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Apple’s iPhone battery sparks lawsuit

Even though any new product has a glitch or two Apple must have seen this one coming.  There is a court case in class action status that alleges the battery of of the iPhone is a problem. Specifically in the lawsuit the plaintiffs did not know that iPhone battery was sealed and soldered into the [...]

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Tue, July 31 2007 » tech » Comments Off

Forget a hybrid…Diesel is the way to go

Honda has developed a car that runs on diesel fuel and get more miles to the gallon that a hybrid.  The car maker says that the car runs on “clean” diesel and expects it to be in the US by 2010.  The new car gets about 63 miles a gallon while looking and driving like [...]

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Mon, July 30 2007 » Electric Car » Comments Off

Tom Simpson

I just went over to simpsonizeme.com.   Here’s what I came up with…

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Sat, July 28 2007 » annnouncements » Comments Off

University of Kentucky bucks the RIAA trend

It looks like a college is taking a stand against the RIAA.  Although The University of Kentucky has been tightened their rules on students downloading copyrighted music and movies they do not plan on forwarding the RIAA’s request for the names of 14 students who are accused of music piracy. This is not the trend [...]

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Fri, July 27 2007 » tech » Comments Off

Senators call for filtering of the internet

Yesterday two US Senators called for the implementation of a method of filtering technologies to protect children on the internet.  This was discussed in a Senate hearing where civil liberties groups were not invited. Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii and Ted Stevens, Repbulican from Alaska both called for ways to set up technologies to [...]

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Thu, July 26 2007 » tech » Comments Off