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The Australian-based company notorious for selling Twitter followers and Digg counts has added Facebook to its catalogue. Facebook begins to investigate. uSocial, registered in Australia as Trinity Media Pty. Ltd., is promoting slashed prices and limited-time discounts on packages of people. Facebook packages, which include either Facebook friends or Facebook fans, went on sale Wednesday.

“For an investment of only … $177.30 while advance orders are being taken until the 16th of September, we’ll bring you 1,000 brand new targeted Facebook friends,” states uSocial.net. Read the rest of this entry »

CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA scrapped a launch for the US space shuttle Discovery early Tuesday, announcing a 24-hour delay due to unfavorable weather conditions.

Although reports of Microsoft’s ad deal with Advance Internet have deemed Yahoo the loser, it’s Google that will lose local market share as a result. Before signing with Microsoft, Advance Internet had used Google’s contextual ad platform AdSense on all its local sites. As part of its deal to become a Microsoft network reseller, Advance has switched from running Google AdSense on article pages to running Microsoft Content Advertising links. Read the rest of this entry »

An object, probably a comet that nobody saw coming, plowed into the giant planet’s colorful cloud tops sometime Sunday, splashing up debris and leaving a black eye the size of the Pacific Ocean. This was the second time in 15 years that this had happened. The whole world was watching when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fell apart and its pieces crashed into Jupiter in 1994, leaving Earth-size marks that persisted up to a year. Read the rest of this entry »

I was recently cleaning out a closet and came across an interesting artifact: my first iPod.

It was nearly eight years ago that I was among the very first people in New York City to carry around the first-generation iPod. About the size of a pack of cigarettes, it was advertised with the tagline “A thousand songs in your pocket.” I can even remember the song used in the first TV spot: Take California by The Propellerheads.

Since then, I’ve upgraded to a 2007 model boasting a 160-gigabyte hard drive that makes holding a mere thousand songs seem quaint. Before long, I will no doubt be waxing nostalgic about this music player as well—one that, at not even half full, holds 5,231 songs, 141 videos, and 228 podcasts. Read the rest of this entry »

The toucan’s oversize bill is a source of amusement for many, but for scientists it’s more a source of amazement, and mystery. Why should the bird have a beak that accounts for 40 percent or more of the total surface area of its body? Among the suggestions are that it is useful for peeling fruit, for attacking other nests or as sexual ornamentation.

In a paper published in Science, researchers offer another explanation: the bill acts like a car radiator, keeping the toucan cool. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has released a web app version of Latitude for the iPhone, enabling users to both share their location with friends and view a live map showing their friends’ location.

In announcing the new app on its mobile blog, Google made it clear that the iPhone version was limited by Apple’s restrictions for third party apps in a number of respects.

First of all, the blog noted that Apple suggested that Google release Latitude as a web application rather than a native title in the App Store to avoid confusion with the Maps application. Apple may be planning to add Latitude location sharing features to Maps in the future, but of course has announced no plans to do so. Read the rest of this entry »