have...

Techcrunch Sold To AOL

Techcrunch Sold To AOL

The rumors started flying yesterday. Today it became official. Techcrunch announced that they agreed to be purchased by AOL during...

Apple TV Jailbroken

Apple TV Jailbroken

It was only a matter of time, but one of the teams responsible for iPhone jailbreaking has hinted on Twitter...

UK ISPs Profit From Invading Customer Privacy

UK ISPs Profit From Invading Customer Privacy

ISPs in the United Kingdom are making money from the process of anti-piracy groups taking legal action against copyright infringing...