President Obama has First Google+ Hangout
Today at 5 PM Eastern time, President Obama hosted the first Google+ hangout from the West Wing of the White House. Since last weeks State of the Union address, people were able to send in recorded videos through YouTube and [...]
Notch Asks Minecraft Players for Permission to Track Usage
Yesterday, Minecraft creator and co-founder of Mojang AB, Markus “Notch” Persson posted a blog post asking the players of Minecraft if they would allow Mojang to track usage. As of today, Mojang only tracks logins to their server. Putting this [...]
Apple Sets Record with Q1 Results
Today Apple held their quarterly earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first fiscal quarter of 2012. Once again, Apple had their best quarter to date. Apple posted a revenue of $46.33 billion and a net quarterly [...]
SOPA Bill Gets Pulled, PIPA Vote Postponed
It has definitely been an interesting week on the internet. On Wednesday, may sites ‘blacked out’ in opposition of SOPA/PIPA. On Thursday, US federal prosecutors shut down the worlds largest file sharing website, Megaupload, and arrested the founder and a few other [...]
Apple’s Education Announcement: Reinventing the Textbook
Today, Apple held a rather small press event on education at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. Apple plans to reinvent the textbook with the three things they talked about today. iBooks 2 One of the first things [...]
Megaupload Shut Down By Federal Prosecutors
Today, the day after the ‘blackout’ day to protest SOPA/PIPA, federal prosecutors have shutdown the worlds largest file sharing site: Megaupload. The founder and a few employees are being charged with violating privacy laws. According to the indictment put against [...]
EA To Require Origin for Mass Effect 3
Once again, EA is making a big mistake. As some of you may know, EA is trying to compete with other digital gaming platforms such as Valve’s Steam and GameStop’s Pulse network. Their platform, Origin, is still in beta and [...]
Next iPhone and iPad to Support 4G?
This year will mark the release of the third iteration of Apple’s iPad and the sixth iteration of their iPhone. Every new release of these products have improved something for the better in these devices. However, one thing the iPhone [...]
