Motorola Droid Shadow

Gizmodo has once again found another left behind phone prototype, only this time they say the cops will not be involved. The phone is the Droid Shadow, which is said will be the Droid 2. It will be exclusive to Verizon, just like the Droid. It will have a 4.3 inch screen and an 8 megapixel camera that shoots in 720p.

Pirate Bay Blackout

The BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, which has been a foe to movie studios for years, was offline on Monday. The reason being that movie studios won an injunction for the site's bandwidth provider to stop servicing the site. Pirate is currently looking for anew host. This is the third host that it has lost in the past couple of years.

More Facebook Privacy Changes

After lots of complaints about Facebook and its current privacy settings, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, has announced they will be modifying the privacy settings on the site. He promises the settings will be easier to use and understand, and that they will not sell your information to ocmpanies

Pocket Fan For IPhones

The company HMB_Tec has created a gadget for the Iphone, that is a functioning fan that connects to the headphones socket on the phone. The company predicts it will be a hit for the upcoming 2010 summer heat wave.

Flying Car Soon to be Released

The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), in association with the department of defense is getting ready to launch a new flying car for soldiers in the field. If it succeeds, the car will be able to seat four, cruise in the air like an airplane, drive on the ground like an SUV, go 250 miles on one tank of gas, and it wouldn't require a runway to get airborne. Proposals for a prototype are being accepted starting May 27.

MIcrosoft Reveals New Phones

Microsoft revealed the meaning of their secret "Project Pink." They announced that they are coming out with two new phones called Kin One and Kin Two. They are said to be very different form the upcoming Windows Phone 7, and are based on social media. They will run a Zune-like browser and will support Zune programs. A major turn off for many people though is that the phones will have no third party application support.

Conan Returns to Late Night

Conan O'Brien has recently struck a deal for his own late night talk show beginning at 11 PM on TBS. After several months of negotiations with FOX, he finally decided to go with the cable network instead due to reservations from local FOX affiliates. Conan will be squaring off with other big cable late night shows such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Initially Conan and his people were cautious to join TBS at 11 PM, because another show was already filling its spot, The George Lopez Show. As you might have guessed, Conan was not eager to push another late night host of of their time slot, but Lopez himself gave O'Brien his blessing and practically sealed the deal. Conan's new show is expected to air around November.

TBS's promo for the show can be seen here:
http://www.tbs.com/video/index.jsp?oid=214157&eref=sharethisUrl

Swag Bucks

A website called swagbucks.com rewards you for searches you use on its site. The site is free, and rewards you if you use it as a search engine as opposed to using Google. For eveyr search you do, you can earn "swag bucks" which are redeemable on the site for prizes ranging from DVDs and electronics to amazon gift cards.

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Dotcom is 25

25 years ago was the first time "dotcom" was added to the end of the internet address. Five years later fiv eother companies added dotcom to the ends of their addresses, and by 1990 there were one million web addresses ending in dotcom. Happy birthday .com!

Australia Top 3 Biggest Internet Censors

Australia has been listed among the top three countries that censor their citizens internet viewing right up against North Korea and Iran. Recently they have proposed legislature to further restrict public internet access to many sites, which are debatable whether they should be restricted or not. Other countries are looking down on Australia for this, saying that they are "Enemies of the Internet"

Einstein Theory Confirmed

After new studies, Einstein's theory of relativity has officially been confirmed. His theory was based around how gravity works outside of our galaxy. This conformation of his theory has thrown out competing theories that would rule out ideas like dark matter and dark energy. However, it would appear that those things do exist now that the theory of relativity is a real fact.

Google Adds Bike Directions

Google Maps has added directions for bikes, adding on to their car maps features. It took Google six months to map out the bikes lanes and all the roads that include them. Its said it will make living in busy cities where not everyone has a car much easier.

Microsoft Wants to Charge Internet Usage Tax

Microsoft has been plagued with viruses and hacker problems for many years now. No matter how much they try, the problem still persists. Their new solution to this problem is to get more funding...from their customers. Microsoft wants to use new tactics like quarantining and inspecting suspected hackers. They've already spent millions on trying to fight the hacker problem, and they think something like an internet usage tax will be the perfect way to get them more money to solve the problem.

