When we discussed the iPad and whether it was worth giving in to the peer pressure and pre-ordering it, a commenter decided to remind us of his reason for resisting: No flash. And yes, it can make things look sad. More

I’m a big fan of maxims and technology. It should be no surprise, then, that Melvin Kranzbergs six laws of technology really speak to me. Perhaps my favorite is, “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” There have always been - and will always be - winners and losers. Lately I have … Read More

In the world of cell phone news, the internet company known as Paypal has now put in place a plan to open an application storefront in an attempt to further their market share for online payments. This application store is going to service both mobile and desktops. With this industry it seems like everyone is … Read More

Here’s a phone that ought to sharpen the mobile handset lover’s eagerness for them - AT&T will spread the 7.2 HSPA and Mobile TV-capable LG Arena starting from next month. The gadget will also come with AT&T’s full HTML mobile browser, AT&T Navigator and AT&T Social Net. The phone sports a 3” WVGA touchscreen and 3D … Read More

The Samsung Wave is being hyped as one of the phone hits of this year by its builder, with forecasts claiming that it will be owned by 10 million users by the end of 2010. When the Wave arrives in the UK in April, it will have quite a lengthy way to go to reach that … Read More

If you’re one of the trendy hipsters driving a Smart Fortwo , here’s another way of pimping up your ride: Daimler has announced a Q2 2010 launch for its Smart Drive kit for the iPhone . As pictured above, the kit consists of a cradle for handsfree communication plus charging, and an app that “combines … Read More

The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds. As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s … Read More

We knew that the Droid’s Android 2.1 update is on its way, but apparently we won’t be waiting long: According to Motorola’s official Facebook page, it’s “happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to Droid will start to roll out this week.” [ Engadget ]

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We weren’t sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. Still striving to remake its reputation from being merely a cheap HDTV manufacturer to a premium one offering lots of features, the ad (embedded after the break) … Read More

I remember way back before the Internet when I got most of my daily news via the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN. If it wasn’t reported by either of those outlets, there was a good chance I wouldn’t hear that news at all. Those days are over. The problem is that most of the people … Read More

Chinese search leader Baidu and Rakuten , Japan’s largest e-commerce player, have announced an agreement to jointly invest US$50 million over three years in a joint venture to build a huge online ‘B2B2C’ shopping mall for Chinese Internet users. Under the terms of the agreement, Rakuten will become majority shareholder of the new, yet to … Read More

Gizmodo helm-man and keen snowman Brian nearly creamed his pants when he heard about RealSki’s augmented reality iPhone app, and rightly so—the app uses the camera, accelerometer, compass and GPS to map ski-trails of over 80 US mountains. You’ll need to be running at least OS 3.1.2 on your iPhone 3GS to use RealSki, and … Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s promised speech on Internet freedom took place this morning. Clinton called for China to “conduct a thorough review of the cyber intrusions” that Google implied were conducted by the Chinese government against human rights activists. A little background: In response to the cyber attacks, Google has said that it … Read More

Flash powers almost all the video on the web nowadays, so it’s obviously good enough. But is there a better way? YouTube , and now Vimeo , who’re both giddily jumping into bed with HTML, sure seem to think so. Vimeo’s new HTML5 system is just like YouTube’s, in both execution and technical details, in … Read More

Months after Verizon Communications began issuing warnings to accused file sharers, the company has acknowledged that multiple offenses could result in a service interruption. “We’ve cut some people off,” Verizon Online spokeswoman Bobbi Henson told CNET. “We do reserve the right to discontinue service. But we don’t throttle bandwidth like Comcast was doing .

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