Iohana Georgescu

  • Iohana Georgescu

    Iohana starts each day with a cup of coffee and proceeds to scouting the web for the latest, most interesting gadgets. See, for her, technology shapes our world and sometimes even makes it a better place. This is why she’s always been interested in various devices that can improve our lives, entertain us in different ways or make different tasks easier. Because she’s always had a cat or two around, she firmly believes that ’cats rule!’ and takes some time to see what’s new on ’I can has cheezburger’ on a regular basis.

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Google To Acquire Groupon For $6 Billion

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 30th 2010 | no comments

Google To Acquire Groupon For $6 Billion Yesterday we reported that Google may have bought Groupon for $2.5 billion. Well, you can forget about that rumor and we’ll just move on to the next. According to the latest reports the search engine giant is getting close [...]

Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Launches Jumo, A Social Network For Social Causes

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 30th 2010 | no comments

Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Launches Jumo, A Social Network For Social Causes While we’ve noted in the past that a lot of valuable professionals are currently migrating towards Facebook (from Google and various other companies), the leading social networking site has lost some valuable team members as well. Back in 2007 one of Facebook’s co-founders Chris Hughes [...]

Google’s Earth 6 Now Up For Download

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 30th 2010 | no comments

Google’s Earth 6 Now Up For Download I still remember the first time I discovered Google Earth and how much fun I had locating my current home on the map and taking a look at what’s around me. For those who aren’t fully familiar with Google Earth, it’s a virtual globe and map application that started out [...]

Top Ten Gadgets We Can’t Wait To See In 2011 – Part II

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 30th 2010 | one comment

Top Ten Gadgets We Can’t Wait To See In 2011 – Part II Yesterday we started talking about all the nice gadgets we can expect to see in stores in 2011. As mentioned previously, this year was great in terms of electronics’ releases. The iPad from Apple finally hit the market and gaming consoles [...]

Top Ten Gadgets We Can’t Wait To See In 2011 – Part I

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 29th 2010 | one comment

Top Ten Gadgets We Can’t Wait To See In 2011 – Part I This year was a great year for gadgets. We got to see a lot of Android smartphones get released on the market. I’d go ahead and mention some but there are simply too many to mention. Apple came out with the iPad and the iPhone 4. Microsoft was pretty busy [...]

WikiLeaks Starts Publishing US Cables, US Considering Legal Action

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 29th 2010 | no comments

WikiLeaks Starts Publishing US Cables, US Considering Legal Action This Sunday, 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks started publishing roughly 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables. This release, announced a short while ago through Twitter was expected to hit during this weekend. Aiming to prepare allied countries, the [...]

The Blackberry Empathy Concept Phone Communicates Your Mood

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 29th 2010 | no comments

The Blackberry Empathy Concept Phone Communicates Your Mood We’ve seen concept phones for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and even Mozilla. We rarely get to see concepts for Blackberry handsets though. But when we finally do see them, they’re quite impressive. Recently we’ve discovered a pretty nifty concept for a Blackberry phone [...]

Top 10 Concept Phones

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 29th 2010 | no comments

Top 10 Concept Phones We might all agree that there’s plenty of choice when you go out shopping for mobile phones. Nowadays you can get nearly everything that you want in this type of device. You can get a phone with a camera and snap photos of all your favorite moments. You can [...]

Apple Rejects Android App From App Store

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 29th 2010 | no comments

Apple Rejects Android App From App Store Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS for mobile phones are clearly direct competitors. The two companies behind them take advantage of every single opportunity to poke fun at the competition. It’s no wonder, then, that Apple and Google won’t appreciate promoting the products of the [...]

Did Google Buy Groupon For $2.5 Billion?

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 29th 2010 | no comments

Did Google Buy Groupon For $2.5 Billion? We’re all aware that Google is exceptionally fond of acquiring all companies that have something to offer. If you’re a small company holding technologies that might improve Google’s current services then chances are the search engine giant will eventually come up with an offer and [...]

Top Ten Apps For Windows Phone 7

Posted in: Technology, Uncategorized by Iohana Georgescu | November 28th 2010 | no comments

Top Ten Apps For Windows Phone 7 For some odd reason when people ask why they should buy a smartphone the first thing I feel the need to tell them is that “you can buy apps”. Sure, we’ve used cameras, video recording and web browsers on previous occasions, before all smartphones offered a shiny, [...]

Two Japanese People Arrested For Hacking Linage Accounts

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 28th 2010 | no comments

Two Japanese People Arrested For Hacking Linage Accounts Back in the day when I used to play World of Warcraft, I was always somewhat afraid that some hacker out there might take over my account, sell all the gold and items on it and leave my characters in their knickers. There’s a good reason for that. I’ve witnessed [...]

Microsoft Files Patent Application For “Textured” Touch Screen

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 28th 2010 | one comment

Microsoft Files Patent Application For “Textured” Touch Screen With Apple filing for patents quite often and us reporting about it, it’s sometimes refreshing to look at what other companies are doing, what patents they are filling for and what technology their future products could include.  In this case, we’re going to talk about a Microsoft [...]

Apple’s iPad Two To Feature Two Cameras, Better Display And Possibly USB?

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 27th 2010 | no comments

Apple’s iPad Two To Feature Two Cameras, Better Display And Possibly USB? The first iPad was launched in April this year. Since then a large number of units were sold and Apple is probably quite happy of how interested people have become in the tablet computer. While multiple companies are struggling to come up with Android [...]

AAXA Releases World’s Smallest 20 Lumen Pico Projector

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 27th 2010 | no comments

AAXA Releases World’s Smallest 20 Lumen Pico Projector With all the reports for what gadgets people are interested in this holiday season, we got to talk a lot about smartphones, tablets and sleek, stylish laptops. Sadly, not so many people are interested in pico projectors, but we’ve recently heard of one [...]

Researchers Believe Radar Guns Can Be Used To Spot Suicide Bombers

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 27th 2010 | no comments

Researchers Believe Radar Guns Can Be Used To Spot Suicide Bombers Know those radar guns that help police forces uncover speeding drivers? Well, they’ve been redesigned and they’ll be used for something else entirely in the future. A new version of that type of gun will soon be used to identify a suicide bomber in a crowd. As New [...]

US Agency Seizing Sites Suspected Of Offering Pirated Products

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 27th 2010 | no comments

US Agency Seizing Sites Suspected Of Offering Pirated Products Sometimes it feels like content piracy has been around since forever. No one can argue, piracy is definitely bad, but it seems to be happening a lot and we should on one occasion go into the reasons why some people prefer to “steal” content rather than buy it. The US [...]

Symbian Foundation Announces That Its Websites Will Shut Down

Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | November 27th 2010 | no comments

Symbian Foundation Announces That Its Websites Will Shut Down As we’ve reported on a previous occasion most mobile phone manufacturers that used to deploy Symbian as an operating system on their mobile phones have now chosen to make the switch to Android. That left Nokia as the only handset maker who still uses the world’s current top [...]