Ben Bajarin is the director of consumer-technology analysis and research at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Want a Google Account? Now You’re Automatically Signed Up for Google+
Google+ is on the rise! Google CEO Larry Page just announced that the company’s social network hit 90 million members. Even the White House is in on the action, setting up its own Google+ page so you can chill with your favorite …
iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Get Proper Jailbreaks at Last
Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 proved particularly difficult to jailbreak, but the hackers have finally prevailed.
The so-called Corona A5 jailbreak is the first “untethered” hack for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, meaning users can …
Megaupload’s Takedown: How Is Swizz Beatz Involved?
Swizz Beatz, a.k.a Kasseem Dean or Mr. Alicia Keys, was officially listed on Megaupload’s website as its CEO prior to the site’s shutdown, but he hasn’t been implicated in the lawsuit that led to the site’s takedown. In …
Please Witness the Jolliest 404 Error Page in Internet History
I have no idea what’s happening at this 404 page, but I don’t care.
Coincidentally, if you get a message saying “500 Internal Server Error”, just refresh it a few times. You should ultimately be treated to a dancing stick …
Kid Recreates Skyrim on TI-84 Graphing Calculator
Back in my day, kids used their graphing calculators to play games with boring, vague names like “Snake” and “Brick Breaker.” Not this intrepid student, who programmed his TI-84 Plus graphing calculator to give school kids …
Wrist-Worn ‘Nike+ FuelBand’ Latest in Daily Fitness-Tracking Gizmos
SOPA Officially ‘Postponed’ Until Further Notice – PIPA, Too
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) released a statement saying he’d be shelving the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill he’d authored in light of recent criticism. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) issued a similar …
TouchTV: A Simple App for Snack-Size TV on the iPad
Personally, I don’t like watching long videos on the iPad. There’s too much other stuff to do, and I can’t sit still through an entire movie or TV show without succumbing to the tablet’s many other distractions.
So TouchTV, a …
Google Shares Plunge 9% After Results Disappoint Wall Street
Apple’s iBooks Textbooks: 4 Reasons to Be Skeptical
I should know better than to look at a new Apple creation and call it an outright failure. The company’s batting average is too high lately. There’s not a lot of room for nay-saying.
Still, I think a dose of skepticism doesn’t …
10 Sites Skewered by Anonymous, Including FBI, DOJ, U.S. Copyright Office
By the time East Coasters were finishing dinner last night, 10 websites had fallen to what hacktivist group Anonymous calls its “low orbit ion cannon,” or LOIC — a public domain software tool named after a weapon in a popular …