The new year has just begun and if 2008 is anything like 2007, we should expect a bunch of acquisitions in the tech world.  As I heard someone say recently, acquisitions should be considered the lottery for geeks, except the odds of "winning" are much higher than the actual lottery. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have been swiping up start-up after

Now that people have had time to settle down from the MacWorld event this morning we thought we would take a look at some of the buzz from around the Internet. We'll checkout the new iPhone firmware, show a video of the new MacBook Air, and give our opinion on the video rentals.

Overall, I would have to say that the keynote was rather disappointing. There was no "one more thing" this time around,

When using your web browser there are a lot of things that you can do to speed up your efficiency and productivity, particularly when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. Thanks to a comment by Inferno_str1ke it struck me that some people may not realize the different ways you can make their browser open websites in a new tab. His comment sparked some "thank you's" from other

Everyday we get thousands of spam trackbacks, pingbacks, and comments here on our site. Since we're powered by WordPress we use an amazing plugin called Akismet that stops spammers cold in their tracks. It wasn't until the other day that I realized how crazy it would be if there were little or no spam protection on all the blogs out there.

I ventured over to

A lot of sites decided to go the Twitter route this year for providing fast updates to their readers who wanted to keep up wit Macworld. The excess traffic must have caused an overload because ironically, Twitter has been down (they weren't the only ones either... Engadget was crawling!). For those of you who tried to follow Macworld and couldn't get the complete details, we've got the full scoop..

All rumors can be put to

The Steve Jobs keynote will be starting shortly out in San Francisco at the Mascone Center West at Macworld 2008. We'll have a complete round-up after it's over, but if you'd like to keep up with what's going on live, Engadget will be posting that coverage. While you're waiting for it to start, checkout the video below with past bloopers! As the video shows, anything can happen...

Ten years is a long time to wait for a follow-up customer service call, wouldn't you say? A few people are calling the following story a hoax, but there's certainly the chance that it's not. If it's true, Microsoft recently made a follow-up call to see if a caller's problem had been resolved, only it was 10 years late. A whole decade!