Month: January 2011

(AHN) – Bank of America purchased back $2.5 billion debt from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because of complaints from the two largest mortgage firms that the mortgages were based on faulty data. Read the original post by Andy

(AHN) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday a 5 percent cut in his salary as his way of leading by example. The cut is equivalent to $8,950 of his $179,000 annual pay. Read the original post by Andy

Some smart folks over at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, have actually decided to go ahead and reinvent the wheel as part of the Lunar Exploration Light Rover project. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

Targeted at professionals, Lexar’s SDXC memory cards will have capacities of 64GB and 128GB. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

After selling Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol and Step Up 3D on Blu-ray 3D during the holiday season, it looks like Disney has decided they’ve tested the format enough to take a plunge into it. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

(AHN) – Two former Miami-Dade police officers will spend time in prison after they were caught red-handed stealing from a police informant. Read the original post by Andy

(AHN) – Two former Miami-Dade police officers will now spend time in prison after they were caught red-handed stealing from a police informant. Read the original post by Andy

Steve Jobs is quite vehement about the Android Market where you go for porn, but if you want to learn how to roll a doobie, it’s the App Store all the way. Read the original post by Andy

Amazon.com offers the Philips 32″ 120Hz 1080p Widescreen HD Television, model no. 32PFL4505D/F7, for $439.99 with free shipping. (newegg.com charges the same.) That’s $10 under our November mention and the lowest total price we could find by $58. It features a native resolution of 1920×1080 (1080p), 8ms response time, 25,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 300 cd/m²…

Apple’s new entry-level UK pricing Apple today took down its online store in the UK for a few hours, moving to raise prices to account for an increase in the national value-added tax (VAT) going into effect today that is seeing… Read the original post by Deseret News

OfficeDepot offers the HP Officejet 6500 Network All-in-One Inkjet Printer, model no. CB815A, which also scans, copies, and faxes, for $59.99. Coupon code “69354723″ cuts it to $49.99. Pad your order to over $50 to bag free shipping, otherwise shipping adds $9.95. That’s $25 under last month’s mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen….

You’d think people would have enough gadgets, after spending billions on TVs, computers, Web tablets and other gizmos this past holiday season. Read the original post by The Seattle Times

But before the device can even hit the stage, photos of it have already surfaced online. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

We must admit that vacuuming the house isna t the most fun thing to do. Of course, having a cooler and more futuristic-looking vacuum cleaner might help, though wea d still procrastinate about it. Read the original post by Ubergizmo