It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-book reader: $199 at eBay (today only)
As part of eBay’s daily deals, Barnes & Noble is offering $50 off its color Nook e-book reader. Use coupon code CBARNESDD at checkout to get the savings.
This deal is good today only, while supplies last.
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Everybody loves those hidden gem restaurants, but it’s hard to find them without occasionally having a misstep. Luckily, there’s an app for that.
With the help of FourSquare, donteat.at will let you know if a restaurant is likely a lovable hole-in-the-wall or an actual health code violation. Despite its somewhat bitter moniker, …
As our software gets updates, so does that old-fashioned gum-flappin’ language we use to describe our techy lives. To that end, Oxford Dictionaries Online has expanded their database, giving us definitions of terms from clickjacking to bloggable.
First, a snippet of the tech-world words coming online:
bandwidth (secondary …
Run, robots! Run!
You missed one doozy of a marathon in Osaka, Japan over the weekend. “The world’s first full-length marathon for two-legged robots,” as reported by the AFP, took two days to finish at an average speed of less than half a mile per hour. The kicker, though, is that the race was decided by one second.
The winner was …
The race is officially on to squeeze in as many last-minute iPad 2 rumors into this week’s stream of technology news as possible. Apple will be unveiling the new iPad on Wednesday, which means a slow tech news week everywhere else until the actual announcement takes place.
Up on the docket today: a white bezel with a camera hole, …
TechnologizerGoogle
On Friday, after several months of atypically harsh coverage of the quality of Google’s search results–see here and here–the planet’s dominant search engine rolled out some major changes. (It says it’s been working on them for months, since before the recent discontent surfaced.) A few quick notes about the update and related …
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
iPad 2: also comes in white?
Link: 9to5Mac
Will the iPad 2—expected this Wednesday—also come in white? Either that, or aftermarket accessory makers may already be building white …
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards are this Sunday, and while you might not have a ticket, it doesn’t mean the only way you can experience the ceremony is by watching it from your couch.
Here are some ways to expand your Oscar viewing experience. We can’t guarantee that it will help you win any of your office pools, but it beats just …
Listen: If you’ve played almost any Wii game since the console’s launch more than four years ago, it’s probably not escaped you that many of the gestures–the waggle, the pump and the thrust, for example–can be rather, erm, porn-y.
But for all the Wii-nis jokes that sexualized the functionality of the revolutionary Wii remote, that …
Dwayne McDuffie, the comics and animation writer, editor and producer who died this week following complications from surgery, wasn’t a particularly flashy writer: His aesthetic was to get out of the way of the way of the story. But he was a forward-thinking creator, and he quietly wrote a stack of comics and animated TV shows that stuck …
Okay, gather ’round. Gather ’round. Here’s the skinny on what we may or may not see out of Apple’s iPad 2 announcement next Wednesday.
Like every other site on the internet, I have no identifiable and/or credible sources for this information. These are merely my own bets as a handsome titan of the tech media—feel free to leave …
Google has added electronic books to its increasingly popular Android Market, further expanding the influence of the web store. As of Thursday, users were able to access and purchase electronic versions of popular titles, reports Engadget. But wait, there’s more.
Going to http://market.android.com/movies/ and …