Twitter Rejects Takeover Offer From Facebook

Social networking site, twitter.com rejected a $500 million takeover offer from another social networking giant Facebook.com yesterday. The offer was $100 million in cash and the rest in stock.

Adult social networking site Zivity lays off 1/3 of staff

The adult social networking site Zivity announced today they are in the process of laying off 1/3rd of their staff…

Belkin’s N1 Vision Router - So Sexy it Should Wear Clothes

Belkin’s been making some nice gear lately, and this beauty joins the best of it. The N1 Vision wireless router supports 802.11n draft 2.0, as well as /b and /g (but no /a), but its the LCD that shows network performance that tickles my fancy. It can display overall network performance, as well as utilization [...]

PageFlakes Blizzard

PageFlakes has unleashed its Blizzard release of new features involving social networking and customizable themes on pages.
Now there are “themeable” public pages and members can create their own Pagecasts - USA Today, Rolling Stone, CNN, WashingtonPost, Newsweek Interactive, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Slate, AOL, Die Welt, Bild and others.
Like widgets? Pageflakes has a ton [...]

Microsoft Utilizes It’s “Software Plus Services” strategy

Microsoft attempts to expand into the Internet to give a fully rounded system to its customers. The company will offer online services including e-mail and Web search under its Windows Live brand, as well test versions of two new free services: Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Windows Live Photo Gallery is a new [...]

Build Your Own Gaming System

The HYDRA Game Development Kit is brought to you by the crew at XGameStation. It comes with all the parts, and instructions to create what is essentially, a bootleg computer system. When completed, it can play many different types of interface devices, including NTSC/PAL video, VGA video, PS/2 ports and networking. NTSC and VGA formats [...]

Rock Hard ….Fingers?

P-ISM : A Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package, basically its a Palm Pilot in a pen. It has some pretty neat features though: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, virtual keyboard, a very small projector, camera scanner, and personal ID key with cashless pass function.

The best part of them all [...]

Now That’s Wireless

Ermanno Pietrosemoli, president of a networking school in Venezuela, has set a new record for the longest communication link with Wi-Fi…a whopping 238 miles.
Together with Intel tech (which has created a way to electrically steer the signal, which in turn increases bandwidth) and MacGuyver techniques with LinkSys hardware, Pietrosemoli sent an 802.11 signal between two [...]

Home Automation

Control4, provider of IP-based home control and entertainment systems, today unveiled the Control4® Home Controller HC-300.
This $699 device offers up a multitude of serial, infrared, and video sensing ports, is compatible with standards-based communication technology including Ethernet, WiFi, and ZigBee mesh networking, and can dictate multi-room music, smart lighting, advanced temperature control, and security.

"The Home [...]

Internet Preserves Dying Languages

Endangered languages like Welsh, Navajo and Breton have regained speakers and popularity in their communities and are now even considered "cool". Welsh language expert David Crystal said the Internet could change the inevitable extinction of about half of the world’s 6,500 languages.

"The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a [...]