Continuing with its gradual migration toward a fuel efficient fleet of vehicles, GM has decided to bring the Chevy Beat to North America. The Beat is a subcompact car designed to bring a sporty look to a small form factor. The interesting part? It looks a lot like a Toyota.

Forget the video games console war between the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 for a moment, and forget also the high definition format war which ended earlier this year with Blu-ray beating HD DVD to a pulp. There is another battle ongoing, and it is one of almost David and Goliath proportions: the battle of the Web browsers.

It’s been known for quite a few months that Virgin media was going to become the first ISP in the UK to keep tabs on what its broadband customers were doing online. Letters starting being sent out to alleged illegal file-sharing offenders recently but the wording of the warning was more harsh than expected by both the recipients and even the company itself.

With the prevalence of cell phones among all ages of the population, over 100 different law enforcement communities are entering the new era of text messaging by providing a crime stoppers text hot line. 

The flagship car in GM’s green product offering is the Chevy Volt, but the company is demonstrating that it’s making fuel efficiency gains with other models as well. It looks like consumers are noticing too because sales numbers GM has released are showing improvement. Could there be truth to GM’s claim that Toyota doesn’t have all the answers when it comes to green cars?

WordPress just released major upgrade 2.5 not too long ago, followed closely by a bug fix and security update under WordPress 2.5.1. The popular blog platform is already moving right along to the next version, however. Should you upgrade when the next version drops in a week or so? How do you decide?

A Taiwanese inventor has proposed a new power saving idea for train travel – trains that never stop.  Even with regenerative breaking, stopping the train loses energy and is inefficient.  So why not change the method of boarding and leaving the train?

What a dilemma for vegans?  Here is a 100% biodegradable engine oil, made entirely from products grown in America but those products happen to be cows, pigs and chickens.  Omnivores, however, will have absolutely no problem getting behind this new technology.

In times of hardship humans often innovate, reaching for new efficiencies and cost savings. The dairy and retail industries are no different, and a new stackable milk jug promises to cut transportation costs by maximizing the available space in each delivery truck. But, some grocery shoppers think the new design stinks.

Well, ain’t that a B? Here all the existing customers with AT&T were throwing full-blown parties for the low iPhone 3G costs, only to find out that AT&T will only be gracing new customers with the low-priced handsets.

One of the good things about large extended families is that you can always find someone who knows something about any topic.  One of my cousins has worked in the oil industry for years as a geologist evaluating different areas for oil exploration.

Back in the mid eighties, I represented a college text book company selling textbooks to colleges in South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina.  Achieving my preset goal was based on the number of books purchased by the schools. 

Freedom of expression is one of the cornerstones of the Internet, with anything which is above the law pretty much allowed and tolerated. But those freedoms can sometimes be manipulated to cause someone else’s right to express their views seemingly disappear.

Warner Music’s agreed to partner with Nokia for the latter’s “Comes with Music” programme.

Caskets and cremation are old hat — in today’s world members of the Body Worlds donor program have signed over plastination rights to their body upon death, which means the corpse will likely enjoy a long shelf life as bodily fluids are replaced with plastic. Most donors feel as though they’re giving back to humankind by allowing others to study their material remains. But, critics worry that some of the bodies on display may have been procured through “questionable means”.

Motorola, now B-list handset manufacturer that once gave us the all-powerful Razor, doesn’t want to be left off the touchscreen handset gravy train. For that reason, Motorola has created the Blaze, a smart-looking little handset, all decked out in red, for all the CDMA fans over at Verizon.

Unicycle’s require balance and coordination.  Monocycle’s require agility and balance.   Like the Unicycle there is one wheel and one seat, but there the similarity ends.  Amazingly enough a new type of pedaled riding vehicle has been invented for those that were bored with only the trillion or so types of bicycles and unicycles available.