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Google Responds to FeedBurner Critics: The Translated Version

After months of silence, someone at Google has finally crawled out from…

Duncan Riley

Crash! Boom! 3,000 people die in car accidents daily

Around the globe it is estimated that 1.2 million people die in…

Steven Hodson

YouTube Now Blocks Copyright Material First, Asks Questions Later

We’ve had some interesting run-ins with YouTube before over copyright. In December…

Duncan Riley

New Twhirl Preview Release Adds Seesmic Recording, Ping.fm Support

The next version of Twhirl, currently in preview release (so not yet…

Duncan Riley

That trip to Alcatraz is going hybrid

Approximately 1.4 million people make the trip across the bay to Alcatraz…

Steven Hodson

From $1 to an eco-tourist showpiece

So what do you do with a 172 acre dilapidated and decaying…

Steven Hodson

The Vatican launches YouTube Channel

The Vatican has joined the YouTube revolution with an official YouTube channel.…

Duncan Riley

The new cool – Facebook parents

Back when I was nearing the end of my high school years;…

Steven Hodson

The Internet is using more power but doing it better

As the Internet grows and more and more people are using it…

Steven Hodson

Where Are All The Online Daters?

Here’s an interesting disconnect: The number of people using online dating is…

Bertel King, Jr

Police May Soon Be Able To Stop Your Car By Texting It

Police in the U.K. are experimenting with a system that’d give them…

Bertel King, Jr

Want: iFrame Touchscreen Pad Computer

Olivier Seres has shared a demo of his “Tactile Minitel” (codename iframe),…

Duncan Riley

Run for cover – the death of the desktop is upon us – again

I think that I have lost count with the number of times…

Steven Hodson

24 hours of plane travel

The number of airplanes of all kinds that are in the air…

Steven Hodson

Washington Post Launches WhoRunsGov.com

The Washington Post Company has launched a new interactive government site called…

Bertel King, Jr

Digg Prepares For Job Cuts, Expanded Sales Focus

On the heels of Microsoft’s layoffs announcement , Digg has now announced…

Bertel King, Jr

Microsoft Layoffs 2009: 5,000 Jobs Cut

Microsoft may have been named one of the “Fortune 100 Best Companies…

Bertel King, Jr

Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For In 2009

Fortune Magazine has released its annual “Fortune 100” list of the best…

Bertel King, Jr

What’s Twitter’s Real Motive for the API Cuts?

The tech blogosphere is in a flutter over a decision by Twitter…

Duncan Riley

Journeying to the world’s largest dump on a raft of plastic bottles

Right now there is a plastic soup of garbage floating in the…

Steven Hodson

The Power Struggle of Renewable Power and getting it to the people

With the new Obama government now in power and with a growing…

Steven Hodson

Trends in Blog Advertising for 2009

As we wrote January 14 , the web advertising market is taking…

Duncan Riley

The laptop to survive an atomic bomb

Well okay maybe this heavy duty sucker of a laptop won’t survive…

Steven Hodson

Mozilla Test Pilot: Watching Your Web Habits (With Permission)

Mozilla is preparing to launch a new open data collection program called…

Bertel King, Jr

The New WhiteHouse.gov: More Open to Search Engines

President Barack Obama debuted his new WhiteHouse.gov Web site during his inauguration…

Bertel King, Jr

What about the Obama girl’s technology?

Much has been made about President Obama not wanting to give up…

Steven Hodson

Twitter Overtakes Digg In Traffic

For the first time, Twitter has now overtaken Digg in U.S.-based traffic.…

Bertel King, Jr

Inauguration was great but as usual full video is a FAIL

Video on the web has come a long way with broadband speeds…

Steven Hodson

WhiteHouse.gov Gets Obama Makeover

The official White House Web site, WhiteHouse.gov , has been relaunched to…

Bertel King, Jr

First Look: Ustream.tv Application for iPhone

Ustream.tv has launched their first iPhone application right in time for the…

Duncan Riley

Google Testing “Preferred Sites” Search Customization Tool

Google has unveiled a new search customization tool called “Preferred Sites.” The…

Bertel King, Jr

i-vu Portable Digital Magnifier

The i-vu Portable Digital Magnifier outputs magnification to a crystal clear 2?…

Duncan Riley

How about revolutionizing the causes of slums instead

Poverty is an inescapable fact of our world regardless of where you…

Steven Hodson