January 24, 2012
If you've been resisting the switch over to Facebook's Timeline your days are numbered. Facebook has announced that it is making the Timeline mandatory for all of its 800 million plus customers.
Predictions about technology are notoriously tough to make. Still, the experts and visionaries often get it right — but when they don’t, they get it colossally wrong. Here are some of history’s most famously bungled insights made by tech giants and industry bigwigs, as rounded-up by Scientific American.
Facebook is awesome. I love it. It’s a great way to keep close with friends. To watch their families grow. To reconnect with those who moved far away long ago. And, frankly, to give me a much needed time-out during work.
If ‘Wedding Crashers’ taught us one thing, it’s that weddings to which we aren’t invited are far superior to those which we’re required to attend. If it taught us anything else, it’s that crashing weddings is almost a full time job. It involves a ton of recon work.
Have you checked out the new radioPup 2.0? The same mobile app that lets you listen to Jack FM anywhere you go now includes the latest posts, videos, and pictures from our website; up-to-date weather forecasts; and commenting with Facebook.
The popular iPhone game Words with Friends can do just about anything: make people smarter, bring people together, even make Alec Baldwin seem even kookier than he already is. Now, it’s literally saving lives.
With the NFL Playoffs heating up, we could all use gadgets that streamline the at-home game day experience. Meet The Clicker, which fuses your remote control and the ever important bottle cap opener. As their website poetically states
In one corner, we have PlayStation, the video game console engineered by Sony that’s currently in it’s third evolution on top of its PSP, PS Vita and PlayStation Move installments. Along with game play, users can stream movies and TV shows through Netflix and Hulu, listen to music and more.
In the other, we have Xbox, Microsoft’s sixth-generation console that was the first technology in the game world to feature a hard disk drive, which eliminated the need for memory cards. The newest installment, Xbox 360 with Kinect, gives players the ability to use their own bodies and voice as the controllers.
In a head-snapping about-face, Verizon Wireless has dropped the $2 monthly fee it planned to impose on some of its customers.
