Rodriguez's ninth-inning homer lets Rays turn tables at Fenway - YAHOO!
27 May 2012, 5:56 pm
BOSTON -- For the second consecutive day, a closer blew a save and the game at Fenway Park on a two-run home run in the ninth inning. On Sunday, it was the Boston Red Sox's Alfredo Aceves who gave up the go-ahead home run to the Tampa Bay Rays' Sean Rodriguez.

Biden tells West Point graduates end to wars lets US address fresh global issues - New York Post
26 May 2012, 11:45 am
WEST POINT — Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

MIT develops ketchup bottle that lets you use every drop - Los Angeles Times
25 May 2012, 11:39 am
The research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world-changing invention: a bottle coating so slick that every last bit of ketchup slides out quickly and easily. In what could be a ...

Hands-on: app lets you "Bump" smartphone pics to your computer - Ars Technica
25 May 2012, 11:04 am
Snapping a quick picture on your iPhone is easy, but getting the image on your desktop can sometimes be a chore. Bump, an early iPhone app that made it easy to swap contact info by "bumping" two iPhones together, now lets you bump your iPhone on ...

Microsoft pulling free development tools for Windows 8 desktop apps, only lets you ride the Metro for free (update: confirmed) - engadget
24 May 2012, 4:41 pm
Microsoft has instituted a big change with its free Visual Studio 11 Express suite that's leaving some current- and soon-to-be Windows 8 developers up in arms: it's pulling support for creating anything but Metro-native apps. After 11 becomes ...

Bump Now lets You Transfer Photos From Your Smartphone to Your Computer - Mashable.com
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
The popular mobile app Bump — that shares contacts and photos between two phones when they’re tapped together — is now headed to your computer. The service announced Thursday an update that lets you bump your phone on your computer’s ...

Amazon Appstore For Android Now lets Users Test Drive Apps Right On Their Devices - TechCrunch
21 May 2012, 6:54 pm
Unless an app you have your eye happens to have a free demo version to muck about with, there’s little one can do to try out an Android app on a device in advance. Sure, you could buy the app straight from the Google Play Store and get a ...

Exclusive: U.S. lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury orders - YAHOO!
21 May 2012, 3:33 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters.

Supreme Court lets Stand Student's $675,000 Penalty For Downloading - NPR News
21 May 2012, 11:01 am
Without commenting on the merits of the case, the Supreme Court this morning let stand a $675,000 jury verdict against a 25-year-old Boston University student who downloaded 30 songs nearly a decade ago and then shared them with others on a peer ...

Hashtag App” lets You Follow Twitter & Instagram Hashtags In One Interface - TechCrunch
21 May 2012, 8:31 am
This is kind of handy – and just in time for TechCrunch Disrupt. The team at Lemon Labs just launched a new app called “Hashtag App,” which lets you follow Twitter hashtags on your iPhone or iPad. But there are a bunch of apps for that ...