Apple Introduces OS X Mountain Lion
Late last night into early this morning, Apple introduced the next version of their desktop operating system, Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8). Yes, you read that right, they dropped the word ‘Mac’ out of the name. This update continues [...]
PSN becomes SEN in 4.10 System Update for PS3
Today, Sony released the 4.10 firmware update for PS3 as well as the 1.60 update for the PS Vita. One of the main changes in this update is the change from the PlayStation Network (PSN) to the Sony Entertainment Network [...]
Facebook Goes Public
As of yesterday, Facebook officially filed to go public. Once it goes through later this year, they will be using the stock symbol “FB” (Makes sense). The company plans to raise $5 billion through the IPO, which seems like a [...]
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 [...]
