Sure, he made a cool video about Twitter, but I was still surprised that The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am was named Intel’s director of creative innovation (video above). I’m really not sure what he has to offer Intel, but both parties seem thrilled about the partnership. In a press release, …

A California woman has started a class-action lawsuit against Yum Brands due to Taco Bell’s beef not having much…well, beef. While most reasonable people expect fast-food meat to have a certain amount of fillers, this woman believes that 65 percent of the ingredients in beef not being beef is a …

After years of solid use, my Logitech Wave is on its last legs. I wanted to see what keyboards you guys and dolls like. Do you have a preferred keyboard? Or do just use the one that came with your PC?

My friend Dan at PC Magazine wrote an interesting article about AOL possibly taking advantage of older customers. By older, I don’t mean longtime customers; I’m talking about their age. Let’s face it, there are a lot of old people that use the Internet but aren’t exactly certain of what’s …

Online coupons are a huge business. Groupon recently turned down a $6-billion offer from Google. Unhappy with being spurned, Google has announced plans for a competing service called Google Offers. Think about that for a few seconds — a company turned down $6-billion dollars!!! That should clue you into the …

Millions of Facebook and Twitter users panicked over their zodiac signs changing. Depending on if you follow the tropical zodiac calendar or the sidereal zodiac calendar, you might have a new zodiac sign. Here’s the new calendar:

Capricorn: Jan. 20 – Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 – March 11
Pisces: March 11- April …

I’m absolutely loving the nerd war between TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky. These are two high-profile nerds with senior positions at two high-profile tech-blogs (that are both owned by AOL). Here’s some background from Business Insider for those of you not familiar with the matter.
On Tuesday evening, for …

Now that we’ve all had a weekend to digest all the announcements and happenings from the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what we’ve all learned. Here are my three takeaways from CES 2011:

Here’s a profanity-filled video of an uncle whipping his nephew for “talking” like a gangsta on Facebook. The uncle makes his nephew admit that he’s a wannabe gangsta, whips him with a belt, and posts it on the kid’s Facebook wall. I guess this should be classified as punishment 2.0?

The Mac App Store is live! Any of you play with it yet? What did you buy? Encounter any bugs? Share your Mac App Store experiences with the group (please)!