Tag: BTSNEWS

Slacker must have figured our jetsetter friends at Gadling needed some more tunes for their travels, because it hooked them up with an early review unit of the new Slacker G2 Wi-Fi radio. Nothing much has changed about the Slacker service, which basically auto-downloads your choice of pre-programmed channels to the 4 or 8GB or internal storage over Wi-Fi (you can get on Wayport and AT&T ...

It's hard to find similarities across any random selection of college students, with each having different backgrounds, goals, and preferred alcoholic beverages. There is, however, one commonality: cell phones. A study at the University of Kentucky recently found that 98.2-percent of UK students had cell phones that they relied on for their primary means of communication, findings that have ...

If you can't beat em'...let them use their cell phones in class. Teachers, who have obviously realized that cell phones are as ubiquitous in schools as paper and pencils, are beginning to use the ubiquitous devices as educational tools. According to a Pew Research Center survey, approximately 71-percent of teens who responded to the survey own cell phones. Teachers are using the cell phones ...

The Web is filled with crappily organized sites that sell supposedly humorous T-shirts. So how do you find just the right shirt with a poor attempt at irony on the front? Check out PleaseDressMe, a search engine that digs through the inventory of sites such as Threadless and BustedTees. PleaseDressMe lets you perform text searches of the descriptions, as well as browse by tag, size, and price. ...

Everyone has a favorite band. What if you could actually support that band. We know, you support them by paying hard-earned money to buy their music and to see them when they're on tour. But what if you could literally help them make their next album. Intrigued? We thought so. A new Web site backed by the executives responsible for acts like Kaiser Chiefs and Primal Scream will allow fans to ...

Everybody knows that cyber-bullying (when someone goes out of their way to be a jerk online, a.k.a. 'griefing') is terrifically irritating. It's behavior that many gamers, particularly those in the online virtual world 'Second Life,' have turned into something of a degenerate art form. But is it a threat to our health? Yes, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC has elevated ...

Worried about your girlfriend, wife, or mom seeing all the dirty stuff you check out online? Well, fear not, perv, as Microsoft's 8th edition of Internet Explorer (IE) will include a feature that lets you surf the Web without a trace of what you checked out. The new tool, called InPrivate Browsing, will debut later this month in the second Beta version of IE 8. When you, um, turn this feature ...

In what may be most promising portable music sharing application to date, Simplify Media -- available now for iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store -- lets users stream their friends iTunes libraries from any broadband Internet connection, making storage capacity something of a non-issue. Like its sister apps for Mac, Linux, and Windows, the program lets users stream songs and playlists from ...

Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are breaking down barriers between teachers and students, and, predictably, not everyone is happy about it. While many teachers are thrilled with the connections they're able to form with students outside of the classroom on the site, they also admit there is a fine line they must walk. A flurry of student-teacher sexual relationships has set off ...

Do your professors twitter? Do they blog, or even e-mail? Professor Dave Parry from the University of Texas at Dallas does all of the above. Now, after twittering to solicit some ideas for taking one of his classes online, Parry is taking things a step further by opening up the seminar to (almost) anyone who wants to join in, free of cost -- assuming his school goes along with it. Online classes ...

A clever name, a clever design and a solid premise -- now, if only we didn't see a set of front and rear pegs along with Dave Mirra grinding down a stairwell each time we looked at it, we could actually take this thing seriously. Unfortunately for our childish hopes, Ultra Motors' A2B electric bike actually won't be used in the next X-Games, but it may just get you to and from your downtown ...

Twitter's popularity has soared recently, and, of course, this has caused spammers to flock to the service like right wing radio hosts to a fiery black preacher. Twitter has plenty of problems of its own with out having to worry about spammy posters ruining the party for everyone else. One of the most common techniques used by spammers to rack up a significant number of followers -- folks who ...

A new application available from the iTunes App Store promises to turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful tool. DataCase transforms your Apple mobile device into a wireless networked hard drive that can be accessed from any Wi-Fi equipped computer, whether it runs OS X, Windows, or Linux. DataCase is $6.99 and, once activated, allows other PCs on your wireless network to access two ...

Usually walls are used to keep things out, you know, like the wind, or bugs, or barbarian invaders. Ironic, then, that Facebook's iconic Wall, the thing that helped to set it apart from MySpace and grab a huge share of the online social networking space, is actually being used by some to spread malicious software capable of turning your machine into a zombie, so that others with bad intents can ...

Ever sat there and looked at the webcam in your laptop wondering if maybe someone, somewhere was, you know, watching you? Chances are that's just you being paranoid, but for a few unfortunate female students in Florida who relied on a supposed friend to fix their laptop computers, such fears were well-founded. Their no-fee technician, 23-year-old Craig Matthew Feigin, not only fixed the problems ...