I thought this was a neat story as I was doing my daily surf on the Net. It’s a story of a 14 year old boy who has epilepsy. The Washington University in St. Louis used a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers to allow this boy to play a video game using his brain.
They [...]

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Google has now officially released a news report that they have indeed agreed to buy YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars in a stock-for-stock transaction. Google has agreed to allow YouTube to run independently (i.e. no name change.)
YouTube has become the fastest growing video etertainment community and after Google Video became a flop it was a [...]

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Well, it seems this story is not going away any time soon. As it picks up steam it also seems to have picked up a lot of credibility. The NY Times is reporting that Google and YouTube! are both holding seperate shareholder meetings today to approve the deal. The announcement could come as early as [...]

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Well, I’m not 100% sure if this is true, but there seems to be some validity that Google is at least in talks to buy YouTube. YouTube is a video community where users are able to upload videos, rate videos, and leave comments.
However, YouTube has had problems recently in terms of making money from [...]

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I found this story while surfing around and was actually pretty amused. How does a three year old buy a car on Ebay? Either the online auction service is that easy to understand or we have one smart kid.
The 3-year old had apparently logged onto his parents computer and somehow made his way to the [...]

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A Lenovo ThinkPad burst into flames yesterday at the LA Airport and a commotion ensued after many feared that another terrorist attack was taking place. The blaze occurred in a departure lounge of the airport.
Many saw a man rushing from a plane’s loading ramp when his laptop caught on fire. That instantly caused chaos. The [...]

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The majority of people on the internet today use Google, Yahoo!, or MSN to search on the Internet (yes other search engines are used but unfortunately they are in the minority). Google has kind of become the Microsoft of search - it has basically monopolized the search sector.
Many startups don’t have a chance at competing [...]

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Samsung has developed, what it calls, ” what is expected to be the main memory device to replace high density NOR flash within the next decade.” NOR flash memory is used in such devices as cellphones and PDAs. It is used mainly to store program code.

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Greenpeace, probably the biggest known environmental group, just wrapped up a study they called: Your Guide to Green Electronics. Greenpeace looked at 14 electronic companies an rated them on the following two things:
1) How well they cleaned up their products by eliminating hazardous substances.
2) Did the company takeback and recycle their products responsibly once they [...]

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Remember the legal wranglings between Apple Computers and Creative. Well seems everything has been patched up now. Creative was suing Apple because it claimed that the iPod was abusing the “Zen Patent” - a music managing software that Creative claimed it patented before Apple used it in its iPod.

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Well, it seems that Apple has been under fire in the press recently for poor working conditions in China. Apple didn’t state which article(s) alleged these wrongs. We did a little investigation and found one Marticle by the MailOnSunday, a UK newspaper. Apple conducted an investigation of it’s own, and we also have their findings [...]

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Google has released the newest version of Google Talk, an instant messenger. Google Talk, while a simple and clean messenger, was criticized for being a little to simple when it was released. The popular MSN Messenger had more features than Google Talk.
Google Talk however is different. However, most that I know don’t use it. I [...]

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Dell Computers has issued a voluntary recall of it’s lithium-ion batteries that were present in labtops. In recent months these batteries were known to overheat and create a fire. (Check out this link for nice pictures of one incident).
4.1 million batteries have been recalled, so if you own a Dell labtop there is important information [...]

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YouTube has a way of creating famous people. All it takes is one video and you could be a hit on the Internet. Now most of these “famous” people do stupid things, lip synch to songs, or are honestly hilarious.
However, YouTube (the popular video sharing website) has seen the arrival of a different kind. Peter, [...]

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Shawn Hogan is well known in the webmaster community, and is the creator and owner of DigitalPoint, a site offering services to webmasters and it’s popular webmaster forum. However, last winter Shawn was contacted by a laywer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and told that they were suing him for allegedly downloading [...]

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