2012 Ford Focus Electric

Ford Focus Electric borrows grill from Aston Martin

Deliveries for the all-electric, Ford's first plug-in, start in March. It's a nice looking car, sort of a mash-up between an Aston and Volvo.
Yahoo Livestand

Yahoo Livestand – pretty boy enters social magazine race (hands-on)

Though Livestand is billed as a magazine stand, it's really an aggregation play, a very good looking one at that.
RSA Animate - The Divided Brain

Must Watch: The Divided Brain (video)

Have you seen RSA Animate videos? They're kind of like a UPS Commerical paired with Oxford for Dummies.
Gmail App on iPad 2

Hands-on: Gmail app for iPad, iPhone

The most significant difference using the native Gmail app vs. the stock iOS email app are labels.
Pirates of Silicon Valley

Microsoft Courier – where was the pirate flag?

It might've been the first time in modern time that Jerry Bruckheimer missed his cue.
Monkey see, monkey do

Must we devalue the F-word?

Real friends babysit Capuchins.
The Verge launches

New tech blog ‘The Verge’ launches

It's far less snarky, boy-racer than Gizmodo, whose street cred dropped massively when they got ensnared in the iPhone-in-a-bar scandal last year.
Mobile Advertising: Up and to the right.

Trend Spotting: Microsoft faces up-hill battle

This is a company that has DNA hard-wired to the 80s and is trying desperately to break free from its drag. Those skinny Duran leather ties be gone.
Vimeo Music Store launched

Vimeo launches music store

The interface design aesthetic is classic Vimeo - clean, easy-to-use, and pretty in a minimalist (think Google modernism) way.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus: first to run Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich.

Galaxy Nexus Early Reviews: Decent, not mind-blowing

"Roboto," the new ICS typeface, it getting positive reaction and is reported to me much easier to read. But where's the Siri-like must-have feature?