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Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion
Facebook announced its agreement to buy the popular photo sharing app maker Instagram on Monday (4/9/2012) to the tune of $1 billion (with a “B”) in cash and stock. Facebook’s CEO and founder, Mark
Read More »Anonymous Will Attempt to Shut Down the Internet with Operation Blackout on March 31st
The hacktivist organization known as Anonymous has announced its plans to disable the internet this Saturday, March 31st. The group has been known to bring down websites, large ones at that, but has
Read More »Angry Birds Space Takes Off!
One small step for Rovio, one giant leap for Angry Bird fans. Yes that’s right, the newest iteration of the highly popular game Angry Birds is finally here: Angry Birds Space hit the digital shelves
Read More »Free Apps Are Reducing Battery Life
Why pay money for something you can get for free? Well it seems, as far as smartphone apps are concerned, free might not always be best. According to a new paper from Purdue University which
Read More »Siri Challenged in Lawsuit, Complaints of Apple’s Misrepresentation
The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog reported that last Tuesday, a lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of California by an iPhone 4S customer. He is accusing Apple of misrepresenting the functionality of
Read More »AP Sues Meltwater News for Copyright Infringement; Another Try at Regulating the Internet
It seems that every day there is a new threat to the way the internet operates. The past few months have seen the threat embodied by the SOPA and PIPA bills. Once they failed,
Read More »M-Edge Incline Jacket for Nook Color and Nook Tablet Review
There really aren’t as many choices out there in terms of covers or cases for those of us who own the slightly less popular tablet devices or e-readers when compared to the iPad. But
Read More »ACTA: Worse Than SOPA/PIPA
The small victory the internet community and civil liberty supporters celebrated at the demise of SOPA/PIPA due to the mass online protests gave big media the opportunity to draw attention away from a far
Read More »Angry Birds on Facebook this Valentine’s Day, Could it be the Largest Facebook Event Ever?
Rovio has announced that from 6-9 pm on February 14th, Angry Birds and Facebook will be going on their very first date. The news was released through a trailer (below) and suggests that the most
Read More »Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets By Country, Not as Bad as it Sounds
The social media and micro blogging platform Twitter announced that it has refined its technology so as to allow more flexibility when it comes to censoring tweets. But before you flip a desk over
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