Gizmodo:
We've teamed up with the HD Guru himself, Gary Merson, to publish the absolute best five TVs you can buy right now. As you'll see (and might already notice above), there are some surprises on the list. Panasonic Z1 Panasonic's flagship HDTV is its thinnest 54-inch plasma HDTV ever, with only 1-inch depth. They did it by el (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything (Read More)
Mashable!:
Sony is one of world’s best known brands when it comes to home electronics, gadgetry, and entertainment. However, the landscape has changed in recent years. You can have the best media player around, but if you don’t offer users a place where they can easily get content for it, it won’t be competitive. And it’s been proven (Read More)
Engadget:
Well, well, looks like Cloud Engines, Inc. is doing what it can to poise Pogoplug as a much more consumer-friendly device, both in hardware design and expanded web interface. The second generation Pogoplug solves one of our chief complaints of the first -- namely, four USB ports instead of just one -- while at the same time (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
Amid ongoing debates over the hazards of excessive digital exposure through such Web 2.0 social networking platforms as Facebook and Twitter, a new book by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger extols the virtues of forgetfulness.Since the emergence of digital technology and global networks, forgetting has become an exception, Mayer-Sch (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick's dreaded brain chip for controlling computers and mobile devices may be closer than even he suspected.Intel researchers in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh! - told journalists today that brain implants are harnessing human brain waves to surf the Internet, manipulate documents, and much more. And just a (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Google made an announcement! It was an OS, in case you haven't heard. But it was also something else: a long-term, high-risk bet about the future of the internet. Here's what Google needs to happen for Chrome to make it. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about Chrome OS 1.0. You can build that now and (maybe) install it on (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Google made an announcement! It was an OS, in case you haven't heard. But it was also something else: a long-term, high-risk bet about the future of the internet. Here's what Google needs to happen for Chrome to make it. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about Chrome OS 1.0. You can build that now and (maybe) install it on (Read More)
Engadget:
You may bang on the legacy airlines, but American Airlines has a good thing going here with Gogo. The outfit has just completed installation of in-flight WiFi on 150 of its MD-80 aircraft, and in order to give you a better idea of how to prepare, it's now launching an online widget that'll let you know if your bird will ena (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Web application Shape Collage quickly turns your online photos into embeddable photo collages with nothing more than a few clicks. It's a interesting way to showcase your pictures online without a lot of work. Making your own collage requires simply adding URLs to the individual photos, or in the case of sites like Flickr, (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows: Gaming is fun. Organizing your all you personal video games isn't. Sisimizi takes the hassle out of managing your collection so you can get back to raiding villages and killing zombies. Sisimizi Game Catalog is a free, open-source database application that supports classic and recent video game consoles. It retriev (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Steve Westly, former California State Controller and current operator of the venture firm Westly Group, says he got interested in the smart grid and clean tech in order to save the world and make massive amounts of money in the process. Greeting the assembled crowd warmly and expressing a great deal of excitement to be pres (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it's different than other operating systems. Here are the features, functions, and screenshots you'll want to know about. Want the short version, sketched out on a notepad, uploaded as a video, and narrated with a caref (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You can buy an HDTV, a nice big one, for six hundred bucks. Or you can pay six thousand. It's presumably somehow better. You're probably wondering, "What the hell makes it better?" Here's the breakdown: To be clear, we're only looking sets that are at least 46 inches—go big or go home. And though there are some nice 720p pl (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ten days after Google's Sidewiki was accused of lifting features from annotation startup Reframe It, the little company is striking back. In a video interview with Reframe It CEO Bobby Fishkin, ReadWriteWeb learned why this 15-person team thinks they've got a fighting shot at besting the search Goliath. SponsorThe idea for (Read More)