If you were a fan of Reading Rainbow as a child, and miss having the opportunity to share it with your kids or with a new generation of young readers, you’re not alone. When Reading Rainbow officially stopped airing, LeVar…
Astronomers Discover Habitable Exo-Earth
More news I’ve been sitting on for a while but that’s still incredible is the story of the habitable – by all indication anyway – exo-Earth orbiting a binary star system well over 40 light years away. As noted at…
Microsoft Buys Skype
Everyone’s been talking about this story today, but I think it’s an incredible one. In what’s clearly the biggest purchase or acquisition the company has ever made, Microsoft has weighed in and purchased Skype outright for $8.5 billion. That’s a…
Commodore Announces New Commodore64
It looks like Commodore, that’s right, of the iconic Commodore 64 computer system – one of the first PCs that people remember having in their homes – is back, and they’re bringing the Commodore 64 name with them. The company…
Firefox 4 Released!
If you haven’t already heard the news, Firefox 4 is out and ready for download! I’m still by far a Firefox loyalist; I use Google Chrome at the office on an underpowered, employer-owned PC where Chrome – which is admittedly…
The Zune is Dead
Well, the social has officially ended. Microsoft has tipped to Bloomberg that the Zune line of hardware products is all but finished, but the name, the media player, and the software line will live on. I reported on this here…
Video :: The Secret World Trailer – GDC 2011
So this trailer for an upcoming MMO called The Secret World was unveiled at the Game Developer’s Conference earlier this month, and while at first blush it wouldn’t look terribly interesting, the trailer video belies an incredibly interesting concept. The…
CrunchGear :: Four and a Half Things Missing from the iPad 2
In The Apple iPad 2: I Told You So, we looked at some of the reasons why the iPad is still the tablet to beat. Over at Crunchgear today I saw a slightly different opinion that I also give a…
PC Mag :: The Apple iPad 2: I Told You So
Lance Ulanoff, Editor-in-Chief of PC Mag has a few choice words regarding the iPad 2, and they’re in the title. He’s not bragging so much as he’s pointing out that virtually everything he predicted (and many people predicted) about the…
Enter the iPad 2
Apple’s big iPad event was today, and we all got what we expected to get: a brand new iPad, now officially dubbed the iPad 2, along with a release date and technical specs. I talked about it in great length…