May 27, 2009 6 Comments
When everyone has a public MySpace profile, tweets what they had for lunch, and puts their drunken escapades in a Facebook album, no one really has a whole lot of privacy when it comes to the Internet. Nevertheless, we trust that the sites we use on a daily basis will respect the information we give [...]
May 27, 2009 10 Comments
Circuit City is rising from the dead! Run for your lives before the zombie retailer eats your brains! No really. You should run far, far away. Although Circuit City won’t be returning in a physical capacity anytime soon, last month Systemax purchased the Circuit City brand and website, and they’ve since developed it into an [...]
May 22, 2009 1 Comment
It’s easy to see why you’d keep things like small toys and toxic chemicals out of the reach of toddlers, but your laptop? How much trouble could possibly come from a three year-old child banging away at your keyboard? So thought Pipi Quinlan — at least until she opened her email to find out that [...]
May 19, 2009 Leave a Comment
Because every portable device we carry around with you says something about who you are — you know you judge every iPhone user — Iomega believes that your portable hard drive should as well, and from what we see, they seem to have delivered. The Iomega eGo portable hard drives are sleek devices, covered in [...]
May 19, 2009 1 Comment
Considering the shear unsuccessfulness of most streaming music platforms, one might thing that streaming music can’t be more than a novelty. Napster is barely a thought in today’s music marketplace, Rhapsody shares a laughable market, and the Zune Marketplace is just sort of puttering along in the background. When users have the uber-intelligent Pandora and [...]
May 11, 2009 1 Comment
Summertime is fast approaching (forty days away actually — not that we’re counting or anything) which, between the kids being out of school and those oh-so-exciting family road trips to visit the world’s largest spoon in the middle of Wyoming, means there’s a lot of gas to burn driving around. With the stock market in [...]
May 7, 2009 Leave a Comment
Xerography, the fancy pants term for photocopying, remains a multi-billion dollar industry, even in today’s age of digital distribution this and eco-friendly that. Even though naysayers are forecasting the demise of the photocopying industry, Xerox pushed ahead Thursday with their (unfortunately spelled) ColorQube 9200 series which uses solid ink sticks in place of the cartridges [...]
May 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
The Internet is a great business tool. It allows retailers of all shapes and sizes — from Target to Grandma Betty who sells her homemade jams — to sell to the entire (Internet accessible) world. While Grandma and her jellies will likely be ok, a Supreme Court decision could threaten retailers who sell other manufacturers’ [...]
April 28, 2009 1 Comment
Part dream-job, part reality show competition, and part marketing gimmick, headphone and sound equipment manufacturer Sennheiser is putting together a new summer program called The Sennheiser Sound Tour. Teams, divided by gender for maximum entertainment value, will travel across the US and Canada promoting Sennheiser’s products in a competition to quote, “put headphones on as [...]
April 23, 2009 4 Comments
While Youtube is practically synonymous with online video these days, it’s certainly not the only player in town, if you’ll pardon the pun. Hulu’s number of unique viewers skyrocketed 42 percent in the month of February, riding on the heels of its popular Super Bowl commercials. Hulu is now the fourth largest video site, behind [...]
April 16, 2009 1 Comment
I know the robot revolution is becoming a played out meme on the internet these days, but that’s mostly because the world around us is actually becoming more and more automated. Our GPS units are learning about us as we drive. In February, the L train in New York started overnight operations with a fully [...]
April 2, 2009 1 Comment
Well, if you’re reading this, you’ve apparently survived the Conficker Disaster of 2009. Congratulations! Actually, the Conficker worm, which has been quietly distributing itself across Windows PCs since 2008, was supposed to start phoning home Wednesday. Reports are conflicted whether or not anything has actually happened yet. Most experts agree that it could be a [...]
March 28, 2009 Leave a Comment
In approximately four months, I have a 270-mile bike ride across three states that I’ll be riding. What a lucky coincidence that I would find Pzizz, a “tech tool to energize athletes.” I love tech, and while I’m hardly an athlete per se, I’ll take all the help I can get. Pzizz is basically a [...]
March 13, 2009 Leave a Comment
Apparently, Apple dropped a surprise gift in our laps this morning: new stainless steel Shuffles, complete with robot voices! And the world (probably) resounds with a collective yawn. Ok, so I’m probably being a bit hard on Apple, but the shuffle has consistently seen the least love of Apple iPod line. People definitely need a [...]
March 4, 2009 Leave a Comment
Wireless carriers consistently rank low in customer satisfaction rankings. One only need troll the pages of sites like Consumerist to understand why. Expensive, spotty service couples with poor customer service makes for quite a set of disgruntled customers. One of my big beefs with carriers (or even phone makers-I’m looking at you Apple) are carriers [...]
March 3, 2009 1 Comment
You have another reason to fear the robot revolution. Navigon, maker of some of the more attractive GPS devices available is releasing an even more intelligent GPS navigator. Granted, most of the drivers in the world who use GPS devices already trust their lives to a small piece of machinery that’s just one simple voice [...]
Feb. 24, 2009 Leave a Comment
Safari has never been very formidable in the browser wars, always holding just a few percentage points of the browser share on the bottom of the list. Of course, now that it’s no longer a Mac-only browser, it’s share has grown as a few (admittedly brave) folks downloaded it for their PCs. Even still, the [...]
Feb. 19, 2009 1 Comment
In an era of taking your reusable shopping bags to Whole Foods and forgoing plastic water bottles for aluminum, consumers are constantly trying to find a way to “go green.” Of course, we often relegate these thoughts by the wayside in our offices of quad-core Xeon rigs with dual 30-inch cinema displays, but you can [...]
