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Old People Finally Getting Hip to Social Networks

Old People Finally Getting Hip to Social Networks

A new study by Pew Internet suggests that more old people than ever are using social networks. Now, before the...

H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

The big news announcement of the day is that MPEG LA, license holder for a number of high profile video...

Microsoft Works With Microsoft To Bring ActiveSync To Hotmail

Microsoft Works With Microsoft To Bring ActiveSync To Hotmail

The tech world is a heated place, with cutthroat competition and backstabbing commonplace. Microsoft has been known to be as...

Movie Studios Unite To Solve A Common Problem

Movie Studios Unite To Solve A Common Problem

Two big studios have joined forces to tackle a problem facing the industry. Which is great news, except they're working...

New Gmail Feature Racks Up A Million Calls

New Gmail Feature Racks Up A Million Calls

Google's new calling feature, typically poorly named and chucked out there to exist somewhere between Google Chat and Google Voice...

September 15th, Official Switch From Facebook Day

September 15th, Official Switch From Facebook Day

If you hate Facebook, mark the date September 15th in your calendar. The guys from Diaspora, the anti-Facebook, have announced...

Three Things Digg Needs to Fix In v4 (And Three It Doesn’t)

Three Things Digg Needs to Fix In v4 (And Three It Doesn’t)

Regular readers of Techi know that we love Digg and that, most of the time anyway, Digg loves us.So when...

Facebook Lays Claim to ‘Book’ – and They’ll Sue You To Keep It That Way

Facebook Lays Claim to ‘Book’ – and They’ll Sue You To Keep It That Way

“We’ve been sitting here scratching our heads for the last couple of days,” says Greg Schrader, managing director of Teachbook.com....

Net Neutrality Not Just About The Web; It’s About a Free Society

Net Neutrality Not Just About The Web; It’s About a Free Society

Net Neutrality - the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally regardless of source or purpose - is,...

Google PWNS Bell, Verizon, Skype and Every Telephone Company

Google PWNS Bell, Verizon, Skype and Every Telephone Company

The senior editor for TECHi just told me they put a bunch of money into Skype. So I want to...

Vinyl+ Gives You One More Reason To Be a DJ

Vinyl+ Gives You One More Reason To Be a DJ

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14119612[/vimeo] Man, there is just some really neat tech flying around today. Seriously, it's a Wednesday to remember. Not many...

Airport Security Goes All Total Recall

Airport Security Goes All Total Recall

Continuing today's completely unintentional theme of movie technologies given flesh (er... or the lack thereof, in this case) is a...

If The Rumors Are Real, Apple’s iTV Will Be A Runaway Success

If The Rumors Are Real, Apple’s iTV Will Be A Runaway Success

Though the Apple rumor mill is always a fickle beast that's more often wrong than not, when rumors from a...

Scammers Target iTunes and PayPal.. Maybe

Scammers Target iTunes and PayPal.. Maybe

There has been some concern over the past few days about a potential security hole in iTunes, although reviews by...

iMac May Go MultiTouch

iMac May Go MultiTouch

It's been talked about for a while. It's been hypothesized, contemplated, dissected, discussed and dismissed, but it might actually see...

Five Unsung PC Components That Made Our Lives Better

Five Unsung PC Components That Made Our Lives Better

Sitting in front of a modern, fancy laptop or blazing fast quad-core desktop, it can be easy to forget just...

Acer Predicts iPad Market Share Will Drop to 20%…They’d Better Have Somethin’ Good

Acer Predicts iPad Market Share Will Drop to 20%…They’d Better Have Somethin’ Good

Sometimes, I like to think I'll be famous for something, some day. In fact, on a good day, I firmly...

Patent Shows How Apple Might Brick Your Jailbroken iPhone

Patent Shows How Apple Might Brick Your Jailbroken iPhone

Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod or iPad might now be legal in some areas of the world, but Apple still ain't...

Kevin Rose Outs Apple’s iTV

Kevin Rose Outs Apple’s iTV

Digg founder Kevin Rose has had varying degrees of success when it comes to Apple rumors. As a tech industry...

Facebook Predicts Its Own Immortality with Places

Facebook Predicts Its Own Immortality with Places

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfX_ZQag1BM Chances are, by now, you've taken Facebook Places for a spin. If you haven't, Facebook really, really wants you...