Archive for May, 2011

Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have created something that looks like it could have been made by Q in the research and development division of James Bond’s British Secret Service. The device, which wasn’t actually created for spy purposes, uses supersonic air streams to stick to just about any surface, allowing […]

The comedy world has been hosting roasts since the New York Friars’ Club started them in the 1920s. A roast is an event where a person, the guest of honor, sits back as comedians insult them, tell stories about them, and sometimes praise them. In any case, it’s usually embarrassing for the “roasted” party, but […]

Flickr is a great resource for hosting tons of your personal photos. Most Flickr users, however, have been in the position where they’ve deleted a photo or a set of photos and then regretted it a few days later. Unless you backed your photos up somewhere else, deleting them on Flickr was a permanent and […]

In China, Microsoft operating systems absolutely dominate the market — with an approximate 99.3% share. You’d probably assume that translates to a substantial amount of profit, especially in a country with a population of more than 1.3 billion. Yet China comes in behind The Netherlands — with a population of about 17 million — on […]

Last week, one of the additions to the Android Market that Google announced during Google I/O was movie rentals for Android devices. They also noted that they wouldn’t rent to rooted Android phones. It looks like Blockbuster has taken a page from Google’s playbook: if you’re using the new version of the Blockbuster Android app […]

Lockheed Martin is one of the US Department of Defense‘s largest contractors, and the biggest provider of technology services to the government overall. Now, word is trickling out from unnamed sources close to the company that Lockheed Martin’s internal technology team is working overtime to combat major network issues that could be related to a […]

Google hasn’t exactly been secretive about its plans to unveil an NFC-powered mobile payment system, and today the company put Google Wallet on display in New York. Along with partners like Citi, First Data, Sprint, and MasterCard, Google showed what that NFC chip in the Nexus S (and several other newer Android phones) is capable […]

The need to secure websites and access to accounts causes a major headache for webmasters. Multiple techniques are used to help figure out who is human, but one of the most prevalent is the Captcha test. The common Captcha presents a number of characters a user must type in to prove they are human. Those […]

Most modern browsers have taken on a decidedly minimal look, but there’s always room for discussion and re-tooling. Over at Mozilla Labs the team has been experimenting with some new takes on the Firefox UX like LessChrome HD, which creates more reading room by auto-hiding the Awesome Bar. LessChrome sprung forth from the Home Dash […]