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Apple has announced the sale of the one millionth iPhone. 74 days after its release on June 29th, Apple has reached a major milestone. The mobile device that was two years in the making has changed to path of handhelds, spurred development in the industry, and garnered interest from nearly every corner of technology. And [...]

According to the Spread Firefox site they have now reached 400 million downloads of the Firefox web browser. I personally cannot use a computer without Firefox installed. It is in my humble opinion far superior to it’s counterparts, especially Internet Explorer. I even have a U3 version installed on my thumb drive so that I [...]

How would you like to go from zero to sixty in four seconds… and still get 30 miles to the gallon fuel economy? Toyota is introducing it’s Toyota Volta, which has a 435 mile range, and it can run in all electric mode at low speeds. Check out this article which has some nice photos.

Check out this real life upside down house that is actually liveable! There are more photos at the actual article and a video that shows what it is like on the inside. Very cool.

The wildly popular iPod just got a big makeover. Apple unveiled it’s latest creations and gave consumers some good reasons to consider an upgrade. CBS New York reports in this video (click through to the site if you cannot see the video).

Did you know Microsoft is trying to get their proprietary Office format passed as an ISO standard? Neither did I until I ran across this. Below are reasons that this should NOT be accepted as a standard. There is also a link where you can go and sign the petition… do the right thing!
I ask [...]

During Digg.com’s downtime today the new site design was accidentally leaked. Mashable.com has the story:

Is this the new Digg design Kevin Rose has been talking about? (Click for larger image). It certainly includes the features that have been mentioned, like an “All” tab to view all media on the site. Still no photo section, though.
A [...]

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) has just announced that they will be changing their stock symbol to JAVA. I don’t normally bother with any news of the financial sort on this blog, but this change is a bit interesting and is stirring a lot of speculation.
If, like me, you’re wondering if the [...]

The folks at iPhoneSimFree have created software that unlocks the SIM chip on your brand-spanking new iPhone to allow you to register and use it on any network. Boy, that didn’t take long at all. This solution has been reviewed and tested by Engadget.com. The site says that they will be making individual per unit [...]

An article over at TechCrunch reviews a new company called vlingo who is developing a mobile API that developers can use to put speech recognition on mobile devices.
Their system starts with a basic statistical language model to make the best guess about what you say. It then improves upon that by taking into account context, [...]