Now that Android is shoving over 200,000 android devices out per day and it has become painfully obvious that the iPhone is destined to become a niche device, similar to what happened to their desktop PCs in the ’80s, history is repeating itself.
Today marks the inauguration of the first announcement of a serious android competitor to the iPad.  Today, Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab and, man, does it look sweet.  Now, don’t get me wrong, the iPad is the type of device I have been waiting years for, but Apple’s militant ability to alienate themselves amongst all of the tech world …

I understand the need for a tool such as captcha, but one of our readers was creating a new blog over at blogger.com and he had to type in a pretty bad phrase.  I am not sure if this was an algorithmic accident or if there was a partially demented dev that was responsible, but it is still just a little odd that a company the size as Google would let this slide through.
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$2.2 billion.  Not too long ago that would have seemed like an insurmountable amount of cash…a Doctor Evil putting his pinky up to his mouth amount of cash…  But nowadays it seems more and more billionaires are born everyday.
After reading this article on Japan building a moon base by 2020 (a robot controlled moon base) for that sum it makes me wonder how long until private companies start their own similar projects.
Is it possible that the next moon base after Japan’s will sport a colorful  Google logo?

The Mira EV destroyed its own record for a car that traveled the farthest without a charge by traveling over 623 miles on a single charge last weekend.
The entire car is powered with 8,320 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries (laptop batteries by Sanyo), but had to drive rather slow to achieve this feat.  It went a mere 30 miles an hour for most of the ride.
This speaks volumes for the potential of EVs in the future.  A future free form fossil fuels and super cheap electric cars…
yes, please…

Terry Gou, the head of gadget super maker, Foxconn gave an unprecedented tour of the facility after a rash of suicides that had everyone questioning what, exactly, was going on in the factory.
The factory employs over 300,000 people and builds products for HP, Apple, and a host of other major tech developers.  As six busloads of journalist were guided around the facility they got a chance to see banks, bakeries and tons of other shops on palm tree lined streets.  The factory is a veritable city and probably the closest thing to a real life version of …

Mozilla has been working hard on the mobile version of Firefox for Android, code-named Fennec.  There have already been several reviews of it here, here, and here, so I won’t be going into it.  I just wanted to take this time out to talk about my concern over other browsers entering the Android market.
I love my Droid, I really do, and in general I like all of my Google products, but the browser in Android really rubs me the wrong way. It amazes me that the same company that produced …

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Today the folks over at Cupertino are going to show off a few version of the iPhone OS.  Rumors have been swirling around that this will not be a incremental update like the 3G to the 3GS was.  This should hopefully introduce some form of multitasking, among other things.  Stay tuned to techhype.net today because we will be trying to live blog the event.
So far Apple has done an excellent job at not allowing the OS to fragment, but as more devices are added to their stable I wonder if …

I had the opportunity to runt he iPad through its paces this weekend and it is stunning.  I am sure by this point you have read a ton of reviews on this device so I will spare you the revamp of those ideas here and I will simply offer my first impressions.
The first thing I noticed when I picked it up was the weight.  At first I was taken back by how heavy it seemed.   I really thought it would be lighter, but once I dug into the experience …

The Wall Street Journal posted a few articles about the possibility of a CDMA flavor of iPhone.  This makes me smile like the Cheshire cat on ‘shrooms.  I currently live near VA Beach and AT&T service is atrocious … or so I am told.  It is so bad that all you really ever hear are the horror stories about people that used to have the service.  This area is like living in a post-apocalyptic world after the Cellular wars have faded.  Needless to say Verizon won.
Back to reality, I currently …