On Thursday 8 January 2009, then 18-year old Mahoud Samed Almahadin (aka Matt Connor aka Agent Pubeit ) took off his shirt, proceeded to rub vaseline all over his upper body and subsequently used it to hold toenail clippings and pubic hair. He then ran into the New York Scientology building, tossed...

MySpace’s new slogan, and the theme of their new product strategy, will be “Discover and be Discovered,” we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. This will be their differentiating factor from Facebook, execs told employees at an all hands meeting last Thursday. The meeting was...

By Andrew Liszewski It’s kind of hard to justify the cost of a portable DVD player these days when a similarly priced device like the iPod Touch does so much more, but the Philips PET729 manages to make itself slightly more useful with the inclusion of a digital TV tuner and antenna. For about...

MySpace has just announced that CEO Owen Van Natta has left the company. Taking his place will be co-Presidents Mike Jones And Jason Hirschhorn, who have been serving as the company’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer, respectively. The news comes less than two weeks after we interviewed...

MySpace Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn will soon be leaving the company, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Hirschhorn joined MySpace in April 2009 as part of the major executive shakeup that replaced the old guard, including long-time CEO Chris DeWolfe. After current CEO Owen Van Natta...

News Corporation just announced financial results for the second quarter ended December 31, reporting net income of $254 million ($0.10 per share) for the last 3 months of 2009. That’s compared to a net loss of $6.4 billion ($2.45 per share) in the second quarter a year ago, and solidly beating...

Editor’s note : This a guest post written by Joff Redfern. Redfern is the co-founder of FlattenMe.com , a site for creating personalized storybooks. He was formerly a vice president of product at Yahoo, where he managed Yahoo Buzz and Toolbar. Amazon Kindle: The Road Ahead I’m a recent Kindle...

OpenCandy , the startup that tries to offer bundled applications that you might actually want to use, has added Joe Kraus , founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, to their board. Kraus is currently a Director of Product Management at Google. Alongside the news, OpenCandy has also shared...

Editor’s note : This guest post is by Andrew Keen, the author of Cult of the Amateur and an advisor to Arts and Labs , a collaboration between entertainment companies, software providers, telecommunications providers, artists and creators. Some people don’t like TV Everywhere , Comcast’s...

By Evan Ackerman We covered the Neato Robotics XV-11 robot vacuum in detail on BotJunkie back in December , and last night at Digital Experience here at CES we got a chance to check it out in person. Just to recap, the Neato is unlike most other robot vacuums in that it isn’t a gussied up Roomba...

By David Ponce So here we are in North America’s largest convention, and we’re getting ready to die, one footstep at a time to bring you news on the hottest tech for 2010. CES proper doesn’t start until Thursday, but there’s plenty of previews and other pre-show events to keep...

Regular readers may know my affinity for Pearl Jam. The band, which released a new album, Backspacer , last year had a series of promotions with MySpace to promote the album. Now they’re turning to Twitter for some more. The band has teamed up with the digital media house Culture Jam to launch...