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In our side-by-side comparisons with the Kindle Fire, one of the few areas where the Nook Tablet was the better choice was in its potential as a hacked tablet. Its extra storage, additional RAM, and SD card slot made it appear to be the more appealing purchase for those wanting to root and flash ROMs. [...]

Back in October, a new service appeared that seemed a little too good to be true. It was called Backify and offered a Dropbox-like cloud storage solution for just $5 per month. The killer feature was the fact you got 512GB of storage, which is way more than the popular alternatives such as Dropbox and [...]

With the planet facing a global energy crisis, researchers and scientists have been working to create renewable energy sources to satisfy the power consumption demand. Clearly thinking outside the box, there is an interesting report from the International Academy of Astronautics that states that there could be a working space-based solar energy platform in just 20 [...]

You already know that the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, is the time for door-busting deals in the US. What you may not know is that the week before Black Friday is the time for retailers to “accidentally” leak many of those deals in order to generate some advance buzz. Who are we to go [...]

Amazon is drawing a lot of buzz with tomorrow’s launch of the economical Kindle Fire tablet. Many suggest that it will be the first rival to eat into the iPad’s overwhelming market dominance. As it turns out, Apple may be planning a new addition to the iPad line that will directly combat this new threat. [...]

Although it may be hard to believe, one of the fastest creatures on two feet is the ostrich. Capable of speeds up to 37 mph, the flightless birds have amazing grace and agility as they sprint over rough terrain. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has taken notice, and has decided to borrow from nature [...]

Ross Technology Corp is a company that specializes in steel products including non-slip flooring, security, and racks. For the tech enthusiast, that may sound a little boring, but then you hear about a byproduct of a solution they came up with to stop their steel products corroding. Metal corrodes when it comes into contact with [...]

If you’re the type of person who can enjoy some fun tech even if you know it’s just an advertising campaign at heart, then Starbucks has something in store for you. This holiday season the coffee shops will be pouring your double mocha latte into a cup that doubles as an augmented reality trigger when [...]

We have known that the Kindle Fire would launch with a better app selection than the Nook Tablet. What we didn’t know was that all of the Nook’s advantages on the software front would be matched by Amazon’s tablet. The last piece of that puzzle comes with today’s confirmation that the Fire will support Hulu [...]

It’s true that we’re spending more and more time on the web. That means we’re using our browsers a good portion of the time we’re on a computer. You’d think that would have made folks a little more interested in Chromebooks, but the supply chain says otherwise. It seems people just aren’t willing to cough [...]