That’s right, the day after Thanksgiving, more commonly known as Black Friday, Apple will be offering discounts on many products, supposedly up to 15%. However, for many businesses Black Friday this year may be called “Help Keep Us Out of the Red” Friday. So Apple is playing their equivalent of hardball by giving discounts [...]
Yes, you read that correctly. A 1.4 billion pixel (or 1400 megapixel) camera will scan the night’s sky looking for renegade near-Earth objects from atop Mount Haleakala in Maui Island, Hawaii. This will be the world’s largest digital camera. It’s main focus is to be used to keep an eye out for asteroids heading towards Earth. The [...]
“Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are giving drivers up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps, speed cameras or red-light cameras. Each program pulls up a map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance. An audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring a speed trap. Both applications rely [...]
Lately it seems that the videos of YouTube are less about the general public trying to find their 15 minutes of web fame and more about the Big Kahuna media companies whose video wares have been gaining more notice both on YouTube and elsewhere on the web. In other words much less “you” and much more “them”. [...]
In a valiant effort to compete with the iPhone (and AT&T’s cash flow due to their association), Verizon welcomes the Blackberry Storm into its family on Friday. There has been much hype leading up to this release and many reviews are available.Â
To its fiercest devotees, one of the best things about the previous BlackBerry is [...]
Are you an avid gamer? Do you ever leave your machine on, even though the game is over? More and more electricity is used by various video game consoles each year. It has become such a concern that the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has just released a report regarding the electricity usage and it’s [...]
In the world of the PC, PC Magazine is an industry standard magazine. Founded in 1982, it was at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages. But in keeping with it’s tech roots and readers, it will no longer be available in the classic printed magazine format. The now dubbed [...]
According to Mozilla and other sources, Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 will soon be left behind some time in mid-December. The end result: no future security or stability updates. This will affect Thunderbird 2, SeaMonkey 1.1, Camino 1.5, and any other projects based on Gecko 1.8. So, if you haven’t already upgraded, there’s no time [...]
