Local company offers new discounts for the college crowd

Plinky gives you something to blog when you’re thinking about posting another Lolcat.

The dangers of forgetting that your online data might one day disappear too.

The company hopes to make bike-sharing as common in Boston as it is in Europe

A group has improved Netflix’s own movie suggesting algorithm for big money.

Free HD steaming current movies–what’s the catch? We check on it.

This Saturday night, just after midnight, Facebook is unleashing its new usernames, which will put your real name in the URL of your Facebook profile, putting you one step closer to solidifying your online identity. Instead of displaying a generic URL like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=921489, Facebook will instead display something along the lines of http://www.facebook.com/michael.kaufmann. This means [...]

When you’re looking for a single fact or answer to something, a straight up Google search is probably your best approach. But what if you’re more interested in, say, a set of facts? Well you have two recently launched tools to help you untangle the web of information available.
Launched last month to much fanfare (but, [...]

Of course, to “google” something has become synonymous with the mere act of searching something on the Internet, but that hasn’t stopped other companies from developing their search programs. Last week, Microsoft rebranded their Live.com search engine as the curiously titled Bing. How does it hold up?
After a few matched test searches, Bing is a [...]

Google thinks it has the next email; we take a look at the preview.

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 online retail [...]

Archives provide endless amounts of information about virtually any topic, but who wants to sit in a stuffy library or even worse,  library basement, looking through record after record to find what you’re looking for.
The world wide web has revolutionized they way we do things today, and that includes archiving. Now with a simple search [...]

In this day and age finding love has become a more-than complicated issue for some. Long work hours, an overall sense of independence amongst young people and a 24-hour technological world, are some of the causes. Because of these problems many people have turned to dating sites that, “promise results within six months,” [...]

Authors of all genres and walks of life now have the option of harnessing the power of the electronic age — publishing their own books to computers and iPods and selling the works for free.
Using software developed by Florida-based MediaClick Inc., anyone can create a “PocketBook.” This zero-cost self-publishing format groups all kinds of multimedia [...]

It’s 5:17 p.m. and the owner of the silver Audi behind you is honking his horn, along with the 13 other cars that surround you.
Yep, you’re stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic again, and you only have five minutes to get to your girlfriend’s house.
The traffic excuse – true or not – will not subside her whines [...]

(ARA) – The written form of language has always had a primal power to move us. From carvings in caves to alphabets on hand-stitched samplers to the word “welcome” on a doormat, we’ve historically surrounded ourselves with a certain amount of typography in our homes. Now leaders in the home decorating [...]

Many college graduates backpack through Europe, drive across the country or splurge on visiting an exotic destination before joining the working world. But Robert Allen, Pip Bennett and Jeremy Boote, who have known each other since they were 14, turned their travel bug into a business project, Unearth Travel.
Since launching their site two years ago, [...]

Late charges, long drives, lines, high prices and poor selection.
These are just a few of the reasons our generation has seen a dramatic decline in the popularity of traditional movie rental stores.
Over the past couple years the most influential element in the demise of the local Blockbuster and Movie Time has been technology. Netflix [...]