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As if Google Earth wasn't cool and useful enough -- like helping find a new apartment in a faraway city or taking a little tour of a foreign place -- Google's latest version of the program just upped the ante.Now you can view live weather patterns of rain and snow. So far the precipitation data... Read More
First came the smart phone. Next comes the smart camera phone. Thanks to researchers at Stanford University, your smart phone's camera might eventually have a plethora of its own apps that are more advanced than even the iPhone's limited inventory of camera apps. "Camera manufacturers used... Read More
ATI Takes the Lead After a long stretch of dominance, NVIDIA has fallen behind ATI in discrete GPU shipments. According to Mercury Research, ATI claims 51% of the market, and NVIDIA has slipped to, you guessed it, 49%. NVIDIA was the leader this time last year with 59% market share, illustrating... Read More
The federal government and almost all these United States are broke, and so they're considering something we've all at least thought about from time to time: making money off the Internet. There's a fight brewing in Washington, D.C. over an attempt to collect sales tax from online purchases... yet... Read More

"Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games"

by Peter Brown on Jul 30th, 2010, 9:40 am
Indie game developer Jeff Vogel (head of Spiderweb Soft.) wrote a thoughtful piece on piracy on Wednesday, for his blog, The Bottom Feeder. As an industry veteran and most important of all, human, he explains why piracy isn't always a bad thing, and can often be downright justifiable given the... Read More

Finally—Hotmail is Useful

by Tom Hodgson on Jul 29th, 2010, 4:58 pm
If you’re one of the outstanding users yet to make the pilgrimage to Gmail from your dilapidated Hotmail account, you may have been one of the lucky ones (like myself this morning) rewarded recently with a handful of e-sunshine for your continued loyalty. The once affluent e-mail service... Read More
As more Q1 fiscal reports keep rolling in, it's clear that Sony stands out among the gaming pack, thanks in part to a significant rise is PS3 Sales. Unfortunately, Nintendo and Capcom didn't fare so well. Sony Sony bounced back from a 1st quarter loss of $426 million last year, fueled by... Read More

YouTube Offers 15 Minutes of Fame

by Cat Rambo on Jul 29th, 2010, 1:59 pm
Artist Andy Warhol declared in 1968, "In the future , everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." And now YouTube's working to make that a little more possible. The popular video site is increasing its limits on the size of uploaded videos from 10 minutes to 15. Joshua Siegel, Product Manager... Read More
Questions have been raised about an Android wallpaper application that is collecting personal data and sending it to a site, www.imnet.com, in Shenzen, China. It's unclear why the data is being collected or what use might be made of it. The app Wallpaper, which originated from developer Jackeey,... Read More

Facebook Scores A Win In Patent Lawsuit

by Cat Rambo on Jul 29th, 2010, 12:55 pm
A lawsuit filed against Facebook in 2008 has had its day in court -- and lost. Ohio-based Leader Technologies filed suit against Facebook, charging that it had infringed on their 2006 patent for "a method and system for the management and storage of electronic information” developed by the... Read More
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