Buzzword is the name of the Flash based word processor in beta by the company, Virtual Ubiquity. While being fully acknowledged as a work in progress in the beta stage, I am one of the lucky beta-nauts testing the app out and my first thoughts are 4 out of 5 robots (hey, we had to […]

CNN had a short blurb today about a 75-year old woman who can surf the web at 40 gigabits per second. That is fast enough to download an entire movie in 2 seconds. Whoa. Sign me up! The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers […]

OpenMoko has released the developer version of its open platform cell phone called the Neo 1973. Neo 1973 is an homage to Marty Cooper who is credited with creating the first cell phone in 1973.  $300 and its yours! (more for the full bore developer kit). OpenMoko is a project to create a smartphone platform […]

Discover card will be introducing two new changes to their cardmember agreements 2aDay is told.  The changes will go ito effect after October 1, 2007.  Income from fees associated with credit cards is where banks make their dough not from reinvesting overnight the balances owed etc. Fee income is king to bankers but it should […]

Hmmm…new iphone or new PS3? Even at $499, the PS3 is over priced imo. For those that have been holding out, perhaps now is the time to shop away? Slashdot throws some more digital ink at the subject here. Riccitello is harping about making better games over at EA (Metroxing and I are both multi […]

Scambaiting sounds bad for you until you realize it is a small movement by very crafty, computer-savvy citizens out to scam the scammers. They take pride in messing with the nefarious minds that cook up these scams and I am all for it. By now you have heard about one of the many internet scams […]

Yes, film fans…the film that is so bad it is great, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die!, has passed into the public domain! That means you can stream it on Google Video here or download it from the Internet Archive to your own computer here. Of course, the brilliant send up by the folks at MST3K […]

So, you wanna juice up dat phat new iphone?  She’s gonna hoover yer wallet for at least $60 bones per month people. The plan includes voice, unlimited ‘data’ (I’d like to know what they classify as ‘data’), and some new feature which allows users to scroll through their email just like ye olde regular inbox […]

Recently, as one of the writers of this blog, I made the decision to add a music widget called Sonific to this blog.  Apparently, the music player, Sonific, was hard to see even though it appears at the very top right of the blog each day.  It appears that the addition has had mixed reviews […]

What do private equity firms see in the print magazine model?  Quadrangle Capital Partners II is rumored to have bought Maxim, Blender, and Stuff for $240 Million U.S.  While that includes their web sites (about 4 million uniques collectively each month), the magazines (which collectively earn about 400 ad pages monthly) the deal also includes […]