New York Times writer Nick Bilton has had enough of the FAA’s vague explanations of why personal electronic devices aren’t allowed during certain parts of a flight. After frequently questioning the rationale for such rules, he recently commissioned…
Archive for December, 2011
Domain registrar GoDaddy may have dropped its official support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), but this ugly chapter is far from over. According to competing registrar Namecheap, GoDaddy is doing all it can to hamper the flow of domains away fro…
Another Android device rooted and cracked open for the modding community? Yawn, right? Well, when that Android device also happens to be a watch, things get a little more interesting. The Motorola ACTV is a sports watch that runs Android and connects w…
As many of us continue to wallow in the throes of a self-induced turkey coma, it’s hard to focus on the fact that sooner or later, the holidays will give way to our regular workaday lives and all of the responsibilities that come with with it….
Ah, network attached storage; whether you’re building your own or buying premade, nothing beats a NAS box when it comes to storing and streaming media files across a network. For the most part, NAS boxes offer a stripped-down interface and very few b…
Want a little bit more Autobot in your PC’s life? While everybody was busy making a big deal out of Habro’s trademark lawsuit against the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime – ourselves included – another manufacturer quietly showed off some Transfo…
You won’t find too many people beating down virtual or brick and mortar doors to get their hands on an Acer Iconia Tab. The demand just isn’t there, not when there are sexier, slimmer, more capable, and less expensive alternatives available (some of wh…
Some people have been questioning why Google would dump nearly a billion dollars into a three-year search deal with Mozilla and its Firefox browser instead of leaving Mozilla high and dry after their existing agreement expired. Adding to the intrigue i…
AMD fans were rooting for the Santa Clara chip maker to yank the performance crown from Intel with team green’s desktop Bulldozer-based FX series processors. That didn’t happen, and it looks like the next batch of Bulldozer processors will skip the hig…
The joint LCD venture between Sony and Samsung is undergoing some changes with respect to ownership and who’s responsible for what. Under terms of a new agreement, Samsung will acquire all of Sony’s shares of S-LCD Corporation, the companies’ joint man…
