I am kind of in the market for a new laptop, and I’m looking in every nook and cranny I can. I’ve been looking at the new Macbook Air, but every penny saved is a penny earned.  Then I found System76, a laptop (and desktop) manufacturer with a fetish for Ubuntu.  

This morning, DirecTV and Viacom have resolved their differences (namely how much cash DirecTV should fork over to Viacom) and Viacom has started pushing their channels to Viacom again.  Good news:  You can watch Spongebob now.  

The worldwide court battleground between the two tech giants Apple and Samsung only seems to be growing in absurdity this week, after court decisions in varying countries meant unpleasant outcomes for both parties.  

Microsoft just released their fourth quarter earning results, and for the very first time since Microsoft went public, they lost money. But you shouldn’t be too concerned about their health, because it’s certainly not the end.  

Nobody could really say ATMs are buggy, or too terribly hard to use.  But they are ugly, repetitive, and don’t get the job done as well as they could from a users perspective.  So BBVA, a Spanish banking group, took inspiration from the pioneers of great user experience, Apple to make a brand new ATM vision.  

We’ve long known that Windows 8 would be released in Fall, even specifically October.  We’ve even compiled a nice list of apps for you to try to get the feel of Windows 8.  But now we know thanks to Steven Sinofsky the exact date:  October 26th.  

Well, the first iPad certainly was chunky.  Here’s a picture of the very first iPad prototype from Apple, circa 2002-2004.  For those out of the loops, Apple actually made the iPad before the iPhone, but decided to release the iPhone/iPod Touch first.  Go past the break for a full gallery.  

Frequently find yourself getting shot at while browsing the web from your brand new iPad?  Unfortunate, but a fact of life. The Ballistic cover from VestGuard UK is made of ”cutting edge uni-directional aramid fibers processed to a high tolerance in VestGuard’s state of the art facility” that makes it possible to stop 9mm fire.  

ARTICLE SUMMARY Windows 8 is set to launch in October with a redesigned look and feel based around the Metro user interface (UI). Here are five of the most exciting Metro apps with the most impressive capabilities. Cut the Rope Microsoft has made Cut the Rope its own in recent months, with a major tie-in between this previously mobile game and its Internet Explorer 9 software. However, it. 

Remember that month-old campaign to send Pitbull to the world’s most remote Wal-mart in Alaska?  Good job, folks, you did it!  Pitbull is going to Kodiak!  He’s also inviting the prankster, David Thorpe to Kodiak, in the video and an accompanying Tweet.