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  • Jun 10, 2010

    Frontierville

    Zynga, creators of the insanely popular game Farmville, have rolled out a new way for you to throw your life away and just in time for summer when…

  • As promised, Google.com, the big page, the heart of the whole operation, looks different today. The company announced this a while ago. Instead of…

  • On today's show we talk about new technology that lets you and your car have a conversation. Well, maybe not a conversation, per se, more just…

  • Jun 9, 2010

    Tweets of Old

    We spoke to the proprietor of the Twitter feed @TweetsOfOld on today's show. It's an odd, hilarious, and strangely touching trip back through…

  • It's not being rolled out with the same fanfare as the notorious Wave or Buzz, but Google's new Caffeine indexing technology, which is live right…

  • You only have 140 characters to use in a tweet and you don't want to blow that on a lengthy url of some site you want to tell people about. So a…

  • For a while now we've been hearing about increased wages for Foxconn employees, in some cases raises of up to 66%. Around here we've been wondering…

  • Glenn Fleishman, author of this post, joined us on today's show to talk about Apple's new iPhone. Glenn's a freelance journalist who specializes in…

  • That's what I tweeted yesterday on news that the TurboMegaGigantopopular game Farmville is coming to the iPhone. "We want to destroy the last shred…

  • I've been interested in the idea of video phones for a long time. It's thought of as this thing that only exists on The Jetsons and in the distant…