While you’ll still hear the Salvation Army’s jingling bells this year, you may hear less change jangling into its red collection buckets.
AOL has launched a preview of an all-new AIM, and it has very little to do with the creaky old one except that it works on the same IM network.
Good morning and happy Thursday. Here’s what’s going on in tech so far…
Following the creation of an online system allowing users to automate calls to their local representative to protest the PROTECT-IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act, Tumblr managed to generate 3.6 calls a second yesterday from concerned members of its community.
Two new studies concerning Twitter have been released this week, simultaneously asking and answering why it’s a social network that companies can’t quite get an effective handle on. Why do people tweet, and why does that make it so hard for media organizations to take advantage of Twitter?
For all the ballyhoo about supercomputers and their feats of CPU derring-do, the actual hardware space necessary to pull things off tends to be ginormous—row upon row of racked out silicon toiling in tandem. Some of these things make even WarGames’ WOPR (remember that?) look like a toy box.
Google Music is now open to everyone in the U.S. It’s a free service that you can use to store up to 20,000 of your songs on Google’s servers and stream those songs to compatible devices. Songs can now be purchased directly from the Android Market as well.
Is the normal Battlefield 3 experience not enough for you? Then take a gander at this giant DIY combat simulator, which uses projectors, a Microsoft Kinect, an advanced military treadmill and more to create the most immersive first person shooter experience ever.
Animal rights activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has turned its wrath on classic video-game character Mario, who wears a Tanooki raccoon suit in Nintendo’s new 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land.
–Google product manager Matthew Izatt, in a company blog post announcing that the iPhone and iPad Gmail app is ready for download once again. The app was made available two weeks ago but got pulled from the App Store almost immediately after users complained of the broken notifications system and an error message that popped [...]
The days of typing “Facebook.com” into your browser’s address bar? Gone! Bookmarks? Pah! Shortcuts? Those require double clicks. Two clicks? Did we lose a war?! There’s got to be a better way! HP might have the answer with its new X7000 Wi-Fi Touch Mouse.
