Bloomberg is reporting that social network Facebook will postpone an IPO until 2012. Investors have been speculating that the world’s largest social network — valued at $24.9 billion — would go public sometime in 2011. Bloomberg writes, “Waiting lets Zuckerberg, 26, hone the skills needed to steer a company that issues quarterly results while facing criticism on such matters as user privacy.” Facebook declined to... 

After years of pleading, the fine folks over at Data Robotics finally gifted you with a Drobo NAS. They called it the Drobo FS , but we all know what the real skinny is. But is the five-bay, Ethernet-friendly storage robot really a dream come true? We’ve had nothing but success with it in our Time Machine setup , but as with pretty much any networked drive, we’ve heard reports here and there of frustrations and complications. For... 

With more than 200 deals since 2005, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham knows how to size up a young team of entrepreneurs. However, he didn’t get it right from day one. On Friday, we got a chance to talk to Graham after his morning panel with SV Angel’s Ron Conway . He discussed how his strategy has evolved over the past five years and why the balance of power is shifting in Silicon Valley. See videos ahead. CrunchBase Information... 

Filed under: iPad Copyright 2010 The Omni Group. All rights reserved. Used with permission. With OmniFocus for iPad just now hitting the App Store, I haven’t yet had as much time as I would like to use the application to its fullest potential. My initial interaction has, however, been positive. Costing a rather steep $39.99, OmniFocus for iPad brings another professionally priced tool for professionals into the App …  Read More →

Futurists have been promising us flying cars for decades, but most of the proposals we’ve seen have looked pretty lame. Most are tiny aircraft with folding wings and small road wheels, making them pretty lousy both on the road and in the sky.  Read More →

It may be that not everyone finds old test patterns as entertaining as I do. I just love everything about them! I don’t know why! And yet — they wouldn’t really work with the aesthetic I’ve got going on my desk right now (black and metal (not black metal)), so it’s up to you guys to enjoy these for me. I wish the black and white one had the Indian — the color bars are just the way I like ‘em, though.... 

Filed under: Gaming , Mac Boy, if you had to choose one company (including Apple) that has really led the charge for Mac gaming recently, I’d have to say Valve takes the cake, and that’s no lie. Not only has the company brought an unprecedented set of quality titles to the Mac with Steam, but it’s now announced that it will be sharing some of its graphical code for the Mac with Steamworks developers. That graphics layer coding... 

This is just a heads-up for any ATI folks out there looking to add a little anti-aliasing to your StarCraft II -ing. ATI has released an updated driver, version 10.7a , that includes a hotfix that enables forced AA for the game. You have to activate AA inside the Catalyst Control Thingamajig outside of the game. End transmission.  Read More →

In addition to improving its captains chairs with extendable leg-rests and seats that heat faster, Nissan has developed technology that diffuses into the vehicle cabin breathable vitamin C that can help improve skin moisture. Originally posted at The Car Tech blog  Read More →

CNET Car Tech gets to take the Nissan Leaf electric car for a preview drive. Originally posted at The Car Tech blog  Read More →

The annual Defcon conference usually brings with it a handful of suprises and cool hacks/devices. We’ve already seen the best conference badge design, but now we’re seeing a rather worrying release for anyone owning an Android smartphone. In a bid to highlight a security flaw in the Android OS, two attendees have released a rootkit that  Read More →

Online monetization platform gWallet , which offers social gaming developers a variety of ways to monetize their apps and boost engagement, is looking to put its money where its mouth is: the company is launching a $20,000 cash guarantee to any social gaming publishers that don’t generate more revenue when they switch from their current monetization platform to gWallet. To participate, publishers are being asked to implement a simultaneous,... 

This isn’t your regular run-of-the-mill computer game. It’s a motion-controlled program that teaches preteen girls how to resist peer pressure when it comes to sex. Subjects wear a motion capture-enabled hat and jacket in order to “jump into the character’s skin” and learn how to react when found in sexual situations. Interesting idea, but is it real or fake? Take the quiz  Read More →

An image uploaded to the Chromium OS bug tracker shows a pre-release version of Gmail sporting a number of new features and changes to the layout. In total, we’ve spotted 8 differences compared to the Gmail we all use today. Here’s the list of differences we can see in the image (there may be more): Three new  Read More →

There’s a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’ gets a full moody, 60-second TV spot, complete with a Kanye West score, champagne spraying and laptops a-smashing. [From: YouTube ] Two Brooklynites recently...