Japan's Windows 7 Whopper Is Real, and It's Horrifying
CheapAssGamer took the voyage to a Burger King in Akihabara to try the Windows 7 Burger. Apparently, $14 buys you the most desiccating pile of adipose flesh ever to be partially congealed by man. [C...
The more I think and learn
It has a resolution of 2560x1440, which no other monitor in the industry seems to have (that I can find). 30" LCDs are the same width but 1600 tall.
Billionaire Aids Charity That Aided Him
Were it not for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, there might be no Google. — Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing an uncertain future, arrived in the United States wi...
WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated]
WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the d...
T-Mobile officially unveils $99 Even More, $79 Even More Plus plans and equipment installment option
Right on schedule with the whispers, T-Mobile lifted the veil off of its new price plan tier structure, Even More and Even More Plus, and from the looks of it all those leaks were pretty much spot-on.
Apple punts on lower-cost MacBook
By not coughing up a low-cost MacBook, as some had expected, Apple has ceded a potentially huge market to PC makers. But is this just all part of Apple's marketing genius? — The announcement Tuesda...
Official List of BlackBerry Devices to Get OS 5.0 Update
Been wondering if the BlackBerry Smartphone you already own will be getting the OS 5.0 update everybody keeps talking about? We knew there would be a cut-off somewhere down the road of older device m...
Google Docs Batch Export
Now you can export all your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs from Google Docs in a ZIP archive. — The most difficult part is to select all your files: you need to go to the “All items...
David Pogue Sings Steve Jobs Tribute: “Don't Cry For Me, Cupertino” [VIDEO]
David Pogue, the ever-entertaining New York Times technology columnist and former Broadway musical conductor, was at the Boston Book Festival today talking ebooks and the future of reading.
What Comes After Hard Drives?
(PhysOrg.com) — The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorde...
Microsoft Offers Windows 7 on USB Drives for Netbooks
Microsoft is allowing netbook users to download Windows 7, its new operating system, onto a bootable USB or burn it onto a DVD, in yet another move by Redmond to disseminate the operating system to as...
The DVR vs Internet Video
The “conventional wisdom” of internet intellectuals is that its a foregone conclusion that the future of content delivery is via the internet. Furthermore, the same internet panel populaters seem to ...
Google Music: What if...
at first glance, it looks like a very basic music preview tool: Nothing groundbreaking. — But, let's also take a look at what it could be — and why I'm a bit excited to see what actually happens on ...
Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers
SAN FRANCISCO — Companies big and small monitor Twitter to find out what their customers like and what they want changed. Twitter does the same. — It started two years ago as a bare-bones service, ...
Found Footage: iPhone costumes are either genius or deeply misguided
You have to hand it to Reko and John for their stick-to-it-iveness; they were behind a similar set of iPhone costumes in 2007, but those didn't have the fully-functional power of these new outfits.