Slooh to Broadcast Live Feed of Total Lunar Eclipse

If you don’t live in an area where you can see today’s total lunar eclipse, you can watch it live on Slooh, the online Space Camera. Slooh and Google are collaborating to bring the image into Sky in Google Earth.

Posted on: June 15, 2011 9:00 am

Unlocked Apple iPhone 4 Finally Hit US Market

These are “officially” unlocked phones, not jailbroken phones. They come from Apple, not that guy down the street. They’re expensive. You may still end up having to use AT&T and their prepaid plans aren’t cheap.

Posted on: June 15, 2011 9:00 am

EU ministers seek to ban creation of ‘hacking tools’

Justice Ministers in 27 European countries are calling for the criminalization of “hacking tools”. Critics say the plan is unworkable. Many legitimate software tools might be affected by such a law.

Posted on: June 15, 2011 9:00 am

HTC Desire getting Gingerbread update after all

Originally HTC said they couldn’t put Gingerbread on the Desire due to the lack of storage capacity. Now they say engineers are working to create the necessary space for the upgrade. How they will push out the changes hasn’t been announced.

Posted on: June 15, 2011 9:00 am

OS X Lion Has A Browser-Only Mode

Lion has a “Restart to Safari” feature that allows you to boot your Mac into the iCloud. Unlike Chrome OS, while your Mac is in browser-only mode the local file system is not available.

Posted on: June 14, 2011 9:00 am

Amazon Cuts Off Connecticut in Sales Tax Dispute

A lot of states want to collect taxes for online purchases. The latest attempt to collect taxes from Amazon.com has led the company to stop its Associates program in Connecticut.

Posted on: June 14, 2011 9:00 am

Internet Archive Starts Backing Up Digital Books

Digital archiving was supposed to replace all that paper moldering in file cabinets. However. The Internet Archive project plans to store one copy of every book published, on acid-free paper.

Posted on: June 14, 2011 9:00 am

Google Instant Pages

If you’re in a hurry to get results, Instant Pages pre-renders web sites to speed up access. The feature renders the top result of your query before you click to open the page.

Posted on: June 14, 2011 9:00 am

26,000 sex website passwords exposed by LulzSec

The LulzSec hacker group has compromised the database of a hardcore website and exposed the email addresses and passwords of thousands of members. To make matters worse, they’re asking people to try these passwords on other sites to see if they match.

Posted on: June 13, 2011 9:00 am

Apple sued over use of iCloud name

iCloud Communications, based in Phoenix, Arizona, trademarked the name in the U.S. back in 2005. Apple filed for a trademark on the name in Europe last month. The Phoenix-based company has filed suit against Apple.

Posted on: June 13, 2011 9:00 am