Your Hulu Viewing Experience is About to Get Better

I watch a lot of shows on Hulu, because watching shows when The Man says you have to is for suckers. The unfortunate downside to my strategy is that many times, the Hulu viewing experience kinda blows. It has a tendency to pause and stutter, and my the less powerful of my two laptops can’t [...more]

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May 13 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

Microsoft Cancels Courier

Not long ago, the internet got its first glimpse of Microsoft’s answer to the iPad, the Courier. The dual-screen tablet PC folded like a book and operated with a swanky stylus-based interface that looked a bit too good to be true. Perhaps it was, because the project was unexpectedly canceled late last month. The project [...more]

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May 06 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

Black Wii Coming May 9

Do you have a Wii? You do, huh? Well, do you have a black one? No? Better get on that. Nintendo’s living room-dominating Wii will be available in black starting May 9. The new bundle will be priced at $200, the same price as the current white Wii. However, the new edition will come with [...more]

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May 05 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

The Halo: Reach Beta Begins Today

We try not to get carried away with video game coverage here, but certain titles are so big that they definitely cross over from the gaming world into popular tech culture. The beta program for Halo: Reach begins today, which means that anyone who purchased Halo 3: ODST will be able to play an early [...more]

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May 04 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

The Best and Worst Hotel Wi-Fi Chart

Do you pick your hotel based on its Wi-Fi? Then this chart is for you. It lays out, in pretty visual form, the best and worst hotel chains for your wireless internet connection needs. Now if it could only also predict which hotels have paper-thin walls or rattling AC units. Source: Hotel Chatter via Boing Boing [...more]

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Apr 30 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

The Death of the Floppy

Wait, floppy discs were still in production? Apparently.According to Engadget, Sony (the last major manufacturer of the floppy disc) sold 12 million floppy discs last year in Japan. The country is the last major market for the storage medium in the world, so Sony is going to go ahead and shut down production of the [...more]

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Apr 26 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

Texas Town Installs Massive Battery Backup

Only one electric connection exists between the West Texas town of Presidio and the US national power grid – it was created back in 1948, and frequently fails, throwing the whole town into darkness. Well, Presidio found a fix that’s as epic as it is ingenious – buy a huge battery. The biggest in the United [...more]

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Apr 09 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

First Android TV Drops In September

Last month we reported on the first Android car and the web-enabled fridge, so it’s our fine honor here at Technomaly to tell you about yet another fun techno-hybrid: the Google Android Television. Sweedish firm People of Lava has beaten the others to the punch, manufacturing a television dubbed The Scandinavia. The set will come in [...more]

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Apr 08 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Nexus One Now Available for AT&T and Rogers 3G Users

Just as was widely expected, Google’s Nexus One phone has been made available for additional 3G wireless carriers. As of Tuesday, March 16th, you can buy the Nexus One for use one AT&T’s 3G network, as well as the Rogers 3G network in Canada. Of course, you’ll pay the unsubsidized price for the phone ($529), [...more]

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Apr 06 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

Apple Sells 300,000 iPads on Day 1

Did you buy your iPad yet? 300,000 of you did – at least, that’s how many units Apple reported as sold on day one. iPad purchasers also bought over 1 million apps from the App store on the first day and also downloaded 250,000 e-books. Apple fans will call the number a triumph, while detractors will [...more]

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Apr 05 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss