Black Friday shoppers looking for deals at Best Buy can check here for a sneak peek of doorbuster deals at the popular holiday shopping spot. Continue Reading

Ho ho holiday shopping is upon us! And stores are gearing up for what is known as the biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday. Continue Reading

Is your Black Friday shopping directed toward purchasing a GPS (global positioning system) this year?  Then check here for some great deals. Continue Reading

Black Friday shoppers looking to aim their carts toward Target stores can check here for a sneak peek of doorbuster deals at the popular holiday shopping spot. Continue Reading

Footage from a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film premiere has had the Internet buzzing about the possibility of time travel, but it appears it isn’t what it seems. Continue Reading

Tons of comic and science fiction fans were likely disappointed on Monday when technical issues on the Comic Con International 2011 web site led to the re-scheduling of ticket sales.  Continue Reading

Ozmodchips went to court Friday in Austraila and lost the battle so the ban on the PS jailbreak will be made permanent. This is a big blow to Ozmodchips as they were praying that the ban would be lifted.

Gamers worldwide are disappointed at the decision of the Austraila court, they were also praying that the ban would be lifted. Sony, on the other hand, is very pleased with the decision. Sony has had to learn the hard way that their products are prone to hacks.

What the OzModChips did was allow the gamer to bypass security and download games to the hard drive.  This circumvented protocols in place to ensure that people didn’t share or illegally download games.

By saving games directly to the hard drive, someone could purchase a game and using the device copy it to an infinite number of devices.  This would significantly impact profit.

Host Jimmy Fallon will help modernize the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards by welcoming public comments via Twitter about the TV ceremony’s presenters – such as Tina Fey, Matthew Morrison, Neil Patrick Harris, Betty White, Matthew Perry, Jim Parsons, Jon Hamm – for Sunday’s Emmy Awards. Continue Reading

Diaspora, the Anti-Facebook is set to debut September 15 according to reports. The site calls itself “privacy aware” and “self-controlled.”  The site will likely gain popularity with those who are weary of Facebook’s lack of privacy. (And blatant disregard for privacy concerns by the site’s leader.)

The founders of Diaspora, the Anti-Facebook tried to raise $10,000 to launch the site.  When they looked for funding, they received over $200,000 from 6,500 different people.

The site will be open-source which allows people to see the sites code and modify it. 

Despite the excitement over the site’s launch, it still faces plenty of hurdles.  Facebook is second in traffic only to Google and there are hundreds of millions of users who log on to the site each and every day.

Are you going to join Diaspora, the Anti-Facebook?

Google’s Orkut was an answer to – and never really took off in the US.  However, Google’s Orkut was popular in India and Brazil.  Unfortunately for the social networking site, Facebook traffic in India has now surpassed that of Google’s baby.

Orkut has 19.9 million users in India, and now Facebook’s popularity in the country has leapt by 200% to 20.9 million – dethroning Orkut as the most popular social networking site.

In other Google news, Google voice calls from Gmail was launched, which is a very cool feature. Calls within the US are free, and international rates are very, very low.

Google’s official gmail blog said the following:

Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.

However, please note that US calls are free – “at least until the end of the year” which smells to me like a teaser rate. Be prepared for Google to charge for domestic calls in the future, although rates will likely be lower than using a regular landline telephone.