February 9th, 2010

Readers offer their best tips for making effective sink mats, rearranging your Windows taskbar for quick program switching, and writing important information on dried food containers.

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About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips ..Read More

February 9th, 2010

STi Prepaid has created a huge empire with prepaid phone cards, selling over 200 million cards a year in 200,000 stores.

In a smart move, Zeus Research is teaming up with STi to create a way to use those cards to pay for virtual goods inside online games.

San Francisco-based Zeus research ..Read More

February 9th, 2010

Looking to get a Bluetooth earpiece without actually upping your tool factor by 40x or so? Good luck. Helium Digital’s so-called alternative (that’d be the HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband) was recently reviewed by our iPhone-lovin’ pals in the Great White North, and while they found it to work well when it ..Read More

February 9th, 2010

A new study has found that 14 percent of iPhone users upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.3 in less than a week of availability, while a new hack to exploit Apple’s latest update has been released.

February 8th, 2010

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s, Tech Trader Daily

Howard Stern told listeners this morning that he is considering leaving Sirius XM (SIRI) to become a judge on American Idol, according the TheWrap.com.

“There’s not a better job on the planet than judging that f—ing karaoke contest,” Stern said, the site ..Read More