Dell To Kill Kiosks, May Build Google Phone

Dell computer kiosks have become a familiar sight in malls across the United States and Canada, but the computer giant may be making those small mall carts a thing of the past. Just after the Round Rock, Texas-based company slashed jobs in Ottawa, Canada, rumors began …

Paula Abdul Music Video To Debut At Super Bowl

Paula Abdul has made a comeback to music--sort of. Her newly released track, Dance Like There's No Tomorrow, is the first song Abdul has released in twelve years.

The American Idol judge produced the song with co-worker Randy Jackson for a new album entitled Music …

ConAir To Provide Free Email, IM & DirecTV

If Richard hasn't booked his mid-February flight to San Francisco, he may want to check this story out. According to Reuters, Continental Airlines will roll out live DirecTV for customers starting in 2009 (though I'm not sure everyone will be watching The Price Is …

KPIX Goes Hi-Def; KOVR To Follow Soon

There was a long time rumor on the Internets, in various boards and forums dedicated to digital television, that San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX-TV would start broadcasting in 1080i high definition. Sure enough, it happened Monday--according to Larry Kenney of the SF …

Music Video Monday: Kaiser Chiefs

In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio 1 chooses a city somewhere in the country once or twice a year to host a huge concert full of new artists. The city is chosen completely at random, and people living in the city get the thrill of their lives to see big name and new …

Robot Weekend: Bender Beer (For Realsies!)

The animated FOX sitcom Futurama took a few years off before recently returning with new episodes to Comedy Central. In its time off, the show--set a millennium in the future and featuring transportation pipes and space aliens--garnished a cult following when repeats …

Robot Weekend: The Hall Of Fame

Carnegie Mellon University pays tribute to robots, real and fake, annually by announcing them for their Robot Hall of Fame--the first-ever anywhere on the planet. The following robots, ficticious and real, are just some of the artificial beings that have been added to …

The Quietest Place On Earth

The old saying is "Silence is golden," or something to that extent, right? When you think of quiet and serenity, do you think of a mountain landscape with fresh fallen snow coating the forced jagged hills of the earth's faultline? Or do you think of the water flowing …

More Reasons Why The Macbook Air Will Fail

More than a week ago, Apple introduced the brand-new Macbook Air, the lightest, thinnest Apple computer on the market (but NOT the lightest computer in general, as another company had a computer lighter by one pound already in existance). You, the generous friends and …

Robot Weekend: Meet WALL-E

This summer, Pixar Studios will release a movie in the works since the debut of Toy Story way back in 1995. The movie, set 700 years in the future, deals with a lone robot who has been programmed to clean up the planet following a tidal wave of mass consumerism that …

RadioMatthew.com On My925 Radio

This afternoon as I was leaving the house for the first day of class, I got a call from Brian at My925 telling me they wanted to record some stuff for a My925 radio contest called the My925 Midday MyPod. A listener picks five songs and My925 plays it on the air; then, …

Oprah To Launch Television Network, Gets OWNed

She's one of the most powerful and influential people on this planet (and one of my favorite inspirations). Oprah Winfrey announced last week that she will be launching a television network in partnership with Discovery Communications.

The Oprah Winfrey Network--to be

Music Video Monday: Mr. Writer

Usually, I'm not that big on covers of music that people post on YouTube, but every once in a blue moon I find one that blows me away. Such is the case of Katter85, whose one and only video is an amazing cover of the Stereophonics track Mr. Writer. Three months …

Protected: One Year Anniversary

Ninja Jim and I are celebrating our one year anniversary today! We met in early January last year and we became an official couple on January 19th, 2007. Tons of stuff has happened since then--Discovery Kingdom, Conan O'Brien, getting inked, finding our inner zen,

Everything's Okay Again

Hey guys, sorry about the outage over the past two days. Some stuff happened, then some other stuff happened, and then a lot of people fixed the stuff. That's the short version.

The long version is, something happened on the technical side of the blog that I wasn't …

Why The New Macbook Air Will Fail

Steve Jobs unveiled the world's thinnest notebook computer yesterday at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Dubbed the "Macbook Air", the notebook computer, which sports a 13.33 screen and wireless peripherals including the ability to borrow hard drive components from …

U2 To Release 3D Concert Next Week

Irish rock band U2 will be releasing the world's first music concert ever recorded entirely in digital 3D on January 19th at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The film utilizes the largest amount of 3D cameras ever needed for a film project and …

Music Video Monday: Vertigo + iTunes

In 2004, the computer giant Apple commissioned the Irish band U2 for a commercial featuring the launch of their "iPod + iTunes" campaign. U2's single Vertigo was chosen for the commercial, which has quickly become a favorite of mine.

Check out U2's extensive library …

EXCLUSIVE: CW31 To Launch Evening Newscast

CBS13 News reporter Chris Burrous was announced on Thursday as the guest speaker at the Sacramento chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Burrous, who is also the executive producer of the CBS13.com Morning News, will be sharing station strategies for …

Wednesday Mixdown - Debut Round

It's the new weekly game I teased seven days ago. Here's how it works:

Every Wednesday, I'll post a sound file featuring short clips of three songs. The songs could be from any genre (alternative, rock, R&B, country, etc.). All three songs will feature words from …