One of the largest online shopping retail stores, Amazon, has announced that it will be employing the Same Day Shipping delivery protocol to speed up its delivery system as the holiday season fast approaches. The new service, aptly named, Local Express Delivery will be available in selected states across the United States. Some of the [...]

Are you willing to be a walking human recorder? If you are, then there’s a device that’s coming up for you. Life recorders are in the offing. There’s at least one start-up that has been fine tuning such a device for more than a year now. The fulfillment of your ambition to record your history [...]

New growth is saving the Amazon rainforest through renewed vegetation that addresses the problem of deforestation. These ‘secondary forests’ have been undervalued, even overlooked or ignored, by scientists, especially those who want to stick to the buzzwords of irreversible deforestation and unabated forest denudation. A UN study says ‘the ecological importance of these new forests [...]

The Amazon rainforest is surely and quickly being destroyed by the clearing of tropical rainforest land for the use of cattle raising and grazing. This destructive industry is ‘responsible for 80 percent of rainforest loss in the Brazilian Amazon.’
Amazon ranching is also now a multi-billion dollar business, with 80 million head of cattle or ‘nearly [...]

SimpleTech, the data storage brand of Hitachi has come up with the [re]Drive. It is a 500GB external hard drive, which is packaged in recyclable aluminum, and “renewable, naturally grown bamboo.” Looks like SimpleTech is becoming eco0friendly and is following the example of tree-hugging techie market. One very good advantage of this [re]Drive is that [...]

One of the world’s biggest bookstores, Barnes & Nobles has announced the launch of its brand new e-book service that is compatible with all three major platforms, iPhone, Microsoft Windows and Apple MAC. Barnes & Nobles has been bestowed upon with the prestigious title of the ‘top bookseller’ in the United States and is widely [...]

Recently, Amazon, one of the biggest online retail chains, applied some changes to their Product Advertising API, that is supposedly wreaking havoc one of the most revered Apple iPhone developers, Wil Shipley.

Shipley came into the spotlight after his mind blowing application for the iPhone, called Delicious Library. But now, with the changed guidelines of Amazon [...]

 
The Western demand for beef and leather is dictating the current trend in overranching in the Amazon forests of Brazil, thus causing persistent deforestation. So says a three-year survey conducted by Greenpeace. Cattle seems to produce a lot of lucrative products and by-products: meat for fresh and canned food, leather hide for fashion, fat for [...]

Amazon has unveiled the next avatar of the popular Kindle eBook reader. The newer Kindle DX comes with an awesome 9.7 inch electronic paper display and also a built in PDF reader. It comes with an auto rotate capability and has enough storage to hold about 3500 books, all that you could read in years. [...]

Here’s good news for the people who love doing extreme sports! We have just discovered “The VholdR ContourHD Recorder” – a video camera recorder that you can use to record your actions while doing your favorite extreme sports such as skateboarding, skiing or sky diving.
VholdR ContourHD comes in two video format – HD 720p at [...]