iTunes 8 was released to the world today, and included in its myriad upgrades and changes — but not even mentioned by Sir Steve in…

This past weekend I achieved a minor milestone: all my DVDs — every film from Airplane to Young Frankenstein and every television episode from “Absolutely…

It’s been a few weeks so I thought I’d let you know how things are progressing and what I’ve learned in this process so far….

When I moved from Windows to Mac (and I’m one of those cited in the study that blames Vista for that switch) one of my…

Some time ago, I decided that it was dumb and a waste of space to keep my library of around 300 DVDs in their plastic…

I am an early adopter, when I can afford it. As such, I have experienced my own personal disappointments when a format or platform I…

Now that I’ve traded in my dirty old Windows box for a shiny matte silver Macbook Pro, I’ve become one of those sycophantic Apple cultists…

Microsoft announced XBOX 360 pricing at the German Games Conference in Leipzig and, true to form, they’re going to make things hazy and indistinct, especially…

If you want to get in on a little of that hot Google stock action and work for a company that provides benefits like yoga,…

Someone over at Wal-Mart opened their big mouth and spilled some beans (maybe) about the price of Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox 360. According to TotalVideoGames.com, the…

Every once in a while, if I wait long enough, the Web will finally offer up some information worth knowing….

You love pornography, you’ve got no shame. But everyone else is so damn uptight. I mean, who doesn’t want to enjoy hot barely legal girl…

Benjamin Smith III of St. Petersburg, Florida used to park his SUV outside the home of Richard Dinon for one reason only — to steal…

In an effort to reduce the cost of cell phones and get more of them into the hands of third-world residents, Philips Electronics has developed…

A stock trader for Fubon Securities in Taiwan accidentally bought $251 million in shares, resulting in a paper loss of $12 million for her employer…

There was a time when “Made in Japan” did not equate with high-quality goods. Before everyone started watching Sony Trinitrons and driving Toyota Camrys, Japan…

After being found guilty of violating Japan’s antitrust rules and being investigated by the European Union for also violating their antitrust laws, Intel is again…

Apple released a minor update to iTunes today, coinciding with a decision to outfit all iPods with color screens. iTunes 4.9 adds support for podcasting…

Scientists from the University of Roma Tre in Italy have developed a way to tell if an original digital image has been changed to reflect,…

Not to set you off on a panic or anything, but if I were in your shoes — and I kind of am — I’d…

If you live in California, you might want to keep this page bookmarked, just in case. …

Japan and France signed an agreement at the Paris Air Show to spend nearly $2 million a year for the next three years to develop…

If you live in California, add another daily regimen to your weather forecasting: Earthquake Hazard Forecasting! The U.S. Geological Survey offers an online map of…

If you’re wondering what’s coming next to your little home entergamement system and computing platform, then you have to read Robert X. Cringely’s brain drain…

Microsoft tooted its own horn last week when it announced XBOX360 during a splashy MTV special. Today it was Sony’s turn, and they decided that…

Some guy in India has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for sending 182,689 text messages in one month. Some fast math (not my…

Yes, it’s an obvious headline but what do you want from a free service like us? Sirius Satellite radio is launching a Podcast broadcast later…

If you’re one of those tech-geeks that saves everything because, “you never know, I might need it someday,” now’s the time to pull out all…

Now that everyone you know owns an iPod, and you’re all in your cubies ready to start sharing your iTunes playlists, what will other people…

If 3 million bit-per-second broadband sounds good now, how does 1 billion bits per second sound? CableLabs, the cable industry’s standards-settings unit, reported that they’re…

Fascinating story in The New Yorker about tapestries, digital photography, computer mathematics and clean rooms — not to mention a super computer with two million…

Under the “this can’t be good news” heading, money-losing digital video recorder maker TiVo began testing pop-up ads over the weekend. Certain lucky users, when…

For those of you with 4th generation “click-wheel” iPods itching to replace the code on the little white box with Linux so you could, what,…

By the end of the year, you’ll be able to buy Sony Ericsson’s W800 Walkman phone, a cell with a 2-megapixel digital camera and an…

TiVo stock jumped 18% today on whispers that Apple wants to buy them out. Some analysts doubt the rumors since the company’s concentration on the…

Apple is charging ahead in its muzzling lawsuit to get ThinkSecret to give up its sources. It’s also chasing after a Canadian student who did…

Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a new method of creating micro-microprocessors using microscopic wires connected by molecules and placed on circuits like an inkjet printer….

Bill Gates may lift the veil of secrecy surrounding Xbox2 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this May, or he may not. The Microsoft Chief Geek…

Tired of sharing a satelite with Satan? Could the real reason God doesn’t answer your calls be that your cell service is cluttered with abortionists,…

Google posted its video search engine online in beta today, allowing the Web world to search for TV programming where certain text or phrases appear….

