Several weeks ago I wrote a story discussing a curious trend we have seen where the PS3 stock at major retailers have not been meeting the demand of the [...]

If you’re like me, you probably like your computer to run as fast and efficiently as possible.  One of the main ways to do this is to stop any unwanted processes from working behind the scenes and eating up your system’s resources.  You’ve most likely already gone through Windows Task Manager to stop unneeded [...]

A new experimental website, dubbed “Many Eyes,” lets users upload data they want to visualize, and try sophisticated tools to generate interactive displays.  As people share videos and photos with sites like YouTube and Flikr, now they can share more technical types of displays: graphs, charts and other visuals they create to help them [...]

On the brink of yet another hurricane threatening to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, residents are taking steps to better prepare themselves.  A new website has recently launched as a new resource to help people organize important information, digitize documents, and a variety of other helpful services to aid in getting one’s life [...]

This generation of consoles is still very much alive and kicking, with many consumers not yet having upgraded to a PS3, [...]

MySpace stalker Tom Anderson, the man who added two and half million of us as friends without asking, seems to have a more interesting past than I’d have given him credit for. In fact, Anderson is a man with a history.
Tom Anderson is actually one of the co-founders of MySpace, and its President, but most [...]

Wind power technology is changing as much as solar technology.  Generating power from the wind no longer has to look like a sea of disembodied airplane propellers hanging from tall poles.  Now wind power comes in different and oft times bizarre looks.
 
Doug Selsam created a series of wind turbines for both land and [...]

I’m sure many of us know someone in the military that has been called over to Iraq. Some of us might also know a few that bring along their tech devices like Xbox 360’s, computers, and iPods. How many of you know that iPods are used to assist soldiers in the line of duty? VCommunicator Mobile is filling that role for troops in the Middle East.

Hackers at the recent DEFCON conference demonstrated Internet flaws even more shocking than the recent DNS vulnerability. A design error that’s been known, has been exploited and probably has been used by government security agencies like the NSA.
Wired had the lowdown on the recent presentation at DEFCON by Anton "Tony" Kapela, data center and [...]

A group advocating open source has sued the Quebec government for procuring Microsoft software without open tender. It claims the government has gone against its own stipulated procedures for buying software.
The group in question, FACIL or pour l’appropriation collective de l’informatique libre, is a non-profit that promotes Free Software in Quebec. Canadian paper The Gazette [...]

YouTube video makers now have the ability to add closed captioning to their videos. The new option can make it easier for viewers to understand foreign videos as well as people who have trouble hearing.
Adding subtitles to your videos is pretty easy, all you need to do is upload a closed caption file using YouTube’s [...]

All signs point to iPod updates soon, all across the board.  Once again editors of popular tech websites/blogs have come out of the woodwork to complain about “features” that the iPod is “missing.”  Shut up Enough already.

The PS3, the Xbox 360, and the Wii are all fine consoles with some great games available to play on them. But part [...]

An Internet meme can come in all different shapes and sizes, from LOLcats to Rickrolling, and everything in between. And the latest viral to hit the Web is an Apple factory worker in China known simply as ‘iPhone Girl’.

Canon has announced three new digital cameras to its consumer line. The cameras range from $200 to $300 in price and are geared more towards entry level camera buyers. All three cameras have an “easy mode” which limits the functions available on the camera to simplify the digital camera user experience for people who may be less familiar with their camera.