Crisis in Egypt

Unrest in Egypt continued into its 7th day as anti-government protests once again faced police on the streets of Cairo.

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Facebook tops Google.

Facebook surpassed Google for the first time as the most visited website in the United States for most of 2010

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Facebook Global Relationships

Facebook intern Paul Butler was interested in the locations of friendships, so he decided to create a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe. How local are our friends? Where are the highest concentration of friendships? How do political and geological boundaries affect them?

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The iGrill includes a probe and a display (to be left outside the grill). The display communicates with the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad via an app. (Credit: iDevices)

iDevices plans to demo iGrill at CES 2011

January 1, 2011 by Editoral Dept

You may have only heard of the iGrill, a Bluetooth device that allows you to keep tabs on the temperature of your grill, wirelessly. At CES 2011, you can see it in action.

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Facebook Tops Google as most visited site

January 1, 2011 by Editoral Dept

The social network site edged out Google.com with 8.9 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010, while Google.com ranked second with about 7.2 percent of all visits, according to online measurement service Experian Hitwise.

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Firefox 3.6.4: Flash No Longer Crashes Browser

June 23, 2010 by Editoral Dept

After some delays, Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.4, the newest version of the popular web browser. It comes with one big addition: protection against crashing due to third-party plugins, most notably Adobe Flash.

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The $116 billion cell phone business

October 30, 2009 by Editoral Dept

The $116 billion business of selling cell phone calls in the U.S. faces a long, ugly decline. That petrifies just about everyone in the industry except Roger Linquist.

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