“ColAR”, (pronounced just like 'color') is the coloring book of the future! Now, once I saw the video showing how it works and the magic it creates, my face melted off. It is so amazing and great for kids or adults! You better believe grown adults cant get enough of it either. The company uses Unity for the 3D rendering engine and Qualcomm's Vuforia framework for the image recognition. Its augmented reality at its best. The app is free on both the iOs store and Google Play store. In fact, the full coloring book is free until July 28th!

The Utilite is the size of a paper back book, is a 99 dollar, ARM based mini PC! Perfect for those who don’t want to spend too much for a decent piece of machinery, and you better believe it can offer a real PC-like experience. The range of specs and features makes it stand out from others of it’s kind. Created by Compulab from Israel, it actually runs either Ubuntu Linux or Android. Utilite is powered by the lower-end Freescale i.MX6 system, which the choice of single, dual or quad-core ARM Cortex-A9. With up to 4GB of DDR3 (great news for those of you who can’t get enough RAM), 512GB SSD, and an impressive 128GB more with its microSD slot. Hey, for an ARM-based mini-PC you’ve got to find this awesome. Pre-orders begin this August!

Microsoft is in the news again. This time its due to their recent letter to the Obama Administration urging permission to disclose more information about the Govs plans to spy on our internet activity. They wanna know how often the institutions are snooping and who they are snooping on. And so do others. 63 companies, investors, and non-profit organizations are pushing for the data. Microsoft has been the most cooperative with the government agents. A file provided by Snowden stated they have not only been in close collaboration with the US intelligence services to allow user's communications to be intercepted, but they helped the NSA to circumvent the company's own encryption methods. More particularly, access to Outlook.com including Hotmail, and Skydrive, their cloud server!

Looks like Norwegian entertainment industry groups can rest their minds and their efforts for a change. After years of lobbying and protesting for more stringent anti-piracy laws, music, TV and movie lovers are finally coolin’ it. According to an Ispos, a global market research company, not only is piracy collapsing tremendously in Norway, it is occurring at a very ironic time. A time when hard earned fines and site blocking laws are finally hitting the table.  The Ispos report shows that in 2008, almost 1.2 billion songs were illegally gathered, and by 2012 that figure dropped to an astounding 210 million. I will give the math to you: that is a mere 17.5% of what it was in ’08. As far as television and movies, 125 million and 135 million were the figures in 2008, and down to 65 and 55 million last year.