The Beatles. Citizen Kane. Muhammad Ali. Many have laid claim to being the “best ever” in their respective fields of work, but only one can top the list. And the same is true when it comes to technology.
So what’s the best tech product to come out of the digital age? And what qualifies a product as being “best”? First and foremost, it must be a quality product. In many cases, that means a piece of hardware or software that has truly changed our lives and that we can’t live without (or couldn’t at the time it debuted). Beyond that, a product should have attained a certain level of popularity, had staying power, and perhaps made some sort of breakthrough, influencing the development of later products of its ilk.
Read the more »
Tags: internet, people, People, beatles, breakthrough, citizen kane, citizen-kane, cotton gin, cotton-gin, dawn, ilk, likelihood, muhammad ali, muhammad-ali, pc world, pc-world, personal computer, personal-computer, staying power, staying-power, transistor radio, transistor-radio | No Comments »
FBI investigators have visited Second Life’s Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world’s creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling.
“We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and we know of at least one instance that federal agents did look around in a virtual casino,” said Ginsu Yoon, until recently Linden Lab’s general counsel and currently vice president for business affairs.
Read the more »
Tags: internet, people, Gaming, People, business affairs, business-affairs, casino owners, casino-owners, crackdown, economy, fbi, gaming activity, gaming-activity, general counsel, general-counsel, ginsu, internet casinos, internet-casinos, likelihood, northern california, northern-california, offshore gambling, offshore-gambling, poker casinos, poker-casinos, second life, second-life, slot machines, slot-machines, virtual casino, virtual gaming, virtual-casino, virtual-gaming | No Comments »
No, we haven’t been spending our spare time playing with the Apple Rumor Generator — this latest batch of Apple rumors comes to us fresh off the Internets, from some sources of varying reliableness. Read the more »
Tags: laptops, iPhone, Business, Apple, apparently, apple, apple rumors, apple-rumors, appleinsider, blackberry, blogger, business, business week, business-week, cingular, coincide, engadget, inevitably, iphone, ipods, launch, likelihood, mac os x leopard, mac-os-x-leopard, nand flash memory, nand-flash-memory, notebook, receipt, sprint, supposedly | No Comments »