Students at a school district in Dover, Pennsylvania became the first in the nation to hear about Intelligent Design as a counterpoint to the theory…

In the 1951 movie “The Man in the White Suit,” Alec Guinness plays the inventor of a material that never needs cleaning. He outrages the…

I’m sure there’s a reason for this, but I can’t think of it. Samsung has developed a new cell phone that performs actions when you…

If you’re using Windows Media Player to watch DRM-protected files you downloaded off P2P networks like Kazaa, here’s a warning that might interest you. When…

Apple took the wraps off two new products at MacWorld today, the iPod shuffle and the Mac mini. The former is a stick of chewing…

With the Consumer Electronics Show in full swing in Las Vegas, it’s becoming clearer than ever that the future of living room entertainment is digital…

If you’re like me, you get phished a half-dozen times a day. “Phishing,” for those out of the loop, is the practice of sending bogus…

Hey, howzabout this for a nightmare scenario. You have a cable modem in your living room and you find on the web the easy and…

Sometimes it pays to be an Apple shiner. iPod G4 is coming out, and teh company gave Newsweek’s Steven Levy a preview of the design,…

Hey, fans of MSIE bugs, have we got a doozy for you! A new vulnerability (or, more accurately, an existing one newly discovered) allows attackers…

You know how they warn you that using your cell phone while you fly could make you and the rest of teh passengers and the…

Alek Komarnitsky has a problem. He can never leave well enough alone. While anyone else might be content with having 17,000 lights adorning their home…

The latest rumor around corporate watering holes? IBM is selling its $10 billion PC business for $1-$2 billion to a Chinese company so it can…

Sony sent out 1 million PlayStation 2 demo disks to PS2 owners to try out Capcom’s Viewtiful Joe 2 last month. Unfortunately, for those who…

The Caltech Netlab team won the latest Supercomputer Bandwidth Challenge by sending a sustained data transfer between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles at 101 gigabits per…

If you’re considering buying an LCD TV this Christmas, you might want to get a TiVo now and wait on the bigger screen. Manufacturers have…

CNET is reporting that Google is working on a search engine for video that’ll scour through video clips in archives of the thousands and thousands…

TDK has developed a new DVD coatingthat allows discs to be read by players even after they’ve been attacked by screwdrivers and permanent markers. The…

As hurricane Frances set its sites on Florida, Wal-Mart’s computers knew one thing for sure: better stock the shelves with strawberry Pop-Tarts and beer! As…

Microsoft will open up its Google-killer tomorrow, offering a preview of its own search technology. Currently, MSN Search uses Yahoo! as its engine to find…

After all the political posturing and wringing of hands, this feels almost comforting to report: Some things are back to normal, IE still sucks. A…

While everyone else may be gaga over black iPods and color screens, the real excitement is happening over at SanDisk, which announced that they’ve doubles…

Where’s the least likely place to receive HDTV signals? No, not the toilet—how about your cell phone? Texas Instruments is developing technology to implant HDTV-compliant…

Samsung has a new mobile phone with a built-in 5-megapixel camera. The new phone also boasts a 16-million color screen and camcorder functions. The SCH-S250…

Microsoft is working on a desktop application, codenamed Istanbul, which will seamlessly integrate email, instant messaging, video conferencing, traditional phone service and voice over IP…

First the good news: Sony’s upcoming Playstation Portable will support MP3s for audio playback via Sony’s Memory Stick Duo media. All you’ll have to do…

Today comes confirmation from the source regarding something Sony said last month: by the middle of 2005, all Sony flash-based digital audio players will support…

The FDA approved an implantable computer chip for use in humans that’s supposed to speed up the process of getting you into the doctor’s office,…

Apple insider sites are talking about a new iPod to be released in time for Christmas that has a 60Gig hard drive, a color screen…

So a sense of civic duty and love of the Bill of Rights isn’t enough to get you off your sweet patootie and to the…

Last night I dreamed I owned a brand now pristine white plastic-y iBook and I loved it. Literally, in this dream, I just caressed the…

Sony is selling a 1-Terabyte home media storage system in Japan. The Vaio Type X has four 250-Gig hard drives and seven, count ‘em, seven…

Microsoft’s insane dancing bear Steve Ballmer was giving a little talk in Europe about Digital Rights Management and said, “We’ve had DRM in Windows for…

It took the Hubble space telescope 400 orbits and 800 exposures (the equivalent of staring into the same point in sky for 11.3 days) to…

Reading the writing on the iPod, Sony is finally going to support MP3 on its portable music players, shifting from using its own proprietray and…

The Sims 2 hits store shelves today, and creator Will Wright says the updated Sims are a lot closer to real life than before. Players…

The FDA approved implantable contact lenses today, clearing the way for those who don’t think the idea of lasering their retinas is a good idea…

BusinessWeek Online takes a look at Microsoft’s struggle to catch up to Apple in the world of entertainment. With the iPod and iTunes already so…

In a Wired interview, Microsoft security program manager Stephen Toulouse perhaps inadvertantly revealed that he uses Mozilla Firefox. When asked about the appeal of Firefox…

