Tech News Journal

Google has unveiled a new tool under the search engine’s umbrella, Google Calendar. The shareable calendar service expands from traditional uses to include creating invitations and tracking responses, Gmail integration (where a user can access the calendar without leaving their inbox a nd Gmail automatically recognize events mentioned within a message), receiving event reminders on […]

There are thousands of new social networking sites popping up everyday for teens, 20-30 somethings, online singles etc., however, Internet savvy moms and dads have pretty much been left out of the mix…What’s available to mom and dad and the new little bundle of joy?
Busy parents are now going online to track their baby’s youth […]

ABF software, Inc. today announces the release of version 2.0 of ABF Outlook Express Backup, also known as ABF OE Backup. Most everyone using Outlook Express has experienced the sufferings and pain that comes from a message that have been deleted by mistake or lost due to a software corruption or a virus assault. Instead […]

It’s a fight for cell phone chicness.
The summer’s hottest new do-everything mobile phones are going after two demanding segments of the connected set. And after using both devices for a few weeks, I’m hard-pressed to pick a winner.
Both the Motorola Q from Verizon ($199 with a two-year contract) and the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 ($299 with […]

Yahoo has greatly enhanced its messaging system with a telephone interface. Yahoo Messenger with Voice lets users dial out traditional or mobile phones. For $2.99 per month or $29.90 per year, users can also get a phone number from Yahoo that lets them receive phone calls through the IM interface. Calls made to phone numbers […]

The newest version of ScheduleVIEW™ appointment scheduling software, ScheduleVIEW PLUS, has been developed to synchronize with all the latest versions of QuickBooks. By using this appointment scheduling software , offices can now keep computerized appointment records and share them with QuickBooks for more efficient customer billing and recordkeeping.
“QuickBooks and ScheduleVIEW are both committed to […]

Everybody has seen those so-called thumb drives that use flash memory that plugs into a computer’s USB port to move files back and forth. Now they’ve gone fashion consciopus. A company called Kingmax is making flashdrive earrings. There’s no cost yet and so far they’ve been showed only at trade shows but the drive is […]

Gateway computer has jumped into the new ultraportable computer market with a tiny machine that weighs just over 3 pounds, is less than an inch thick and comes with a 12.1 inch screen, built-in Wi-Fi and an external DVD R/W screen. The just-introduced NX100X sells for $1,399 and comes with a 40 GB hard drive […]

The controversial success of online teen hangout and social networking sites like MySpace.com has prompted a rival site - where.com, where users set up a free account, create a profile, and begin chatting with friends and sending pictures from their cell. Within seconds the picture will be uploaded to the site, and other friends […]

Online photo-sharing service PhotoSite announced today that it has launched a
new product called PhotoSafe to give members the ability to conveniently and securely store their digital photos online.
While an increasing number of people store images on computer hard drives, CDs and removable media, thinking that it’s the best way to keep them safe, the reality […]

You gotta hand it to the free Skype Inernet telephone calling service.
They sure know how to market.
Skype and SanDisk have annunced a deal in which Skype will now come pre-loaded on the SanDisk Cruzer Micro and Cruzer Titanium lines of those little flash memory thumb drives. That means Skype users can take their personal […]

Ever laugh at the birds in your backyard feeder?
Now you can share it with a new Web site called CrazyBirdVideos.com that has silly videos of birds: a mockumentary of birds taking over, birds swarming in St. Peter’s Square in Venice, birds imitating humans, and birds chasing people on the Santa Monica pier. Some videos are […]

Spirit, Axion Racing’s autonomous Jeep Grand Cherokee, is the first unmanned vehicle to drive itself to the summit of Pikes Peak. The vehicle drove without human interaction or remote control. This is the first time an autonomous vehicle has completed the same course used annually by human drivers participating in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb […]

EBay sellers with established reputations can expect about 8 percent more revenue than new sellers marketing the same goods, a new University of Michigan study shows.
“People with good reputations are rewarded and people with no reputations are not trusted as well as people who have established reputations,” said Paul Resnick, professor in the U-M […]

At the back end of the executive briefing center on the sprawling Microsoft Corp. main campus is a prototype of what the world’s most powerful technology company thinks a home may look like in ten years.
It’s a showcase, really, of the latest high tech services and gizmos, a best guess at the way we’ll incorporate […]