According to a Verizon bigwig, the age of flat rate internet is over. This has some analysts up in arms; not surprising, or undeserved. Unlimited internet access for a single flat price is quite frankly, awesome. The loss of such a convenience would do more than just irritate web junkies, but it has the potential of crippling the cloud. Part of the premise behind the marketing of web based tools is the fact that accessing them is essentially free. Every business in a mall would suffer the same consequences if the mall suddenly decided to set up a toll booth at the front door.

Whether you support the increased security of the Digital economy bill or oppose its reduction of freedoms, you can’t deny that it’s a game changer.   In addition to setting a precedent of security over freedom within the internet, which was its intent, there may well be some other effects of the bill that were certainly less than intentional.  The most revolutionary and potentially disastrous of these would be an increased demand for genuinely anonymous ISP providers.

This is going to be a bit of an out-of-the-blue, but Apple may have just crossed the line. Over 5000 apps have been removed from the app store this past weekend, for "suggestive content." Yes, it is true that apple has been blocking 18+ content for a long time, but their regulations have just become even more draconian.

The iPhone version of Opera Mini does indeed look promising. In true Opera form, they are offering streamlined versions of the essential features with the added speed that comes from not being bogged down with unnecessary coding. You may be asking yourselves, “Wait a second, isn't that the sort of thing that Apple specifically blocks?” Well, yes, it is the EXACT sort of thing that they have been blocking since the inception if the iPhone. However, times are changing.

Both FloTv and Vizo ran adds this Superbowl. Both advertised their new media platforms/services. Both are appealing to our sense of immediate gratification to get us to want their brand entertainment on demand. Both adds, however, were not created equal.

 It's not particularly surprising in this economy that not one, but two, online job search sites ran commercials during the 2010 Super Bowl (Monster and

Ever since the infamous “1984” Apple Superbowl commercial, the creation of a quality tech ad to be aired on Super Bowl Sunday has simultaneously been known as a marketing minefield, and as a potential holy grail.

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We want to look somewhere else, but they keep dragging us back. It's official, the combatants have shown their colors, the lines have been drawn, and the battlefield has been selected: tablet computing. Recently, Google and Apple have been making a number of aggressive moves towards each other.

Apparently, immediately after his amicable presentation to the public, Jobs conducted his own question and answer presentation, only this time it was only open to Apple employees. Normally nothing would have gotten out, but Wired was able to leak a few juicy tidbits from the evening.

 If there is one thing that can be universally said about Apple products, it is that they are always safer than their competitors. The Apple brand has always been making us feel a little safer while we play on the rusty digital playground. However,during all the iPad buzz, wireless technology and modern encryption software has been making more than just the internet safer: Armatix is using it to try and make guns safer.

1 K Price - Of all the rumors this is the most disheartening. Some are saying that the new Apple tablet will begin priced at under $1,000.  Of course, everybody knows what "under $1,000" means: $999. Unless they pull out all the stops, it is very hard to believe that such a product would be worth THAT price tag.

Bio-fuel may not be the saving grace that it claims to be, but that doesn't mean such technologies aren't right around the corner; we just have to look in the right direction. For instance, GM just announced that California and Michigan will be the first markets to actually purchase and drive the Chevy Volt.

Cooking Capsules: This application may well revolutionize the way we view the culinary arts.  Long ago, learning to prepare a dish meant being taught by an older and wiser chef.  Later, cook-books allowed for further proliferation of recipes, and fidelity in recreation.  In the digital age the internet and television came up with interactive cooking secrets, that a truly great recipe could spread to dinner tables across the world.  Now, all you need to do is tell your phone what you want to make, and for how many, and it will give you instructions in real time to help prepare your meal.

For the past week, Google’s Nexus One has been trying to position itself as the premier data phone in the country.  However, like any piece of hardware whose primary function is to run other programs, it will be the software that ultimately makes or breaks the brand.  Fortunately for both Google, and for the consumers, there will be no shortage of new and innovative applications available soon. Thanks to the Android operating system, anyone can make and distribute Nexus One applications. There are veritable armies of both corporate teams and independent programmers who are salivating at the opportunity.  Presented today are the five of the most promising and exciting media applications.

According to the DEQ, consumer and industrial paper waste accounts for over 40% of the waste currently in landfills.  This should be surprising considering two facts: paper is completely recyclable, and the technology necessary to move towards a paperless culture has existed for nearly a decade.  Fortunately, the release of the Skiff reader may well indicate that technology has finally progressed to the point that paperless living is not only possible, but convenient too.