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]
I love Hulu, although lately I’ve been having a hard time finding anything good on the site to watch. But let’s pretend for a moment that I wanted to watch an episode of The Real Housewives of the Trailer Park (that’s a show, right?). Let’s also pretend that I know I won’t have internet access [...more]
There’s been a lot of crazy nonsense thrown around on both sides of the debate about the recently passed health care legislation. Misinformation has been everywhere, and I imagine that there are a lot of people who really don’t know what, if anything, they should except as a result. The New York Times has put [...more]
New papers uncovered via the Freedom of Information Act show that federal agents have been making friends and keeping tabs on people in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the rest.
The papers showed that they use those fake accounts to check up on alibis and talk about sweet FBI parties.
Apart from unveiling how much [...more]
I have a lot of friends who are both big bicycling enthusiasts and tech aficionados, so this news item will be of particular interest to them. Google has added a bicycle directions option to its popular Google Maps application. The new biking directions work exactly the same way as searching for directions by car – [...more]
The NYC based live streaming startup Livestream just partnered up with the massive newswire service Associated Press to run all of the AP’s live video streams, streams until this point I had no idea existed. The first event to be covered under the new Livestream/AP partnership? The Oscars!
Look, I could give two craps about [...more]
Google Maps is taking a note from Microsoft’s Photosynth and tapping into user photos to create street views of places that street view doesn’t reach.
Google released a video of the new addition in action, and it looks almost exactly like Photosynth. It basically uses location data and algorithms to combine photographs into [...more]
The advent of cloud-based file storage is one of my personal favorite technological advances of recent years. I once lost several years of writing when my computer’s hard drive failed because I was bad about backing it up on discs, but now I’ll never have to worry about that again. Every file I save is [...more]
MySpace, a service which we used to like but now do not like, has announced a new slogan: “Discover & Be Discovered.” The slogan fits in line with MySpace’s new user experience philosophy, which will be to bombard you with new and unexpected content the moment you hit the website.
And what will you be bombarded [...more]
A new site designed to waste your time shows you just what any Web site would sound like. I spent far, far too long plugging in every Web site. I must say, Techomaly.com is the best!
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