Category: News

  • Harry Potter eBooks To Be DRM Free

    Personally, I am not a fan of publishers locking down eBooks with intrusive and unnecessary DRM. It devalues their product and does little to prevent piracy anyway. It’s unfortunate that almost all major publishers and digital book distributors continue to sell their books with such a handicap. One giant name in the book industry, however, is…

  • Tiered Data Plans Coming To Verizon July 7

    Thanks to an official training document that has been leaked, the rumored tiered data plans for Verizon customers are definitely coming. Android Central ended up with the leak, which contains a slew of details about the new data plans that will most likely answer some of your hankering questions. The most important aspect of the…

  • Network Neutrality and Where You Should Stand

    From quick searches and online collaboration, to gaming and video streaming, the Internet has made many things possible. A key factor in this beautiful technology is its openness. That is where the issue of network neutrality comes into play. This article explains the current state of this openness and the proposed laws that attempt to…

  • Mozilla Officially Releases Firefox 5.0

    It looks like Mozilla is following through with their promise to churn out new releases of Firefox faster than ever. After just three months of Firefox 4.0’s official release, Mozilla is hitting the ground running with Firefox 5.0, which is out now for your downloading pleasure. What’s new in this freshly updated version of Mozilla’s…

  • The 5 Best Features Coming To Apple’s iOS5

    At Apple’s semi-recent keynote event, Steve Jobs announced a slew of new software and features that would be gracing his beloved ecosystem of Apple-powered devices. Most importantly, he outlined what we could expect from Mac OS X Lion, and the much-anticipated iOS 5. The latter software update comes with a ton of improvements that touch…

  • Wii 2: A Speculative Look at Nintendo’s Newest Console

    For those of you who don’t know, it has been confirmed that Ninendo’s next generation console will be announced at this year’s upcoming E3 expo.  The highly anticipated console being  revealed is the Wii 2. Sources say that the Wii 2 (code named “Project Cafe”) will be HD and at least as powerful as the…

  • How to Profit from the AT&T/Alltel Merger

    Now that AT&T may be acquiring T-Mobile, their acquisition of Alltel in a few states since the Verizon/Alltel merger is old news. By now everyone has pretty much figured out the jig. Every current Alltel customer gets a free AT&T phone because the two networks use different technologies, and a current Alltel phone won’t work…

  • HP WebOS – What’s Coming?

    The world of smartphones is both overpopulated and fiercely competitive. We have seen various platforms fail quite spectacularly while others have risen to incredible heights. That same market is happy to let smartphone operating systems like Symbian fall to the wayside and cheers in jubilation as Apple’s iOS dominates the scene. With Android and Windows…

  • Forget the $41 million, could Color fail simply because of GPS limitations?

    There has been an incredible amount of discussion about Color, a new – let me try to describe this – mobile-social-location-aware-photo-sharing app that recently brought in an eyebrow-raising $41 million of capital. Even venture capital group Sequoia Capital was surprised, saying: “Not since Google have we seen this.” That statement definitely caught people’s attention. Sequoia…

  • Dramatic Before and After Aerial Photos of Japan

    The New York Times recently created an amazing mashup using before-and-after aerial photos of the destruction in Japan. The article contains over a dozen images taken from regions in Japan that were impacted by the recent earthquakes and tsunamis. These images are interactive, so grab the blue slider in center to switch between the two…