Microsoft parks “I’m a PC” recording booth outside Apple Store

 
The battle is heating up and you are going to have to pick a side. Smear campaigns have been initiated, no I am not talking about the Presidential election. We are talking PC vs Mac, and it looks like PC has taken it to a new level or new low.
 
After Apple started running its “I’m [...]

Tesla Hits the Brakes

 

Beauty meet efficiency  

Economic are hitting the electric car market as well now. Citing “extraordinary times,” Tesla Motors, maker of the battery-powered, $109,000 Roadster, said Wednesday that difficult market conditions were forcing it to delay production of its next-generation vehicle, close two offices, lay off an unspecified number of employees and replace its chief executive.
Tesla has been held up [...]

Going Green, Bad for our Health?

Apparently being green isn’t always easy. According to a new Dutch study shows that both biofuels and carbon capture technologies could have and “unfavorable effect” on air quality.
It found “uncertainties” about the effect of using biofuels. It warned that blending biofuels in diesel or gasoline can create increased emissions of air pollutants and that using blends with [...]

GOOGLE adds SMS Chat

 
About time. I mean come on haven’t all the greatest minds stopped working on the cure for cancer and gotten a job at Google? What took so long.  
Thats right, users of Google’s Gmail service can now send text message chats to mobile phones when using the webapp’s built-in Chat feature.
Nice and simple. Just be [...]

Google to sell books online

Around four years ago Google started scanning out of print books supposedly to add as searches. This resulted in publishers getting a little worried and filing a law-suit. As this happened Google began scanning in-print books and now have over 7 million books scanned. Now Google and the Authors Guild are coming to an agreement to the [...]

EA to slash workforce

 
Even EA, Electronic Arts, is being affected by the current financial climate. Cnet reports that EA will be slashing the workforce 6 percent, or 580 jobs. Not even the success of Rock Band will save those jobs. Apparently the Madden curse continues.

Verizon Meet Alltel

What will the new commercials be like? That really is my only question. Merger yada, yada, what are the ad campaigns going to be like, or will we have to wait for the superbowl? All of my ranting is due to the DOJ approving Verizon’s acquisition of Alltel. Which will make them the #1 wireless carry in the [...]

iPhone for $99!

Hopefully you didn’t just wet yourself. As exciting as it sounds it has not happened… yet. According to market analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham Research it could happen and soon:
The financial expert estimates that the average, unsubsidized price of an iPhone 3G in the summer was $666 and so would give Apple a nearly 50 [...]

Be Glad You Have Allergies!?

What? Why? I have so long harassed my mother for giving me the wonderful genetics responsible for my allergies. Seeing how I have only found them to be a nuisance. It now seems I should be thanking her. Why? In recent news, Science News shows that having allergies may actually protect you from getting cancer!  So gesundheit and be glad [...]

Capital Gate, uhh where’s the Gate?

Now before you go checking to see if you need to put a coaster under one of your chair’s legs let me explain that the 18 degree tilt you see is intentional. This beautiful structure, being currently constructed in Abu Dhabi, has been submitted to Guinness Book of Records as the most inclined building [...]