Strange But True Category - Page 3

Oh dear. Various reports from former Apple employees have painted Steve Jobs has having a bit of an ego and a temper, but did Jobs recently get into an altercation with Japanese airport security. A Japanese tabloid is reporting that Jobs was stopped from bringing ninja stars onboard his private [...]

The following story is absolutely based on reality and it only goes to show why I love technology and gadgets, in general. Christian Owens is a 16-year old from the UK, but a very special one whom we’ll congratulate from the beginning.

Microsoft may be working on Internet Explorer 9, three generations past IE6 – but that hasn’t stopped many government and enterprise users from staying on Internet Explorer 6. One of them still using IE6? The UK Government. After a petition for the government to upgrade to something other than IE6, [...]

The Techonomy conference was held the past few days out in Lake Tahoe, California. It sounds like they mainly discussed the future of technology, but to close out the show, they invited the one and only Bill Gates up to take the stage. Gates was interviewed by Brent Schiender and [...]

You should be careful of anything you transmit over this thing call the Internet. Case in point, some Goldman Sachs bankers had their internal e-mails read aloud at some US Senate hearings regarding the economic recession. Some of the language wasn’t pretty, and now GS is responding by banning naughty [...]

Yesterday evening I heard that 100 million Facebook profile pages have been leaked to Torrent sites. What was intriguing at first turned out to be somewhat boring. It looks like hacker Ron Bowes from Skull Security manage to get everything from Facebook’s open access directory, well, probably not everything, but [...]

You may not have heard of them, but Dutch company Vogel’s is the leading European company in TV mounting solutions. In what’s obviously a fun publicity stunt, Vogel’s CEO is hoping to break the Guinness World Records record of 40 straight hours of video gaming. He’ll be doing so in [...]

Call him Silicon Valley Slim–or maybe Silicon Valley Boxy and Clunky–but the PR2 from the folks out at Willow Garage will play pool with the best of them, and even sometimes, lose.

For those concerned about the durability of the iPad, man, do I have a story for you. A South African gent by the name Stefan Magdalinski was looking for a birthday gift for his wife. And much like that episode of The Simpsons where Apu wooed Manjula with dozens of [...]

This isn’t funny anymore and, in fact, it never was. The fact that people working for Foxconn keep dying, whether we’re talking about suicides or other causes, is disturbing for Foxconn, for Apple, for China and for the whole world.