It will take years for Japan to rebuild the infrastructure destroyed in the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami they suffered last week. The damage pales in comparison to the lives lost and the livelihoods destroyed by the disaster. The bar…
Boston.com – The Big Picture :: For Discovery, A Farewell Spin
(photo by Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, originally published at Boston.com) If you didn’t know, Space Shuttle Discovery just returned to Earth from its final journey to space. In tribute, the folks at Boston.com, known not only for their news…
Two Hours of Fighting Game Fatalities
From the horrifically offensive to the horrifically unplayable all the way up to the modern-day classic and fondly remembered, “Pixelated Blood” is a wild ride through the fighting game spree of the 1990s and all of the varied (and often…
Twitter Adds Always-On HTTPS
First it was Facebook, and now it’s Twitter – both social networks have finally gotten around to turning on always-on HTTPS to make sure that users logged in to their Web sites are always sending data encrypted when they’re logged…
The Zune is Dead
Well, the social has officially ended. Microsoft has tipped to Bloomberg that the Zune line of hardware products is all but finished, but the name, the media player, and the software line will live on. I reported on this here…
Motorola Xoom Sales “Underwhelming?”
Reports are that the Motorola Xoom – the iPad’s first real competitor, and the first Android tablet to run Android 3.0 “Honeycomb,” isn’t selling quite as well as people had hoped. Admittedly, there are likely a number of reasons for…