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Microsoft Prepares to Launch Second...

Bill Gates will join Design and Development Chief J Allard to introduce a next generation Zune at...

Oct 1st

binarybiscuit: I read somewhere that 10...

binarybiscuit: I read somewhere that 10 mins of sunshine a day makes you a more pro-active person,...

Oct 1st

Health: Boost Your Energy By Simply...

Ever have one of those dragging days? The Happiness Project suggests you can get an instant...

Sep 30th

binarybiscuit: Java is like marmite, you...

binarybiscuit: Java is like marmite, you either love it or hate it (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 29th

AT&T bans user criticism in its new...

Via Slashdot: “AT&T’s new Terms of Service give AT&T the right to suspend your account and...

Sep 29th

Microsoft SideWinder gaming mouse...

Microsoft seems to have produced a bit of a winner with the new SideWinder gaming mouse, with the...

Sep 29th

Photos: T-Mobile Kiosk Boasts: "We...

[Fashion Island, Newport Beach, California. Image thanks to Aubrey.] In light of the 1.1.1....

Sep 29th

Google's AdSense will Work on...

Click To Play As Web designers decide whether to use authoring tools from...

Sep 29th

R2-D2 on your pasta sir?

I am actually surprised that nobody has thought of this before as in a way it makes sense, given...

Sep 29th

The donut inspired ETNA [Cellphone9]

See the hole in the middle? If fulfills two purposes: storage and charging the unit via induction....

Sep 28th

Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc

One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a...

Sep 28th

iPhone Patch Turns Some iPhones Into...

As we highlighted a few days ago, the latest Apple patch could, and would, screw up some of those...

Sep 28th

A Present for Mac Geeks who have...

Apparently, “it costs between $1200 and $1500 to 24kt gold plate a MacBook Pro”. What’s not to...

Sep 28th

Joost Beta Version 1.0 Now Live

Joost has just released the latest beta, version 1.0 for Macs and Windows. A few changes include...

Sep 28th

binarybiscuit: putting music on my iPod...

binarybiscuit: putting music on my iPod Touch (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 27th

binarybiscuit: Boy survives two-hour...

binarybiscuit: Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing :...

Sep 27th

Fortumo Opens Up, Wizard For Starting...

Fortumo has opened up to invitation holders, and it turns out it’s a wizard generator for creating...

Sep 25th

Soapbox Merged with MSN Video Beta

Microsoft’s user-generated video site Soapbox is no longer a standalone site and has been...

Sep 22nd

The Best Mashup I've seen

And I’m not the only one saying this… “This is the best map of London that I’ve...

Sep 22nd

binarybiscuit: loving the twitter add on...

binarybiscuit: loving the twitter add on for the Nabaztag (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 22nd

binarybiscuit: Kanye West Angered By...

binarybiscuit: Kanye West Angered By Defective iPod Touch: http://tinyurl.com/ypl5ax (via Twitter /...

Sep 22nd

Beware of PDF Files! Adobe Security...

Don’t open any PDF files anytime soon. Better yet, don’t even go to any websites where PDF files...

Sep 21st

binarybiscuit: crysis looking good,...

binarybiscuit: crysis looking good, graphics are awesome (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 19th

binarybiscuit: Just got my beta key for...

binarybiscuit: Just got my beta key for Crysis, downloading now….c’mon!! hurry up (via...

Sep 19th

Does Digg Want To Be Facebook?

Digg is to offer new features today that will provide social networking functionality akin to...

Sep 19th

binarybiscuit: drinking my daily dose of...

binarybiscuit: drinking my daily dose of l.casei imunitass, it’s good for you i think (via...

Sep 19th

binarybiscuit: Loving the Apple vids...

binarybiscuit: Loving the Apple vids from mrhogg: http://tinyurl.com/2f9d5z (via Twitter /...

Sep 19th

binarybiscuit: Happy Birthday smiley, 25...

binarybiscuit: Happy Birthday smiley, 25 today and still smiling :) (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 19th

iPhone update to add TV out?

Filed under: Software, iPhone Astute TUAW reader Matt Nelson noticed something in Engadget’s...

Sep 18th

Google Joins Mobile Ad Fray

Google announced yesterday that it would bring its contextual text ads service, AdSense, to the...

Sep 18th

Microsoft launches Office 2008 sneak...

Filed under: Software Microsoft is letting out information in dribs and drabs about Microsoft...

