I admit it; the idea of suggesting that any kind of political protest can end up having “winners” and “losers” feels more than a little as if I’ve missed the point of protesting, or at least have a particularly biased interest in …
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Search, Plus Your World: Google’s Risky Gambit
The web giant just mashed up its search engine and social network — and the results so far are unsatisfying.
World’s Smallest Gaming Desktop! Wait, Do We Still Need Desktops?
Remember what Charles Ingalls used to call daughter Laura on Little House on the Prairie? That’s right, “Half Pint.” Those two words popped into my brainpan when I got a look at Alienware’s new X51, something it calls its …
Zappos Hacked: Expert Says You Need a Better Password
Zappos.com has taken pains to assure customers that their credit card information is safe after a data breach, which was reported over the weekend, compromised information of up to 24 million customers, including names, mailing …
SOPA Protests Gain Steam as Web Activists Flex Growing Clout
Google Slows Web Crawler to Reduce Penalization of Blacked-Out Sites
Apparently Google’s protest of SOPA goes beyond a black Google Doodle. Its engineers have also slowed down the search engine’s web crawlers, meaning sites that are blacked out today in protest won’t suffer as much in Google’s …
Finally, a $3,200 Espresso Machine with a Built-in Fingerprint Scanner
Sure, you may be well-heeled enough to have your very own top-of-the-line espresso machine, but does yours have a fingerprint scanner? Assuming it does NOT, I bet you find yourself using your inferior espresso machine every …
Shoppers Open iPad Boxes to Find Bags of Clay Instead
Clay! It’s nature’s iPad. Drag your finger across it to create drawings, multitask by molding it into the shape of a camera or typewriter, see what your friends are up to by ripping a hole in it and peering through.
Shoppers …
Jerry Yang’s Exit Clears Path for Yahoo Sale or Breakup
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang will surely be remembered as one of the great pioneers of the Internet industry, but in the end, he couldn’t overcome the consequences of the most important decision of his career: spurning …
Rumor Roundup: What to Expect from Apple’s Education Event
Apple is holding an education-themed event in New York on Thursday – the show begins at 10am, and we’ll have a liveblog churning away right here if you want to follow along. While the company is always tight-lipped about its …
iPhone 4S Helps Apple Inch Up on Android in U.S.
While Android’s growth has slowed in the United States, Apple’s smartphone market share got a big boost from the iPhone 4S, according to Nielsen.
Every month, Nielsen surveys people who bought new smartphones over the last …
MPAA Chairman Calls SOPA Blackouts a ‘Dangerous’ Gimmick
If you thought that today’s blackout by Wikipedia, Reddit, the Cheezburger Network and other sites was a legitimate political protest against SOPA and PIPA, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chairman Chris Dodd would …