The busiest shopping day of 2007 for Amazon.com was December 10, when the online retailer sold 5.4 million items — that’s an average of 62.5 ITEMS PER SECOND! Bonus trivia: 17 of those 62.5 items were Nintendo Wii game systems.

The long-rumored, flash-based, ultra-slim Apple mini-laptop was confirmed that week, not by an Apple insider, partner or parts supplier — but by RAPPER JUST BLAZE, who claims to have performed that week for Apple employees in exchange for one of the devices. (props to TWIMO and Gizmodo)

Look beyond the badly PhotoShop’d image and the Apple Newton revival gains further momentum with Seeking Alpha’s David Sieger piling together his evidence for an ultraportable device built around a 5.2-inch touchscreen.  Supposedly based on an image of a larger-than-iPhone unit with a &…

Prediction: The story of the year in 2008 will be the colossal failure of censorship during the Beijing Olympic games. The games themselves will be exciting, lavish and hotly contested. But the main event will be the clash amoung the Chinese Communist Party, which will use biometrics, surveillance, …

A press release sent out by 24-7PressRelease advertising a site with the URL www.ClickProfitJam.com USES THE WORD “RETARDS” IN THE HEADLINE. The full head is: “Computer *Retards* prepare Money With Breakthrough Home Business Marketing System” — which represents a new low in press release headline w…

All phones have their positives, and all phones have their negatives. The iPhone excels in many areas other phones don’t, but other phones have some things the iPhone just couldn’t stand up to. There are things I really dislike about the iPhone, and these dislikes are small compared to…

First we had NES, next we had GBA, now we have PS1 emulation on the iPhone and iPod touch. Opening up the iPhone to PS1 really shows the iPhone’s gaming capabilities. While still needed to be optimized to run faster, I guess you could play a game. It’s only about 10-15FPS right now, bu…