A failed russian missile

Local Norway citizens spotted a "swirl in the night sky" which was thought to be either aliens trying to contact the world or god himself. What they didnt know was that it was actualy a failed Russian missile that started to swirl out of control and failed to work after trying 13 times.

Amazon offers "disc on demand" service

Amazon now offers an on demand service that will let you watch movies on your PC or on demand right after you buy order it online.
You can only watch a selected 300 out of the 300,000 movie titles that they have.

Top 40 iPhone Apps of 2009

The Iphone has over 100,000 apps in the app store, here are the iphones 40 most popular apps!


Games:

• The Sims 3
• The Oregon Trail
• Need For Speed Undercover
• Madden NFL 10
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour
• Assassin’s Creed
• Flight Control
  
• Cooking Mama
• Civilization Revolution
• Wheel of Fortune
• Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor
• Real Racing
• Zenonia
• Ravensword: The Falle King
• Earth Vs Moon Episode 2
• Sally’s Spa
• Ragdoll Blaster
• Canabait
• Blades of Fury
• DOOM Classic

• Apps

• MobileNavigator North America
• MLB.com At Bat
• Textfree Unlimited
• TomTom US & Canada
  
• Golfshot: Golf GPS
• SlingPlayer Mobile
• ColorSplash
• Pocket God
• Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite
• The Moron Test
• ReelDirector
• Magellan RoadMate 2010 North America
• Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals
• I Am T-Pain
  
• CBS Sports
• SketchBook Mobile
• Star Walk
  
• Convertbot
• Leaf Trombone
• Pano

Motorola Droid: Time's Gadget of the Year

Its been an intense year for wireless launches, from the high ranked palm pre and the iphone, and don't forget the blackberrys! the "Gadget of the Year" was given to the Motorola Droid invented by verizon wireless. The first smartphone to use Android 2.0 firmware, this phone has a large touch screen equivelent to the iphone but it also has an extended keybord that flipps out.

2009 Word of the Year: Twitter

And the number one most used word in the English language this year is.......Twitter!

According to the Global Language Monitor the top word of 2009 is in face, Twitter. The Global Language Monitor is a Texas company that tracks word usage on the internet. So over all of the political, presidential and global news that is going on and that has gone on in the world over this past year, the most used word is the social networking website Twitter. What has the world come to?!

According to the group, the 10 top words for 2009 were:

1. Twitter
2. Obama
3. H1N1
4. Stimulus
5. Vampire
6. 2.0
7. Deficit
8. Hadron
9. Healthcare
10. Transparency

Meanwhile, the 10 top phrases are:

1. King of Pop
2. Obama-mania
3. Climate change
4. Swine flu
5. Too large to fail
6. Cloud computing
7. Public option
8. Jai Ho!
9. Mayan calendar
10. God particle

Connecting citizens and journalists with YouTube Direct

YouTube direct is a new function on You Tube that allows media organizations to request, rebrodcast, and review YouTube videos directly from the source. It enables media organizations to be allowed to view and broadcast YouTube videos on-air. The YouTube user that took the video dose not get paid, although he dose get acknowledgment. This is crazy. Although I don't have a youtube account, if a video I shot was broadcasted on the news and I was not payed I would be mighty upset.

Microsoft and News Corp Eye Web Pact

Over the weekend of november 23'd financial times declares that Rupert Murdoch and Microsoft are in the making of a new deal in which microsoft would pay murdoch's news corprate for an exclusive search engine to access its news stories.

Upgrade your Warner Bros DVD's in to new Blu-Ray Discs

You can get your old dvd's converted in to new HDTV Blu-Ray discs for free!

step 1: Send your dvd's in the mail.

step2: You will get your old dvd's processed in to new blu-ray discs.

step 3: Your new blu-ray discs will be sent to you within 4-5 weeks.

Google Voice Offers Voicemail Without Changing Your Number

Starting tonight, google voice users can choose to either keep or change their number and still get googles upgraded voicemail features. Youll need a google voice invitation to get started. Your voicemail will rout to google servers and be sent to you via SMS or email. It will also be able to set up a costom greeting for each caller to your voicemail.

Youtube has automatic subtitles!

As of now, 13 channels on youtube will have automatic subtitles. You can activate captions by clicking on a new "CC" button at the bottom of the video's screen. As it is also helpful for the hearing impaired you can also now understand videos in other languages because you have 51 different languages to choose from!

Google releases Chrome OS source code

GOOGLE

Google comes out with Chrome OS! Chrome OS which is a developing tool for netbooks as a new type of operating system. Google first announces it in July. Several Google engineers are expected to speak at the event Thursday morning.

Man Arrested For Not Tweeting??

A strange mishap involving new age pop artist Justin Bieber on November 20th 2009 when a record executive fails to "tweet" and gets arrested for it!

When the government tells you to tweet, then tweet! Justin Bieber visits the Roosevelt Field mall when a crowd of fans get a little too rowdy. A record executive from Island Def Jam Records is arrested for not twittering about his arrival and not telling his fans to stop crowding. In return, things get out of hand. The executive pleads not guilty, but was arrested for "endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration”.

IBM Recreate Cat's Brain Inside Computer

Recreated Cat Brain.

Believe it or not we are one step closer then we have ever been before to artificial intelligences...
Using 147,456 processors and 144 terabytes of memory IBM researchers have reportedly simulated the cerebral cortex of a cat!
This is the latest simulation since in 2007 when we invented a simulation of a rat brain. Since they are not exact replicas of the cortex of a cat it runs about 100 times slower.
We are on an ongoing study of virtual intelligence and were getting closer and closer to make it handle ambiguity and fuzzy data. IBM's research manager believes we are about a decade away to create a virtual human brain.

AOL cuts 2,500 jobs.

AOL to Cut 2,500 Jobs

AOL has to cut about a third of its workforce (25,00) jobs.
Cutting these jobs is said to save 300 million dollars annually.
The company is politely asking for people to volunteer.
AOL has merged with Time Warner Cable CO. in 2000 in a deal that was dangerous for both companies. They predict it will spin off by December 9th.In the most recent quarter AOL's revenue plummeted 23 percent AKA 235 million to 777 dollars. $92 million was due to drop in advertising.