XO Laptop to be sold in Europe (for a lot more than $100)
Those crazy Europeans will be able to buy an XO Laptop, too. Amazon’s Euro stores will sell the little guy for £263 (or €313 or $390). That’s strange, considering the One Laptop Per Child program was...
View ArticleBest Buy in ‘The New Adventures of Your Old TV’
Round of applause for Best Buy, which aims to educate you all about the upcoming digital TV transition. (Remember the big day: February 17, 2009.) The lastelectronics retailer left standing will hold a...
View ArticleWrath of the Lich King sells 2.8 million copies in first 24 hours
As if there was any doubt, Blizzard sold an awful lot of copies of Wrath of the Lich King last week. In fact, it sold more than 2.8 million copies of the game within the first 24 hours of its release....
View ArticleThe iPhone case that's designed for the blind and visually impaired
Okay, we have here the greatest iPhone accessory ever invented. It’s the Silicon Touch iPhone case, and it makes using the iPhone a hell of a lot easier for the visually impaired. (Random fact: I’m...
View ArticleHelping people, for once: A refrigerator that doesn't require electricity
Someone decided to be clever and actually put technology to good use (as opposed to pouring endless amounts of money into developing bigger and bigger TVs), having developed a refrigerator of sorts...
View ArticleHow to fix your Bluetooth connection if Mac OS X 10.5.6 breaks it
Does Mac OS X 10.5.6 break Bluetooth? That’s what some people are saying on Apple’s support forums, as are the jkOnTheRun guys. It seems that after applying the update—I haven’t bothered to update...
View ArticleThat $10 Indian laptop isn't really a laptop after all
When is a laptop not a laptop? That’s what we’re asking (not really, we’re actually reading Lost fanfic!) this morning upon learning that that $10 Indian laptop isn’t really a laptop at all, but merely...
View ArticleDo you have a spare Crawligator?
I know this probably won’t help, but it’s worth a shot. DaddyTypes got an email from a new dad named Michael about his eight month old son with leg problems: I’m searching for a Crawligator for my...
View ArticleHow the Kerchoonz K-Box, which turns any flat surface into a speaker, saved...
The following is a short play describing Kerchoonz’s K-Box. It’s a device that turns any flat surface into a speaker. Read More
View ArticleBicycle-mounted mobile phone chargers actually improve Kenyan lives
Two dollars is a princely sum in Kenya. But that’s what people there have to pay to charge their mobile phone at a charging station—sometimes just an old car battery on the side of the road. So, in yet...
View ArticleVideo: The Nao robot tries so very hard to make your life a little easier
Well I’ll be: a fancy robot that has nothing to do with Japan. It’s called Nao, and it was designed by a French company called Aldebaran Robotics; it was just on display in Valencia this past week....
View ArticleDropped your phone in water? Put it in a bowl of rice!
Let’s say you drop your phone in the sink or pool for whatever reason. You are, in fact, S.O.L., but there’s a couple things you can do to minimize the damage. The first, obviously, is to remove the...
View ArticleHow to read, and respond to, video game reviews
Keep this in mind when you’re reading a video game review from your favorite publication. Read More
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Unfair and unbalanced
Digging out from under a mountain of stuff this weekend, I'm hopelessly behind. Disclosure: I work at salesforce.com, doing amazing things I can't say anything about. Apparently, the tech press is...
View ArticleAn E-Round For E-Help: Care.com Picks Up $50M From IVP And More For Further...
The IPO market may be slowly opening up again post its Facebook contraction, but not all startups in their later stages are jumping. Care.com, the online marketplace for people to find helper for...
View ArticleYahoo’s Homepage Isn’t Raising Enough Money For Hurricane Sandy Relief, Let’s...
We're just now learning what level the devastation that Hurricane Sandy caused on the East Coast, specifically in New York City, and people are starting to send the wagons around to raise money to...
View ArticleLet’s Meet Up In St. Louis For Corn Beef And Cabbage (And Startups)
A quick reminder for all and sundry that we will hold the first TC Pitch-Off on Tuesday, November 17th at the PBR Cowboy Bar on 601 Clark Avenue. #202. St. Louis, MO 63102. You can register here. We...
View ArticleOn-screen guidance startup WalkMe raised $50M led by Insight, now valued...
As more people and businesses shift to digital platforms to get things done, a cloud-based platform for making interfaces easier to navigate continues to grow. WalkMe, which helps guide people through...
View ArticleYahoo adds security event tracking to its Account Info page, but still no...
Following news of its large-scale data breach affecting 500 million account holders, Yahoo today rolled out a change to its Yahoo Account settings screen that will better alert users to unauthorized...
View ArticleWalkMe raises $75M at a ‘$935M’ valuation for its on-screen guidance tech
More funding is rolling in for Israeli startups. Today, WalkMe — company that has built a cloud-based platform for businesses to make web and mobile interfaces and experiences easier to navigate with...
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