Turkey tweets lead to housing

Oct 24, 2011
Hours after yesterday's 7.2 magnitude quake struck eastern Turkey, Turkish TV journalist Erhan Çelik appealed to his 22,000+ Twitter followers to...

Cheap Apples

Oct 24, 2011
The New York Times ran a story yesterday that fell in line with this kind of thinking. It points out that whereas Apple used to be the gourmet...

New MacBook Pros sneak out

Oct 24, 2011
Without much fanfare, Apple released a new line of MacBook Pros this morning. Without getting into too much geek chow, the new machines have faster...

Wikileaks suspends publication

Oct 24, 2011
The leak site has temporarily shut down in order to go into an aggressive fund raising mode. Yeah, it's something we've heard from a million arts...

Use your Kindle for kindling

Oct 21, 2011
Amazon just announced it will accept your old Kindle as a trade in for anything on their site (a Fire mayhaps?). So now all you e-Ink-ers who are...

Throw another lawsuit on the barbie

Oct 21, 2011
An Australian student is going after Facebook for holding on to data that is no longer on his profile. Max Schrems, a 24-year-old Australian law...

Hulutendo!

Oct 21, 2011
If Hulu Plus really wants to be a legit alternative to Netflix, it has to start showing up on more platforms. And that's what intends to do. Hulu...

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But maybe everyone can just use Facebook for those jobs instead

Oct 21, 2011
The Department of Labor announced yesterday that it's teaming up with Facebook for an online job fair. Job seekers can head to the Social Jobs...

USAjobs.gov can't keep up with demand

Oct 21, 2011
Monster.com used to run the official government jobs listing website. It did so for many years under a contract that has now expired and the...

The latest verdict: no evidence that cell phones are harmful

Oct 21, 2011
It seems like every other week a study comes out telling us that cell phone usage can cause brain cancer, or conversely, that they don't harm us at...