Young Girl Accidentally Kills Herself

A three year old girl in Wilson County accidentally shot herself on Sunday night. her father had left a semi-automatic gun on the counter and the girl supposedly mistook it for a Wii controller. She shot herself in the abdomen and was fatally wounded. As of now, no charges have been filed.

Hulu Pay-Only on the IPad

Although Hulu is free for users on the web, it appears that Ipad users will require a subscription to use it. Sources say that Hulu has been looking for a way to make profit for some time now, and this may eb the answer. Hulu runs on flash, so they are creating non-flash operated version of the site for the Ipad, which will defintiely cost them money they hope to get back wiht subscriptions.

Apple Sues HTC

Apple is suing HTC over supposed iphone patent violations. HTC is the manufacturer of the Nexus One. The company says the heard of the lawsuits from the media, and they are surprised that apple wouldbe suing them over such a thing. Steve Jobs responded by saying that they had a right to not just sit and watch as people steal their inventions.

The Military is Now Allowed to Use Twitter

The U.S. military has officially given the to members of the military to use social networking websites such as facebook, twitter, youtube, and other sites. In the past, they were not allowed to use them, and even now they are restricted to only using the sites on non classified military computers and they are only allwoed on certain sites. The are not allowed to visit sites that promote gambling, pornography, or hate crimes.

Apple Found Using Child Labor and Contaminating Workers

Apple admitted recently to cases in its factory where child labor has been used in its factories in China. Since then, the workers have been fired and say they are now reviewing employment contracts and regulating factories more closely to prevent this in the future.

Also in one of its factories in China that more than 62 workers were exposed to a toxic chemical called n-hexane that causes blurred eyesight and muscle degeneration. Most of the infected workers have returned to their jobs but some are still in the hospital.

Greenpeace Scolds Facebook

Greenpeace made a complaint to Facebook about its data server now located in Oregon running on coal. They said that it is vital for big companies like Facebook to start converting to renewable energy sources, instead of continuing to pollute.

However, Facebook replied to this complaint by explaining that in Oregon's cooler climates, they dont need to use fans and cooling systems which uses less energy than running them somewhere else on renewable enrgy sources. Most experts agree with Facebook and say that Greenpeace si being a little too harsh.

Japanese Create "Elastic Water"

At Tokyo University scientists have revealed a new substance called elastic water. Its made of 95% water, along with clay and a number of other organic materials. The substance looks like jelly, but it is strong and malleable. People are saying this could be a great alternative to plastic because its less damaging to the Earth and works just as good.

Government Uses Odd Methods to Fight Wars

It has been found that over the past three years the Pentagon has spent over $15.5 billion funding research to combat IEDs (improvised explosive devices.) IEDs are one of the biggest struggles the military deals with in wars, and it is extremely difficult to defeat them. So, the government is funding new and curious ways to fight them, including using robots, lasrs, chemical detectors, and even specially trained bees.

Farmville Is World's Biggest Video Game

Farmville has become the world's largest video game with over 20 million active users. That's more people than use twitter and the entire population of the United Kingdom. Zynga, the company who runs Farmville form San Francisco is said to make over $ 150 million a year from Farmville and other games and applications they own.

School Spy on Students

A school in surburban Philadelphia was caught activating the cameras in school issued laptops used to spy on the students at home and at school. The school said the feature was originally activated to monitor thefts of laptops. Students were outraged and put tape over the cameras and microphones. Since the discovery the spying has stopped.

"Please Rob Me" Website

A new website has been created called "Please Rob Me" that tracks all location based updates from sites like Foursquare and Twitter, which allows people to see who is home, and who is not. Hopefully the upside to this site may be that people may become more aware of what they tweet about.