Sep 18th

Intel 'Nehalem' design completed, boots...

Windows XP too IDF Intel has booted Apple’s Mac OS X operating system on its next-generation...

Sep 18th

Sprint, Microsoft deliver mobile search...

As part of the strategic alliance between Sprint and Microsoft Corp., the two companies are...

Sep 18th

pfingo - Get an International Phone...

pfingo is a new service that provides a personal phone number for you to make (or receive) phone...

Sep 18th

Mint Personalized Online Money Manager...

Do you know where your money goes? How do you keep track of it? Mint just launched at TechCrunch40...

Sep 18th

Yahoo Buys Email Service Zimbra for $350...

Seems like a lot of change to me. (via John’s shared items in Google Reader)

Sep 18th

Glide Introduces Powerpoint Competitor

You’ve got to hand it Glide—they’ve got no problem going after the big dogs....

Sep 18th

Email company Xobni launches, may steal...

Updated Xobni Insight, a new email service that sits on top of your Outlook, launches today at...

Sep 18th

Report: new 3G iPhone due in early...

Scott Moritz of financial news site TheStreet.com reports that a second-generation, 3G iPhone will...

Sep 18th

Ooma now for sale: Is it worth it?

A few months ago, my co-worker Stephen Shankland took a look at a preproduction Ooma—the...

Sep 18th

Orgoo mashes up your mail and IM in a...

Orgoo is a new service for aggregating all sorts of communication platforms together, in one...

Sep 18th

Intel® Mash Maker©: Mashups for the...

Intel® Mash Maker is a new service that make it easy to create screen scrapers to extract data...

Sep 18th

Google Docs Now Include Presentations...

Bye-bye PowerPoint. Google launches the much-awaited presentation app for Google Docs and Google...

Sep 18th

Google Reader goes multilingual

Posted by Kevin Systrom, Product Marketing Manager I’ve been traveling a bunch in the past few...

Sep 18th

iPhone UK: The news so far

So here are the basics about the iPhone launch in the UK, as announced by Steve Jobs in London. It...

Sep 18th

O2 set to pay hefty price for iPhone? -...

Product Reviews O2 set to pay hefty price for iPhone? Monsters and Critics.com - 6 hours ago By...

Sep 17th

O2 set to pay hefty price for iPhone? -...

Product Reviews O2 set to pay hefty price for iPhone? Monsters and Critics.com - 5 hours ago By...

Sep 17th

binarybiscuit: just making some Peets...

binarybiscuit: just making some Peets coffee a friend brought me back from a recent trip to the US...

Sep 17th

O2 Gives 40% Revenue To Apple For iPhone...

Product Reviews O2 Gives 40% Revenue To Apple For iPhone TrustedReviews - 9 hours ago We’ll...

Sep 17th

binarybiscuit: Listening to the new twit

binarybiscuit: Listening to the new twit (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 17th

Google Maps in Your Sidebar

Mini Map Sidebar is probably the greatest Firefox extension for maps and geographical information....

Sep 16th

binarybiscuit: iTunes is taunting me!:...

binarybiscuit: iTunes is taunting me!: http://tinyurl.com/yu2kva (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 16th

anySIM is here: open source GUI iPhone...

Filed under: Cellphones We’ve seen a couple of early versions of GUI iPhone SIM unlock apps...

Sep 15th

Is it just me or are Canadians kind of...

(via John’s shared items in Google Reader)

Sep 15th

Palm's new OS getting more delays?

Filed under: Cellphones The hits just don’t seem to be stopping for Palm these days. In the...

Sep 15th

binarybiscuit: Just saw the news. Colin...

binarybiscuit: Just saw the news. Colin McRae dies with son in helicopter crash, so sad :( was one...

Sep 15th

Halo 3: When Hype Gets Out of Hand

Halo 3 is undoubtedly one of the most highly anticipated games of this year for many people. It is...

Sep 15th

Channel 8 goes Silverlight

The student site (part of the 8, 9 and 10 family) has just adopted Silverlight for its video player...

Sep 15th

6th Gen iPods won't work with Linux,...

Filed under: iPod Family, Open Source There’s no such thing as a ‘naked iPod’...

Sep 15th

Razer intros new Bluetooth mouse

Razer is a company that is big on high-end gaming and other computer peripherals Today, they...

Sep 15th

HP Blackbird 002 Dedication Edition goes...

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming Let’s hope you have a few dozen credit cards primed and...

