The arrival of the New Year will be a second later than expected thanks to a rare ‘leap second’ designed to make up for slowdowns in the Earth’s rotation. The pause has reawakened debates about whether we should switch to a more accurate way of keeping time.

The prospect of a digitally connected home with centralized music, DVR and video storage may sound like a dream unless all of your media is in iTunes. Now you can keep your music in iTunes and eat your home media server cake too with the new HP MediaSmart line.

Research in Motion (RIM) has been a beehive of activity as of late, releasing a veritable cornucopia of handsets to appeal to a wide range of consumers with different needs. Its two latest offerings, the Bold and the Storm, hold top spots on two competing networks and are vastly different: how do you choose?

What exactly is SlurryCarb and what does it have to do with renewable energy?  EnerTech Environmental created the SlurryCarb technology to create E-fuel, a clean replacement for coal.

Wind turbine companies have tended to fall into two categories: small home turbines and large utility turbines, leaving a hole in the middle ground.  Now one wind energy company has declared that it will focus its business on medium sized wind turbines.

Breastfeeding is part of nature, of that there is no doubt. In fact, it could be argued that breastfeeding is the very essence of life, with a mother nurturing her young by feeding them in the most natural way possible. However, Facebook doesn’t seem to see it in quite the same way and has invoked a backlash by removing pictures of people breastfeeding from the site.

If you gave or got a Samsung digital photo frame this Christmas, check your model number carefully. The SPF-85H 8” model came with a bonus gift: an installation CD infected with a virus.

Every once in a while people mistype when sending a private message on Twitter’s popular status service, thereby publishing the supposedly-secret message for the world to see. Now you can watch these face-palm Twitter moments fly by in real time on the Web.

Move over James Bond – LG has introduced a new 3G HSDPA wrist phone to rival the greatest of spy gadgets. The phone has support for both 3G and HSDPA technologies and is expected to be officially debuted next month at CES in Las Vegas.

A newly-published patent application shows Microsoft wants to protect a technology for pay-as-you-go computing. The scheme would involve users getting subsidized or even free computers and then paying based on how they actually use it.

Telcos are likely making money hand over fist judging by the revelation that text messages cost them next to nothing. Considering how much their consumers for the privilege – we’ve certainly been had.

No one could have anticipated how popular Twitter has become. I can remember trying the service out in its first live weeks and thinking that it couldn’t possibly make it past its beta release, now just a short while later we’re seeing more and more people join the service including some pretty big name businesses.

What if you could get the mail people wanted to send to your house, through your computer? Zumbox is a new Web site designed to give you a virtual inbox (like email) except instead of an email address it uses your actual street address so businesses can send documents to your street address on Zumbox and you can retrieve them online rather than at your doorstep. Confused? So were we.

Rumors have been flying around on the Web that Intel is planning on squeezing nVidia out of the video chipset business for nettops and netbooks. nVidia’s platform the Ion, integrates the Intel Atom with nVidia’s GeForce 9400M chipset. Intel is claiming that these accusations are false and the company has no plans of squeezing out nVidia.

Best Buy is reportedly going to start offering curbside pickup for items ordered through their store online. The result being that you can now shop at the store, and pick up your purchases almost instantly without even having to actually set foot inside the retail store.

Voicetag is a new application that allows you to send voicemail messages to your friends on Facebook. The application can send the same message to a group of people, or a personalized message to single recipient. What makes the application unique is that it incorporates your regular phone in the process and SMS messaging.

The Internet has opened up a whole new world of advertising opportunities for companies. But grabbing the attention and focus of your typical Web user is a little more involved than other, more traditional mediums such as print and television. Enter viral marketing of which Will It Blend? is one of the chief architects.