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The Nook sold more than 60,000 units in 2009
Latest Tech and Gadget News | December 30th 2009 by Vivian Chen
Despite encouraging comments than when he first arrived, it seems that Barnes and Noble e-Reader, the corner, enjoy better than expected sales in 2009, to the delight of B & N. Not so much to the delight of some consumers, however. When announcin read more
Apple Tablet May be Announced in January
CyberSurge | December 28th 2009 by Mike
The Financial Times‘ David Gelles reports that Apple will hold an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. They expect Apple to “make a major product announcement on Tuesday, January 26th.” Citing Piper Jaffray read more
370 lösenord som är förbjudna på Twitter
Kulturbloggen | December 27th 2009 by Chadie
För att förhindra att du som användare väljer ett för enkelt lösenord har Twitter en lista på 370 förbjudna lösenord. Det är 370 lösenord som är hårdkodade i sidan twitter.com/signup. Du kan enkelt se alla orden genom att högerkli read more
Fusion Garage Releases JooJoo Tech Specs
Erictric | December 25th 2009 by Eric
Fusion Garage, the company behind the JooJoo web-surfing tablet has officially made the tech specs of their device available on the JooJoo information website. Interestingly, it appears as if we’re missing pertinent information relating to the read more
Google Voice returns to iPhone
IT Arsenal | December 25th 2009 by Erfan
Since the Apple rejected Google Voice from its App Store, Google, as well as Voice users have been steaming. You can place a call or send a text via the Google Voice website, but in mobile Safari is not exactly the iPhone experience that users are us read more
My 2009 Tech Predictions: Mixed, But Nailed Real-Time
louisgray.com | December 25th 2009 by Louis Gray
Another yearly tradition here on louisgray.com. Following on to last year's 10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech (and its 2008 predecessor), it makes sense to review how we fared. Recall my 2008 predictions were a complete mess. Unlike some o read more
Tales of Holiday Techno-Horror [Holiday Horrors]
GizmoDesk | December 24th 2009
Is it any surprise that when I asked a bunch of Gizmodo readers to share their holiday horror stories , you guys sent in tales of frozen cameras, technophobic dads and—yes—porn-filled PS3s? Frosty the Frozen Nikon A fellow who goes by Sk read more
Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Canon-Like Gun [B…
GizmoDesk | December 23rd 2009
Some researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have managed to accidentally cause $3 million of damage as they blew up one of their own buildings using a large-bore powder gun, a weapon which acts like a Civil War cannon. According to Projec read more
What Is This? [Power]
GizmoDesk | December 23rd 2009
When I first saw this abstract image, I thought I was looking at some weird crystals, or maybe some snowflakes under the microscope using polarized light. The answer was much more amazingerest and surprising than that. These are the new solar cells read more
Google endorses WrapMail for Business
WrapMail | December 23rd 2009 by WrapMail, Inc.
WrapMail for Business is now part of the Google Solutions Marketplace. read more
San Jose Police Will Soon Be Required To Record All Interaction W…
GizmoDesk | December 23rd 2009
Sadly, stories about police discrimination and the Tasering of 10-year old girls are frighteningly commonplace these days. Officers in San Jose , CA have a particularly bad reputation, which is one reason why they are being outfitted with head-mount read more
Google About Openness
Auction Site Owners Blog | December 23rd 2009 by Dave Langston
sopssa writes ‘Several sites, including TechCrunch and The Register, are reporting about an email Google’s VP Jonathan Rosenberg sent to employees on Monday about the meaning of open. ‘At Google we believe that open systems win. The read more
Shooting Challenge: Inappropriate Holiday Browsing [Shooting Chal…
GizmoDesk | December 23rd 2009
You're home for the holidays, and once again, friends and family are thwarting your opportunities to browse the internet. So we'd like Giz readers to fight back, reclaim the holiday in digital protest and capture the moment while doing so. This week read more
Safe Sexting iPhone App Can Send Self-Censored Naughty Bits [IPho…
GizmoDesk | December 23rd 2009
With all the sexting craze going on , and teens getting arrested left, right, and center on child pornography charges, I'm surprised the Safe Sexting iPhone application—which allows you to take and easily censor any photos—didn't appear read more
Show The World What You’re Drinking, With The Cipher Drinking G…
GizmoDesk | December 23rd 2009
Remember those plastic glasses we had as kids, which changed color if liquid was inside? You'd quite often get them for 99c with a kid's meal at a fast food chain. These are the next (grown-up) step in the evolution. While it's just a concept for no read more
This Is Why Norwegians Terrify Me [Image Cache]
GizmoDesk | December 23rd 2009
