Ever have one of those days, where you accidentally expunge half your hard drive’s contents, then realize, shattered, that you don’t have a backup? Me too, and we can add WikiLeaks—the nonprofit private industry and state secret bean-spiller—to the brotherhood of the crushed and traumatized.
Or at least add in part. It depends …
Did you hear the news? HP’s new TouchPad tablet has been discounted to $99 in the midst of the company’s hasty exit from the tablet and smartphone game. It’s not going to be easy to get your hands on one, but here’s a list of places you can try if you’re willing to commit to some serious bargain hunting.
(MORE: HP’s WebOS Failure …
Would a phone-based alert system have saved lives in Japan, had one been available for iOS users when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that raised a wall of water devastating much of Japan’s Pacific coastline hit in early March this year? Apple’s betting yes. Cupertino’s adding a special earthquake notification widget to the Japanese version …
Go ahead and watch that funny cat video your co-worker sent. Chances are you’ll both be more productive afterward.
A new study found that browsing the Internet refreshes tired workers, more so than checking e-mail, sending text messages or making phone calls. Don J.Q. Chen and Vivien K.G Lim, of the National University of Singapore, …
Skype has announced that it’s acquired “GroupMe,” a group text messaging service. Financial details are still relatively unknown at this point, but AllThingsD says Skype purchased the company for around $85 million late Sunday afternoon.
(MORE: What’s Going to be Huge at SXSW? Group Messaging)
GroupMe, which lets you text with …
Late Saturday, somewhere in Libya, a blinking light on a wireless router began to pulsate. It was the first time that most of Libya’s citizens were being connected to the rest of the world since Internet access had been killed in March. Over the weekend, data connections began to trickle in and out as the rebels gained on Tripoli.
Far …
Believe it or not, Facebook is making the internet a nicer place to be.
Apparently, the use of Facebook Comments on blogs and websites is resulting in higher quality discussions, as well as the expected increase in traffic. The reason for the new civility? Facebook’s accountability.
With HP’s decision to stop making WebOS phones and tablets, one thing is painfully clear: Being like Apple is tougher than it looks.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said that his company “creates the whole widget,” from hardware to software to services. By comparison, hardware makers like Dell, Samsung and Lenovo are at the whim of …
Google announced yesterday that it has added a new layer to Google Maps. Now, on top of seeing satellite images and street maps, users can see the weather all over the world as well.
Clicking on a weather icon on the map will also show a four-day forecast, humidity and wind speed with more options to see hourly or 10-day forecasts …
Just how small a world is it, after all? A British journalist may have found that you can go from a random tweet to personal information in just nine steps, but now Yahoo! and Facebook are teaming up to find out more with the Small World Experiment.
According to Yahoo! Research, the experiment is “designed to test the hypothesis that …
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Only a weirdo would use a thirty-year-old word processor to get real work done. (I know what I’m talking about: I used word processors back then, and don’t want to go back.) There’s nothing particularly strange, however, about playing thirty-year-old electronic games.
Such as Ms. Pac-Man, for instance, a game that’s still beloved and …
While commentators on this site and others love to hate the seeming capriciousness of wireless service pricing, a recently released country-by-country comparison from CTIA, the wireless industry lobby, shows that we might not have it as bad as we think.
The U.S. has the most subscribers of any other country at 302.9 million, …
