March 2010
Did Apple Sucker Us With iPad Rush Shipping?... →
If you ordered your iPad by March 27th with expedited shipping, you should receive your iPad by April 3rd. If you ordered your iPad by March 27th with normal shipping, you should…
How the iPhone Could End Up In Second Place... →
Here are the US mobile web traffic figures for iPhone OS and Android, getting ready to collide: Android, on its way up; iPhone, on its way down. So when will Android overtake the…
ASUS Preparing One Google Tablet, One Windows... →
Forbes is reporting in an interview with ASUS’ Chairman Jonney Shih that they’re preparing their “own iPad rivals,” two models which will launch “in the coming months” and run on…
How Adobe and Google Are Making Sure Flash Will... →
Rumors of a “deeper partnership” between Google and Adobe have come to pass: the Chrome browser will soon ship with Flash built in. No installation, no traditional plugins, no…
New IBM Strategy: Help Startups Capture More... →
Last summer IBM began asking their 120 venture capital partners what it would take to launch the world’s most successful initiative for helping startups capture new business. They concluded…
Comic for March 31, 2010 →
Cartoon: Dial 'M' for 'My God, You're All Over the... →
I live in a place where they’ve recently banned the use of mobile phones while driving, with additional penalties for texting. And I have a lot of company: Six U.S. states have prohibited…
Coming Soon to Gmail Chat: File Transfer →
Google just announced a small but useful update to the chat feature in iGoogle and Orkut, Google’s social network. You can now use the chat feature to send photos, documents and other…
Doing WebGL Rendering on Windows with ANGLE →
Google uses WebGL to natively render 3D graphics inside Chrome. The problem is that WebGL relies on OpenGL 2.0, and not all Windows systems have its drivers installed. The ANGLE (Almost Native…
All Ice, No Man [Image Cache] →
Northrop Grumman’s X-47B is getting closer to flight. The 62.1-foot wingspan unmanned aerial vehicle may populate all US Navy’s aircraft carriers by the end of the decade. […
IBM Partners To Offer $190 Cloud-Connected Netbook... →
IBM, Canonical and Simmtronics will offer emerigng markets a fully loaded, cloud-connected Netbook for $190. It’s a clear example of how a cloud-based approach fits with the emerging Netbook…
Gmail Starts Sniffing Out Scammers →
Google has come out with a new security feature today for Gmail that addresses some common email scams. Many of these email scams involve a hijacked account being remotely accessed and…
Is Facebook Having Problems Scaling Its... →
There is a significant risk and reward that comes with developing products that leverage third-party application programming interfaces, or APIs. Twitter has used its API to let others…
Gunshot Location System Helps Helicopter Pilots... →
You’re in a military helicopter and flying through enemy territory. Someone’s shooting at you, but you can’t retaliate or escape because you don’t know where the shots are coming…
This High Tech Criminal Wunderkind Puts Any Bond... →
Wired has an incredible article on Gerald Blanchard, a young criminal mastermind with a “savantlike ability to assess security flaws.” The story opens with him parachuting onto a…
NASA Test Pilot Robert M. White Winging Towards... →
Retired Air Force major-general Robert M. White, the first human to break Mach 6 and the test pilot who took the X-15 into space, has died at 85. The LA Times remembers…
Belkin Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max Wireless... →
Belkin’s new line of 802.11n wireless routers—the Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max—come with clever little apps to diagnose network problems, print wirelessly from networked…
Google Wants to Make APIs Faster: Introduces... →
Google just announced two new features for some of its most popular APIs: partial response and partial update. This, according to Google, is part of the company’s efforts to make the…
Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of... →
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and prominent researcher Nigel Shadbolt will lead a new British Institute for Web Science with $45 million in government backing. The…
Opera for the iPhone? We Sure Hope So. →
At the time of this writing, it’s been just over two hours, 21 minutes and 14 seconds since Opera submitted Opera Mini to Apple for inclusion in the iTunes App Store. How do we know this?…
WatchWhat’s New in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4 - MIX Videos
Walt Mosspuppet's Ode to iPad Haters [Ipad] →
Walt Mosspuppet’s in a poetic mood and he’s got an ode to all the iPad haters of the world. Behold his “literary majesty!” [Mosspuppet] More »
The Maximum Garden House by Formwerkz →
This home was cleverly designed for a plant lover by Formwerkz. They were challenged to create a space that increased the amount of gardening space, so they creatively designed a vertical…
Teenage Girl Gives Herself Carpal Tunnel From... →
Here’s a tip for those of you looking to avoid repetitive motion injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome: don’t send 100 texts per day, you crazy bastards. More »
Bill Buxton on making user interfaces “natural” →
Bill Buxton always leaves an impression when you see him talk. Recently at the closing keynote of Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, Bill explored the concept of it means to be “natural”…
Does Our DNA Carry the Memories of Our Ancestors?... →
It seems like something out of a movie (and hey, it is), but there’s some scientific evidence that we actually carry the memories of our ancestors with us in our genetic code….
