Amazon.com

Amazon.com is trying to boost their DVD sales, by upgrading their sales with a new system called, 'Disc Plus On Demand'. Now when costumers purchase a DVD they now have the option to instantly watch the film via Amazon.com's on demand service for your mac or PC, or they can have it sent to their tivo. The new upgrade only applies to a small portion of their DVD collection, only 300 of their 330,000 DVDs are available for the upgrade. Specialists are still unsure about the results of the upgrade, but if there is a positive result you can expect this to become a standard for all DVD purchases.

Top Gadget of the Year

Verizon's Droid, as been voted THE top gadget of the year. The judges chose the Driod over the iPhone specifically because of Verizon's amazing network coverage. along with the reasons of the phones visible 4D keyboard.

Black Friday

This year, there were less injuries and no death's. But the increase in sales went up according to all major retailers. The sales only increased a little over 3% but they reached up to 3.2 billion dollars. Analysts say that it's because of the recession that caused this increase as families focused on these door busting deal to save money.

The World's First Commercial Space Ship.

Titled the 'Virgin Galactic', is the world's first commercial spaceship. Being lifted up to 65 miles above the earth, passengers will be able to experience up to 5 minutes of a zero gravity experience, for the inexpensive price of $200,000. The space ship is said to unveiled on 8:30 PM in the Mohave Desert.

Crunch Pad

Tech crunches Michael Arrington has backed out of production on his ambitious $200 tab, the 'Crunch Pad', still did not production. Now being released and renamed as JooJoo, the device has a 12.1 touch screen and boosts directly to a web browser using internet access via wifi. Since Arrington backed out of the production, his dream of having an affordable touch pad is no more. The JooJoo is now going to on sale for $500.

Facebook

Facebook is now updating their privacy features, now allowing users will have more control over their privacy settings. The changes were announced in an open letter to all facebook users from CEO Mark Zukerburg. The letter said that users will now be able to privatize their profile on a post by post basis, so you don't have to share information with anyone that you don't want to.

New laws in the UK

The UK has just announced that users frequently caught illegally downloading copyrighted materials (music, t.v. shows, movies, etc.) will be forced to pay a fine of 50,000 pounds, which is equivalent to $80,000 US currency. The bill also includes a 3 strike rule if the user continues downloading material they could have their complete household internet access suspended.

IBM

IBM has now attempted to simulate a cat brain , using 47,456 processors and 144 terabytes of ram, the teams computerized cat brain called blu matter unfortunately runs 86 times slower than an actual cat brain. At this rate IBM expects to have a computerized human brain by 2018, these studies are hopeful to further understanding how the brain works and to help computers learn from real world environments and interacting like they are actual beings.

DVD2BLU

Warner company has a new website which allows users to mail in their used DVDs for a small price of $7.95 in return for a blu ray copy of that movie, free.

Automatic Captioning

Youtube, has now added a new feature that automatically captions any video uploaded to the site. All you have to do is click the "Enable Captions" button at the bottom of the video. This is obviously helpful to the hearing impaired and to help understand videos in other languages.

AOL

AOL has now asked 2,500 employees to voluntarily quit their jobs. The company is restructuring, and now anyone that volunteers will get a larger sufferance package, than anyone who stays, or who is later laid off. And because of this downsize AOL is also selling off MapQuest to Microsoft.

Chrome OS

Google is releasing a new gadget called the Chrome OS, it's a new computer is predicted to take over the inexpensive desktop/laptop market. It has a 7 second boot time, since all of the data is stored in the "magical google cloud".

Modern warfare 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 just made history, in one day the game sold over 4.7 million copies. Making it the fastest selling video game and one of the biggest entertainment launches EVER. It easily beat Grand Left Auto's wimpy record of 3.7 million copies sold in one day.

Twitter

There is now a mobile device devoted to twitter, the twitterpeak. It's a slim handheld device that posts, reads and replies to tweets. Only for $99 and an $8 monthly subscription fee. EVEN THOUGH most smart phones can do the exact same thing...

