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Did Last.fm just throw you under the bus?

Michael Kaufmann
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. Neverthe...
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Toddler buys $12,000 earth mover

Michael Kaufmann
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 ke...
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Iomega launches tiny new toys

Michael Kaufmann
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 w...
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Name your own price for gas

Michael Kaufmann
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 large...
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Xerox ColorQube 9200 series details

Michael Kaufmann
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 ...
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The Sennheiser Sound Tour

Michael Kaufmann
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. ...
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Hulu gains ground

Michael Kaufmann
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...
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Are we one step closer to Skynet?

Michael Kaufmann
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 abo...
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Conficker what?

Michael Kaufmann
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 2...
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Pzizz

Michael Kaufmann
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'...
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Stainless steel Shuffle

Michael Kaufmann
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 ...
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Crippled cell phones just piss us off

Michael Kaufmann
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 servi...
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Navigon comes up with a learning GPS

Michael Kaufmann
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 i...
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Hands-on: Safari 4 Beta

Michael Kaufmann
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 browse...
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D-Link doin the green

Michael Kaufmann
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 t...