Category: News

  • U.S. Postal Service on the Brink of Bankruptcy Thanks to Email

    It’s one of those situations where it only takes a matter of time, and that time is right around the corner for the United States Postal Service (USPS), which according to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, is on the verge of bankruptcy and will most likely default if Congress doesn’t step in and help out. It’s…

  • Facebook Unveils New Features at F8 Developer Conference

    Today at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced some new features that will be making their way to users sometime in the future. Most notable is something called the Timeline, which will take all the status updates from everyone and organize them in an iPad-style magazine of sorts. To keep it from becoming too cluttered,…

  • Verizon Starts Throttling Top 5% of Data Users

    It wasn’t too long ago when AT&T announced they would be throttling the data speed of their top 5% of heaviest data users. While Verizon announced that they would be doing this to their users back in February, it looks like they have decided to finally start putting their plan into action before AT&T starts…

  • A Chrome Experiment that (Literally) Shakes up the Google Homepage

    Give people the option to work with Google Chrome using JavaScript, HTML5, and other browser tools, and they’ll start designing some pretty creative things.  For example: Is that the Google homepage?  It certainly appears that way.  But something is wrong. Sweet mercy…the Google homepage has developed its own gravitational force.  The second you hover over…

  • Google Brings Back Offline Support to Gmail, Adds Offline Docs and Calendar

    Ever since the demise of Google Gears back in December 2009, we’ve always been yearning to get some kind of offline support back to our essential Google applications. Finally, they’ve added offline mode to Gmail, Docs and Calendars. However, it’s only available through the Chrome web browser. Why only Chrome, you ask? Well, Google says…

  • GIVEAWAY: Win a 3 month subscription of Slacker Premium Radio

    Only a few years ago, I couldn’t see an end to the music piracy/RIAA debacle. It would go something like this: A new music sharing application would emerge, it would be promptly used for illegal activities, and then the RIAA would roll in and hand out lawsuits which usually ended in the service being shut…

  • Samsung Galaxy S II Phones Finally Land On U.S. Soil

    Back in May, South Korea and the United Kingdom were the first territories to get their hands on Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphone, which was announced in February. More countries were slowly being added to the list, with Canada being the first North American country to receive the phone in late July. Finally, we Americans…

  • Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion

    Despite being a small contender in the mobile market with only a 3% market share and a net loss of $56 million in Q2 2011, Motorola Mobility (Motorola’s handset division) is being acquired by Google for a cool $12.5 billion. Of course, it has to pass through the government and Motorola’s shareholders first, but if…

  • The Unnecessary Complexities of Video Game Pre-order Bonuses

    In recent years, game companies have started offering incentives for pre-ordering their games. If the game is sold in a physical package, these incentives might include something tangible, like a cloth map or figurine. Digitally downloaded games generally see bonuses of a similarly digital nature. You might get an exclusive in-game weapon that’s unavailable through…

  • Apple Releases Sub-$1,000 iMac For Education-Only Use

    Just in time for all the back-to-school shenanigans, Apple has silently added a cheaper iMac model to its lineup of all-in-ones. This new 21.5-incher is priced at just a dollar shy of $1,000 and comes packed with a last-generation 3.1GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 2GB of RAM, 250GB of hard drive real estate, 256MB of…