We all don’t like those 240p videos we sometimes find on YouTube, but with a nearly finalized purchase of Green Parrot Pictures, a digital video company that specializes in improving picture quality in videos, it looks like we’ll have a lot more better quality videos coming our way! More »

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Samsung has recently announced that they will launch 3D video streaming service in Korea soon, and later in the rest of the world, such as the US and Europe. Samsung has partnered with DreamWorks Animation and they will provide high-quality 3D movies like Shrek, Megamind etc, but first they will kick off the service with movie trailers, music videos and children’s education films. More »

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mySecretMenu will be a fun guide the next time you visit any popular food/drink chain. It provides you with the known orders and combinations for items that aren’t generally listed on the menu you see in the store, also known as the secret menu. Whip it out to try something new that you haven’t before at a place you thought you tried everything at. More »

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- Twitter adds a “always use HTTPS” for an extra level of security to protect you from Wi-Fi-traveling hackers.

- This review of the iPad 2 Smart Cover is informative that it does live up to its cool concept, though greasy lines aren’t that fun. More »

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We all knew that this was eventually going to happen. With the advent of the internet, websites and, ultimately, news sites, the inevitable decline in newspaper sales and other paper news mediums began. It’s only now, however, that internet news is overtaking traditional paper news in popularity. More »

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Studies show that if your child watches a lot of TV at a very young age, he or she will be more prone to using the Internet. In general, younger kids have been using all sorts of digital devices more and more starting from a very early age. For most children, it’s usually just TV and cell phones. Especially for kids between the ages of 1 and 5. It’s scary how high the bar graph is. More »

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According to the managing director of Nokia India, d. Shivakumar, Nokia is working on releasing it’s first line of Windows Phone smartphones via a 12-month timeline. The 2012 release date will likely mean that the phones will be running the new Windows 7, aka Mango, which is to become available to manafacturers late this year. Shivakumar said that the Nokia-Microsoft partnership will bring life back to the fledgling smartphone OS, which only made up 3% of the total sales of smartphones at the end of 2010. Nokia’s Symbian smartphones held a strong 31% during that same period of time. More »

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Not sure if you’ve heard or even care but at the recent HP Summit press event the CEO of HP, Leo Apotheker, spilled some of the details on their projects. Some of these details being: More »

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Microsoft’s direct effort to challenge Apple’s iPod, introduced in 2006 under the Zune brand, is being abandoned after a failure to gain traction in the market. According to a report by Bloomberg, Microsoft will stop making new models of it’s media player brand, Zune, and instead focus on incorporating its music store and software into their mobile phones. More »

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One thing you can surely never have enough of is storage space. In the early days, computers not only had a limited amount of hard drive space, but they also were very clunky and big. Nowadays, we have flash drives and laptops that can store gigabytes of memory without a problem at all. Lexar is taking the next step now with the release of their 64GB and 128GB SDXC memory cards! More »

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With the release of iPad2, many people purchased one while still in possession of the first iPad. As an option for what to do with this now unused iPad, Apple has opened a link on their website in which people interested can find an Apple retail store nearby and donate their device through Teach for America to schools in low-income communities who need them. More »

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From Rekuru: Yes, somebody paid approximately $4675 dollars to ride Japan’s new bullet train. That’s around 23 times the original price. That’s crazy. Yeah, the premium class cabins look nice and comfy, but is it really worth $4,675 dollars? I could do so much with that money - but this person decided to use it to ride the new bullet train. I really wonder what he was thinking as he paid for his ticket. Or maybe he just has too much money on his hands. More »

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have recently created a microscopic camera with Awaiba, an image sensor company. The substrate with a layer of image sensors plus a lens layer give the camera a total size of only 1×1x1mm. More »

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I’m sure you’ve heard the ol’ saying “There’s an app for that”, but in having so many specific apps I’m sure that there are many that we could live without or are just plain stupid that makes you think “why do we even have this?” More »

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Japanese provider NTT Docomo has recently announced that customers can request the capability to remove SIM lock from any new Docomo device purchased after April 1st, 2011. Customers will be able to use their unlocked devices on other operators’ mobile networks by switching SIM cards, for example to use their Docomo handset overseas. More »

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