Paycheck Friday: Purchasing Suggestions for Your Perusal

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.

An Upgraded 7-inch ‘Galaxy Tab’ Android Tablet? Let’s Hope So

In a rumor that’s as shaky as rumors get, Samsung may be working on an updated version of its 7-inch Galaxy Tab.

Ask Techland: How Can I Take Better Food Photos with My iPhone?

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Japan Criminalizes Cybercrime: Make a Virus, Get Three Years in Jail

Japanese authorities have had enough of spam emails and viruses, and decided that there’s only one way to deal with them: Jail time.

Emotion Control: ‘Child of Eden’ Review

I’ll be honest with you, Techland readers: I haven’t played a Kinect game in months. Yes, motion-control titles have continued to roll out since the blockbuster launch of Microsoft’s skeletal-tracking camera but none of them, to me, offered anything to get excited about. And, yes, I mean you, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Carnival Games [...]

Indian Town Renames Itself ‘Snapdeal.com’

A small village in India has decided to rename itself “Snapdeal.com Nagar” after an online daily deals company, and surprisingly, it’s not some overblown publicity scheme gone wrong.

Strawberry Tree: A Free, Public, Solar-Powered Charging Station

A team of students from the University of Belgrade in Serbia have come up with a smart idea for a solar-powered phone charging station on the street. Known to the locals as “the Strawberry Tree“, it looks more like an art installation than a public utility.

‘We Do It for the Lulz’: What Makes LulzSec Tick?

If hacker collective Anonymous dominated the headlines the first half of this year, the second half may belong to upstart Lulz Security, whose brazen and prolific hacking is unprecedented.

Open Mouth, Insert Star: Black Hole Devours Celestial Body

When it comes to interstellar smackdowns, I’d generally say bet on stars. But when it comes to stars versus black holes, you’ll probably want to bet on the infinitely dense singularity from which nothing—not even light—can escape.

Facebook Finally Readies Its Own iPad App for Launch

Late last night news broke that Facebook was finally making its own iPad app. “An iPad app?” you say. “Haven’t iPads been around for, like, a year now?”

TV Meets e-Commerce: Are You Ready for ‘t-Commerce’?

Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.