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Motorcycling at the speed of sound – well almost

Motorcycles come in a full range of styles. Everything from a little…

Steven Hodson

Time cheats on Time 100 vote to avoid giving the prize to 4chan’s Moot

When the result isn’t going the way you want it to, there’s…

Duncan Riley

MySpace Introduces Integrated Photo Editing Tool

MySpace has introduced a new option to let users edit photos from…

Bertel King, Jr

Gmail ‘Undo Send’: Is This Really Useful at All?

Gmail unveiled a new “Undo Send” feature in its Labs menu this…

Bertel King, Jr

Screw the Back to the Future Hoverboard – these rule!

I’m not a skater, ice or otherwise, as I have this thing…

Steven Hodson

What Was SxSWi 2009’s Twitter?

Obviously, in 2006 Twitter made their bones by being generally awesome amongst…

Duncan Riley

And you thought you could keep all that rainwater

There is a growing trend in the U.S. and Canada as well…

Steven Hodson

Google provides some slapdown on who really serves DMCA notices

Copyright laws around the world are in the process of being re-written…

Steven Hodson

Clicky stats gets even better with new “Megaspy” feature

Web stats service Clicky has rolled out the beta of “Megaspy,” a…

Duncan Riley

Celebrity blog network Buzz Media takes $12.5 million

Celebrity blog network Buzz Media (formerly Buzznet), which owns the Celebuzz sites…

Duncan Riley

VIDEO: Terrafugia Transition, the Flying Car of the Future

Watch out, Marty McFly: The Delorean time machine isn’t going to be…

Bertel King, Jr

Pure Digital Technologies Being Bought By Cisco

Pure Digital Technologies , a startup focused on building tiny “Flip Video”…

Bertel King, Jr

Google soon to be banned in Australia under draconian censorship laws

Recent action by the Australian Government may see Google and many other…

Duncan Riley

The U.K. wants your Twitter chatter under surveillance

Not happy with pushing the EU Data Retention Directive which would make…

Steven Hodson

Psystar shoots another one across the bow of Apple

Not satisfied with waiting for and court decisions as the legality of…

Steven Hodson

Father of the web gets conned on the web

On one hand this story could be funny and on the other…

Steven Hodson

ChaCha Announces New Funding, New Layoffs

ChaCha, the personalized mobile answers service, has secured $12 million in new…

Bertel King, Jr

Military blocks its own “safe” version of YouTube

The US Defense Department has blocked access to military friendly video sharing…

Duncan Riley

We haz ur flight status

It might not be some cute LOLcat letting you know the status…

Steven Hodson

iPhone 3.0: The Simple List of What’s New

Apple announced its new iPhone 3.0 operating system Tuesday afternoon. The 3.0…

Bertel King, Jr

Ditch the Lexus for a bus with first class goodness

There is a new bus service starting up that will connect Marin…

Steven Hodson

Nokia Cuts 1,700 Jobs

Nokia is laying off 1,700 workers worldwide — the latest in a…

Bertel King, Jr

SxSWi: A Festival, Not a Conference

Despite having been a native Texan for most of my life, this…

Duncan Riley

Loic Lemeur Explains the Future of Seesmic [sxsw]

I was actually on my way to the blogger lounge to go…

Duncan Riley

Oz Wrap: TPN Broke, Wikileaks Censored, Fake Stephen Conroy outed

This is the first of our occasional posts on Australian web, tech…

Duncan Riley

Facebook doesn’t believe it really is Mitnick

Will all the interesting press coming out about how Facebook is taking…

Steven Hodson

Some thoughts about SXSW and uStream

While I wasn’t able to attend the SXSW conference on my own…

Steven Hodson

Entrecard launches Paid Ad Network

Blog ad sharing network Entrecard is entering the paid ad space with…

Duncan Riley

Kevin Rose launches WeFollow: a Twitter user directory

Digg founder Kevin Rose has entered the Twitter services game with a…

Duncan Riley

Charge your batteries in less time than getting a coffee

One of the biggest problems we face when it comes to things…

Steven Hodson

If You Want the Future, Look to the Hackers

Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins is at SXSW and will filing reports for The…

Duncan Riley

So you think your data is safe eh

Data security is a touchy subject with many security companies trying to…

Steven Hodson

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is Here

The much-delayed Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is now out in the open…

Bertel King, Jr