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The office e-mail this morning was electric with talk of Google’s latest creation - an Internet browser. Dubbed Chrome, its announcement came along with a really spiffy, 38-page comic illustrated by the always talented Scott McCloud. Made with TLC from scratch, this browser is open source, making everything that’s wonderful about it available [...]

Sounds ludicrous? That’s because it is! Comcast claims that with a 250GB bandwidth cap, users could:
* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
Users who go over the 250GB/month quota get a [...]

Apparently, AT&T has a new home theater tech support center: ConnecTech. Just like Best Buy’s Geek Squad and Circuit City’s FireDog, AT&T will have ConnecTech. CrunchGear has the price breakdown for the available services AT&T has to offer… which is basically the same as BestBuy and CircuitCity. But how well can [...]

For those who remember the days of tuning their television, whitespace refers to the frequencies that weren’t used between channels. That whitespace is still out there today, floating about without a purpose. But for a while now, industry giants like Microsoft and Dell have been lobbying Congress to free up the airwaves for [...]

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Gizmodo explains the recent disadvantage of having Comcast or Time Warner as your internet service provider. As Dave had mentioned in a prior post, Comcast has a monthly bandwidth quota of about 250GB but now, Time Warner wants to start using 40GB as their high end bandwidth quota. What does that mean for [...]

It is going to be a really busy week here at TNMS but we will get you stories as fast as we can!
Here is what you missed:

Lenovo makes a splash intro in the netbook department - Liliputing via Gizmodo
Acer’s netbook extended battery only 1/3 the cost of actual netbook! - Engadget
Blackberry’s Flowberry theme for [...]

As Corey had posted earlier in the week, Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is the new search engine that will ultimately try to compete with Google, especially when the company is made up of ex-Google and IBM employees. Who doesn’t want to try and get their 5 minutes of fame competing with the enormous search giant? [...]

There was a great deal of hype building for the new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”), which launch on Monday this week.  Unfortunately for Cuil, this hype built up into a PR nightmare that we find happening all too often these days.  At 3PM on Monday, Cuil’s servers crashed.  The site functioned sporatically as it [...]

Weekend recap but first some quick TNMS updates.
We won’t be publishing the grand opening of the Boston Apple Store video as it is way too big of a file (to edit as well) so instead, I will take screen shots of the store and post additional pictures. But we will have another “How to…” [...]

The Consumerist has alerted us to a new promotional offer from Comcast. New subscribers who sign up between July 28th and August 17th will receive a frickin’ Nintendo Wii. I really wish that I liked Comcast, because this is a pretty sweet incentive. Unfortunately, they’ve given me more than enough cause to [...]

If you want a weekly update on tech news, Gizmodo has that covered this weekend.
I’m here to talk about the email I received on Thursday from GoDaddy about the failure to register my newly purchased domain. I received another email from GoDaddy, only this time, it was from the President of this domain seller. [...]

Today was to be the big day for GoDaddy, one of the biggest domain sellers in the world. Today, they were given permission to release the .me domain (just like .com or .net). TechCrunch reports:
Earlier this year GoDaddy won the rights to distribute domains under the extension .me, which belongs to the country [...]

Quite a few stories this weekend (of course being the first weekend of the 3G iPhone).

XBox360 20GB for $299? Better believe it! - Gizmodo/Kotaku
Typing with one hand… wait, its typing on one hand! - Engadget
Internet speeds at 640BG/sec, that’s 17 DVDs of info per second! - ZDnet via Digg
Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo!’s buyout has [...]