While you are busy letting us know your Black Friday plans for this year over in our Question of the Day, do feel free to cheat off the paper of the 1,000 or so folks Consumer Reports called up and gr ....... Read more 17 hours ago
Online retail spending slows to a crawl in October
(CNET)
CNET - Consumer spending on e-commerce sites grew just 1 percent during October compared with the same month a year ago, according to ComScore. ....... Read more 1 day ago
10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One year Later
In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps. A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we'd check back in with each of the 10 products and see how they're ....... Read more 2 days ago
Man Pleads Guilty To Sending U.S. Space Info To China [China's Space Program]
In what's bound to be embarrassing for the Chinese space program, the president of high-tech company AMAC International has pleaded guilty to giving China military data about fueling systems for spac ....... Read more 2 days ago
Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
(CNET)
CNET - Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner. ....... Read more 2 days ago
Virgin Mobile beats Street with 3Q earnings
(AP)
AP - Wireless service provider Virgin Mobile USA Inc. posted higher-than-expected third-quarter earnings Monday despite adding fewer customers to its rolls than in the same period last year. ....... Read more 9 days ago
Can Blu-ray save Christmas for Hollywood?
(AP)
AP - Movie studio executives on Friday presented the best-case scenario for a winter holiday surge in the purchase of high-definition Blu-ray players as their best hope to keep the U.S. home video mar ....... Read more 5 days ago
Analyst: Apple Getting Crazy With Huge Deals This Black Friday? [Future Dealzmodo?]
Apple generally tends to merely dip its Designed in California toe into the Black Friday blackwaters, usually offering a one-day $100-off promotion on a single product family via online and in-store p ....... Read more 7 days ago
Starbucks Adds New Way to Get Free Wi-Fi
Starbucks has launched its Gold card, a paid membership with Wi-Fi included: The Starbucks Gold card was in testing for some time in Seattle--the outlet near my office has had a Gold logo in the windo ....... Read more 7 days ago
Wizzard Media Continues Impressive Growth
Wizzard Media announced this Monday their third-quarter results, which continued along their impressive track record of sustained growth for this year. Wizzard, the publicly traded podcast network, is ....... Read more 7 days ago
Blackberries Fail Twice as Often as iPhones, But Less Than Treos [Failure Rate]
Research group SquareTrade recently released the results of a massive cellphone study. They tracked 15,000 individual handsets over their first year of use, and they found some large discrepancies in ....... Read more 8 days ago
AP - The most recent federal disclosure forms offer a stark reminder of Microsoft Corp.'s mighty Washington presence: The software giant's tab of almost $2 million for the third quarter alone nearly e ....... Read more 8 days ago
Tracking flu trends
Like many Googlers, we're fascinated by trends in online search queries. Whether you're interested in U.S. elections, today's hot trends, or each year's Zeitgeist, patterns in Google search queries ca ....... Read more 8 days ago
Futurist centenary coming up
*It was formally published in 1909, but the guy actually wrote it in 1908. The Futurist Manifesto F. T. Marinetti, 1909 We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose ....... Read more 9 days ago
AP - The most recent federal disclosure forms offer a stark reminder of Microsoft Corp.'s mighty Washington presence: The software giant's tab of almost $2 million for the third quarter alone nearly e ....... Read more 8 days ago
Virgin Mobile beats Street with 3Q earnings
(AP)
AP - Wireless service provider Virgin Mobile USA Inc. posted higher-than-expected third-quarter earnings Monday despite adding fewer customers to its rolls than in the same period last year. ....... Read more 9 days ago
BlackBerry Storm Priced at $200, Delay Caused by Software [Rumor]
According to the deep throats at Verizon, we will have to wait a little bit longer to buy the BlackBerry Storm. The original November 14 launch date has been delayed as we'd heard because of a "softwa ....... Read more 12 days ago
BlackBerry Storm Priced, Delayed Due to Software Glitch [IPhone Killer?]
According to the deep throats at Verizon, we will have to wait a little bit longer to buy the BlackBerry Storm. The original November 14 launch date has been delayed again because of a "software glitc ....... Read more 12 days ago
Samsung Slips Into Number One Cellphone Slot, Leaves Motorola Sadly Second [Cellphones]
Samsung is now the leading cellphone vendor in the US, according to research by Strategy Analytics, and it's assumption of the top slot has pushed Motorola into second place. In the last quarter, Sams ....... Read more 13 days ago
Domus Academy competition...
Our friend Massimo from the Arduino project wrote in to tell us about this cool competition...
I'm writing to tell you about a competition at the school where I teach. Domus Academy is a design schoo ....... Read more 13 days ago