By Adriana Lee |
Leave it to Silicon Valley to slam dunk an online initiative. But this time, the player isn’t a tech company — it’s San Jose State University, which just took “higher learning” and gave it a whole new meaning. The university piloted a program last fall…
By Adriana Lee |
Bad news, folks. The Twitter Music iOS app is not launching today as originally expected, nor is it arriving this weekend — at least, not for the masses. If you’re famous, however, that’s another story entirely. Yesterday AllThingsD pegged a Friday release, to line up…
By Adriana Lee |
I had a bracing moment a few weeks ago. Taking a break from writing, I dipped into my social networks for a moment and saw something that made me stop cold: My father-in-law was recommended to me as someone I might know and want to…
By Adriana Lee |
When actor Kevin Bacon’s wife, Kyra Sedgwick, left television as relentless deputy chief Brenda Lee Johnson on The Closer, I was beside myself. Thankfully, her hubby and his new show, Fox’s The Following, stepped in to help fill the void. Well, Kyra — since you’re well-versed…
By Adriana Lee |
When David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah, lectures about distracted driving, he often asks people how they’d feel if their pilot whipped out his phone to make dinner reservations while landing the airplane. The thought may be unnerving, but it’s kind…
By Adriana Lee |
Cool things happen when legends get together. Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates met up last night at a party that the former was holding at his Living Computer Museum in Seattle. And wouldn’t you know, there just happened to be this room full…
By Adriana Lee |
Cocaine addiction can be a nasty affliction that, if left unchecked, has the huge potential to throw a person’s relationships, career, and cash down the toilet. And those are the lucky ones. Death is the ultimate price for some, as thousands die from cocaine overdoses…
By Adriana Lee |
Still hanging on to vinyl? You’re not alone. There are plenty of music aficionados and audiophiles out there who can’t bear to part with their spinning discs from yesteryear, sometimes even when they no longer own the record players to enjoy them. Well, here’s a…
By Adriana Lee |
BlackBerry Messenger integration can be a handy way to auto-push updates to your BBM contacts. Maybe your friends and family like knowing what music you’re enjoying right now on your BlackBerry Z10, or when you’re watching videos on the handset. After all, it’s yet another…
By Adriana Lee |
When word leaked out about Sean Parker’s wedding, the Web was abuzz with rumors of the ultimate geek nuptials. The tech billionaire — Napster founder, Facebook co-founder and Spotify investor — and his fiancé Alexandra Lenas were supposedly planning a medieval-themed costume wedding set in the forest…
By Adriana Lee |
When Funny or Die announced it was making a Steve Jobs biopic spoof and casting Justin Long, the “I’m a Mac” hipster from the old Apple commercials, we were bracing ourselves. Would it be smart? Silly? A little uncomfortable? Totally hilarious? Hard to tell from…
By Adriana Lee |
Every year at this time, a strange phenomenon takes place: Typically dead-serious companies and heavy-hitting news sites go bonkers with the bizarro fake stories. And if you’ve been online recently, you might’ve run into a few of these gags. Time to put your skeptismo hat…
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…
