News, Views and Reviews on Technologies
The tech industry attracts some of the brightest, most motivated talent from around the world with limitless opportunity for creative achievement and cash. With these rewards, however, come increasing demands to be better than average, a requirement which often means tech CEOs are…shall we say, quirky? Eccentric is an understatement when sizing up who’s who [...]
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Technology advances through the creation of new inventions. Devices, protocols, machines, and ideas all increase the breadth of human knowledge, and make life easier for us all… At least in theory. In reality, the advance of progress is littered with bad ideas. A profound lack of foresight, thinking, or just plain common sense has left [...]
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If you’re a heavy iPhone user who also owns a PC, you’ve probably experienced the annoyance of having to get up from a comfy couch or an office meeting to go back from your phone to your computer for something. For 99 cents, Splashtop’s new iPhone app, Remote Desktop, lets you fire up your computer’s display [...]
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In the past year, there were shows that made us laugh, shows that made us cringe and those that kept us in suspense. But there’s one show that dominated TV screens and the Top 10 headlines of our MediaFreak blog: Lost. Here are the top MediaFreak posts in 2010 (in descending order, with No. 1 [...]
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Because their eyes are still developing, kids under the age of 6 shouldn’t use the handheld gaming device’s 3D functions, said the company. On the launching ceremony of 3DS device in Japan, video-game company Nintendo has issued a warning to parents that children under the age of six should not use the device’s 3D functions.Vision in children [...]
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Microsoft released a plugin for Firefox running on its Windows 7 operating system, giving users the capability to view H.264-encoded video on HTML5. The plug-in gets to access the H.264 support that is already been built into Windows 7. Technically, whenever you access a video from an HTML5 webpage, the video tags are replaced by a [...]
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Microsoft said it will block software developer ThriXXX from releasing its newly revealed Kinect software on the Xbox 360 console. Microsoft responded saying this software would never pass certification, so don’t expect these types of games to hit console anytime soon. The Web was buzzing earlier this week when ThriXXX, an Austria-based game company, posted a YouTube [...]
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Enough with the rumors about Delicious , having the plugged pulled out by Yahoo! Delicious just posted on their blog that they not going to shut down its services but they are planning to break away from Yahoo! So Relax loyal Delicious users, the service is here to stay. In Delicious’ statement, the service disputes the [...]
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