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It’s beginning to seem as if Google can’t help itself investing in green technologies. Not only has it decided to build a tower of solar power-collecting goodness and invested $100 million in an Oregonian wind farm, now the company has signed a power purchase agreement for wind energy in Oklahoma.
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
The State Department isn’t the only governmental department thinking about how useful smartphones can be, as it turns out; the Defense Department is also working on making sure that every soldier in the US Army and Marine Corps can stay connected with their very own, custom-made, smartphones. And their choice of operating system? Google’s Android.
Another day, another staggering mess for Amazon’s cloud-based web service, on the fritz since yesterday and causing chaos for sites like Foursquare, Hootsuite, Quora, and Reddit. As of this post, it looks like Reddit’s partly back, as is Box Office Mojo, but determining who’s up or not (or by how much) is like picking through [...]
For the new wave of touch screen operating systems, a Kindle app is a status symbol. iPad? There’s a Kindle app for that. Android phones? Ditto. Blackberry Playbook? Sorry, no. WebOS? Nuh uh.
Tweeting is a delicate balancing act: How to be amusing, informative or just plain not dull in 140 characters or less? Now those of us who fail at that task on a regular basis have something else to aspire to – the Humblebrag.
We’ve all been there. Does this sound familiar to you?
Welcome to Friday, all you PlayStation Network spurned, and yep, it’s still down. No word yet on when it’ll be back, why it happened, if hackers were involved, if Valve’s Steamworks had anything to do with it (Portal 2, which launched on Tuesday, uses it), or what Sony’s doing to fix it.
In technology’s newest arms race, it appears Apple may have beaten out Google in the dash to the cloud.
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a little file on your iPhone called “consolidated.db” that records your whereabouts every so often.
In a 1987 conversation with Kim Thompson, the exceptional cartoonist Howard Chaykin declared that he wanted to get out of comics: “I would like very much to stop drawing, because I don’t do it out of love, I do it out of labor. I don’t want to continue making my living from motor skills.”
