Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Silicon success hits Instagram as Facebook shells out $1 billion to buy it

Apr 9 by Lorie Wimble | add comment

It’s a sign of the times. Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has purchased photo app Instagram for $1 billion. The 13-person team at Instagram has not been able to generate revenue but was able to build a strong base of 30 million users. more »

The marketing zombies will take over Pinterest soon. They already are.

Apr 8 by JD Rucker | add comment

In 2007, there was an emerging social media site that had a modest but growing userbase. It was designed to let users tell their friends and followers what they were doing at that moment regardless of how mundane or personal. The posts on it were more »

MapQuest lives (despite every attempt to replace it with smartphones)

Apr 7 by Connor Livingston | add comment

It’s hard to let a good thing die. Most people who do not have navigation in their vehicle or a portable GPS system at the very least use their smartphones to get them from point A to point B. The days of looking up a route and printing it out are behind more »

The college experience enhanced (or hampered) by social media

Apr 7 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, he wanted to make a closed network for the elite at Harvard. Over time, he realized that by opening it up, he would be able to build something that cataloged the college experience for everyone. Eventually, more »

Google's Project Glass will be more annoying than bluetooth (until it's accepted and mass-delivered)

Apr 5 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

Sometime in the near future you may see people walking around with eyeglasses on that only have a small lens visible at the top of one eye. They will be talking to seemingly nobody and possibly bumping into things while they update their Google+ more »

In the internet ruining our brains?

Apr 4 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

The majority of people would say that the internet has enhanced our lives. It has given us access to more information than many dreamed of a couple of decades ago and we can get it more easily than most thought possible one decade ago. These opinions, more »

As many as 1.5 million credit cards at risk through Global Payments hack

Apr 2 by Sal McCloskey | add comment

Late last week payment processor Global Payments revealed that MasterCard and Visa cardholders were at risk through a security flaw in their system.  We now know that the cards affected in the breach processing system were only in North America but that the more »

When will iBooks become the norm in schools?

Apr 1 by Scarlett Madison | 1 comment

There has been a push to replace books in the educational arena for some time now. This push hasn’t been in Washington or school board meeting rooms even though they are happening there as well. The big push is happening in the minds of students more »

Understanding relativity in 4 minutes or less

Mar 31 by Rocco Penn | add comment

For over a century, people have tried to cope with understanding Einstein’s special theory of relativity and his famous equation, E=MC2. There have been long videos and visualizations that attempted to dumb down both the process that Einstein more »

Several not-so-random facts about how IT perceives the cloud

Mar 31 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

Connectivity and the possibility of not having access to data is a risk with cloud computing, as is speed based upon a faltering internet infrastructure, but the primary reason that people are hesitant to adopt the cloud for all of their business more »

Piracy cut in half in France, yet music and movie revenues fell

Mar 31 by Sal McCloskey | 6 comments

France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to reduce the amount of illegal downloads by establishing progressively-harsher penalties on file sharers. The results were strong, as shown more »

Google's driverless car comes with (satirical) consequences

Mar 30 by Rocco Penn | add comment

With California having major financial woes, the Google Driverless Car may be enough to tank the entire state since ID cards cost $6 less than driver’s licenses. This and many other satirical consequences of the looming possibility of having driverless cars on more »

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