Gadgetory

Chief Ed zoom and bacon so much to learn so little time at two cute good day Internet I'm rich demuro with CNN TV and you are in the queue more tech than you can shake a mouse at oh stop your squirming for a sec and check out our must click moment the bus change the cheese grater the ThighMaster jockey hoping to score a viral touchdown with the new campaign urging americans to stop squirming the site featuring 30 popular squirms for guys and girls complete with flash video explanations I love it when companies coin new names for emerging technologies like when Verizon was unveiled I tell everyone it meant on the verge of a new horizon now sprint has zoom it's the new brand name for their WiMAX mobile internet wimax is 4g wireless broadband really superfast the service similar to Wi-Fi but it's more reliable since it uses a licensed part of the spectrum sprint working with major electronics makers to build zoom capabilities into devices like cell phones laptops and even digital cameras look for service starting in 2008 first there was spam and now legit companies are making bacon the latest silly net name comes from a brainstorm of tech geeks at a podcast camp in Pittsburgh yes the city key to the Industrial Revolution and ketchup now making a new name for itself as defining the side order we're seeing in our inbox every day bacon is middle class email you know the Facebook alerts twitter follow updates amazon recommendations the stuff we don't exactly have to read and it's not spam but you can live without it that makes sense on Entourage turtle prides himself on rare and expensive kicks you'd be hard-pressed to find on anyone else's feet now with nikeid you can throw away those plans to set up your own sweat shop no cutting fabric or stitching here just an easy-to-use website that lets you customize 19 different sporting goods including sneakers shirts and watches start with a blank slate or one of nike's pre-made templates then choose colors of everything from the tip airbag soul and swoosh you can even add cheeky sayings to the back of your left and rights 200 bucks in four weeks later anyone who really cares about this stuff will be jealous finally the beta Swahili is apparently all the rage these days when it comes to naming new sites must be the only unread surnames left so ebay has kijiji and now Microsoft has two fede what does it mean do research the site helps people use the web for research projects that require more than one sitting there are ways to search the web news RSS feeds pictures and books you can easily save and label clippings for later the slick site powered by Silverlight Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash you have to check out the tree view whoa look at the time that's all there is for today I'm rich demuro with Cena TV in New York City and I feel like I learned a new language today