January 2012
29 Stories
Online payments may be the future, but today consumers are still concerned
It's clear that online payments are the future. Many pay for nearly everything online, but there are still security and...
Will Apple tap into China for more iPhone sales?
To get an iPhone that works in China, one must subscribe to China Unicom, the 2nd-largest carrier in the largest...
Not Rated Shoes: Taking on the juggernauts through social media
In a great economy, it's hard to start a retail company and get attention in industries where the major players...
What Twitter’s horrific recruitment video says about the state of Silicon Valley
As much as it deserves a tirade about professional recruiting, brand positioning, and using human relations as a public relations...
Making the internet more open… in education
Over the past few decades starting with the computer revolution and continuing through the digital age, the Massachusetts Institute of...
Note to Startups: If you’re going to steal from others… well, just don’t steal from others
The internet is rife with theft. People take content and concepts from others on a regular basis and pawn it...
Favo.rs brings accountability to business relationships
LinkedIn and Facebook may have the market cornered for building relationships between business professionals, many startups are starting to pop...
What Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney should learn from Paul (and Obama) about the internet
Today is a different world when it comes to political campaigns. A decade or two ago given the same candidates...
The Silicon Valleys… of the world
Just as movies are made outside of Hollywood and cars are built outside of Detroit, entrepreneurs, startups, and venture capitalists...
Predators versus prey in the startup ecosystem
The "Startup Sea" is broad and loaded with life. There are those who are considered predators, which means someone has...
SOPA and PIPA: Everything you need to know
Today is SOPA Blackout Day to oppose the bills currently being proposed in Congress, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and...
The SOPA blackout is the most American thing we’ve done all day
The Tea Party movement was intended for Americans to harken to the revolutions of the past when tyranny and taxation...
Modern language wars: PHP vs python vs ruby
There are several questions that programmers must answer when deciding on their language of choice. Depending on who you ask,...
Netflix woes continue, this time from angry investors with a class-action suit
The terrible summer and fall that Netflix had in 2011 seemed to have turned as poor decisions were reversed, new...
IBM’s vision of the technology world in the next 5 years
Every year, IBM takes a stab at telling the future by examining what they're working on in their 5in5 series....
This cake is not a lie
We normally don't look at cooking as a way to generate tech discussions or exemplify geek awesomeness, but this sort...
Samsung unveils the smartest window you’ve ever seen at CES
"Quite frankly, I feel like I'm in Minority Report and that's really awesome," said Ashley Esqueda from Mobile Nations. If...
Website owners, here’s how to protest SOPA on January 18th
Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were "going black" on January 18th to protest SOPA...
Visualizing the answers to the ultimate showdown: “Geeks vs Nerds”
For much of the 70, 80s, and even 90s, "nerds" and "geeks" were synonymous for most who used the terms....
90s kids in 45 years
If you ask older people today, many would use phrases of disappointment akin to "weeping for the future" or "I...
Samsung Galaxy Note starts the tablet/smartphone hybrid race
Those of us at CES know have seen a million gadgets and gizmos in the last few hours. We've seen...
Link’s Love Nest
Ah, young love. It warms the heart to see young gaming characters finding each other after a long quest and...
Ericsson’s vision of a “Networked Society” is beautiful, terrifying
There's a fine line between technology that enables a better world and technology that makes us head in the wrong...
Internet access Is a human right
Technology and philosophy have been at the center of more debates lately than ever before. It's clear that technology is...
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