Samantha Brick, the new ‘pretty woman’ who is now topping the Twitter trends was an unknown until her April 2 article in the Daily Mail, the powerful Great Britain newspaper: “There are downsides to looking this pretty: Why women hate me for being beautiful.” While I’m no Elle Macpherson, I’m tall,…

Photo-sharing app Instagram is now available for Android phones. Some iPhone users aren’t happy about this development. STORY HIGHLIGHTSInstagram launches on Android, prompting snide comments from some iPhone ownersTwitter lit up with “there goes the neighborhood”-style tweetsInstagram is an app that lets users enhance their photos with various filtersIt had…

If you’re excited about convertible tablets but can’t wait for the IdeaPad Yoga to arrive, then perhaps Novero’s Solana might give you a temporary fix. It’s a dinky netbook (yes, netbook) that runs both Windows 7 and Android, but you can flip the display over in its frame to turn…

The Metal Moose, Westtown School’s Robotics Team, scored big-time at the March 24 Lenape FIRST Robotics District Competition. This year’s challenge, Rebound Rumble, called on the team to develop a basketball-playing robot. Entering the elimination rounds as an eighth seed, Westtown’s team dispatched the number one and number two seeds West…

The iPhone’s unprecedented success stems from the combination of multiple factors, not the least of which are Apple’s industry-leading design prowess and its ability to make software that appeals to enthusiasts and mass-market users alike. The culture and hype surrounding Apple products doesn’t hurt either, of course. Where the overall…

DETROIT, April 4 (Reuters) – Twitter, looking for betterproximity to car companies with hefty ad budgets, said onWednesday it will open an office in Detroit just as the city’selected leaders scramble to avoid bankruptcy or a statetakeover. The San Francisco social media firm has located an office inthe Motor City following…

Facebook, the Natural Resources Defense Council, energy information software maker Opower and 16 U.S. utilities launched the free app on Tuesday. The app connects your energy utility to your Facebook account, with your permission, and posts your energy usage each month. This being Facebook, the app urges competition among friends…

Google on Wednesday unveiled Project Glass, a secret program designed to bring augmented-reality to the masses. The team leading the initiative, including Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun, are part of Google’s clandestine Google X labs, a branch of the company that focuses on futuristic tech and big picture…

10 Top iOS 5 Apps (click image for larger view and for slideshow)Over the weekend, Russian app developer i-Free withdrew its Girls Around Me app, which last week faced a chorus of criticism on various websites for being a stalking tool. It allowed a user to map the location of The…

While some fans were burning couches after Kentucky’s victory over Kansas, most were on Twitter. At the conclusion of yesterday’s match up in New Orleans, tweets about the NCAA championship spiked to over 30,000 per minute. Kentucky edged Kansas on the court and also in the conversation, approximately 25,000 tweets per Monday…