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From the McLaren F1 supercar to the T.27 electric car

Dave Parrack — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:30:30 +0000

Almost twenty years ago now, Gordon Murray conceived of and designed the McLaren F1 supercar. Only 106 were ever produced and it is one of the fastest [...]

New Apple iPhone app translates why the baby is crying

Mike Ferro — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:14:50 +0000

Taking care of a baby can be difficult especially when you have no idea why the baby is crying. It seems like someone has gone through great lengths to [...]

OpenOffice gets a branded mouse with 18 buttons

Sean P. Aune — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:00:57 +0000

Have you ever looked at your mouse and thought, “I wish someone would over complicate this”? Well, your wishes have come true!

Popular open source office suite OpenOffice has partnered with a company named WarMouse to release the [...]

Google tries not to be creepy

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:53:26 +0000

Despite a great deal of consternation by users of their myriad services about the huge amounts of data gathered on users by Google, their founder and CEO says that they are trying hard not to [...]

Droid fizzles on opening day

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:01:17 +0000

When the Motorola Android smartphone finally went on sale yesterday after a pre-release period full of hype and frenzy, the reaction of consumers at Verizon stores was not exactly red hot.

To be fair, that underwhelming reception makes [...]

Spotify curbs music piracy – streaming is the future

Dave Parrack — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:34:03 +0000

Music piracy is a huge part of the Internet and, whether you think it’s a major problem as the record labels would have us believe or not, it is [...]

Facebook passes 325 million user milestone

Sean P. Aune — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:22:27 +0000

The unstoppable juggernaut known as Facebook continues leaving a path of destruction in its wake as it adds even more users.

According to All Facebook, the popular social network has now broken through the 325 million registered users barrier [...]

Judge orders BlueBeat to halt sales of Beatles MP3s

Sean P. Aune — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:17:08 +0000

A judge has ordered BlueBeat to immediately halt sales of The Beatles MP3s on its site, but the company is coming back with a rather unique defense.

The saga of the BlueBeat website (previous stories here [...]

One netbook per child out, One tablet per child in

John Lister — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:13 +0000

The man heading the One Laptop Per Child program says the next technology produced under the scheme will likely be a tablet device rather than a netbook. He has also come up with a new target for the cost [...]

iPhone App Developer caught snooping on users

Dave Jeyes — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:38:16 +0000

Without warning or any need based on it’s applications, iPhone gaming company Storm8 has been snooping on users’ cell phone numbers and storing them on their servers. Left unchecked, what other kind of malware [...]