Amazon announced their Q4 2011 quarterly earnings just recently and they dropped a rather interesting little fact in — they are now selling more Kindle books then they are paperback books. Yup, it seems the Kindle is winning. Of course, having people read is really not about winning, but it seems the ereader is gaining more »

According to a recently leaked internal T-Mobile memo, it looks like some new international calling and text messaging plans are about to be rolled-out. The plans are expected to go into effect on December 8th and will only be available for post-paid customers on a $49.99 (or higher) per month calling plan. The details of more »

Google is a huge company with a lot of products. There is a blog to let us know what’s new with each of those products, and some more blogs for almost everything else you can think of that concerns Google. It can be hard to keep track of it all. Thankfully Google has launched a more »

With the majority of the technology community in Austin this week for SXSW, Digg felt it was a good time to release a new version of their social bookmarking site. In, fact they decided to release the alpha version of the new site so you can get a sneak peak at it. If you go more »

Yesterday, Apple released the 3rd generation Shuffle, their low man on the totem pole of MP3 players. The new design is almost inconceivably smaller than the 2nd generation and moves function buttons off the device in favor of having them on the earphone cord. A break out feature guides you by voice to get to the song of playlist you desire as there is no screen. What can this latest player to hop out of Cupertino tell us about a new iPhone?

I say plenty. Apple loves their family look and there is every reason to believe we’ll see some of the concepts in the Shuffle carried into the next generation iPhone.

They’ve got it all. Musicians, sports icons, TV stars…the 2009 International CES will be THE place to be January 8-11th. As most people know, CES is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, and they are making it very worth the while of those in attendance.

There are some companies in the world that aim purely at the upper end of the pay scale. Denon has just released their new DVD-A1UD which costs a staggering $5,879, a price that us debt ridden unemployed mortals can only gape at.

So what does it actually do? Well, it can play Blu-ray discs, SACDs, CDs, DVD-Audio, and DVD-Video. This is Denon’s first Profile 2.0 Ready (BD Live) Blu-ray DVD player and it supports the HDMI 1.3 spec. It can also upscale non-HD sources and can convert signals so that they properly fit 16:9 screens without black bars or distortion. And lets face it, if you can spend this much you definitely have a widescreen TV.

New domains are always exciting, and if you can remember the most recent major one (.me) you will remember the vast amounts of money are usually spent as people bid for the best of the selection. However .tel will not involve vast amounts of money or even much media coverage, because it is something different and a new way of looking at domain names.

These domains will not be about websites, but more of a way of sharing the information of the domain owner, and will not involve any building, hosting or managing. They are effectively domains that tell you all about the domain owner, such as their business, their address and their phone number: a bit like an online contact card. Keep reading after the break.

Trying new stuff sometimes just doesn’t work, especially when it is embedded into society and is in the hearts and minds of some of the most loyal people in the world (i.e. geeks!). So why, oh why, would you want to redesign the keyboard? The history, the tradition and the time learning to type on it are three things that no previous attempt have been able to overcome, but nevertheless μTRON have tried and the result is at no less than interesting.

The idea of Reality TV with music has been around since American Idol where people auditioned to be put into the knock out competition where eventually the top prize was a juicy record contract and a nice cash prize. This idea has now moved into the Internet domain (no pun intended) with YouTube, who is now taking auditions for their own Symphony Orchestra.

The idea of an organization having it’s own orchestra is nothing new (it all started with the BBC in 1930) but this is a good example of how the world is becoming more globalized and encouraging anyone to have a go. The idea is that people will film themselves playing parts of the specially selected Symphony (which I will talk about later) to show their talent, as well as one to show their overall personality.