The wildly popular iPod just got a big makeover. Apple unveiled it’s latest creations and gave consumers some good reasons to consider an upgrade. CBS New York reports in this video (click through to the site if you cannot see the video).
Did you know Microsoft is trying to get their proprietary Office format passed as an ISO standard? Neither did I until I ran across this. Below are reasons that this should NOT be accepted as a standard. There is also a link where you can go and sign the petition… do the right thing! I …
During Digg.com’s downtime today the new site design was accidentally leaked. Mashable.com has the story: Is this the new Digg design Kevin Rose has been talking about? (Click for larger image). It certainly includes the features that have been mentioned, like an “All†tab to view all media on the site. Still no photo section, …
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) has just announced that they will be changing their stock symbol to JAVA. I don’t normally bother with any news of the financial sort on this blog, but this change is a bit interesting and is stirring a lot of speculation. If, like me, you’re wondering if …
The folks at iPhoneSimFree have created software that unlocks the SIM chip on your brand-spanking new iPhone to allow you to register and use it on any network. Boy, that didn’t take long at all. This solution has been reviewed and tested by Engadget.com. The site says that they will be making individual per unit …
An article over at TechCrunch reviews a new company called vlingo who is developing a mobile API that developers can use to put speech recognition on mobile devices. Their system starts with a basic statistical language model to make the best guess about what you say. It then improves upon that by taking into account …
LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads. The LyricWiki Search Widget is a WordPress plugin that provides a widget to place a search box right on the sidebar of your WordPress site so …
Sun Microsystems To Let More People Go — Goldman Sachs predicted another restructuring at Sun last week amid the euphoria that a first look at Sun’s June numbers engendered with investors and, lo and behold, Sun Tuesday confided to the SEC that it’s anticipating throwing a unquantified number of its staff from ‘various geographies’ out …
I’m sure the head honchos over at Alexa are scrambling like ants and beating their technical staff over the head with a ball-peen hammer to get this fixed. Apparently they are reporting that YouTube.com gets more hits than Google.com. Hmmm. I’m sure that TechCrunch, one of the most read blogs on the internet, doing an …
Fall is fast approaching and of course we have the scary movie marathons to look for both on the screen and on television. The latest reincarnation of the Halloween the movie franchise was written and directed by none other than Rob Zombie. Don’t know who that is? He is a rock… maybe goth rock musician …