The Ashes

Facebook launched a new service as of yesterday called Facebook Lite. Facebook Lite is currently in the United States or in India. The user interface for Facebook Lite is much faster than the original. And on Facebook Lite, they put a major emphasis on birthdays because that feature is placed at the top. Friend updates [...]

What’s the best way to repel mosquitoes? With all the products invading the market everyday, all claiming to be as effective as the other, it is hard to pinpoint, which works wonders. And unless you give each one a try, you wouldn’t really know if one indeed works better than the other. The Thermacell Mosquito [...]

The stunning ceramic speakers pictured here are undoubtedly the wiz kid of Joey Roth. The sharp-looking new speakers, soft-launched at Nooka’s pop-up store at Den in NYC are scheduled to be out in October. Made from porcelain, wood and cork, these speakers are not just aesthetic appealing but give the speaker designs a new dimension. [...]

Towards the beginning of the year, Facebook updated their terms of service without the knowledge of the community.  But there was some outrage because Facebook’s new terms of service stated that even after a user deactivated their accounts, the social network would still have access to their data such as messages that were sent back-and-forth [...]

Seura, the company known for the techie mirror HDTVs is here once again with as always a cool product. Its new waterproof Hydra 19-inch LCD HDTV lets you bath and watch simultaneously. All you need to do to make your Hydra an interior-decorator friendly is get a frame in any Pantone color for a total [...]

Motorola’s Android event took place yesterday, and like we reported earlier the phone maker unveiled CLIQ, an Android-powered smartphone with MOTOBLUR UI, 5-megapixel camera, WiFi, and full sliding QWERTY keyboard. We’re not really fond of this phone’s design, but it’s nice and it’s coming to T-Mobile (no AT&T), and it might be availalbe for free. [...]

Boulder, Colorado, the world's first Smart Grid city. Xcel Energy announced that they have successfully implemented the Ventyx Smart Grid Operations Solution in Boulder, Colorado. This implementation is the first fully integrated Smart Grid city in the world. The Ventyx Solution will make it possible to convert the data from the Smart Grid into actual [...]

Ning is a free social network customization building platform created by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. The company recently announced that they will be rolling out an application platform for developers to build upon. The company launched Ning Apps to about 1.5 million social networks hosted by the service as of yesterday. Ning Apps is [...]

Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard two weeks ago and the first update for “world’s most advanced” OS has arrived. Mac OS X 10.6.1 update was sent to the developers several days ago, and now it’s ready for shipping for all users with Snow Leopard on their Apple machines. The update comes packed [...]

As you probably know two days ago the Apple iPod Event 2009 took place, and it was one of the best ever with only one downside: the new iPod Touch G3 doesn’t feature a camera. CEO Steve Jobs said that the new iPoc Touch doesn’t feature a camera because the company wants to keep the [...]