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Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion

Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion

Michael Foley April 9, 2012 1

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

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Anonymous Will Attempt to Shut Down the Internet with Operation Blackout on March 31st

Anonymous Will Attempt to Shut Down the Internet with Operation Blackout on March 31st

Michael Foley March 28, 2012 8

  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

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Angry Birds Space Takes Off!

Angry Birds Space Takes Off!

Michael Foley March 22, 2012 0

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

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Free Apps Are Reducing Battery Life

Free Apps Are Reducing Battery Life

Michael Foley March 19, 2012 0

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

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Siri Challenged in Lawsuit, Complaints of Apple’s Misrepresentation

Siri Challenged in Lawsuit, Complaints of Apple’s Misrepresentation

Michael Foley March 12, 2012 2

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

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AP Sues Meltwater News for Copyright Infringement; Another Try at Regulating the Internet

AP Sues Meltwater News for Copyright Infringement; Another Try at Regulating the Internet

Michael Foley February 20, 2012 2

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,

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M-Edge Incline Jacket for Nook Color and Nook Tablet Review

M-Edge Incline Jacket for Nook Color and Nook Tablet Review

Michael Foley February 10, 2012 1

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

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ACTA: Worse Than SOPA/PIPA

ACTA: Worse Than SOPA/PIPA

Michael Foley January 30, 2012 3

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

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Angry Birds on Facebook this Valentine’s Day, Could it be the Largest Facebook Event Ever?

Angry Birds on Facebook this Valentine’s Day, Could it be the Largest Facebook Event Ever?

Michael Foley January 30, 2012 0

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

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Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets By Country, Not as Bad as it Sounds

Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets By Country, Not as Bad as it Sounds

Michael Foley January 27, 2012 0

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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