The Department of Defense Covertly Dismantled a... →
An incident from 2008, brought to light recently by the Washington Post, reveals just how discombobulated our nation’s cybersecurity efforts actually are. A terrorist-tracking forum,…
The Virtualization Wars: Microsoft and Citrix v.... →
Watch this battle unfold. The virtualization wars are just getting started. On one side we have Microsoft, which announced changes in its licensing structures this week. The change reflects…
The Science of Flatulence, Farts, Oops Poops, and... →
For someone who constantly deals with gases emitted from strangers’ derrieres, Dr. Lester Gottesman sure looks cheery. Then again, how could a man who explains that the signature…
Tendril Vision Clock envisions low electricity... →
Slated to be launched at DistribuTECH next week, the “Vision” from Tendril is a next gen in-home energy display that reduces energy consumption by an average of 10-15 percent and envisions…
General Motors Wants To Augment Your Windshield →
Last week we told you about how Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, was bringing an augmented reality (AR) marketing promotion to SXSW in Austin. Now General Motors is kicking it up…
Sometimes the Photoshop Crop Tool Is All You Need... →
A caption of “no, I did not photoshop this” accompanied this silly picture and I didn’t believe it. I still don’t, but that’s just because I have proof: The crop tool was used….
How Apple Keeps iPad Developers on Extreme... →
If you’re a software developer lucky enough to get a look at the iPad before its release, you’d better be ready to submit to some of the toughest security measures this side of…
Google Wants 3D Graphics Acceleration Directly In... →
Google’s ANGLE project, launched today, will allow their Chrome OS to be able to access graphics hardware using the OpenGL ES 2.0 API. What this means to you: 3D graphics in your…
Paladin XLC Gaming PC: Six-Core CPU, Liquid... →
The new liquid-cooled Paladin XLC gaming PCs from iBuypower come loaded with Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition processors, 12GB of DD3 memory, a maximum of 1 terabyte of…
The Windows Web Browser Choice Screen Works [Web] →
According to the latest data from Opera, the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen—a browser download and activation pop-up mandated by the European Union in all versions of…
Macs vs. PCs on Operating System Security... →
Security expert Charlie Miller on the record-breaking 20 zero day security holes soon to be announced in OS X. [H-Online] More »
Watch a Supersonic Jet Hover With Breathtaking... →
It looks like a special effect, but it’s not. What you’re watching is an F-35B supersonic stealth jet spend 30 seconds suspended 150ft in the air, for the very first time. More…
This May Be The Only Existing Video of Mark Twain... →
There’s little action, no sound, and the footage is grainy. But this brief clip may be the only existing video of writer Mark Twain and his daughters Clara and Jean. It was…
New password-stealing virus targets Facebook →
Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive…
The Oracle Effect: Sun's Best and Brightest Move... →
What is the effect of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems on cloud computing? Well, there have been quite a few if you look at where Sun’s best and brightest have moved on to in the past…
New Mozilla Labs Project Wants to Give You Total... →
Currently, your contacts live in address books that are distributed all over the Internet and your desktop. Because of this, chances are that you have numerous address books on the web that are…
Windows Phone 7 Tablet Concept Should Be Real... →
LG, Samsung and ASUS have all developed hardware for Windows Phone 7, but none tickle my fancy quite as much as this WP7 tablet concept, which has a kickstand that folds…
SAAB Spyker 9+ Tribute is as pleasant to look at... →
Paying his tribute to the SAAB Spyker Automobiles, Swedish designer Eduard Gray has come up with a vehicle concept called the “SAAB Spyker 9+ Tribute” that is not only pleasant to watch but to…
Phone for Lamborghini is everything you’ll want... →
The “Phone for Lamborghini” might never be able to control your luxury sedan, but going against all odds, the phone concept goes even beyond to control your life with just a touch of a finger….
The 20 Cell Phones That Leak the Most Radiation... →
Cell phone radiation. Some consider it a heath-hazard of paramount importance. Others couldn’t care less. Whichever camp you’re in, there’s some perverse satisfaction in clicking…
Announcement: A Culture of Quitting, The Webinar →
A few weeks ago, the fine folks at the IASA invited to speak at one of their webinars to discuss an article I wrote a little while back. It’s a free webinar, and runs tomorrow (Thu, Mar 18,…
New Windows Phone 7 Series promo from MIX10 →
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If a woman walking down a street didn’t do it for you, then a new Windows Phone 7 Series promotional video with a stronger emphasis on end-to-end…
New Mozilla Labs Project Wants to Give You Total... →
Currently, your contacts live in address books that are distributed all over the Internet and your desktop. Because of this, chances are that you have numerous address books on the web that are…
Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now →
It appeared briefly last week, then got pulled…what oh what would that be? Silverlight for Symbian! The good news is, it is back! You can now download Silverlight for Nokia Symbian (S60 5th…