If you have a Facebook account and have ever tried to delete it, sooner or later you will see that you can’t–all you can do is to deactivate it.
Sure, that makes it easier if you ever want to reactivate it again, but what if you don’t? What if you just want your account gone [...]
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Everybody else is reporting this so I guess I might as well too:
Jim Goldman at CNBC has reported that Apple will be introducing an ultra-portable sub-notebook computer at Macworld in January and that a 3G version of the iPhone will be available by June (probably late May).
The rumored device will retail for $1500, be [...]
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JetBlue has been quietly working with RIM (Research In Motion, makers of the Blackberry) and Yahoo to bring free wifi to their flights.
Kinda.
Apparently only laptops and wifi enabled RIM phones (like the 8820 and 8320) will be able to connect, and even so they will only have access to Yahoo Mail and Yahoo IM. [...]
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Over the next few weeks, Dell XPS and Inspiron notebook and desktop computers will begin showing up in more than 900 Best Buy stores across the US.
The initial laptop models will be the XPS M1330 in white, the Inspiron 1521 in blue and black, and the Inspiron 1420 in black.
For desktops, the initial models [...]
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The OLPC XO laptop is already quite popular, and Microsoft is looking to make it even more popular with a special project it has been working on.
Microsoft is developing a special version of its Windows XP operating system and Office suite that will be able to run directly from a 2GB SD memory card [...]
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Samsung’s Russian site has apparently introduced a sleek, new slider phone–the F250.
Joining the F330 and U700 models, the F250 features music controls on the face, an FM tuner, a 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD expansion slot, Bluetoon 2.0+EDR GSM 900/1800/1900 and EDGE, this phone is expected to cost between $266 and $287 when it hits [...]
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Pixelmator, the excellent image editor for Mac’s, has been updated to version 1.1 and now includes better support for Leopard, support for pressure-sensitive graphics tablets, over 100 new filters, a Quick Look plugin, and support for third-party filters using Core Image Units and Quartz Composer Compositions.
The 1.1 update is free to registered users. If you [...]
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized on Thursday for the mess that is Facebook’s Beacon ad service.
Says Zuckerberg, “We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them…We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.”
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed [...]
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Engineers at IBM have devised a way to send data between CPU’s using pulses of light instead of electricity, resulting in transfer speeds that are 100-times faster.
Called “silicon nanophotonics”, it could downsize supercomputers to laptop size and could help reduce overheating and breakdown of data on short trips.
According to Will Green, a researcher at [...]
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