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Pinterest gets more money. Much more.

They've already had plenty of funding, but that doesn't mean that they won't shoot even higher. Pinterest is hot and with this money, there may be no stopping them. According...

The beginning of the dot-whatever era

For years, we've had several choices for top level domains including .com, .net., and .org. Soon, we'll have many, many more options, but only after the big brands can get...

The bicycle wheel reinvented as “The Copenhagen Wheel”

There are things that you don't normally believe would need a technological remake, which is what makes these new concepts for the bicycle wheel so interesting. It’s rare that a...

The cybersecurity framework: a draft

As promised, the NIST has released a framework for what they hope will be a stout combatant in the cyberterrorism war. The National Institute of Standards and Technology released its...

Choices, choices: both the Mini and the Air are appealing

By announcing both the iPad Mini retina and the iPad Air on the same day, Apple is causing people to choose between two very stout devices. Why not both? I...

Here’s LG’s curved screen smartphone

In the best image from the best angle, we get to see what LG has coming out. We've seen rendered images of LG's G Flex and its curved OLED display, but...

Bad ending spells doom for Dark Matter on Steam

Steam and other gaming services offered Dark Matter for about a week. They all pulled it down because users were angry over the abrupt ending. Dark Matter went up on...

Battlefield 4 needs mucho memory

When a game needs high speed memory, there's good and bad. If you don't have high-speed memory, it's bad. If you have high-speed memory, it's amazing. Every once in a...

The tech surge will not help the government website

The government seems to only know a few solutions to just about every problem. A "surge" is one of those solutions, but it will not help in the case of...

Same day eBay deliveries coming to 25 more cities

Sometimes when you want something, you want it now. eBay acquired Shutl to help make that happen for you. In an effort to expand its same-day delivery service to cities...

BlackBerry’s BBM had 5 million downloads in 8 hours

They may not be good at making phones, running a business, promoting apps, or staying in the smartphone market, but people seem to love their instant messaging service. BlackBerry's BBM...

Netflix is hot and is taking their service around the world

They're the talk of Wall Street and the blogging world alike. Now, Netflix will be capitalizing on their success by hitting more remote areas of the world. Netflix announced Monday...

#Video: Sony taps into nostalgia for the buildup to the PS4

Those who have been gaming since 1995 will appreciate this video. It takes us through the last three PlayStations and teases us with the upcoming one.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZkMdi3XBhw Do you...

Your own robot just went on sale for $35,000

As robots go, this isn't the type of assistant that you'll see in iRobot. Then again, at least they won't try to take over the world... we hope. Three years...

Netflix to eclipse HBO in subscribers

Just because they have two completely different business models doesn't mean that comparisons between Netflix and HBO are irrelevant. They're going for the same people - those willing to pay...

The bigger problem with the Experian data sale

The sale of massive amounts of personal data by Experian brings up bigger challenges for the whole industry and they all circle around one word: trust. An identity theft service...

Nintendo has ceased production of the Wii

It was a great console in its time, one that far exceeded the excitement, buzz, and sales of its successor. Now, the Wii will no longer be built. Nintendo is...

Twitter hides money in Ireland, just like everyone else

It's a common practice in the world of business to find tax havens somewhere in the world. Ireland is a favorite and Twitter is in the same game. If Twitter's...

First Mexico, now France hits the NSA radar

The NSA just can't stop spying. That is, of course, their job, but it's discouraging that they spy on allies as well. The future will perhaps tell us one day...

Experian sold data to an ID thief

It's common knowledge that companies sell our data to other companies, but it's assumed that they take the time to make sure they're not selling our data to someone with...