The Facebook-related firings have begun: A teacher’s aide in Michigan was let go from her job after a school administrator demanded that she turn over her Facebook password and she refused. The aide, Kimberly Hester, is preparing for a legal showdown with the school system.
‘Xenoblade Chronicles’: Winning Friends, Shooting Hoops and Ducking Robots
There’s a long-awaited Wii roleplaying game out this Friday that you’ll want to start thinking about now, assuming you didn’t import the English-translation version when it hit Europe and Australia last fall. It’s called …
Flying Cars: Finally Here… Kind Of
Whenever I imagine a flying car, which is quite often for some reason, it usually looks like something out of The Jetsons or Back to the Future. Sadly, today’s flying cars look more like lackluster Transformers.
Not that the …
Feds Bust the Mother of All Robocalling Rings
If you were pestered by telemarketers any time between January 2008 and August 2009, there’s a good chance that at least some of the calls came from an operation that was just squashed by the Federal Trade Commission.
via Federal Trade Commission Busts Huge Robocalling Ring | Moneyland | TIME.com.
‘Kinect Star Wars’ Horrifies Fans with Cheesy Dance Minigame
A long time ago at a convention center far, far away, Microsoft promised gamers a Star Wars adventure using the Xbox 360’s Kinect motion-sensing camera. You’d wield a lightsaber by swinging your arms, while tossing Stormtroopers …
Apple Stock: Too Much of a Good Thing?
As virtually everyone knows, Apple has had a sweet run of late. This year alone its stock shot up nearly 50%, four times the gains notched by the S&P 500 index. But if you’re feeling miffed that you missed out on the stock of the decade, well, maybe you didn’t miss out after all.
Is the Flat-Screen TV Boom Over?
The consumer electronics trend that had us shuffling out our perfectly good but perfectly bulky CRT televisions in favor of fancy-new flat screens appears to be ebbing.
Consumer Reports Names Apple’s New iPad as Top Tablet
Apparently the new iPad’s supposed overheating problem didn’t bother Consumer Reports too much: The nonprofit organization put it at the top of its tablet ratings released earlier today.
If you have read any iPad reviews — …
Why Groupon’s Fuzzy Math Should Worry Investors
What is it with daily-deals website Groupon and accounting?
via Why Groupon’s Fuzzy Math Should Worry Investors | Business | TIME.com.
Ashton Kutcher to Play Steve Jobs in Indie Biopic
Dude, where’s my iPad? Variety is reporting that Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in Jobs, an indie film about the late Apple co-founder and CEO, who passed away last October.
Joshua Michael Stern, who directed and wrote …
What’s in the Next Xbox? Blu-ray, ‘Always Online’ Requirement Claims Site
It sounds like nonsense because it probably is: an Xbox with a Blu-ray drive? But that’s what VG247’s claiming, that the next Xbox — they’re dubbing it the Xbox 720, which you can bet is precisely what Microsoft won’t call …
April Fools’ Day 2012: The Best Pranks from Around the Web
Each April 1, websites attempt to fool us all with the latest-and-greatest product that in the end turns out to be simply a joke. But it doesn’t stop us from hoping that someday these “breakthroughs” become more than just a …