New Eskimohunter video shot entirely with Cell Phones

A music video, an interview or citizen journalism report shot by your cell phone? Yes.... it is possible with such little gear! " New Eskimohunter Shot Entirely With Nokia Nseries Cell Phones Sep 17th, 2008 | By...

Please Bono, for the love of God, retire from public life

Some do-gooders at ThePoint.com, a site that enables people to mobilize (and hopefully fund) activism campaigns, have started a petition asking Bono to stop being the world's most annoying philanthropist.As it...

7 Phones That Push The iPhone To The Background

"Apple has caused a panic, with competitors scrambling to crank out Web-friendly, widescreen phones. But like the iPod, the harder rivals try to blunt Apple's strengths, the worse they look in comparison. In 2001, Apple started out with just a thin slice of the market for...

Apple Files Patent on Solar Power for Its Products

Nothing like an Apple in the sun. Will the company lead the way in devices that actually will be free of traditional power?"Owners of Apple devices such as iPods and iPhones may soon be able to chargethem up by...

Television is so 1995

Opinion:"The buzz around last week’s YouTube awards demonstrates how much video has changed the past few years. Not only did an online army blog the results, as you would expect, but major news wires and TV...

New iTunes business model: all you can listen?

Definitely an improvement I reckon.  They still have to do something about sound quality though--128 kbps ain't good enough for a decent stereo.How much would you pay for an unlimited iTunes...

LIVEBLOGGING from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs Keynote

We'll be wrapping up live blogging now and putting together a NowPublic recap/roundup of MacWorld keynote coverage. Watch for that later this afternoon. Liveblogging Updates via Engadget and TechCrunch:  10:44am [via TC] - "Steve thanked everyone for coming, lots of...

Maker Faire Austin: It's Alive!

Maker Faire, a celebration of DIY ethos and meeting-place for citizen engineers, has come to Austin, Texas for the very first time. Austin is no stranger to innovation, playing annual host to the South by Southwest...

Saving our digital heritage

"It is commonly agreed that the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. Today, however, the digital information that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more...

School Criminalizes Kids, Confiscates Electronics

Students at an Upper West Side middle school were marched through metal detectors, and pretty much everything that required batteries was confiscated. Whilst it can be argued that "communication devices" have been...

Bidlowest2win - a great new UK online reverse auction site offering fantastic...

Bidlowest2win (www.bidlowest2win.com), a new online reverse auction site has had an exciting launch in the UK recently.   Unlike other auctions where the highest bid wins, at Bidlowest2win it is the LOWEST...

iPods used by students to cheat

"Schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device. Devices including iPods and Zunes can be hidden under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind an ear and into a shirt collar to give them away."

At USF, iPods are portable classrooms

"Technology is revolutionizing education - computers in the classroom, distance learning collapsing geographical boundaries, teachers sharing information and resources - and the launch of the University of South Florida’s iTunesU last Monday rests USF on the cutting...

Wal-Mart joins the movie download business

Wal-Mart's leap into the online download market means that most people who download movies (legally) now have a choice beyond iTunes. But is a choice like Wal-Mart the one that consumers will want? Or flock to?...

Apple Itunes:Wait before you Upgrade to Vista

"Apple told all its Itunes lovers to wait before upgrading their computers to Microsoft Windows Vista.So why? Vista is according to Microsoft Compatible to more than 5,000 hardware and software products. Continue...

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