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I love music - in fact, I am listening to music as I type this post, so a good pair of speakers is quite necessary in my opinion. Speakers have come a long way, and there is now technology that allows sound to pass through a good set of speakers as if it actually made the noise around you. Not only
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It’s no secret the Magic Jack, a device that allows you to make free local and long distance calls, has seen great success over the last two years. It comes as no shock then that another company would release a similar product and try to steal part of the market share that the MagicJack has ca
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Everyone knows what a projector is. However, these days, the cool thing to do is to make things smaller -- not bigger. So what do you do to a projector? You make it smaller and call it a pico projector of course! In response to the emergence of compact portable devices such as mobile phones, PDA
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The Consumer Electronics Show held each year in Las Vegas shows off all of the coming years new technology and for that week, I was glued to the computer to see the hot new products coming out. As I kept my eye out on all the gadgets being announced, I noticed a trend -- E-book readers, Pico Proje
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First off, this is the article that almost didn't happen. If you don't want to hear this, just skip down to the "All That Aside" heading below, but I encourage you to first read through my little "aside" here first so you can understand what's happening in this article since it doesn't follow stan
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I currently have a Blackberry Curve as my personal phone, and I have written a lot of software for the iPhone in addition to using one on an almost-daily basis for debugging ...and because it is awesome. I love them both, and while I haven't traditionally leaned towards one or the other in terms
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The school year returns and its time to buy your kids a computer. A friendly warning from me to you is "Your knowledge of buying cereal does not qualify you to intelligently purchase a computer." But we will try to help you get the most for your money instead of being swindled out of your cash by
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(No, I'm not going to write/complain about Google as the last couple of our articles have) Instead, I'm going to complain about Apple. What the iPhone architecture calls "firmware" continues to confuse those looking for a solid definition of the loose term, which has been used to traditionally de
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The European Union is funding a new middleware platform designed to allow higher-level software to take full advantage of the readily-available sensors in modern cars. The platform acts as an abstraction layer, providing an easy to use, higher-level API for programs to use while interpreting the res
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If anybody noticed, Microsoft recently relabeled Windows Live Search to Bing, it's new name. The release was preceded by a sexy video on the new website, depicting what was apparently an idiotic housewife twitching her nose while using the "new" service. I'm no marketing expert, but continuously
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