A Guide To Following The 2010 Winter Olympics Online
The 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in Vancouver tonight, and for those of you who can't be tied to your TV every night to watch the opening and closing ceremonies and competitions, here's a compilation...
Looking for a Date? A Site Suggests You Check the Data
Looking for love on an online dating service? — If you're a man, don't smile in your profile picture, and don't look into the camera. If you're a woman, skip photos that focus on your physical asse...
Pictures: Samsung S8500 “Wave” - Leaked Photos
Here are some high quality pictures of the Samsung S8500 aka Wave, the first phone with the Bada operative system from Samsung. — Samsung Wave specs: — 3.3"amoled screen — 5mpix autofocus, flash ...
Cyber attacks against Australia ‘will continue’
An activist group that temporarily blocked access to key Australian government websites plans to continue its cyber attacks, the BBC has learned. — The group, known as Anonymous, was protesting agai...
Rumoured Microsoft Project Pink phone “Turtle” confirmed at FCC
Sharp has revealed pictures of the rumoured Microsoft “Project Pink” device ‘Turtle’ in an FCC filing this week. — Sharp manufactured the original Sidekick for Danger, a company Microsoft acquired i...
Sagem Orga's SIMFi merges WiFi with SIM cards at long last, turns any phone into a hotspot
Thought WiFi spectrum was congested now? You ain't seen nothin' yet, because SIM card provider Sagem Orga has hooked up with Telefonica to develop a marvel of modern technology called “SIMFi” …
Apple's iPad could be game-changer in digital-media censorship
I live in a country (France) where censorship is a big deal. It comes mostly from greedy celebrities; they use a legal system that largely favors them. Often, they find a compassionate judge to rule...
Tom Has Finally Reached His MySpace Friend Limit
MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson supposedly begged to keep his job when the rest of the founding team was shown the door nine months ago. They kept him on, almost as a mascot. He was, after all, the f...
Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose ‘journalism haven’
Wikileaks has provoked the dream of Iceland becoming a haven for whistle-blowing — Iceland could become a “journalism haven” if a proposal put forward by some Icelandic MPs aided by whistle-blowing ...
A new Buzz start-up experience based on your feedback
Posted by Todd Jackson, Product Manager, Gmail and Google Buzz — We've heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz four days ago, we've been working around the clock to add...
Rumoured Microsoft Project Pink phone “Turtle” confirmed at FCC
Sharp has revealed pictures of the rumoured Microsoft “Project Pink” device ‘Turtle’ in an FCC filing this week. — Sharp manufactured the original Sidekick for Danger, a company Microsoft acquired i...
Chatroulette's Creator, 17, Introduces Himself
This week my colleagues Jenna Wortham, Nick Bilton and I have been utterly fascinated with, and sometimes repulsed by, a suddenly popular new Web site called Chatroulette. — The site, which gets abo...
Windows Phone 7 Series: that's the name
So we were just casually strolling through Plaça d'Espanya today in front of Fira de Barcelona — better known as the site of MWC 2010 this coming week — and we couldn't help but notice that Microsoft'...
Twitpic, EXIF and GPS: I Know Where You Did it Last Summer
Modern cell phones frequently include a camera and a GPS. Even if a GPS is not included, cell phone towers can be used to establish the location of the phone. Image formats include special headers t...
Seattle applies for Google Fiber for Communities
Today Mayor Mike McGinn announced that the city of Seattle will respond to Google's Request for Information (RFI) to build ultra-high speed broadband networks in communities across America. — Google...
eVouse concept mouse has nothing to do with Valentine's Day
We're not going to lie, it was a major let down when we found out that this glowing V-shaped mouse with faux Microsoft branding is nothing more than a splendiferous concept, but we're holding back the...