June 2008 Archives
- June 30, 2008 - Mars lander strikes pay dirt. Psuedo.com founder admits it was nothing but a "fake company." The latest company to skip upgrading to Vista: Intel! Microsoft pays $100MM for a quirky interface into Wikipedia. Cop guns with cameras next to the barrels.
- June 27, 2008 - The May sales numbers are in. The "Hot Coffee" suit is finally settled, and no one cares (except the lawyers). Try your hand at video game camp. The oldest 20-sided die is WAY older than you think it is.
- June 26, 2008 - American Airlines tests in-flight wi-fi. Sprint will pay you to advertise Instinct. Avril Lavigne fans game YouTube. ICANN may change domain extensions. Bill Gates is retiring. Gizmodo goes to secret Lego Vault.
- June 25, 2008 - Nokia creates Symbian Foundation. Virgin Mobile flat rate plan. Microsoft and Yahoo talking again. London Underground hacked. Robotic Snakes.
- June 24, 2008 - Google Android Phones delayed - OR ARE THEY!?!?. Twittering Presidential Debates. Network Solutions changes their hijacking tunes. Over 1 billion computers in use around the world. Swimming Pool Flash Mobs. Wikipedia causes students to fail.
- June 23, 2008 - Carl Icahn joins the blogosphere. Execs leave Yahoo in droves. Citibank server is hacked. Woods performance at open causes web traffic surge. Man catches robber using justin tv. Smithsonian joins Flickr Commons.
- June 20, 2008 - Gaming Update: E3 Rumors. Rock Band has Doolittle as this week's DLC. New Star Wars Titles for the Wii and DS. Wii are not Geeks and Otaku.
- June 19, 2008 - Linked-In got a load of cash. YouTube videos getting longer. Computer program that can figure out where a picture was taken. The MPAA are at it again and NATO is mad. The BBC has oldest known recording of a computer generating music. Coffee gets haXx0r3z.
- June 18, 2008 - There's a mess in the press - the AP starts a brawl with bloggers. Robots that can crawl under doors - yeah, like The Blob. That new iPhone won't be as cheap as you thought...it's OK, how would you use it to show off if it wasn't overpriced?
- June 17, 2008 - The Associated Press wants bloggers to stop cutting and pasting and start summarizing. Farewell to XP. Fly United and connect your iPod and iPhone to in-flight entertainment system. Funny or Die gets HBO deal. Sony marketing straight to DVD series on the web in 8 minute bits. Astronomers discover 3 "Super-Earths."
- June 16, 2008 - MySpace launches major site redesign. Facebook ties MySpace in worldwide users. Mozilla wants to make Firefox 3 the most downloaded first-day software for the Guinness Book of World Records. Yahoo and Microsoft call it quits. Yahoo takes up with Google. Pluto is a "plutoid."
- June 13, 2008 - Special Gaming Episode - Gaming on the iPhone. Gamers Sue EA. Gift ideas for Dad.
- June 12, 2008 - Yahoo vs. Icahn Redux. Merlin is major label now. BBC archives go online. Google Co-founder books space flight. Robot Fish get improvements. Pets and Robots try to get along.
- June 11, 2008 - Hidden expenses of 3G iPhone are in AT&T's unlimited data plan. MPAA wants FCC to let them block DVR recordings. Metallica tells bloggers to take down album reviews. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report come to Hulu. YouTube allows content providers to sell their own ads. Supercomputer is REALLY fast.
- June 10, 2008 - 3G iPhone. Apple WWDC Round-up. iPhone App Store. Steve Jobs keynote speech. Cyberbullying may soon be against the law. Virgin Media works with record companies and sends letters to customers about illegal downloads. High Traffic pedestrian areas can power electric generators.
- June 9, 2008 - Yahoo and Icahn send more letters. Google trying out new settings for Gmail in Labs. Lost camera found thanks to Eye-Fi. Trent Reznor gives opening bands a boost. Warner Brothers conflict of interest in Pirate Bay case. Mag Lev train from Disneyland to Las Vegas or just Google Earth 3D Disney World instead.
- June 6, 2008 - Special Gaming Episode. A shakeup in the Japanese gaming industry - with a distinctly American twist. Call of Duty 4 breaks sales records. TV execs take on complicated software development. What could possibly go wrong?
- June 5, 2008 - Icahn sends letter to Yahoo about severance plans. Yahoo makes deal with Wal-Mart and circular distributors. Apple rumors - New OS and Apple Apps. Comcast tries to regulate network traffic without penalizing specific P2P protocols. Many HDTV owners have never heard of Blu-Ray. YouTube adds annotation.
- June 4, 2008 - Carl Icahn mad over new details in Yahoo Microsoft deal and wants Jerry Yang OUT. Time Warner experiments with tiered pricing for internet use. Most electronics that get returned work just fine. The PS3 is an energy sucker. AT&T teams up with Starbucks to provide free wireless internet. Boston finds a new lead singer on MySpace.
- June 3, 2008 - Google Finance now offers real time stock quotes of NASDAQ securities. Best Buy expands their e-cycling program. Wii Fits are really hard to find in the U.S. but not in Europe. An entire town asks to be removed from Google Street View. Prince demands a video of him covering a Radiohead song be taken off YouTube but the lead singer of Radiohead says keep it up. The Phoenix starts digging and may have found ice already.
- June 2, 2008 - Comcast is the victim of a hack. People debate whether Chinese hackers were behind the 2003 blackouts. The FCC is considering a plan to provide free wireless internet. The Phoenix Mars Lander is twittering. Sapporo brews space beer. Robot Bunny measures touch response.