Facebook memorials?

Facebook has now set up a feature for the dead. If you pass away and your family and friends request it, facebook will now remember your profile information, resulting in cosmetic and functional changes to the deceased profile. The account will be locked allowing no one to sign on to it, and only the dead users confirmed friends will be able to search them on facebook. The site will also set up status updates and contact information.

The Droid

Is coming! On November 6, 2009 Verizon is finally releasing the Droid. On sale for $200 it comes with a 3.7 inch touch screen, and 5 mega pixel camera and wifi. It is the first phone developed wit google maps giving you turn by turn directions to your destination.

Nasa

Is bombing the moon, after discovering a small amount of water they are now sending a rocket the the core, in the hopes of finding more water. And if you have at least a 10 inch telescope you will be able to see the impact happening.

Music

Some of your favorite music videos will FINALLY be allowed back on youtube. Warner Music Group is working up a deal with Youtube to allow music videos from artists like Green Day Metallica and Gnarles Barkley back on the Youtube.

Cyborg Beetles

The U.S. government is now designing cyborg beetles, funded by DARPA. These are beetles that are controlled with a remote, allowing you to control their movement, steering them, left, right, up, and down. Scientists as S.C. Burkley have wired beetles with tiny electrodes, controlling their every move.

Copycatters

Microsoft is starting their own retail stores, resembling mac. Including, them having their own genius bars or in PC terms, a "guroo bar". Now they are poaching the apple stores employees too, Loopinsite.com is saying that they have tracked down and hired many of the apple stores, store managers and sales people. They have been reportedly tempting apple employees with sizable raises and advances. And even paid moving expenses to make the leap.

Restrictions

The Chairman of the FCC has proposed a new net neutrality rules, restricting internet service providers from capping or blocking content. The major internet providers like Time Warner and AT&T, have tried to slow internet downloading speed, to keep consumers from watching T.V. over the internet, and keeping their cable instead.

Tablet Computers

The first next generation tablet computers has been announced, with a 10.2 or a 13.3 inch screen. It is either controlled by a small remote or a touch screen buttons. This has been announced by HP NOT Apple. It runs custom HP software allowing you to share music, pictures and a limited variety 0f websites. Costing only $250.

Left for Dead 2

The new video game "Left for Dead 2" is officially ban in Australia. They deemed the game too violent by the Australian Classifications board. They claim that the game was denied because the violence was too gruesome towards humans with a rabies like virus and isn't suitable for anyone under the age of 18, it is now illegal to sell the game anywhere in the country.

Julis Andreas Gimli Arn Macgyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankova

Is the longest nerd name together. This bus driver from norway put together his new name from pop culture references, not realizing he spelled Chewbacka wrong. But he says as long as it makes people think of "Starwars" he's cool with it.

Now with iTunes 9 with the home sharing device you can view ANY computer in your networks itunes library and simply drag and drop the songs you want into your library, a quick easy way to stream music.

Family Guy

Has recently received 179,999 FCC complaints in 1 episode. This is the largest number in history, this reported episode is said to have contained, Bestiality, Gay orgies, and babies eating sperm. It is said that the Parents Television Council encouraged parents to report Family Guy, attempting to get the show off of the air.

Technical Difficulties?!

Apple has recently announced that due to technical difficulties with the new iPod Nano with a camera feature is going to be postponed due to glitches with the camera.

Apple

Is still working out the kinks in their new MMS feature. They have announced that first generation iPhones will not have the new MMS feature, it is only for the newer versions of the iPhone. D:

September 25

iPhones in the U.S. will finally be able to send picture and video messages via MMS. Even though AT&T promised to have MMS messaging on the iPhone 3g before the summer ended, they are missing their deadline by 3 days. But hey, better late than never.

Youtube rents movies?

There are rumors that Youtube is working out a deal with major movie studios, like MGM. Warners, and Sony to allow users to rent movies on Youtube.