After using Aero for two major versions of Windows, Microsoft has decided to move away from Aero UI. The new appearance introduces a new cleaner, flatter and minimal design that resembles their Metro user interface. Even though we get this flatter design, there will still be some hints of Aero like the taskbar [....]

If you can remember back to 2008, Comcast started to enforce a bandwidth cap of 250GBs. At this time, many popular “tech stars” like Chris Pirillo even revolted against the cap. Due to all the video stream we have done these past four years, a 250GB cap is ridiculous for all. Comcast mentioned in [....]

It was national news when Facebook bought photo sharing app Instagram for a whopping billion dollars but today Facebook expands its photo enhancing arsenal. After quietly enhancing the mobile version of its applications yesterday Facebook hired the two-man-team behind the popular Android photo sharing app Lightbox. The service will be shut down a [....]

For those of you who have your smart phones with you 24/7 and of course set to incessantly beep when you receive an, all too often, email; your lunch break was interrupted by Twitter’s new “Here’s what’s happening on Twitter” newsletter. Personally, after having to disable the constant account notification emails, purely because I enjoy not being spammed, [....]

Nokia has filed for a patent for technology that uses a vibrating tattoo to tell you when your phone is ringing. The patent application that has been filed in the US uses metal ores which would vibrate underneath the tattoo when a call was received or if the phone’s battery was running low. [....]

Just last week, Apple released 2 new products entering their third generation; the (new) iPad and Apple TV. The New iPad After selling 15.4 million new iPad’s in Q4 of 11′, Apple just had to do it again. Called the “new” iPad, Apple is trying to make an upgrade that will allow the current [....]

Today Apple sent out invitations to various media outlets informing them that the rumored March 7th keynote is, alas, no longer a rumor. The invitation sports an iPad, assumably a third generation device, with as you will see in the image below (from commenter “maclook” on the MacRumors article) a higher resolution screen. Of course Apple is know for their [....]

The shot heard round the world; an ABC Nightline Special going inside of the Foxconn factory in the heart of Shenzhen, China. Now before I start I want to bring something we all subconsciously think about to everyone’s attention. When you see that shiny g6old sticker that denotes a products country of origin to the all too familiar location [....]

With all of the hype being generated about SOPA and PIPA, Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, there have been a ton of huge outbursts with many of the major companies (both positive and negative). One of the world’s leading internet browsers, Firefox, are about to change the whole debate and flip it [....]

If you have been in school in the last couple of years, there is most likely a huge chance you have used the popular e-learning CMS program called Moodle. With the help of Packt Publishing, who is notorious from writing about open source projects like Moodle, they have taken it to the next level. With [....]

After the massive failures from the JooJoo tablet and now the Grid 10, Fusion Garage might have disappeared in thin air. The first sign of the disappearance was that their website went down, reporting the 503 database error. As of right now, the website is barely up: certain images won’t load on the [....]

It’s been less than a year since the Mac App Store was launched by Apple, back in January. Already, the technology giant is celebrating a relatively significant milestone, being 100 million downloads. In comparison to the iOS app store, the number is completely diminished, but considering that Macs have a much smaller [....]

Last Sunday the 6th, a set of currently unknown hackers muzzled their way into a select few of Steam‘s databases stealing usernames, passwords (these were thankfully encrypted), emails, and other material of the like. Though only a few forum accounts have been broken into (which are separate from the actual Steam Store/Service), no known instances of fraud [....]

Today, Motorola officially unveiled the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition tablets. They’re destined for the UK and Ireland, and will come out with Android Honeycomb 3.2. The Xoom 2 is nothing particularly special when compared to the tonne load of other Android tablets on the market. It features a 1.2GHz dual-core [....]