Holy friggin' hell! I don't know how I didn't see this before, but apparently Norwegians eliminate hazardous rocks by having helicopters slam a huge swinging ball against a cliff. I really hope I don't ever piss one of 'em off. Is this really the mo read more
Save Money Read Free eBook “Bringing Nothing the the Party” b…
Latte Money | December 22nd 2009 by Latte Money
“Bringing Nothing to the Party” is a brand new eBook released by Paul Carr and TechCrunch in PDF format, for free. According to him, it is released under a Creative Commons License. Pau... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs read more
HTC’s Rags to Riches Story: Taiwanese OEM to Android Powerhouse…
GizmoDesk | December 22nd 2009
Wired looks at HTC's rise from unknown OEM in Taiwan to creator of some of the most innovative and exciting smartphones around, including the Nexus One . It's basically been one smart, ballsy risk after another, and it's paid off. [ Wired ] Read mo read more
For All the Gloom Around RSS, Readers Continue to Climb
louisgray.com | December 22nd 2009 by Louis Gray
Skimming many of the leading technology outlets, you would think RSS had given up its ghost, making way for new services, like Twitter. Just this week, ReadWriteWeb claimed the RSS reader market was in "disarray" and continued a "decline". This came read more
How Much Money TechCrunch.com Is Making Online
Blogtechnika | December 22nd 2009 by himanshu yadav
Techcrunch.com is one of the biggest and most viewable blog of blogosphere. Owned by Micheal Arrington Techcrunch is one of the most popular weblog among tech enthusiasts. Techcrunch has Alexa rank of 393, total subscribers 3749000 and 17478 Facebook read more
Twitter Captures A Nexus One Unboxing
Google Phone - Nexus One | December 21st 2009
Today, some Twitpics shared by one user show those. As a bonus, he also shows off a bit of its HTC-innards. The Nexus One is expected to be released early next year sold both unlocked from Google and in partnership with at least one major carrier. read more
Yelp backs out of Google’s $500 million deal:TechCrunch reports
IT Arsenal | December 21st 2009 by Erfan
Last week it was reported that Google was set to acquire Yelp for a sweet $500 million.But this week according to TechCrunch, Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppleman walked away from the deal, as it was reaching the later stages of negotiation. TechCrunch read more
Last.fm - How do they stream all that data ?
Startup Essentials | December 21st 2009 by stewart townsend
Last.fm is a great case of a Sun Startup Essential customer starting off two years ago by discussing their architecture, and how could Sun help them as a startup, well two years down the line we have saved them money, reduced their output and hel read more
Notes: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dolla…
MarkJournal | December 21st 2009 by Mark Bao
TechCrunch reports that Yelp has walked away from the $550 million deal with Google. Wow—it was almost finished. Confidence much in Yelp, or something wrong in the agreement? read more
You Are Here: Geolocation is the Trend for 2010
Max Gladwell | December 20th 2009 by Max Gladwell
Social media provides real-time access to the who, what, and when. Geolocation now provides the “where” in real time. Web meet World; World meet Web. Geolocation will become a huge market in the coming years, much like s read more
Gen Y Startup To Take New Turn
Generation-Y startup | December 20th 2009 by Tolu Babalola
Image by wilbertbaan via Flickr Over the past few months, I have learned a whole lot as I continued building my startup and consulting for a brilliant company already making waves in the real-time tech industry. I have drawn inspiration from severa read more
Wii BOSS Controller Case: Great In Theory, Poor In Execution [Wii…
GizmoDesk | December 20th 2009
There's a lot of useless accessory crap for the Wii, but the B.O.S.S. controller case looked to buck the trend by addressing Nintendo's baffling lack of classic controller support for New Super Mario Bros Wii. Too bad it doesn't work. Ars Technica s read more
Time running out for the humble SMS as iPhone apps steal the show…
Eton Digital Weblog | December 20th 2009 by Boban
While reading a recent Techcrunch piece on Blipr (free iPhone app that enables messaging with other iPhone users), I couldn’t help but fear for the fate of the humble text message as we know it. If we can safely assume that handsets like iPhone read more
Put a Giant Condom On Your Bed [Pillow]
GizmoDesk | December 20th 2009
I never realized we were such pillow fans: iPhone icon pillows , pillow blankets , TV pattern pillows , laptop pillows , pillow rings , extra-terrestrial pillows , wiimote pillows ... it never stops. Until now. Here's the pillow to rule them all: Th read more
How to Not Get a Headache During Avatar [Avatar]
GizmoDesk | December 20th 2009
Shadow Locked makes a great point about how 3D movies don't gel with our perception of the world. If you have trouble with 3D flicks, check out their tips for how to get through Avatar without getting a splitting headache . The author argues that wh read more
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