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LucasArts Hints at New Game Through Twitter

Aaron Jones — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:46:41 PDT

It seems like in the past year, micro-blogging service Twitter has invaded everything — apparently, even the world of new game announcements. Over the weekend, LucasArts has been teasing on their Twitter page that they will be announcing a new game on Monday. Followed is LucasArts’ first tweet regarding their upcoming video game: “Amazing news coming [...]

iPhone Portable Projector Coming Soon

mjones3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:49:43 PDT

We’ve heard reports of so-called pico projectors coming as a direct complement for mobile phones for more than a year now, first in demos at CES 2008, and later in the form of the Optoma Pico Project Projector. Meanwhile, a non-projector company may be first to actually market a pico projector as a bona-fide mobile [...]

Sears Tower Unveils Glass Balconies

mjones3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:18:49 PDT

The Sears Tower glass balconies open today to the public for the first time, and it will give a new view of Chicago. The Sears Tower glass balconies aren’t the typical balconies that high rise buildings tend to have, and instead will present a unique way to enjoy the Sears Tower. Sears Tower glass balconies are located [...]

Electric Airplane Sets Speed Record

mjones3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:46:11 PDT

The mainstream media flat missed this one, but we think it’s a rather cool breakthrough. Earlier this month, Italian astronaut Maurizio Cheli electrified the green flying world (okay, it’s a small — but dedicated — group) with his record-setting flight of a fully electric airplane. The electric SkySpark flew for the first time June 8, then on [...]

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Users Looking For Bug Fix

mjones3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:11:27 PDT

The blogosphere is burning up with Firefox 3.5 users clamoring for a bug fix release from Mozilla that is expected in the next several weeks. “It’s seriously bugged is what it is,” posted Jeremy in a July 1 post on hothardware.com.” “My Firefox load time went from a heartbeat or two to 50-60 seconds. First time, [...]

New Facebook Privacy Controls Take On Twitter

mjones3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:04:08 PDT

In a move that may actually pass without a huge uproar, Facebook has begun testing new privacy options that will make the service pretty much just like Twitter, but only if you want it to be. Or so they say. If these changes pass without a big user protest it would mark something of a return [...]

Bing Rises Up – Possibly Pushing Google

Aaron Jones — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:14:49 PDT

So, most of you have heard about Microsoft’s Bing by now. If not, you won’t regret checking it out. Anyway, Google may have a good competition on their hands. Bing is definitely going up in traffic, but Google might still be okay… for now, that is. Google’s traffic has gone down by a small percentage [...]

Palm Pre Breaks Sprint Sales Record

Aaron Jones — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:24:09 PDT

It’s official: the Palm Pre, released Saturday has broken the sales record of all Sprint’s other cell phones. The Palm Pre has said to have sold the outrageous amount of “somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000″ units within the first two days of it’s release. Tim Donahue, Sprint’s VP of business marketing announced: “We experienced our [...]

“ELMOTO HR-2″ E-Bike

Aaron Jones — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:39:24 PDT

Made by two German engineers, the new electronic bike, dubbed as “Elmoto” looks like something that a few bikers may want to save up for. The bike costs $5,700, which is an OK deal considering you’ll never have to pay for gas, and hopefully not repairs. About 100 bikes will be shipped out this Summer, [...]

“Juste” Twitter & Facebook Scam is Spreading

Aaron Jones — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:17:37 PDT

If you happen to view any tweets OR Facebook messages containing a link to” juste (dot) ru”, DO NOT TAKE IT. Clicking the link and/or visiting the site will steal both your Twitter and Facebook access information. With this being done, your accounts will be used to spread the virus further. Possibillities of malware have [...]