John Mahoney

Even Google Gets Shafted By Apple's Ridiculous App-Approval Process

So you'd think a company like Google would probably have a free line-jumping pass when it comes to getting its iPhone apps approved for the App Store by Apple? Especially when the app in question is as cool-looking as the voice...

Meet Veronica McGregor, Mars Phoenix Lander's Humanoid Personality Construct

Over the last few weeks here on Giz, the Mars Phoenix Lander, already a prolific Twitterer, became the first spacecraft to blog from its cold, unforgiving home tens of millions of miles away on Mars as its mission came to...

Popular vitamins don't cancer: Study

Sharon Kirkey , Canwest News Service Published: Sunday, November 16, 2008 Nearly 10 years of testing on thousands of doctors show two hugely popular vitamins don't prevent cancer. "We're kind of rocking the foundation of what...

Gizmodo's 20 Essential iPhone Apps

digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Gizmodo_s_20_Essential_iPhone_Apps'; It's been four months almost to the day since iPhone 2.0 came, and we've been hitting the App Store hard...

DNA Strands Converted Into Tiniest Fibre Optic Cables For Optical Computing

Future optical computers that use light instead of electricity will need nano-scale pipes to transfer photons--analogues to the individual transistor's in a traditional circuit. And for that, scientists for the first time have...

Lions on cusp of trip to nationals

More Men's Cross Country News Prior to the start of the season, no one thought the Penn State men's cross country team was a serious threat. The Nittany Lions were coming off a ninth place finish at the Big Ten championship, an...

Surgical Strike Eliminates 75% of Spam Email Worldwide With Single ISP Shutdown

An office tower in downtown San Jose, California has long served as home to McColo--a hosting company whose servers in turn have quietly served as a conduit to a huge majority of the world's spam email, scam prescription drug...

HTC Touch HD Reviews Pour In (Verdict: Best Win-Mo Phone Yet, But Still Win-Mo)

HTC is not releasing the Touch HD in the United States. Which still seems a little crazy to me, because few other phones have received such a favourable and envious reaction online recently. Despite the fact that you probably...

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 To Drop Black Friday For $US800

Sony's Win-Mo 6.1 Xperia X1 finally has a firm U.S. release date set: November 28, better known as Black Friday. Although unlike most things on sale on that fateful day of darkness, the Xperia will not be a particularly awesome...

Cross country Seeks Advantages with Increased Distance

For a team that relies on its base training which consists of running 100 miles per week and works all season long to peak at the end, the additional mileage of the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional is an advantage.

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