Feb 27, 2009

Wired: Gadget Lab Apple's iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it's being offered for free.What's wrong with the iPhone, from a Japanese perspective? Almost everything: The high monthly data plans that go with it, its paucity of features, the low-quality camera, the unfashionable design, (Read More)

Feb 27, 2009

Submitted by Theatremonkey: February 27, 2009 - The fact sends chills down television reporters' spines even as they compulsively repeat it: Last year, earthquakes in Japan, China, Los Angeles and San Francisco were first reported not on TV but on the Internet's Twitter social-networking site."It tells you something about the far-reaching tentacles (Read More)

Jan 07, 2009

Submitted by Theatremonkey: San Franciscan Christopher Norberg went to a chiropractor after being injured in a car accident in 2006. After a disagreement with the chiropractor over billing, he posted a negative review of the business on Yelp suggesting that the doctor was dishonest. Now he is facing a defamation lawsuit that could chill self-expressio (Read More)

Dec 23, 2008

SlipperyBrick.com 3D technology will soon will make it’s way into the PS3 game console. Apparently a source has revealed that Sony has a plan to support stereoscopic 3D gaming and Blu-ray 3D movies on their PS3 game console next year with Blitz Games Studios’s Blitz Tech 3D engine. Neil Schneider, President and CEO of Meant to be Seen, (Read More)

Dec 23, 2008

Wired: Gadget Lab We don't often discuss the publicity for products, but these two ads for Nikon's Coolpix S60 are smart and funny enough to point out. Both show off the camera's face detection technology. The one above is smart, but the one below is plain hilarious.You'll have to click through to see it, as it may not be safe for work if yo (Read More)

Dec 23, 2008

Submitted by Theatremonkey: But veteran character actor and longtime Simi Valley resident Mickey Jones argues that the labor dispute revolves around people who just happen to work for Hollywood."The public," Jones said, "looks at actors and says, 'Who cares? Tom Cruise made $26 million for his last film.' I wish (people) would understand that it's not (Read More)

Dec 18, 2008

Submitted by Theatremonkey: December 18, 2008 - LOS ANGELES - A dozen film industry workers protested outside a town hall meeting of the Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday night, pleading with actors not to authorize a strike that would bring the entertainment business to a halt. The workers held up signs saying "Please No Strike Now - The Crew" in the (Read More)

Dec 17, 2008

Submitted by Theatremonkey: December 17, 2008 - LOS ANGELES -- Delivering a rebuke to the leadership of the Screen Actors Guild, more than 130 actors signed a letter urging their colleagues to reject a strike-authorization vote in January."We don't think that an authorization can be looked at as merely a bargaining tool," said the letter, signed by (Read More)

Dec 05, 2008

SlipperyBrick.com Google’s open-source Android cell phone operating system can be found on the T-Mobile G1, but soon the G1 will no longer be alone. The Agora from Australian cell phone maker Kogan will be the next to feature Android.Sure, it looks like the lovechild of a Blackberry Bold, and a Samsung Blackjack, but that just means th (Read More)

Dec 02, 2008

Submitted by Theatremonkey: December 2, 2008 - Free broadband for America has inched closer to reality: The plan, after two years of debate, is finally on the calendar for a full vote by the Federal Communications Commission.Assuming the plan is approved at the FCC's Dec. 18 meeting, one of the agency's last before President-elect Barack Obama takes o (Read More)

Nov 29, 2008

Submitted by Theatremonkey: Found this nugget on the Wall Street Journal site. Thanks to Matt Wells at the needtheatre blog for the link. Raises an interesting question: Where are all the Conservative plays? Which raises an even MORE interesting query: Is theatre and conservativism anti-thetical?In the article, Terry Teachout (great name!) puts it thi (Read More)

Nov 26, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: Google Mobile uses undocumented techniques that are supposed to be off-limits to iPhone developers in order to make its verbal search feature work with an iPhone sensor. (Read More)

Nov 25, 2008

Submitted by Bwana from Google Reader: Filed under: Misc, Blu-ray, Media streamers, Other hardwareIt seems like just yesterday (or last month, to be more exact) that we were enjoying the spoils of firmware 2.50, and now, Sony's giving us a little pre-Thanksgiving treat with version 2.53. Slated to hit the wires sometime on November 26th, the latest PlayStation 3 (Read More)

Nov 25, 2008

Submitted by Bwana from Google Reader: AP - Traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been detected in samples of top-selling U.S. infant formula, but federal regulators insist the products are safe. (Read More)

Nov 26, 2008

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