Archive for October, 2010 - Page 7

In 2007, then-President George W. Bush signed a law called the Energy Independence and Security Act. Among others, the law sets standards on energy-efficiency for lightbulbs, which will come into full effect in 2012. Essentially, the law requires lightbulbs to use 25% to 30% less power than today’s incandescent technologies.

It looks like the Samsung Galaxy Tab is not going to be the only tablet style device to come available with T-Mobile. Well, that or someone had a case of serious confusion while writing up the spec listing for the Galaxy Tab. And sure, everyone is entitled to make a [...]

The other day we were looking at the new official Sony Ericsson 3-minute clip in which the main new Android 2.1 features coming to the Xperia X10 were demoed officially by Sony Ericsson. We had no idea that the manufacturer would announce the release date of this update today, but [...]

Honda’s insight is one of the more popular hybrid cars in the market. While its main competitor is the Prius, they are in two distinctly different classes, at least in terms of size. The main advantage of the Insight is its low price. If only it were more fuel-efficient, it [...]

We stand before a sea of choices. We could say something like about damn time. We could make fun of the contract and licensing issues again, but we don’t really like to repeat ourselves. Or we could see this for what it is, an opportunity to dive into completely different [...]

Somebody somewhere had better be popping some champagne right now, and frankly, I don’t care what time of day it is because this news is entirely too good to not celebrate. The Visilab project, an electric van that operated without a driver, has completed its trek from Italy to China, [...]

The expansion of the Apple iPad in terms of new places to purchase has been interesting. Originally the tablet was available for purchase online with Apple and in Apple retail stores. And just recently we have begun to see that expand to places like Walmart as well as the more [...]

Mozilla announced yesterday that they will delay the launch of Firefox 4 until early 2011. While the new version of the popular web browser was originally slated to be shipped in September, the company has had problems stomping out bugs in the programming.

Folks, I’ve never really been one for earbuds. Oh, sure, I tolerate them on my MP3 player because they usually don’t have big enough jacks for a proper headset and even I admit I don’t mind walking with less weight on my head, but even I had to stop and [...]

Who said the economy is struggling? On the heels of Apple announcing that they posted record revenues in the third quarter of this year, Microsoft it had put up never before seen revenues for the first quarter of 2011 beating market analysts’ predictions by a country mile.