January 2011

Next Giant Leap in Boulder, Colorado— a startup that’s making robots that will land and hop around on the surfaces of other planets in order to gather data, detect resources…

A week ago, ZDNet ran a troubling story about that fact that one of its contributing bloggers, Bulgaria-native malware researcher Dancho Danchev, had gone missing since August 2010. His last…

Like so many companies nowadays, Toshiba is betting high on 3D. The company has announced [JP] the dynabook T551/D8B, a 3D-enabled laptop that boast quite a few impressive features (glasses…

Amazon’s Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is no more, at least not by that name. Starting today, the self-publishing program will be known as Kindle Direct Publishing. With Kindle Direct…

Pet Holdings, the company behind the Cheezburger Network – home to LOLcats, FAIL Blog, Totally Looks Like and other silliness – recently raised $30 million in funding. You would think…

Google is making a €1 million gift to the International Mathematical Olympiad organization, which has been organizing the annual World Championship Mathematics Competition for High School Students. The first IMO…

The idea of using robot technology for cars isn’t new, but this new model, the so-called RoboCar MEV [JP], is pretty cool. The one-seater, made by Japanese maker ZMP, is…

With shares of Facebook recently hitting a $70 billion valuation in a private auction on SecondMarket, you’d think those are the only shares that trade on the private stock market…

Yesterday evening, Mozilla announced that it would be blocking the Skype toolbar add-on in all versions of its Firefox browser. While this concerns an impending ‘soft block’, meaning users will…

Minimalist Turntable Plays Your Records Minimally CHOBICAM1: Super-Tiny Camcorder Weighs 12g RB5X “Intelligent Robot” From The 80s For Sale On eBay Can You Spot The Lacie Galet USB Drive In…

More proof that RSS is on its way out, and the apocalypse is nigh: Google has seemingly replaced the top link to its RSS reader product, Google Reader, with a…

San Francisco, CA 21st January 2011 Dear Michael Moore-Jones, I just finished reading your thought-provoking post – “A Future Without Personal History” – over at ReadWriteWeb and felt compelled to…

Sony Ericsson’s Symbian-powered Vivaz looks to be getting an update, with a leak outlining an Android-powered successor. Mobile Review have a very detailed overview of the phone — also known…

There’s nothing quite like an Android update to make your day just that much better, so you T-mobile Vibrant (aka Samsung Galaxy S) owners out there are set for a…

I’m a big fan of music streaming startup Rdio, but one thing it does not do (and probably never will): let me upload the music I already owned before I…

This isn’t the first turntable we’ve seen that’s been stripped down to its bare parts, but it has the distinction of being more a deconstruction than a compacting of function.…

According to Moblicity CEO, Dave Dobbin, everyone’s favourite Gingerbread totin’ handset — The Samsung Nexus S — will be released through the company’s AWS brand come March. If you care…

Although, as usual, I feel a little silly posting a commercial, this one from Verizon thanking their customers for sticking it out (whether they really did or not) is too…

Although this might actually also work as a gag gift your favorite photographer, it might be a pretty cool thing to give a kid, too. I mean really, if you…

See that lovely, BlackBerry Curve-lookin’ thing over there? According to N4BB, that’s none other than the next generation BlackBerry Curve (or, as they allegedly refer to it as inside RIM,…

Late last summer we were ready to break a big story – that Eric Schmidt would be stepping down as the CEO of Google. Multiple sources and all that jazz.…

I’m not sure why it took a screw type change to open everyone’s eyes that Apple’s approach to hardware and software is over-protective and damaging to user rights, especially when…

You may be noticing a trend: there are a lot of startups looking to mimic the easy-to-use development platform that made Heroku a hit with Ruby developers and offer a similar…

A report on Mashable seems imply that Google will be imminently launching a Groupon clone, called Google Offers. By the look of the documents they have received from a source…

Star Wars is finally getting released on Blu-ray. That’s a fact, jack. Sometime in September is what the initial announcement stated. Now, Amazon is listing the actual date as September…

Well that didn’t take long. Here it is, the first Verizon iPhone commercial. As you can see, the focus is on clock — the first one on 11:59 — implying…

We read a lot of news about amazing companies when they receive financing, have a change in leadership or launch new products, but we rarely get a glimpse into the…

“Female Tech influencers are sure to cross their ts and their legs.” — WPromote Infographic There was an extremely newsworthy Google earnings call at 1:30 pm today and I’d like to…

If you’ve ever had to test an unreleased iPhone application or wanted to test yours with real world users, you’ll know what a pain it is. The UDID thing is…

You know the cool thing about “Concept” products? They don’t really have to make complete sense. Take the one in the video up above, for example. Crazy long screen? Neat!…