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It’s Official: ‘The Internet Is Over’, Says Prince

It’s Official: ‘The Internet Is Over’, Says Prince

He may have written some classic hits, but Prince has no ‘Kiss’ to give in his latest ‘Purple Rain’ of...

Chinese Soldiers Are So Ronery

Chinese Soldiers Are So Ronery

The news has been chock full this year about how China hates Google and Google hates China, but how does...

The Rise and Fall of Bookmarking the Web

The Rise and Fall of Bookmarking the Web

Digg it, Like it, star it, favorite it, or bookmark it — that’s what many of us do when we...

Four Ways the Web Helps Challenge Authority

Four Ways the Web Helps Challenge Authority

Today, new developments in media and technology are almost always about making people's lives easier and more fun. Social networks...

Unveiling the Hidden Costs of Innovation

Unveiling the Hidden Costs of Innovation

We love our gadgets. Let’s be honest, who doesn’t? A tiny device in your pocket can call a cab, translate...

9 Tech Inventions That Started it All – How Far We’ve Come

9 Tech Inventions That Started it All – How Far We’ve Come

In this day and age, it's often all too easy to complain about the problems plaguing social networking sites, overpriced...

The Open Web: A Trashy Ghetto You’d Never Want To Visit? Or Something Else?

The Open Web: A Trashy Ghetto You’d Never Want To Visit? Or Something Else?

Imagine a city with stores that look like jail cells, dark alleys with no end in sight, graffiti written all...

iPhone ‘More Important Than Space Travel’ UK shoppers say

iPhone ‘More Important Than Space Travel’ UK shoppers say

A survey of 4,000 UK shoppers has declared Apple’s iPhone to be a more important invention than flushing toilets or...

At Last, at&t Prepares For 3G Tethering…

At Last, at&t Prepares For 3G Tethering…

Attention US iPhone users -- it looks like AT&T and Apple are at last making good on their long-held promise...

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

Apple has a host of patents to its name, and rifling through them can offer some fascinating insights into the...

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

Cool UK gadget retailer, Firebox, has begun selling the SmartSwipe, a handy USB device which reads, encrypts and transmits your...

Internet Archive Launches Books for the Blind, Proves Itself More Useful Than Just the Wayback Machine

Internet Archive Launches Books for the Blind, Proves Itself More Useful Than Just the Wayback Machine

Today the Internet Archive announced a new service that will provide over a million books for the blind and visually...

New Concept Helps Us Manage Our Sad Internet Addictions in Style

New Concept Helps Us Manage Our Sad Internet Addictions in Style

My entire life revolves around the internet. Between writing for Techi, interfacing with design clients, talking to friends, and gaming,...

5 Reasons The Internet Is Still Gonna Look Boring For Awhile

5 Reasons The Internet Is Still Gonna Look Boring For Awhile

We see the avant-garde every day, in every discipline; across visual art, industrial design, music, architecture, hell, even cooking, creatives...

iPad Logic: Why You Need The Dropbox App

iPad Logic: Why You Need The Dropbox App

If you’re one of those new million iPad owners then you need to know about Dropbox for iPad. This free...

Bill Gates Says Microsoft Has Many Tablet Plans

Bill Gates Says Microsoft Has Many Tablet Plans

Microsoft may recently have scrapped its plans for the Microsoft Courier device, but that doesn’t mean the company is out...

Google Buys Israeli Widget Factory

Google Buys Israeli Widget Factory

We all know Google staff get to spend 10 percent of their time working on their own projects, and we...

Nokia Attacks iPhone, BlackBerry With N8 Smartphone

Nokia Attacks iPhone, BlackBerry With N8 Smartphone

Nokia today took the wraps of its most strategically important product designed to take on the iPhone and Blackberry in...

Doom of Display Advertising Demands Adaptation

Doom of Display Advertising Demands Adaptation

While most websites these days create content and profit from display advertising, the realization that has taken center stage is...

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...