Help Mozilla Improve Firefox’s New ‘Home’ Tab

Mozilla is looking for your input. They are hosting a design challenge focusing on ways to improve the “home” tab for Firefox 4.0. The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2010.

Posted on: December 24, 2009 9:00 am

Videoconferencing at 30,000 Feet

Virgin America is offering free Wi-Fi for the holidays. As a test, Matt Hamblen, of Computerworld, tried video-conferencing from the air. This article describes his experience.

Posted on: December 24, 2009 9:00 am

Apple Tablet Coming in January?

Rumors have been swirling for months – now it looks like something may be announced on January 26. The rumors seem to describe several different devices, so we’ll have to wait and see.

Posted on: December 24, 2009 9:00 am

RIM Blames Service Outage on Bum BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Updates

Most BlackBerry services were offline for hours in much of North America on December 22. This article includes an update from RIM as to what happened.

Posted on: December 23, 2009 9:00 am

Hackers break Amazon’s Kindle DRM

If you don’t have a Kindle, but like the selection of reading matter in Amazon’s format, there’s now a hack to enable you to read Kindle DRM on other devices.

Posted on: December 23, 2009 9:00 am

SPB Software Invites Everyone to Improve Language Skills

SPB Software has released SPB Flash Cards to help you expand your vocabulary in Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese and Swedish. All the cards are dubbed by native speakers.

Posted on: December 23, 2009 9:00 am

Enable Web Browsing and Full Catalog Access on International Kindle

Some aspects of the International Kindle have been disappointing. This article explains how you can trick the Kindle into opening up all those locked features.

Posted on: December 23, 2009 9:00 am

Wurld Map: A Geopolitical Guide to Short-URL Services

With the desire to provide shortened URLs for use in Tweets, and a new crop of service providers, this handy map shows you where in the world those cute country codes originate.

Posted on: December 23, 2009 9:00 am

Intel updates Atom netbook processor range

Intel’s new Atom N450 chip is smaller than existing Atom processors and consumes less power, drawing only about 5.5 watts. The single-core chip will run at a clock speed of 1.66GHz, similar to current Atom N280 chips.

Posted on: December 22, 2009 9:00 am

iPhone Game Developer Reports $1M in Sales Per Month

Tap Tap Revenge has been a popular download, but with the songs you add on, and the advertising built-in, the game has been a gold mine for Tapulous.

Posted on: December 22, 2009 9:00 am