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SOPA/PIPA Explained; GoDaddy loses 21,000 domains and stops supporting SOPA

SOPA/PIPA Explained; GoDaddy loses 21,000 domains and stops supporting SOPA

Michael Foley December 26, 2011 4

Late last week saw the domain registrar Go Daddy lose over 21,000 domains. Why did this happen to a service which was doing pretty well for itself for so long? In an acronym, SOPA.

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Microsoft Pulling Out of CES After 2012

Microsoft Pulling Out of CES After 2012

Michael Convente December 22, 2011 0

Microsoft announced today that their attendance at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show will be their last, ending a two-decade partnership that saw the launch of the Xbox gaming system and the Kinect motion camera

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Kindle Fire Performance Update Fixes Initial Problems, How to Install

Kindle Fire Performance Update Fixes Initial Problems, How to Install

Michael Foley December 21, 2011 0

Amazon updated its Kindle Fire tablet last night to software version 6.2.1 in an effort to fix the problems many have been complaining about since its debut in mid-November. Along with several performance update,

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Top 5 Tablets for the 2011 Holiday Season

Top 5 Tablets for the 2011 Holiday Season

Aaron Holtzman December 20, 2011 2

Christmas is literally right around corner and for those of you who are last minute shoppers (myself included), take a look at our list of the top 5 tablets. Let’s take a look first

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Facebook Mashup: No going back on Timeline, iPhone gets Timeline, android overtakes iPhone Facebook App

Facebook Mashup: No going back on Timeline, iPhone gets Timeline, android overtakes iPhone Facebook App

Mo Choudhury December 20, 2011 3

No Going Back on Facebook Timeline Facebook introduced the Timeline feature to the world earlier this week. Timeline  replaces a user’s profile and wall with a reverse-chronological timeline of all activity on Facebook. Facebook

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Online donation platforms for charities can be costly, but still better than telemarketing

Online donation platforms for charities can be costly, but still better than telemarketing

Aaron Holtzman December 19, 2011 0

Blackbaud’s 2010 Online Giving Report came out with the statistic that 7.6% of all charitable giving occurs online, and growing (up 40% from 2009).  With this influx of donations occurring online, many new platforms sprung up

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Saudi Prince Alwaleed buys $300 Million Stake in Twitter

Saudi Prince Alwaleed buys $300 Million Stake in Twitter

Mo Choudhury December 19, 2011 0

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his investment company, Kingdom Holding Co.  said Monday that they are investing a combined $300 million into Twitter. The deal, which was first reported by Bloomberg

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Facebook VS. Mark Zuckerberg. Say it ain’t so!

Facebook VS. Mark Zuckerberg. Say it ain’t so!

Mo Choudhury December 19, 2011 0

Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg. No, really. However, it’s not the same Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook, rather, it’s Israeli social-media entrepreneur formerly known as Rotem Guez. You see Mr. Guez has officially changed

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From iPad to iTV? How Apple plans to Change the TV experience

From iPad to iTV? How Apple plans to Change the TV experience

Mo Choudhury December 19, 2011 0

Apple may be gearing up to change how you watch Television.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company has begun talking to media executives at several large companies about the future of

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Controversy Over Carrier IQ Leading Sprint to Disable the Service

Controversy Over Carrier IQ Leading Sprint to Disable the Service

Ken Hong December 18, 2011 0

The recent storm over Carrier IQ, a software installed on more than 150 million smartphones was sparked by a security researcher by the name of Trevor Eckhart, where he posted a 17-minute video a

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