Military Bans Removable Media In an interesting twist in the WikiLeaks saga, the U.S. military has banned the use of all CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every other form of removable media. The punishment isn’t death, but transferring files via Sneakernet may risk a court martial. Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network [...]
It’s that time of year again and, based on “the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year,” Google shows Nicki Minaj as the 4th fastest-rising search query of 2010. She comes in right behind Justin Beiber in 3rd. Google says that “Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010.” If you’re like [...]
Engadget has exclusive video of the Playstation Phone, now being called the ‘Zeus Z1,’ in action. Specifically, the video shows the phone running Qualcomm’s Neocore benchmark app. The phone was only able to push 24.4fps, while a similar test run on the new Nexus S did closer to 55.6fps. 24fps is probably not going to [...]
It looks like Google is making good on their promise to send out free CR-48 netbooks in order to get the public using Google Chrome OS. The generic, not-so-shiny netbooks have already been reviewed by a number of sites. First impressions are positive. It’s important to remember that the goal here isn’t for Google to [...]
One could say it all started when WikiLeaks a series of U.S. diplomatic cables. These are documents containing information about our government that were supposed to be secret. Shortly after the release of these documents, the WikiLeaks website was attacked, which prompted a move to Amazon for hosting. From there, things moved pretty fast. Amazon [...]
Notion Ink has opened up pre-orders for their Adam tablet device today. There are some limitations though. If you haven’t been active on the Notion Ink blog, you may be out of luck. I don’t want anyone who follows this blog to wait any more . We all are special and should get some extra [...]
Sony announced today that the Sony Dash, which is pretty much a tricked out alarm clock that doubles as a nifty tablet, can now get Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu Plus subscribers will now gain access to the service’s “robust current TV offerings” directly on Dash. This includes “thousands” of the latest TV episodes, movies [...]
The Nexus Two…uh…Nexus S officially launched yesterday and those who have had a chance to use the device have some nice things to say. The quality Samsung hardware combined with the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system make for a very snappy and pleasing experience. As Slashgear points out, the Nexus S brings a “glossy [...]
Today at the D: Dive into Mobile conference, OnLive demonstrated a few features of their service that have raised a few eyebrows. Not only are they sporting the fastest supercomputer in the world, but the service has implications for more than just games. To demonstrate this power, they’ve launched a free mobile application. OnLive, Inc., [...]
At a live event in San Francisco today, Google officially launched Chrome OS, a lightweight and fast operating system based on the similarly speedy Chrome web browser. The event kicked off with a little background on Chrome and an update on just how fast it has become. When Chrome was first announced two years ago, [...]
Digitimes reports that Toshiba is developing a set of 3 tablets which will debut at CES 2011 in about a month. Each of the three tablets will run one of Android, Google Chrome OS, or Windows 7. The three new tablet PCs are expected to adopt different operating systems: Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Google’s Android [...]
Google has officially launched their Google eBooks service, which we previously referred to as Google Editions. According to Google, the service offers 3 million eBooks from your choice of book sellers and devices. Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we [...]
As of 6pm EST, the Tumblr social blogging service has been down. Approximately 16hrs later, it’s still down, displaying a message on the site that says “We’ll be back shortly.” Last I checked, 16hrs is quite a far cry from “shortly.” Early on, Tumblr fans across the Web took to their Twitters, Facebooks, and even [...]
This weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on 60 Minutes. Many are calling the interview a simple PR move by Facebook. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg interviewed with Kara Swisher of All Things D. The main take-away from that interview was that Zuckerberg sweats a lot. Not a good image to carry around when you’re the [...]
Google Makes Being Bad to Customers Bad for Business The New York Times reported that one company, Decor My Eyes, was able to game the Google algorithms to get customers. The twist here is that they didn’t find some slick tech exploit or technique, they just engaged in a campaign of harassment against the costumer. This garnered [...]
