Social networking has become very popular, almost a necessity for keeping in touch with friend, and also for business purposes – connecting with old colleagues, finding a new job, a free and easy way for businesses to get in front ...
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If you
watched the ad you might be fooled a bit by the sound and the imagery, but make no mistake,
John Lennon really was murdered nearly three decades ago in Manhattan, and that image you ...
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The overuse of consumer gadgets has begun causing health problems such as “Blackberry thumb” from the extreme usage of the texting and e-mailing with primary use of the thumb. TechNewsWorld
reports the latest epidemic, most commonly seen in ...
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Gossip, rumor, half-truths, and flat-out lies are nothing new, of course—they’ve probably been with us since the time that early hominids developed the ability to communicate and interact. But now what was once spread only by word of mouth, or ...
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MacRumors.com is reporting that
Apple’s iPod Touch seems to have been a huge hit this holiday season, with evidence that the device has seen massive gains in market share.
The impact registered in a dramatic increase in early ...
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In the world of web design software,
Adobe has long been the reigning king. But the
Wall Street Journal now reports that Adobe is feeling increased pressure from
Microsoft, as Microsoft makes a strong ...
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Google is the most popular search engine in the United States, accounting for a little more than 61% of all online searches. (
Nielsen Online). Capitalizing on the success of its search service, Google launched AdWords in 2000, giving advertisers ...
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Not content merely with controlling the dissemination of all of mankind’s acquired knowledge,
Google is now taking over the realm of global surveillance, as its master spy program, Google Earth, is now tracking the December 24th progress of ...
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In the dark days before there was such a thing as a personal computer, people had to manage their finances with a paper and pen. Then along came the PC, and applications like
Quicken and
Money, ...
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The blogsphere and the greater universe of social networking websites, miniature applications, widgets, and what-have-you were abuzz this past Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26th) with news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. For much of the technocrati keeping up with ...
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More people are using their cell phones to browse the internet instead of their desktop or laptop computers these days. To keep up with the trend Google has created an option for advertisers to make their AdWords advertisements available on ...
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Almost every day there is a headline about another company cutting hundreds of jobs. BusinessWeek released a
story claiming jobless people are turning to social networks like
Facebook for comfort.
Ian Schlueter, a former DHL employee, is an ...
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Sex and Tech, a new report published last week by the
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy, revealed that 21% of teenaged girls and 18% of teenaged boys have sent or posted nude or semi-nude images ...
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DVDs that allow you to connect with other viewers via the internet, hosting digital movie content in the cloud, and glitzier, higher-tech movie theaters are just a few of the next big things for the motion picture industry, reports the ...
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While a .320 batting average might get you a spot in the top of any Major League Baseball line-up, a 68% failure rate isn’t going to give you much of a return in the business world. But a 68% failure ...
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Nokia is poised to introduce the
N-97, a new smartphone, though the device won’t be available to be shipped until the first half of 2009, reports the
Wall Street Journal. The N-97 will come ...
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Forget the weather and the traffic: now you can use
Google to track the flu.
Just in time for flu season, Google has released
Flu Trends, a free web service that shows if the number of influenza ...
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In today’s era of cell phones and text messaging a new language has been born: textese. There has been concern that this short hand will create bad habits of spelling and grammar but Nenagh Kemp, a psychology lecturer
proved this ...
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Wareham, Massachusetts-based
Local Motors, Inc., has embraced the Web 2.0 concepts of community, collaboration, and crowdsourcing in order to further its ambitious mission statement of rethinking the way automobiles are designed, built, marketed, and sold.
“We want local people ...
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Facebook announced the general availability of its new Facebook Connect service, which allows Facebook users to log into other sites with their Facebook accounts, thereby eliminating the need for these users to log into these sites with multiple ...
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There are many “incurable” diseases such as HIV/AIDS and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The lives of patients with these diagnoses are left in the hands of doctors and drug companies who conduct experimental studies – until now. The birth ...
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As the ubiquitous computer mouse turns forty this year, the time is certainly ripe to think about how humans will interact with computer in the future, writes
Fast Company. And all the whiz-bang smoke-and-mirrors high tech stuff you ...
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At $100 a pop, an
Acer Apsire One netbook computer, which usually retails for five times that amount, sounds like an incredible steal from retailer
Radio Shack. It is, but that’s because it comes with the ...
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Online sales through the first week of December are flat compared to the same period this time last year, reports the
Wall Street Journal. Though in other economic times this might be considered bad news, in the current ...
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In what the
NFL touts as a “proof of concept,” a game between the
San Diego Chargers and the
Oakland Raiders was broadcast to select theater locations in 3-D. While the theaters—located in Los ...
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After acquiring British social networking site
Bebo.com in March 2008, the third-ranking social networking site behind
MySpace and
Facebook,
AOL is poised to unveil the first of its proposed changes to this ...
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Gigaom reported
Facebook released a game app called
Mplayit Mobile Arcade yesterday. The app allows you to play free mobile phone game demos like Guitar Hero and Spore Origins, but that’s not all. Since the app is embedded in Facebook there ...
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Details have emerged about the failed deal between
Facebook and
Twitter, in which Facebook would have acquired Twitter for cash and $500 million in Facebook stock. Talks began between the two companies in mid-October, but fell ...
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As the White House is poised to reach a deal this week with Congress to bail out the Big Three auto makers for $15 billion in taxpayer-funded relief, the Big Three is taking its message to the masses via the ...
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It was only back in May of this year that
iTunes launched its iPhone App store which has earned tremendous success in its short lifespan. Recently Apple published the most popular downloads from the app store (paid and free),
reported ... more
