New York State has just added a new law that further bans the use of cell phones while driving. Effective immediately, drivers can no longer text while driving and if they are caught doing so they face a fine of up to $150. While a great law, for me this always goes back to common more »

The massive Chinese search engine Baidu is in trouble after state media uncovered that unlicensed medical services are buying good positions on the page through their P4P (pay-for-performance) scheme. This is a problem as more people then click through to their website and the pay for very expensive and totally useless treatment.

This inevitably leads to more cases of dangerous, and sometimes lethal, disregard of safety and expertise meaning that many operations are useless, expensive, and health-threatening. Examples include a man being charged $1,500 for an operations that didn’t do anything, when he could have paid $15 for effective treatment at a public hospital.

Fortune is reporting that the New York State sales tax will be applied to all Amazon purchases beginning on June 1. This new rule will mean that New York residents will no longer be able to enjoy those tax free purchases, at least on Amazon. Of course even though Amazon, and other online retailers have more »

Super Talent has launched the world’s slimmest 256GB solid state drive (SSD) – the FSD56GC25H. This new SSD aside from having a really long model number is only 12.5mm (0.49-inches) thick, making it the thinnest among the crop of SSDs available on the market today.

Aside from its thin dimension, Super Talent still managed to adhere to the industry standard 2.5-inch hard drive form factor. These standards include SATA-I interface and 100% interchangeability with conventional 2.5-inch SATA HD. It also sports Super Talent’s patented stacking technology in storing data files. The FSD56GC25H (whew!) drive also supports 0.1ms access time, 65MB/sec sequential read speed and 50MB/sec sequential write speed. It supports up to 1600G of shock and 16G of vibration, making it five times greater than normal hard drives.