Man Smashes TVs in Walmart

Yesterday at a Walmart in Atlanta a man named Wesley Strellis walked into the electronics section of the store and began smashing flat screen televisions with a steel baseball bat. The other shoppers stood by and watched, before he finally put down the bat and was arrested, after destroying over 29 TVs. The man reportedly got the bat from the sporting goods section of the store, and destroyed over $22,000 worth of merchandise. Police are still not sure what prompted the outburst.

Solar Flares Interrupting GPS Signals

UK researches from Cornell say that the sun is heading into a new period where its solar flares will give off extra radiation and elevated surface activity. This isn't threatening our planet, but it will affect the transmitting between Earth's satellites and many GPS systems.

The interruptions they say should not be dangerous, but will ultimately result in triangulation errors.

iPad Interest is Low

Public interest in the iPad has shown to be very low. A study taken by an online marketplace did a survey and results showed that 61% said they did not have interest and did not need an iPad. Only 9% said they planned on getting one while other factors depended on the others purchasing one or not.

Google Develops Real-Time Translator

Google is in the process of developing a speech-to-speech translator for phones. This would allow a person to speak on the phone with someone who is speaking in a different language and the phone will translate it to your native tongue. The translator would let you set the translated language to whatever language you want, in real time, allowing you to have a normal paced conversation with someone who doesn't speak your language. The feature is said to be being developed for the Android.

Ticketmaster and Live Nation Merger

It's been announced by the Department of Justice that the ticketing companies Ticketmaster and Live nation will merge to make a new company called Live Nation Entertainment. However, the department of justice is putting strict conditions such as licensing their ticketing systems to other competitors, and not being able to retaliate against a venue should they go with another ticket provider, to maintain healthy competition.

Youtube Does Rentals

Youtube will be offering five films form the Sundance film festival for rental. Each movie will cost $3.99, and will be viewable for a 48 hour viewing period. Such films include the talked about documentary, The Cove. Youtube hopes that the success of this will encourage bigger studios to allow rentals of their own movies for Youtube.

The Kindle Soon to Have Apps

Amazon has announced that they will soon expand their e-readers to have their own app store, created by third party developers. Such apps may include things like text books with interactive quizzes, travel books, calculators, and even some games.

Apple Soon To Release New Tablet

Apple has announced that next week they will be having an invite only event where they are said to be revealing their long awaited tablet. The event will be in San Francisco on January 27th, where they have said they will be revealing their "latest creation." There's been no conformation over whether it is the tablet, but most are pretty sure it will be the tablet. people speculate there will be Iphone updates and OS updates as well revealed at the meeting.

Google Maps Helps With Haiti

Google Maps has recently been using its services to help with Haiti relief. Since the devastating earthquake has made it hard to see complete damage from the ground, Google Maps has been using its satellite images to help relief organizations assess the damage to the infrastructures of major buildings in order to help.

The "I'm With Coco" Rally First Account

I attended the "I'm with Coco" rally yesterday at NBC Universal along with an estimated 500 other supporters. The rally began at noon continuing on until 4 o'clock. Mike Mitchell, the creator of the "I'm With Coco" logo was there as well, and was giving out t shirts in different sizes to supporters. Despite the huge mob, (there are no such things as lines at Conan rallies) I managed to get a t shirt for me and my sister. The rally took place in some of the worst rain L.A. has seen in years, but us ralliers pressed on for a better cause. Many, if not most people's umbrellas were destroyed, and the radicals came out in swim wear and painted orange.People had banners and signs, and many chants were going around, some of which I started including, "We want Coco, Lenos' gotta go," "Who's wet, we're wet, we're all wet for Conan!" and of course shouts of his name and nicknames. many news outelts and people frmo sites such as TMz came out to interview and film the mob. People from funnyordie.com alos came out and did a fake fight between Asian Conan and Asian Leno. Around two hours after the rally started, cast and band member La Bamba greetd the crowd in a pope-mobile like car, and later came Tonight Show blogger Aaron Bleyart and writer Deon Cole. Towards the end, Conan came out and ran along side the protestors up the street, causing a stop in he traffic on the street. miraculously, as Conan ran with the crowd towards Gate 2 of Universal, the rian that had gone on for hours stopped, and everyone screamed and ran joyously. Tonight Show staff then came and rewarded the ralliers with pizza and drinks, while Conan gave a speech thanking everyone for all the support. The grand finale was Andy standing from a top a building on hte street giving a speech, and finally Conan at the edge of the roof waving with a large banner of his "I'm With Coco" logo hung on the building, and the crowd below.

