By Adriana Lee |
We’ve all been guilty of evaluating goods at a brick-and-mortar store, only to purchase the products online. For shoppers, it makes sense to do some homework and perform some price comparisons before we buy. Unfortunately that’s no comfort for store owners who feel taken advantage…
By Adriana Lee |
Are you up to date with all things Stark and Lannister? Whoa! We couldn’t believe it when… Just kidding! Would I spoil the action like that? Hecks no. But if you’re not up to date on Game of Thrones, you have two days before the…
By Adriana Lee |
If you didn’t know Nick D’Aloisio, he might seem like any other teen — he goes to school, has cool hair and contends with protective, yet proud parents. But he has become something of a legend lately, a bona fide geek idol for every youngster with…
By Adriana Lee |
Language is not set in stone. A malleable form of communication, it evolves along with changing attitudes and behaviors — things that are increasingly influenced by our techno-driven world. That is, as long as no major companies come along to oppose it. Case in point: When…
By Adriana Lee |
When I was little, I had a pen pal who lived in the exotic, far away land of New Jersey. In reality, it wasn’t that far — I lived in Pennsylvania — but it might as well as have been Fiji to a kid with…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s the end of an era. Maybe we should’ve seen the writing on the wall when Google bought Frommer’s last year to enhance its location and points of interest data, or when the bookstore vanished from Frommer’s website in September. But nonetheless, we’re still bummed…
By Adriana Lee |
Comics fans are a diverse group. You’ve got your graphic novel and comic book traditionalists, with their shelves or boxes of print copies. Then there are the tech-savvy fanatics who are trying to suss out the cool, but ultimately frustrating experience of tablet-based mobile consumption.…
By Sean P. Aune |
The original gang may indeed may be getting back together for Star Wars Episode VII, even the reclusive Harrison Ford. Of the original three main actors in the Star Wars trilogy – Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford – Ford has been the most…
By Adriana Lee |
Move over, Ashton Kutcher and Aaron Sorkin. There’s a new Steve Jobs biopic coming to town. (Well, sorta.) And there’s no fiddling with facts this time around. In fact, aside from there being an actual man named Steve Jobs who ran Apple, there are few…
By Sean P. Aune |
Folks who expected to see the biographical film of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher in their local cineplexes next month are going to have to wait a little longer as the release has been delayed. Although Steve Wozniak has said what he has seen of…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter is reportedly preparing to release a standalone app similar to SoundHound at the end of March called Twitter Music. A new CNET report claims the social networking company wants to dress up its acquisition of We Are Hunted into a Twitter-friendly discovery platform. You…
By Adriana Lee |
We all know trolls have a penchant for derailing comment threads. Who among us hasn’t witnessed an intelligent discourse devolve into name-calling, errantly accusing cesspools of time-sucking drivel? That may sound harsh, but there’s clear science to back up the detrimental effects of this particular…
By Adriana Lee |
Life is hard. There are deadlines. Irritating customers, clients, co-workers. Someone’s always trying to sell you something (or scam you out of something). Your girlfriend or boyfriend just dumped you. And your parent/boss/teacher rides you like you’ve got a target on your back. Oh, what…
By Adriana Lee |
Imagine minding your own business, waiting for an elevator to open up, when the doors pull back to reveal a strange man choking a victim. What would you do? Scream? Run? Call 911? All of those reactions are very natural, judging by what happened when…
By Ron Duwell |
You shouldn’t drink and drive. That’s a simple rule the entire world should follow, and even if you suspect you are close to the limit, then there should be enough common sense to prevail to the point when a breathalyzer is unnecessary. However, those who…
By Brandon Russell |
This isn’t some old timey curmudgeon agenda, or because of your specific tastes. There’s a new program taking shape in New York that could regulate in-ear music that’s too loud. But it’s for your own good, health officials say. Mayor Bloomberg and the New York…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple has reportedly opened talks with record labels about an upcoming music streaming service, but they’re not going well. According to the NY Post, Apple is going at companies with laughable lowball offers, proposing only 6 cents per 100 song streams. To compare, Pandora offers…
By Sean P. Aune |
Despite some quick backtracking on his part, it appears George Lucas has confirmed the return of Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher in Star Wars Episode VII. While speaking with Bloomberg Businessweek, Star Wars creator George Lucas was asked whether he had informed the…
By Brandon Russell |
News Corp. has a new 10-inch educational tablet called Amplify that’s just $300. Do tablets have a place in education? It would certainly seem so, and the tab, which will come with Google Apps for Education, a Dictionary and graphic calculator preloaded, will try to squeeze…
By Adriana Lee |
Cubicles? Who needs a cube when the big, wide open world is your office? Marissa Mayer notwithstanding, it is clear that more companies have embraced telecommuting and remote offices over recent years. The time was ripe for it: Enterprise adoption of tablets and ultrabooks has been…
By Brandon Russell |
To coincide with the new Atoms For Peace record out this week, The Guardian has done up a short expose on frontman Thom Yorke, also of Radiohead fame. The singer/songwriter is a respected if somewhat forlorn figure in the industry, but one whose opinion matters.…
By Adriana Lee |
The media has been in love with Marissa Mayer ever since the former Googler took the reins as Yahoo CEO last summer. Her every move has been well-covered — whether it’s a redesign of the office environment or the homepage. But the honeymoon period might…
By Brandon Russell |
For the first time in 14 years, music sales are up by the slimmest of margins—just 0.3 percent. Even better, piracy reportedly fell by 17-percent overall in 2012, meaning the music industry is getting a double-dose of good news. The changes are attributed, of all…
By Ron Duwell |
The US Food and Drug Administration has green lit the use of the Argus II, a two part bionic eye designed for patients who are almost completely blind through retinis pigmentosa. Its creator, Second Sight, was able to convince an advisory panel that the benefits…
