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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...

The Internet’s 5 Billionth Device Will Soon Go Live

The Internet’s 5 Billionth Device Will Soon Go Live

You never really sit and think that there could be someone out there, actually keeping track of the internet. That...

The 3D Craze Is In Full Effect; Still Can’t Find A Way In People’s Homes

The 3D Craze Is In Full Effect; Still Can’t Find A Way In People’s Homes

Been to the movie theaters lately? Well then you probably have heard about Avatar, Piranha 3-D, Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D,...

Why We Should Celebrate the So-Called “Death of the Web”

Why We Should Celebrate the So-Called “Death of the Web”

First, just to be clear: the web is not dead. Despite Chris Anderson's attempt to create another catchphrase like the...

Places, Please: New Facebook Location Service is Here

Places, Please: New Facebook Location Service is Here

The new Facebook geolocation feature is here, and it is called "Places". The new service will let Facebook users tag...

Why Nothing Will “Save” Print Media

Why Nothing Will “Save” Print Media

That, I freely admit, is a controversial title. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it any less true. While there is always...

Apple vs. Motorola: Who Can Lock It Down

Apple vs. Motorola: Who Can Lock It Down

Apple has been fighting hard against the jailbreak community for years now. Every update Apple dishes out feels like its...

iPad Mini Due For Christmas?

iPad Mini Due For Christmas?

The iPad is about to get a Mini Me, according to rumors on the web this morning. Apple's annual iPod...

Three Reasons an Android PSP Phone Will Succeed (And Three Reasons It Won’t)

Three Reasons an Android PSP Phone Will Succeed (And Three Reasons It Won’t)

When rumors of a possible Playstation-branded "PSP Phone" recently broke, the tech world was, more than anything, a bit baffled....

Microsoft Reveals Its Windows Phone 7 Gaming Plan

Microsoft Reveals Its Windows Phone 7 Gaming Plan

The success of the iPod touch and iPhone as a gaming platform was a bit of a shock to everyone,...