Tag: VOLCANO

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... Microsot's next generation Internet Explorer Beta 9 browser pulled off a very respectable two million downloads in its first two days. [From: The Next Web] Ez Texting is suing T-Mobile after the cell phone provider blocked text messages from Ez Texting's WeedMaps, an online listing of marijuana retailers. [From: New York Times] A ...

The Icelandic volcano that froze European air traffic this year may have disrupted vacations and business meetings for anyone traveling within or through the continent, but it certainly didn't keep one British man from marrying his Australian girlfriend... on Skype. Sean Murtagh, from west London, and Australian Natalie Mead had already been officially married in Brisbane, Australia, but were ...

If you're like us, surfing news sites can feel a little constricting. Sure, you'll probably get three pages of text describing some global happening or another, exactly as it happens, but you only get a tiny little thumbnail of a picture to squint at -- and that's if you're lucky. It's for this reason we absolutely love Boston Globe's new feature, Big Picture. It's just a collection of large, ...