Back in late March and early April, when we first heard the terrifying tale of two shifty, hapless carrier pigeons intercepted while attempting to smuggle cellphone parts to inmates in a high-security Brazilian prison, we thought it was merely an isolated incident. Well, now that another pigeon has...

Yelp’s version 2.0 of its iPhone app has officially hit Apple’s App store. We reported on Yelp’s focus on the mobile space and its importance here. As we wrote recently, the new app gives consumers even more ease in automatically reviewing businesses via their iPhone and enhances its...

Sure, the cold metal exterior looks like a regular old car, but the 2010 S-Class from Mercedes-Benz has a fuzzy technological heart, including an abundance of readout displays and a Splitview screen . Quite like it sounds, the Splitview display offers up one view to the driver (like a map), while the...

In recent months, we’ve seen both Lenovo and Acer push out rather stylish all-in-one PCs. Clearly, both firms are hot to trot for the form factor, with DigiTimes reporting that the duo has big plans for future expansion in the area. Specifically, Lenovo is rumored to launch an entry-level 20-inch...

If you’re a resident of the European Union (or just a big fan) you might like to know that Medion’s back with another nondescript, low-priced laptop or two. Understated sequels to the Mini E1210 , both the E1211 and E1215 sport a 10-inch display, Intel Atom processor, 160GB hard drive, Windows...

It may only be a footnote in the long history of Windows XP , but Microsoft has confirmed today that, as planned, the venerable OS has finally and officially transitioned from the Mainstream Support phase to the Extended Support phase. This, of course, follows a number of extensions to the Mainstream...

Filed under: Utilities , Macintosh Adium, the popular multi-protocol chat app for OS X, announced a while back that version 1.4 will support using Twitter via IM . If you don’t want to wait for 1.4, you can turn on Twitter in Adium using the TwitterIM plugin . It lets you add your Twitter account...

China Mobile may or may not have lost out to China Unicom in the bid to (officially) bring the iPhone to the most populous nation in the world, but it seems the provider might still have an ace up its sleeve — Dell. The Texas-based company, which may or may not be actually making smartphones,...

Do you know what the new hotness is? We’ll tell you — computers in suitcases. Big, brawny, rugged suitcases. After seeing the Poor Mans Netbook offered up to the least poor bidder on eBay, one Daniel Spalding has concocted a more powerful successor dubbed the Poor Mans Notebook. Within the...

An interesting sidenote on the intersection of music and commerce: Billboard reported last week that the iTunes Store’s new variable pricing plan has had a bit of an impact on sales rankings on individual tracks, giving $.99 songs an advantage over their $1.29 counterparts. According to the magazine,...

Filed under: Mozilla , Beta One of the things that makes Firefox special is the fact that you can install thousands of plugins that add features to the web browser or change its behavior. But some of the available add-ons haven’t been thoroughly tested. Although many will work just fine, there’s...

Visit this album on Multiply and you’ll definitely appreciate the perks of having a rich aunt who owns a house in an upscale resort village. Photographic opportunities abound, especially if you’re looking for unobtrusive views of the sunset and moonrise for your photo album. The problem...