Later that day the Tonight Show's blogger Aaron Bleyart blogged about the event and saying the firts 40 commentors and attendees of the event would receive "I'm wet for conan" buttons, which is sure to be a collectors Item in no time. Unfortunaterly, the future for Conan at the Tonight Show still looks grim, and the New York Post and TMZ report that this will be Conan's last week on television with NBC, but nothing has been confirmed. The fans and rallies knew this, but we all came out anyway. The general consensus was that even though Conan may be getting booted and we can't change that, its still incredibly important that we all came out and showed our support, and stuck it to NBC who didn't give him the chance and didn't believe in him.

For videos and more pictures of the rally, go to these links:

http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/18/live-conan-obrien-rally-protest-the-tonight-show-im-with-coco-nbc-jeff-zucker-supporters-facebook/

http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/18/conan-obrien-photo-picture-protest-nbc-jay-leno/

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/galleries/im_with_coco_-_conan_obrien_rally/%2072157623114797997 (I'm actually in one of these pictures! :D)

Netflix Extends to the Wii

Netflix has announced that they will be making their online movie streaming service to the Wii gaming console, much like the deals they have with the XBOX 360 and the PS3. It will be at no extra cost to those who already have a subscription through the movie service. All thye ahev to do is go online and request a disk, and insert it in the Wii every time they're tryign to stream a movie from the service.

Spiderman 4 Scrapped

Sony announced that the Sam Ramy Spiderman 4 starring Toby McGuire is canceled. The studio apparently was unhappy with the choice of the Vulture as the villain and the over plan for the film. The studio plans to start over the series, focusing more on Peter Parker as a teenager, with an unknown director and star

NBC Ruins Late Night

After a mere seven months of the Tonight Show being hosted by Conan O'Brien, NBC decided to breech their contract with the host signed six years ago to allow him to host the show in the 11:35 slot. Since The Tonight Show first aired in 1954, the show has aired in the 11:35 slot. Last year, Jay Leno stepped down from his post as host of the Tonight Show, handing it over to Conan as had been planned for many years. However, as NBC has been doing bad in the ratings and Leno consistently beta Letterman in the ratings in previous years, NBC felt they couldn't let go of him. So, they give him a talk show starting at 10 o'clock, before the 11 o'clock news, canceling and bumping many primetime shows that NBC already had in the time slot. After seven months of this new line-up, NBC received horrible ratings beginning at 10 o'clock when Leno's show airs. This also affected the rest of the line-up, including the news, the tonight show, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. As a result, NBC has decided that the only solution to solving the destruction that bringign Leno back to TV is, to give him a show in a better time slot. This is a breech of the $80 million contract that NBC signed with O'Brien in 2004. NBC's plan they proposed was that Leno would have a half hour show starting 11:35, and the Tonight Show would begin at 12:05. This left Conan with a few options after this betrayal: he could take his $80 million and leave television, take his show to another network where NBC would fill out his $20 million a year salary, or eat crow and take the 12:05 slot. Yesterday, O'Brien released a statement saying he would not continue doing the tonight show if it were to be moved to the 12:054 slot, saying he would not stand by and watch the destruction of the greatest program in broadcasting history. There is much talk about O'Brien taking his show to Fox if NBC stays with Leno, and Leno talking over the Tonight Show. No matter what happens, NBC has made a huge betrayal to the beloved host, forever tarnishes its reputation in integrity and excellence in late night.

Lost Premiere Delayed For Obama

It is rumored that the premiere of Lost's 6th and final season on February 2nd may be delayed due to a speech by President Obama on the health care bill. This has put fans into a panic, but it is said that he may wait to make his speech until negotiations for the bill have finished.