Tech bytes for Aug. 25

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

Apple announces "special event" - Apple sent out invites today for a special event to take place on Sept. 1 in San Francisco. The company is expected to announce an updated Apple TV and new iPods. What about news on ...

Facebook launches check-in feature, how to disable it?

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

Yesterday Facebook announced a new feature named "Places", a service that allows you to check-in to locations, similar to Foursquare and Gowalla. If you enjoy allowing your friends on Facebook to know when you are checking in at the local ...

Most of your e-mail is spam, awesome work prank, Twitter parody

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

Spam in your inbox! Looking at the state of my inbox right now, this is no surprise. According to a new report from Symantec, "92-percent of all e-mails sent across the Web today consist of spam, up from 89-percent one ...

Students know Word and Excel, free WiFi at Sam's club and laser backpacks!

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

These folks know how to Excel Who knew such a contest existed? More than 115,000 people (mostly students) entered the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office. The top contenders competed this week in Park City, Utah. The winners in each of ...

Dell's Streak, Verizon announces Droid 2, and Google in the news

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

Droid 2 announced Verizon has officially announced the launch of their latest Android-based phone, the Droid 2. You can get a Droid 2 tomorrow, when it will be available for pre-sale at Verizon Wireless. Or if you can stand it, ...

Tech bytes: Sharpie pencil, Droid 2 spotted, 12-Core Mac Pro orders

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

Tech news for the day: 12-Core Mac Pro available to order - The Apple Store is now accepting orders for the latest addition to the Mac Pro lineup. Prices start at $4,999 for two 2.66GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” processors, ...

Tech bytes: Arcade Fire live, Twitter status down and keyboard throw

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

Here's the latest in tech news today: Twitter has been having some issues this afternoon. The Twitter status blog shows the following message: We’re currently experiencing a high error rate on Twitter. Our infrastructure and operations engineers are responding to ...