Sep 15th

binarybiscuit: Listening to the Willy...

binarybiscuit: Listening to the Willy Masons Daytrotter Session: http://tinyurl.com/2b3fkb (via...

Sep 15th

Razer intros new Bluetooth mouse

Razer is a company that is big on high-end gaming and other computer peripherals Today, they...

Sep 15th

Twitterlicious 2.0 RC1

Here we are, the feature complete Twitterlicious 2.0 with four heavily requested features: ...

Sep 15th

Thrustmaster intros new wireless Wii...

The Thrustmaster T-Wireless NW will connect to the Wii via a 2.4 GHz wireless dongle that...

Sep 15th

Yahoo prepping Mash to stop the bleeding

Yahoo apparently is foregoing the big acquisition path and betting that it can succeed in a battle...

Sep 15th

Thrustmaster intros new wireless Wii...

The Thrustmaster T-Wireless NW will connect to the Wii via a 2.4 GHz wireless dongle that...

Sep 15th

You Tube Videos With Tablet PC's and...

You Tube always has a ton of content, and there are always the few that relate to us in the world...

Sep 15th

Weekend Reader [Web Worker Daily]

For People Who Like to Watch - If you’ve got a Twitter account but can’t be bothered to type even...

Sep 15th

Viacom's Flux: It's MyBlogLog for the...

We reported on Thursday that MTV Networks was close to announcing plans for a new social network;...

Sep 15th

Xanga Adds Live Stream Webcams to Blog...

We haven’t heard much from Xanga lately, but it’s recently added a new live video streaming...

Sep 14th

Microsoft Sells Office Ultimate To...

bit-tech.net Microsoft Sells Office Ultimate To Students For £30 TrustedReviews - 14 Sep 2007...

Sep 14th

deliGoo Mashes Google with del.icio.us

deliGoo is a nifty new add on for Firefox 2.0+ and IE 6.0+ that mashes up del.icio.us with Google...

Sep 13th

Sync Facebook Profile Photos To Windows...

Mel Sampat, a member of the Windows Mobile team at Microsoft, has written an application called...

Sep 13th

iPod touch gets its first review

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the first review (or...

Sep 13th

UK iPhone Launching Next Week

Well, there you have it. I guess what’s his name was right. The UK will be getting their iPhone...

Sep 13th

Microsoft to tweak search in Vista SP1...

Microsoft has published documentation that explains how developers can integrate third-party search...

Sep 13th

iPhone Assassin (and 100 other iPhone...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, iPhone Reader Silver sent us his site of iPhone games,...

Sep 13th

AirTalkr - Instant Messenger That Runs...

Remember AIR, Adobe’s cross operating system environment that enables developers to combine Flash,...

Sep 13th

Yahoo’s Deal of the Day Powered by Woot

Woot, the online daily deal website, has partnered with Yahoo to offer its service on the Yahoo...

Sep 12th

binarybiscuit: The new version of Joost...

binarybiscuit: The new version of Joost is excellent, now showing full length movies (via Twitter /...

Sep 12th

binarybiscuit: watching the new chad...

binarybiscuit: watching the new chad vader vid : http://tinyurl.com/285wkb (via Twitter /...

Sep 10th

Beo5 Arrives Open Minded

For those with bucks, Bang & Olufsen is introducing its Beo5 Remote that features a universal...

Sep 7th

Prototype Toaster Leaves Tasty Messages

We’ve seen plenty of toasters that imprint dinosaurs, skulls and crossbones, and even Hello Kitty...

Sep 7th

binarybiscuit: http://urltea.com/1fhi :...

binarybiscuit: http://urltea.com/1fhi : Eudora email software, reborn as Penelope (via Twitter...

Sep 7th

Turn Your Mouse Pointer Into a...

  Spotlights are commonly used in concerts and musical theatres to focus an audience’s...

Sep 7th

WeBot Brings Media Streaming to the...

WeBot is aiming to make sharing digital files from your home computer that much easier . ...

Sep 7th

Rumor - The Palm Gandolf to be released...

We’ve been hearing rumors about the upcoming Palm Gandolf for a little while now. I still stand by...

Sep 7th

Coming Tuesday: 5 Microsoft patches

Only one rated critical Microsoft’s Security Response Center has provided advanced...

Sep 7th

Opinion - What Microsoft must do now to...

Realistically, Apple didn’t really need to do what it did on Wednesday to maintain its stronghold on...

