Month: January 2011

PLAYING 3D games on the new Nintendo handheld console could harm the eyesight of kids under six, the company warned yesterday. Read the original post by Online Sun

(AHN) – Texas has started a legal battle with the Obama administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to retain control over its statewide air permitting program aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

(AHN) – The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and Pepin Heights Orchard are advising consumers to avoid drinking Pepin Heights Orchard brand apple cider after department laboratory tests found the product may be contaminated with a type of mold toxin called patulin. Any consumers with this product on hand are asked to discard it. Read…

A poll by Rasmussen Reports seems to indicate that only 21 percent of those surveyed are in favor of the FCC’s net neutrality regulations. However, some are wondering if the questions were worded in such a way as to skew the answers from an uninformed public in a certain direction. Read the original post by…

(AHN) – The United States on Saturday condemned the terrorist attacks in Egypt and Nigeria with President Barack Obama strongly condemning ?the separate and outrageous terrorist bombing attacks in Egypt and Nigeria.? Read the original post by Andy

California’s new law banning online banning online impersonations (or e-personations) has gone into effect, as of Jan. 1, 2011. The law makes assuming another person’s identity on the Internet, when it seeks to harm someone, illegal. Read the original post by Andy

New year means a new price for the Verizon-branded Galaxy Tab . Droid-Life has received word from a couple of VZW store employees that the big red network intends to chop a nice $100 chunk off its price for the 7-inch Android tablet. Read the original post by Engadget

For its “M” Club members only, mwave.com offers the A-DATA 8GB SDHC Class 4 Secure Digital High-Capacity Memory Card, model no. ASDH8GCL4-R, for $10.99 with free shipping ($1.38/GB). (“M” Club membership is free; click here to sign up.) That’s the lowest total price we could find by a buck, although it was a buck less…

Dell Home offers the Vizio 47″ 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. E470VA, for $657.99 with free shipping. That’s $2 under last week’s mention and the lowest total price we could find today by $60. (We saw it for $60 less on Cyber Monday, however.) Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include…

Technology companies are subtly changing the type of top executives they want to hire. Read the original post by MarketWatch

S&P Equity Research predicts big developments for the Internet segment in 2011, including continuing challenges for Google, changes at Yahoo, and a cloud offering from Apple. Read the original post by International Business Times

TigerDirect via Buy.com offers the Iomega Select 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive, model no. 34966, for $69.99 with free shipping ($0.07/GB). That’s $25 off list and the best price we’ve seen since October, when it was $5 less (since expired). Features include an 8MB cache and 480Mbps transfer rate. Read the original post by…

Lignin in a regular Arabidopsis stem at left, and in a modified plant’s stem at right Biofuel derived from crops such as switchgrass certainly holds promise, although some critics maintain that such crops use up too much agricultural land – land that could otherwise be used for growing food crops. Read the original post by…

Today only, the iTunes App Store offers downloads of MyMind (Mindmapping) for iPhone / iPod touch for free. That’s a $7 drop and the best deal we’ve seen for this productivity app. Read the original post by dealmac.com

What better way to kick off the new year than with a cake made to resemble Apple’s signature smartphone? Read the original post by Philip Michaels