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Amazon has announced the release of a “Send to Kindle for Google Chrome” extension for Google’s web browser and has promised that support for the Firefox and Safari browsers is coming soon. The new extension (via The Verge) sends Web content such as articles, blog posts and text selections straight to one or more Kindle Continue Reading →

Gone are the days of teenagers buying albums and listening to them all the way through, as are the days of following beloved radio DJs and tuning in at the appropriate times. The new generation is opting for their own music curating by means of YouTube, according to a new study released today by consumer Continue Reading →

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley has been hearing rumblings that Microsoft is rethinking its traditional strategy of walloping users with giant software upgrades and is instead “attempting to move toward something more like what Apple does, with point releases.” Foley writes that this new strategy could manifest itself as early as next year when Microsoft releases Continue Reading →

When Google announced late last week that it would start demoting websites that were repeatedly flagged for copyright violations, it raised a very pertinent question: Does this mean Google will start demoting YouTube results as well? The folks over at Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan did some terrific work over the weekend trying to figure Continue Reading →

Verizon officials said that they did not know emergency service was out during the derecho storm that hit the Washington area last month, The Washington Post reported, until the company was contacted by the county. A report to be released Wednesday shows that Verizon saw “significant problems”with its systems — problems that the company had Continue Reading →

This week, amid reports that $15.9 billion man Michael Dell had daughter Alexa Dell’s Twitter account deactivated over security distress, I’m grappling with my own concern: should the very privileged rich be barred from social networking for their own good? Because the hashtag #RKOI (rich kids of instagram, for the uninitiated) is making me feel Continue Reading →

During the Gamescom expo press conference in Cologne, Germany, Sony announced games and additional features for its handheld game console, the PlayStation Vita. Here’s a quick summary of what’s new. New Games: Many of the games that will be launched this year have already been announced, but Sony introduced two brand-new ones called Tearaway (by Continue Reading →

There’s no denying that the iPad mini is the Apple product rumor of 2012, and the latest batch of hearsay narrows down the form factor of the purported tablet. 9to5Mac received word from unnamed sources that the mini will “look like a large iPod touch” with thin vertical bezels. In a later post, the site Continue Reading →

The usual snail’s pace of a visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles resembled something more like paint drying Tuesday when the agency’s computer network came to a crashing halt. The four-hour, systemwide shutdown forced field offices from Los Angeles to Yreka to turn away or reschedule appointments until around lunchtime, when the computers came Continue Reading →

Among the more than 200 new features that Apple plans to incorporate into next month’s release of iOS 6 will be an update to the software’s alarm clock application that will have you stumbling out of bed in the morning to your favorite tune. The little-mentioned feature, which originally turned up in the first betas Continue Reading →