Sep 7th

Sony releases backwards compatibility...

If you have purchased one of the new 80GB PlayStation 3 consoles, you may have noticed that...

Sep 7th

Google News Adds Barely 100 Comments in...

A month ago Google News started to allow any person mentioned in a news story that they index to...

Sep 7th

Spock unleashes new Spock Power feature!

Spock announced yesterday the release of Spock Power, an algorithm that rewards Spock users and...

Sep 7th

IBM Widgets for your iPhone

IBM has launched developer gizmos that are accessible online, for your desktop, and have also been...

Sep 7th

DNAStream - The Web-based Joost

If you want a Joost-like experience without the download, try DNAStream.TV. It’s about smooth and...

Sep 7th

Apple jumps the exclusivity shark

There’s no denying it - Apple is trying to go mainstream (well mainstream into the rest of the world...

Sep 7th

Are Your Images Optimized for Search...

Have you noticed the changes that have been happening in the search results lately?  I’m not...

Sep 7th

iPhoneSIMfree Acquired: Resolves...

iPhoneSIMfree, the company that lets you use any SIM card in your iPhone using software, has been...

Sep 7th

Will Google Buy Earthlink?

Earthlink says it wants to get out of the municipal WiFi business. Are executives really grooming...

Sep 7th

Steve Jobs Offers $100 Credit To New...

After announcing on Wednesday that the 8GB iPhone was going to drop in price from $599 to $399,...

Sep 7th

Uh Oh: Uncensored Manhunt 2 Leaks Online

Projectmanhunt.com is reporting that an early PS2 build of Manhunt 2 has leaked online. Though...

Sep 7th

CEDIA 2007 - Niveus Media Extender

There has been talk around the interweb that Microsoft is bringing back the Windows Media Extender....

Sep 7th

binarybiscuit: trying to fix a nabaztag

binarybiscuit: trying to fix a nabaztag (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 6th

binarybiscuit: being able to search for...

binarybiscuit: being able to search for things in google reader is a good thing (via Twitter /...

Sep 6th

Marie Digby Caught: The New LG15 of...

Marié Digby is one of those YouTube phenomenons that has become the success story for the 21st...

Sep 6th

binarybiscuit: The Beatles' Paul...

binarybiscuit: The Beatles’ Paul McCartney to make “special announcement” on Radio...

Sep 5th

binarybiscuit: looking for a live stream...

binarybiscuit: looking for a live stream for the apple event (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 5th

binarybiscuit: sat in the sun with a...

binarybiscuit: sat in the sun with a coffee and a laptop, trying to get the last few days of...

Sep 5th

binarybiscuit: Just ordered a wii

binarybiscuit: Just ordered a wii (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 5th

binarybiscuit: waiting for the postman

binarybiscuit: waiting for the postman (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 4th

Joost Acquires OnTheTube for Custom Show...

Joost has reportedly acquired OnTheToob, which is a programming guide keeping users up to date on...

Sep 3rd

Google To Launch Google Wiki

Jotspot, the wiki service that was acquired by Google nearly a year ago, looks to be moving...

Sep 3rd

iMovie '08: It's not that bad

Filed under: iLife, Video, Reviews iMovie ‘08 has gotten a bad rap lately so I decided to put...

Sep 3rd

Pownce Gets New Features

Pownce announced a series of new features today. Among them, upcoming event notifications (”see...

Sep 2nd

Paypal Be Damned: Google Patents “GPay”

Amid ongoing problems with Paypal’s subscription service, a Google patent has come to light...

Sep 2nd

binarybiscuit: Middle Earth mapped using...

binarybiscuit: Middle Earth mapped using google maps http://www.arda-online.com/map/ mr Tolkien...

Sep 2nd

Twitters Latest Feature Is B[ol]locks

Last week saw the announcement from Twitter about a new visualisation tool from Stamen Design, the...

Sep 2nd

binarybiscuit: visting the worlds higest...

binarybiscuit: visting the worlds higest website today http://worlds-highest-website.com/ nearly 12...

Sep 1st

binarybiscuit: New windows live one care...

binarybiscuit: New windows live one care to offer online backup (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Sep 1st

Jaguar and Apple collaborate on car...

Filed under: Transportation Maybe there’s something to those Apple / Volkswagen rumors...

Sep 1st

EASTER EGG: Flight Simulator Hidden...

Amazing but true: as spotted by Marco, Google has hidden a mini flight simulator within Google...

Aug 31st