Finally, a pair of pants perfect for iPhone 5 owners. WTFJeans cost $159 and feature a micro-fiber lined front pocket that measures the exact dimensions of Apple’s latest smartphone.
The ‘Buy Stuff with a Tollbooth Transponder’ Idea Is Picking Up Steam
Imagine a mega-system of interoperable tollbooth transponders — and an accompanying smartphone app — emerging as a dark horse in the mobile payments race.
#1ReasonWhy: Women Take to Twitter to Talk About Sexism in the Video Game Industry
It started when a Twitter user asked, “Why aren’t there more female game creators?” In response, dozens of women have shared their own stories of sexism and marginalization in the game industry.
From Now On, Every Day Is Cyber Monday
When Cyber Monday-esque deals of 40% and 50% off sitewide start appearing before Thanksgiving and become commonplace on Black Friday, is there much point to Cyber Monday itself?
Google CEO Meets with Feds as U.S. Senator Blasts FTC over Antitrust Probe
With the clock ticking down until a crucial Federal Trade Commission vote over whether to sue Google for antitrust violations, the search giant’s CEO Larry Page met with federal officials in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
How Best Buy Picks Its Windows 8 Tablets (and Why Its Stores Have So Few of Them)
Walk around the PC section of a Best Buy right now, and it won’t look drastically different than it did before the launch of Windows 8. That may change over the next six to nine months.
Your Brain, the Internet and the Universe Have Something Fascinating in Common
What if it turned out that what we’ve become, over the course of evolutionary eons, was about more than just an elemental relationship to the stuff that stars and planets and nebulae are made of?
How Teachers Use Skype in the Classroom
“Skype in the Classroom” was created for teachers so that they could introduce their pupils to cultures and experts worldwide in real time.
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For What It’s Worth: Microsoft Has Sold 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses
Is the new version of Windows selling well? It’s tough to tell.
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Once Again, the Kindle Is Selling Like an Unspecified Number of Hotcakes
Amazon is trumpeting Kindle sales without actually telling us much about Kindle sales.
Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity: Tedium Cubed
Curiosity killed the cat, or at the very least distracted it, and like that proverbial animal, I’ve been pawing at something frivolous, something you might say was as pointless as playing the lottery: poking a giant cube.
‘Wii Mini’ Outed by Nintendo as Canada Exclusive, Won’t Connect to Internet
A Best Buy Canada front page ad let the cat out of the bag before Nintendo had a chance to: Following its (by all accounts) successful launch of the Wii U, Nintendo says it’ll launch a pint-sized version of the plain-vanilla Wii.