New from the people at WordPress is Jetpack, a helpful add-on for those who manage their own personal copies of the popular blogging software.
WordPress is by far the best-known and most-used blog tool around these days, and it comes in two delicious flavors: WordPress.com is a fully hosted service, operated and maintained by the …
The stylus may have been left behind in the age of multi-touch, but Microsoft researchers think they’ve got a way to give it new life.
Microsoft Research has posted images and video (via Engadget) of a stylus that changes functions based on how you hold it. For example, a typical pen grip allows for handwriting, but holding the stylus …
This week we learned that cable and satellite TV companies are beginning to show targeted advertisements to viewers. That is, they can beam custom-tailored commercials to individual households even if they’re tuned to the same program.
For example, a 17-year-old male watching Watson on Jeopardy! might get a commercial for the Xbox, …
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of the rumor mill moving from one Apple product to the next.
With the launch of Apple’s iPad 2 a day away, speculation now turns to the iPhone 5 — or whatever it will be called. According to Boy Genius Report, the next iPhone will run on the same A5 chip that powers the latest iPad. The rumor is …
Beyond Good & Evil won a second chance at life when the uprezzed BG&E HD came out last week. It’s been eight years since the original version came out, back in the heyday of the PS2, Xbox 1.0 and GameCube, and the high-def re-release lets the game find a new crop of fans. But that’s not enough for me.
Do you feel a propensity to sign up for one email domain over another? Have you noticed that most of your address book consists of people who use Google Chat or Yahoo! Messenger? Just don’t get why people would stick with one old domain over another?
Hunch looked through the stats of their users and asked them about which of the four …
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The iPad doesn’t show up at retail stores until 5pm on Friday, but the first reviews of big tech products usually break on Wednesday evenings–and so a bunch of major sites rendered their verdicts on Apple’s second-generation tablet tonight.
There are no …
The following is a guest post by Thor Muller, the co-founder and CTO of Get Satisfaction.
Years ago my mother cornered me, as she often does. “What’s going to be the next big thing?” she asked me.
“Telepathy,” I blurted. I was being cheeky, of course. But I wasn’t far off, as she now reminds me. The last decade has been a race to …
According to a UK-based psychotherapist, playing video games for two hours is like doing a line of cocaine. No, really, that’s just what he said. As in lowering your nose to a mirror lined with white powdery coca bits and inhaling.
“Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces …
Microsoft’s “Kinect” hands-free motion control peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever.
Kinect “sold through an average of 133,333 units per day, for a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days on sale,” says Guinness. The “sold through” part …
The war between the search engines and the spammers continues, with up-and-coming Google alternative Blekko wielding the stick against over a million spam sites.
Its action is quite different to Google’s recent efforts to foil the PageRank scammers. Google ranks its results and gives each one a PageRank score. Over the years, spam …
Perhaps in an effort to whip up Apple-esque levels of pre-launch hype, Microsoft has announced that it will hold the global launch of Internet Explorer 9 at South by South West next week: Monday 14th, at 9pm Pacific time.
The first IE9 beta was released in September last year; a Release Candidate version (sort of halfway between a …