Monthly Archives: May 2011

Your iPad’s a Telephone With Google Voice Apple News, Tips and Reviews

  Out of the box, Apple has you covered on your iPad 2 with FaceTime for video chat with your friends, family and colleagues, so long as they have a FaceTime capable device and a Wi-Fi connection. But let’s face … Continue reading

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7 iPad Habits of Highly Effective Remote Workers Online Collaboration

  The use of the iPad by mobile workers is on the rise, and that brings with it both boons and challenges for worker productivity. Here’s how you and your remote staff can stay on top of iPad usage, lest … Continue reading

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TransPhone pairs tablet and handset, emerged before ASUS Padfone — Engadget

While ASUS Padfone was being launched with much sticker-clad-model fanfare at Computex today, CMITs TransPhone was apparently enjoying its third day of life, having first appeared on the web as early as Saturday. Both tablets include built-in docks with smartphones … Continue reading

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This Video Game Was Made in the 1940s

Do you see that retro-looking device above? That’s a cathode ray tube amusement device, one of the one of the first interactive video games ever made. You can tell by the circular green display that this missile simulator game was … Continue reading

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Cops Scramble Helicopters and Tranquilizer Teams to Take Down Stuffed Tiger

RUN QUICKLY! SAVE YOURSELVES, THERE’S A VICIOUS BEAST PROWLING. CALL THE POLICE! CALL THE ZOO! CALL—Wait, what? What’d you say? It’s just a stupid stuffed animal? Aw crap. If that’s how you would’ve reacted to the sight of that big … Continue reading

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Saudi Woman Arrested After Posting Online Clip of Herself Driving [VIDEO]

A Saudi Arabian woman — at the center of a social media campaign protesting a ban against female drivers — has been re-arrested after posting a video on the Internet of herself driving.Manal al-Sherif, a 32-year-old woman who launched an … Continue reading

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TiPb: The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog

  Take this one with a 3.5-inch grain of salt, but Digitimes is reporting that Apple may introduce a curved-glass design in the next iPhone, which is expected to drop sometime this fall. There has been a fair amount of … Continue reading

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iPhone 5 to feature curved glass display according to rumor

  The debate surrounding Apple’s next-generation iPhone design continues. While countless sources have claimed that Apple’s iPhone 5 will be an incremental upgrade akin to the iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS bump, rumors continue to mount suggesting otherwise. The latest, … Continue reading

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Cisco Threw Their Flip Cams in the Trash

We knew Cisco was killing off the now-obsolete Flip cam, but did they really have to dump them into the trash can, like a used condom or empty box of Lucky Charms? And why’d they toss the globe paperweight? The … Continue reading

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