A new poll about broadband service by broadband equipment maker 2Wire, Inc. (which is probably not in any way biased) reports that 24% of broadband…

The city of Philadelphia may become the world’s biggest WiFi hotspot if the proposed $10 million plan is approved. Several other cities already have large…

Apple introduced an all-new iMac design today, and as predicted by the various sites who make it their business to second-guess the company, it’s a…

INtel announced that they’ve shrunk their chips by 30%, creating 70 megabit memory chips measuring 35 nanometers. The milestone keeps Moore’s Law intact and will…

For all the endless (endless, endless) stink that has been raised about syndication protocols, very little mention has been made of the applications that actually…

Those of you who have already downloaded Windows XP Service Pack 2 in hopes of getting better security on your system are in for a…

You go to the Post Office and you stare at the selection of commemorative stamps and think, “eh, Elvis, again? Birds? Fish? What about me?…

For those of you who haven’t heard of BitTorrent — and a big hello to 99.99% of the population out there! — it’s a technology…

A vulnerability in AOL’s Instant Messenger (AIM) could allow someone to take over your computer when you place AIM on “away” status. The error is…

People are being attacked by sharks along the Texas border because farmers use nitrates in the Mississippi watershed. Isn’t nature funny? Nitrates are used in…

When you’re calling for tech support, sometimes Susan is really Sangita because you’re not calling anywhere in America, you’re calling India. But the Indian way…

Wes Modes drives around in a 1964 Ford pickup. The bed is filled with surge protectors and extension cords, a DVD player wired to an…

Apple was like, “Dude, that is so not right! We totally built this thing and we totally get to call what totally goes on it!”…

Sorry, got another iPodcessory story for you. Londoners get to see where their toilets are, but those of us in the San Francisco bay area…

Turns out it ain’t the little boys spending all their time playing pointless games on their cell phones—it’s the chicks. The Yankee Group reports that…

The camera-organizer-jukebox-phone. The convergeance of disparate gizmos has been an on-going aim of pretty much every electronics firm. Whether that means sticking your Palm onto…

Next time you’re in London and feel the need for a slash, just pull out your iPod and thumb-twiddle your way to the nearest clean…

One can now install in one’s car or truck DVD players and flat screens and PlayStations and pretty much anything else one can put in…

RealNetworks said that they’ve managed all on their own to unlock Apple’s iPod in order to allow the player to support Real’s own audio format…

Karlheinz Brandenburg is a mad genius. He helped develop the MP3 format that is helping to change how and where we listen to music. (Tell…

You know you’re living in a magical, wonderous world when you realize that somewhere out there, teams of engineers are seeding deserts with disposable diaper…

AT&T Wireless launched high-speed data services in four cities today, making it possible to lose your cellular signal faster than ever! (I am an AT&T…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that all you idiots out there yakking away on your wireless headsets who think you’re doing the rest…

Apple released iPod v4 today, slimming the case, cleaning up the user interface and pumping up the available juice in its latest iconic portable music…

Way back when, Apple head honcho Steve “Black Turtlenecks Go With Everything” Jobs presented a brand new product that he said would alter the face…

A Washington state law restricting the sale of “violent” video games (as if there’s any other kind) from “minors” (as if they don’t already see…

A new virus in the wild goes the next step in trying to do its dirty work. Atak attempts to keep track of anti-virus software…

I’m having fantasies that we’ll get to remove the superfluous layers of garbage from the site one by one, like bricks from the Berlin Wall…

Microsoft announced—finally—that Service Pack 2 for Windows XP will be released to the public next month. The update, in Beta forever, includes several security enhancements…

Sony announced that the next generation Playstation video game platform will debut at the annual E3 video games trade show next May. Sony will showcase…

Coca Cola’s latest summer promo is causing the US Military a few headaches. It seems that some specially marked cans have cell phones and GPS…

Here’s a little fact to make some of us suddenly feel very old—it was 25 years ago today that Sony introduced the Walkman to a…

You know how when you call someone, what you hear in your phone before they answer is ‘brrrring, brrrring, brrrring?’ Someone had the bright idea…

I love it when an url tells the whole story of a web site, it’s the ultimate editing test - can you say it all…

Bored with having your Sims merely coo at each other? Looking for some steamier pixelated sexcapades? Eidos Interactive heard your heavy breathing and offers Singles:…

Japanese mobile carrier DoCoMo says their next generation of phones will allow users to make financial transactions, get into their houses, provide ID at stores…

Seagate hard drives are getting bigger… and smaller. The company will be releasing lots of new drives including a 400GB desktop drive, a 100GB 2.5”…

Historically, video games are designed to make your mind and body hump things. Go faster. Beat harder. Sweat. But some games want you to stop…

Hate your IT job? Join the club. A new study says 72% of the organizations contacted reported that a lack of job growth is making…

Nintendo announced new vapor(hard)ware code-named Revolution in Tokyo, today, but didn’t say what the new console would do, be, say or look like. What they…