The holidays put a bit of a damper on the web outrage surrounding the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, more commonly known as SOPA, and its ugly sister PIPA, short for the Protect Intellectual Property Act. The two bits of […]
While this move by the company hasn’t been all that unexpected the actual announcement has to be yet another wake up call that technology and the Internet is changing everything about our world, and a lot faster than some companies […]
Video chatting is being touted as the next big thing in the tech bubble and while there has been some long term players in the game, like Skype and even Microsoft Messenger, both start-ups and established companies think there is […]
Flying cars, people! Okay, it’s not flying cars, but one of the greater looming catastrophes of modern life remains the threat of leaving your passport at home ahead of an international trip. (Or worse, in a hotel when trying to […]
The jury is still out as to whether Amazon’s Kindle Fire- at less than half the price and lacking some major Apple restrictions- is exactly an iPad killer just yet. The second big-deal entry to the growing by leaps and […]
In an attempt to sully the attempts of email hackers Yahoo on Tuesday finally rolled out two-step authentication for better password control. Under the company’s new methodology if a device is not recognized as a typical login option the platform […]
I’m not sure that this is a title that any country would be proud to have tacked on to them but according to Kaspersky, an Internet security software firm, India is the top source in the world for email spam. […]
Hey, look at the clock- it’s time for your “social media is destroying the world” post of the day! Okay, it’s not really that bad- but it seems everywhere you look, Facebook and its ilk are being blamed for pre-existing […]
Contrary to most people in the tech blogosphere (read tech pundits with nothing better to do) I believe that there is an already existing digital divide, and one that is going to get worse the more that the Web becomes […]
In the slow news week between Christmas and New Year’s this year, the internet was captivated by the tale of the “rogue” PR agent that pissed off a customer, Penny Arcade, the internet at large- and became a meme, because […]
In this fallow week of scant tech news and even scanter regular news, the story of “rogue” PR agent Paul Christoforo and the Avenger gaming device has captivated the attention of the internet in a way only giant flameball trainwrecks […]
We all have a mental picture of what various geek type people look like when associated with certain tech brands. You know, the Apple artsy type, the Linux kid in the basement of his parent’s home, and the dorky looking […]
Does it seem to you like even three months later, those pesky occupiers are everywhere? Perhaps because sometimes, they are. And while the movement has scattered for the time being as frosty weather sets in to much of the northern […]
Last week, Reddit (with a little help from the rest of the internet, including the Cheezburger Network and a tiny site you might have visited once or twice, Wikipedia) helped encourage web users to transfer more than 70,000 domains away […]
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