Ever wonder what happened to those guys who found an iPhone 4 prototype in a German beer garden in California last year and sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000? Yesterday, the tale reached a conclusion as Brian Hogan and his friend Sage Wallower both pleaded no contest to misdemeanor theft charges. The two receive one […]
Confrontational advocate of the open source computing model, Richard Stallman, blogged his own version of a eulogy for Steve Jobs last week. As a line item in his political notes section of his personal website, Stallman wrote, “Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their […]
Yelp finally did what doctors and health education teachers all over the world couldn’t do. The search and review website has started the slow process of doing away with cancer and childhood obesity. Thank god I didn’t spend the money on medical school because it would have proven to be a waste. Really I should […]
Yesterday, the ladies over at The View talked about an Android app that’s been in the news lately. First reported by Gadgetbox, “Is My Son Gay?” has drawn fire for being tasteless and incendiary, with some even calling it dangerous. But is it really that bad? [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibZrDYF0r40′] Leaving aside for a moment the standard […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. This time around we have some techcitement that really is old. You know […]
Oh joyous rapture. Now, not only will New York commuters have to deal with buskers, panhandlers, street preachers, nail clippers, music blasters, and random shouters, but they soon have the option of enjoying overhearing the conversations of their fellow commuters as well. Next Tuesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveils their long-awaited platform cell service. Don’t […]
The just released, and extremely long, 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report illustrates how deeply ingrained the internet is with a young person’s daily life. This study surveys 2,800 professionals and college students 30 years old or younger from 14 different countries. Nearly half of respondents (62 percent of employees surveyed and 55 percent of […]
Oh Google, come on. I have to say, I’m a bit disappointed in your behavior. I know it’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission, but I have a hard time picturing a group of Google executives sitting in a meeting and saying, “We’ll just do it, and see if they notice”, […]
France: home of wine, art and strict anti-racial laws. Case in point, French group SOS Racisme (hope you speak French for that link) is threatening to sue iPhone app developer Johann Levy over his app Juif ou pas Juif? (a.k.a. Jew or not Jew?) under laws enacted after the Holocaust that make it illegal to […]
Oookay. Holy crap, I love shoes! I do. I love shoes. I love lights and big fancy lighting control systems and complicated entertainment industry technologies and SHOES. Yes. I’m a girl. Never claimed to be anything different and for the moment, I’m going to live up to all the girly stereotypes that I try so […]
