Category Archives: Technology

Note to Subway Riders: Watch Out for Those iPods The iPod people seem to be everywhere these days, listening to Bach or 50 Cent, but nowhere do they appear more visible and at peace than on the subways. The train … Continue reading →

As an alternative to the WAG list of Boston area Wi-fi hotspots, the Dowbrigae has recently been consulting an interesting site called WiFiMaps.com. This site is the real deal, it mantains a constantly updated database of hotspots as reported by … Continue reading →

By far the most interesting angle of last Thursday’s visit from Boston City Councilor John Tobin to the Berkman Bloggers Meeting was the news (to us) that Boston is one of a handful of cities around the United States considering … Continue reading →

How many of the rest of you Firefox users never knew about all of the ‘secret’ configurable controls you can access via the about:config URL? There’s all sorts of cool stuff you can do, just by typing about:config in the … Continue reading →

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Hiawatha Bray in today’s Boston Globe reports on the latest round of RIAA lawsuits, the biggest yet.  This time they are targeting college students using Internet2 and a file sharing program called "i2hub". Dozens of Massachusetts college students will be … Continue reading →

A good example of the convergence of capitalism and technology in a consumer-driven context is in battery technology.   While Moore’s Law has governed processing and storage, in the arena of energy storage, no major innovations or performance enhancements have … Continue reading →

"What started as a depraved idea has apparently become a sickening reality" The above sentence could have been written by Hunter Thompson. It is a testimony to his lasting affect on journalism that it in fact appeared on a South African … Continue reading →

Wow! Not since the height of the browser wars has there been such a lively new features face-off as is currently transpiring among the established giants, and a few promising newcomers, in what will surely come to be known as … Continue reading →

The New York Times today has a pretty good roundup of the latest attempts to eat into Google’s dominance of the search market worldwide. In content, the innovations at Amazon A9 (neighborhood context) and MSN Search (user-adjsutable search priorities, via … Continue reading →

Kids! Make sure you have your file sharing programs set to DOWNLOAD ONLY! And stay away from Arizona. And don’t try this at home! Is my review-only copy of Constantine done yet? PHOENIX – A University of Arizona student has … Continue reading →

Scientists may be serious people, engaged in the pursuit of objective truth. But when it comes to naming species, they often let their hair down. So the insect world has Heerz tooya, Apopyllus now and Pieza pi and Pieza rhea, … Continue reading →