Navigon—long one of our preferred navigation apps—is showing off how their latest update will take advantage of iPhone 4 multitasking. Sure, it'll be fun to have Pandora on while I browse, but this I can actually use. More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - IphoneOs
Give back. Appreciate community. Raise your son to become an extraordinarily wealthy tech scion/genius/philanthropist. Besides that last one, these are the messages Bill Gates Sr. had for the 2010 graduating class of University of Washington, his alma mater. More »
Bill Gates - University of Washington - Microsoft - United States - Warren Buffett
Microsoft's Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 seems neat, if possibly too expensive. But all of the games are so predictable! Let's come up with some less predictable titles, shall we? More »
Microsoft - Xbox - Games - Video game - Xbox 360
We've got multiple tips about iPhone 4s shipping out to pre-order customers now. Here's reader George's, which says he's getting his on the 23rd (rather than the 24th). Reader Alex also says the same. Thanks tipsters! More »
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Dell's Inspiron line has never been stodgy, exactly. They're steady, workaday notebooks that you'd take to college or have kicking around the living room. And that's been just fine! The R series, though, seems determined to give Inspiron some flair. More »
Dell Inspiron - Dell - Laptop - Operating Systems - Linux
At this World Cup, a fan's commitment is announced by one sound and one sound only: the encouraging hum of his vuvuzela. Blowing one makes you a good fan; blowing ten simultaneously makes you the best fan. [Total Pro Sports] More »
World Cup - Sports - Soccer - Competitions - 2006
If you suspect you've been cursing a bit too much in your inter-office emails, Father's Day e-cards, and Giz comments, set a port aside for the Pepper Mouth, a concept peripheral that makes a stink when you swear. More »
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The saga continues. A reader forwarded us this note he got from AT&T, simply stating that his iPhone 4 preorder had been cancelled, for no apparent reason. And he's not the only one. Updated: More cancellations, including some from Apple. More »
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Facebook just updated their iPhone app, fixing bugs and allowing you to watch your friends' silly pets and imbibing feats, in video, right in the palm of your hand. That's nice, Facebook, but where's your iPad app? [iTunes] More »
iPhone - Facebook - Handhelds - Smartphones - Social network
There's something about dads fumbling with gadgets that's downright endearing, which this someecards video greeting captures to perfection. Send it tomorrow, then spend twenty minutes on the phone helping pops get it to load. More »
Father's Day - Father - Home - Parenting - Family
E3 is now over, which gives us a pretty thorough view of what's coming down the pipe between now and the end of the year. Here are the best games (in our opinion) that you're going to be playing. More »
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Joining the Shack and T-Mobile themselves, Amazon's offering all T-Mobile phones—including the HTC HD2, Nokia Nuron, Motorola CLIQ, and the Blackberry Bold 9700 among them—for ONE PENNY until June 21, with a new 2 year contract. [Amazon] More »
T-Mobile - HTC HD2 - Business and Economy - Mobile - Telecommunications
Earlier today, Jason finally got to test the cloud-based gaming service OnLive from the comfort of his home (read: underpants). He liked it! Now there's even more good news: a TV version will be ready before the year's end. More »
OnLive - Gaming - Business - Video game - Games
After a rash of employee suicides brought scrutiny to the working conditions in Foxconn's factories, some horror stories quickly came to light. Now, the Times has followed a worker through his average night-shift, assembling some 1,600 hard drives. More »
Foxconn - Apple - Suicide - China - Art
In 1964, Danish artist Asger Jorn published "The Application of the Triolectical Method in General Situology," a philosophical tract that rebuked prevailing dialectics. Nobody knew what the hell he was talking about, so he invented three-sided football to illustrate. More »
World Cup - Sports - Soccer - Competitions - FIFA World Cup
We've checked out the OnLive pure-streaming gaming system before, but it was always in a somewhat controlled environment. Finally, the service has launched, and we can see what it's like to play this at home. Where it matters. More »
OnLive - Video game - Games - Gaming - Recreation
Square, the super-cool payment system that lets you collect peoples' credit card dollars on your smart phone, is delayed indefinitely while the company tightens various infrastructural screws. CEO Jack Dorsey admits they rolled features out "before they were fully baked." More »
Jack Dorsey - Twitter - Credit card - Square - Business
There are plenty of technical hurdles keeping the masses from decking out their roofs with solar panels, but their general ugliness doesn't help much either. Tegolasolare puts their photovoltaic panels second to the surrounding architecture, not the other way around. More »
Energy - Solar - Renewable - Business - Electric
The BBC asked readers to submit their ideas on how the Gulf oil disaster might be resolved. Iraj Ershaghi, USC's director of petroleum engineering, went down the list and briefly explained how each idea would fail. We're pretty much doomed. More »
Energy - Business - Oil and Gas - United States - Operating Companies
You might assume that after some 100 years of refinement the modern bicycle has achieved perfection. Not so! Popular Mechanics has rounded up 10 variations on the common bicycle that could have us pedaling less and coasting farther. [Popular Mechanics] More »
Cycling - Sports - United States - Shopping - Bike Shops
