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Ferris Bueller’s Latest Day Off Comes Courtesy of Honda [VIDEO]You’ve seen the teaser and you’ve probably seen the 1986 movie, but now you can enjoy the full Super Bowl spot featuring the further adventures of the now-middle aged Matthew Broderick, a.k.a. Ferris Bueller. In the commercial promoting Honda, Broderick calls in sick to avoid a movie s... 52% of Holiday Shoppers Used Cellphones in Stores [STUDY]More shoppers are using mobile devices in stores to do product research, price comparisons and look up reviews, but according to a new report, accessing the Internet wasn’t the top way consumers sought purchasing assistance on phones during the 2011 holiday shopping season. Nearly four in ... Analyst: Amazon Sold 6 Million Kindle Fires Over the HolidaysJust how much of a success is the Amazon Kindle Fire? According to one financial analyst, a very big one. Jordan Rohan of investment bank Stifel Niclaus just upped his estimate of how many Kindle Fires Amazon sold over the holiday season, from 5 million to 6 million. In a Sunday note to investors... How to Fill Out Facebook Timeline Without Annoying Your Friends1. Enable, But Don't Publish After enabling the new design via the Facebook Timeline page, you can explore and customize your page without publishing anything. Do all of your trial-and-error work first -- that way friends only see the final product and not all of t... Google, Yahoo Form Group to Tackle PhishingGoogle, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have joined forces to thwart purveyors of phishing — those emails that attempt to trick users into giving up personal information. The companies, along with financial services providers Bank of America and Fidelity Investments have created DMARC.org —... How to See When Someone Unfriends You on FacebookWould you like to know when someone “unfriends” you on Facebook? There’s not a native way to see this information, and unless you keep a very close eye on your friend list, it’s likely when your friend count goes down, you aren’t sure who went missing. We have found a s... This New OLED Microdisplay Blows the Retina Display AwayA new OLED microdisplay from MicroOLED boasts the world’s highest pixel density, stuffing an incredible 5.4 million gapless pixels into a 0.61-inch display. For comparison, at 326 pixels per inch (ppi), the iPhone 4′s Retina display sports 614,400 pixels. The manufacturer also claims t... Bobbi Brown Launches Facebook Campaign to Revive Discontinued CosmeticsFor years, fans of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics have used traditional and social media to lobby for the return of lip colors that are no longer in production. This week, the cosmetics company is launching a Facebook campaign that will let fans do just that. The campaign will kick off with a video messag... Slate Gets Personal With Customized NewsfeedOnline magazine Slate is giving readers more control over the news discovery process with the Monday launch of MySlate, a personalized newsfeed made up of stories from the topics and authors of their choice. The newsfeed, which is modeled after similar systems from The Huffington Post and Forbes,... SOPA and Hollywood: Standing in the Way of Technological Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC]In case you’re still unclear about the U.S. Congress’s hapless SOPA legislation that went down in flames earlier this month, the Matador Network sums it up neatly with this angry infographic. Once you’ve read this infographic about SOPA, you might become angry, too. That’s be... |