Mashable!:
In a lot of ways I am really glad that my children have grown and left home. When they were growing up all we as parents had to worry about was sex, drugs and rock n‘ roll. Now parents have to worry about sex, drugs and the I (Read More)
Engadget:
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Misc. GadgetsIt's hard to say when we, the consumers, will actually see any real benefit from the latest noteworthy discovery from Northeastern University, but we can only imagine that Srinivas S (Read More)
Engadget:
Filed under: Displays, HDTVSony's taken the crown in the race for thinnest LCD HDTV. At just 9.9mm thick the KDL-40ZX1 nearly halves the depth of Hitachi's former champ (likely throwing up in the bathroom right now) and comes (Read More)
Engadget:
Filed under: Home EntertainmentIt's been a month since we first caught a glimpse of the sharp-looking Logitech Squeezebox Boom, but the wireless network speakers are official today, coming in at a list price of $299. Yeah, it (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
There has been a lot of speculation recently about an impending update to iTunes. Version 8.0, among other things, is supposed to finally bring a recommendation engine to the digital media player application. While that's int (Read More)
Mashable!:
The battle lines have been drawn today. You’re with us or you’re against us. You’re cool and hip or lame and square. No, I’m not talking about political lines (for once), I’m talking about the ea (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it. They’re clumsy, easy to lose, and virtually useless unless you take the time to enter them into your computer’s address book (they kill trees, too). The cel (Read More)
SEO Book:
Recently a SEO working for a lead generation network sent me a letter in the mail alerting me that I could improve my website by linking to their site. They mention some of the large brands they send leads to and state that t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Aaron Sorkin has created gripping movies like A Few Good Men, and television shows like The West Wing. Now, he’s going to write a story about the creation of Facebook. Sony’s bankrolling the feature film, with Sco (Read More)
All Things Digital:
It’s taken nearly a decade but Microsoft has finally debuted the first significant overhaul of its Web browser since Internet Explorer 5. The company released IE8 Beta 2 this afternoon, and by most accounts it’s a (Read More)
TechCrunch:
BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They’re a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from (Read More)
Mashable!:
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the d (Read More)
Lifehacker:
If you're headed back to school this semester with an iPhone or iPod touch in your pocket, you're in luck: The iTunes App Store is filled with applications to make your life easier as a student and as the hip young college ty (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Mozilla Labs crowned their picks of best new and updated Firefox 3 extensions in a recent contest, but what about best extensions of all time? Last year we ran down our must-have Firefox extensions, but it's time for a refres (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
A UK company has developed a chemical to make any material 100-percent waterproof, and it's already begun sharing it with sportswear manufacturers.On Wednesday, Plasma Product Innovation demonstrated the chemical process,maki (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab.Alcatel-Lucent, the pare (Read More)
Mashable!:
Lifestreaming service FriendFeed has launched a variety of widgets (available here) for showing off your activities on your own blog or website. The two most significant widgets are the Badge, which shows off all of the diff (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you’ve not yet heard of StumbleAudio and its claim on 2 million audio tracks of various independent flavorings, you might wish to familiarize yourself. The reason being that it’s evolved a bit since it launched last month. (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Using only information from Facebook, blogs, and resumes, security expert Herbert Thompson hacked into his friend's bank account in minutes. Makes you want to seriously rethink your answers to lost password "challenge" questi (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust features like playback speed and nu (Read More)