Though it's starting to seem like virtual eons ago, handycars.com was once the pinnacle of the online, virtual car dealership.  From the first day we launched handycars.com, handytoyota.com, and handychevy.com (then called handycars.com, toyota.handycars.com, and chevrolet.handycars.com), we had a good grasp on the online happenings over the worldwide web.  This isn't to imply that we are the end all be all of the virtual?

Video gamers rejoice - well at least if you live in Japan, speak Japanese, or plan to learn and order an overseas copy of an upcoming Nintendo 3DS game that will work in conjunction with Toyota's high end navigation systems.

For those that aren't into the video game scene, Nintendo - a name that surely rings a bell to anyone who watches even a little television - has released a new handheld or portable gaming device…

Boy, oh boy... where to start?  I opened a word document to jot down some notes regarding the recent updates to the Handy Toyota mobile application (dubbed erroneously as iphone.handytoyota.com) with the intention of telling you about one new update and then it dawned on me:  the original blog, "Handy's going mobile part II:  iPhones," was not only from way back in February of 2011, but also doesn't any longer apply…

The Blue Man Group; the "dum dum duh dum" tune; blazing fast computer processing.  What do these things mean?  Intel, and you'll be happy to know these things, in a chip form, are coming to Toyota's infotainment products.

In case you don't know what the newly coined phrase "infotainment" means, it's exactly what the strange word looks like:  information meets entertainment.  As a point in case I give you Toyota's Entune...

Something has had me a little bit perturbed lately, and since it pertains to the automotive industry that ultimately pays my bills, buys my clothes, and keeps me fed, I am going to indulge in airing my grievance on a forum that you have no control over aside from clicking the little X in the upper right of your browser's window.  Forgive me if I seem angry, but please read the rest of today...

The bottom line is that the desktop computer or personal computer (PC)/Mac market is dwindling.  As humanity moves along the crazy train of "I want need it now" at alarmingly quickening speeds, the days of the Jetson's-esque future and implanted mobile telephones seems further and further from science fiction and gets increasingly close to ho-hum reality.  Within a year - yes, in around 365 some odd days - mobile devices ranging from BlackBerry to Android...