Samsung makes breakthrough in 5G technology but doesn't expect commercialization until 2020
The good news: Samsung has made a breakthrough that inches us closer to having 5G mobile broadband technology at our fingertips. The bad news: it likely...
Sal McCloskey is a tech blogger in Los Angeles who (sadly) falls into the stereotype associated with nerds. Yes, he's a Star Trek fan and writes about it on Uberly. His glasses are thick and his allergies are thicker. Despite all that, he's (somehow) married to a beautiful woman and has 4 kids.
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Unmanned drone from Team Black Sheep stalks French police before hasty exit
The folks at Team BlackSheep put together a "Christmas Special" video with their quadcopter and GoPro camera.
Could a robot replace you at work?
The robot employment scenario has been described and discussed for decades. Ever since the first hints of automation started creeping into industrial…
The microscope stays on as Facebook's IPO needs further analysis
The notable that could have happened in tech blogging would have been for Facebook's IPO to "pop". We still would have watched closely but there would have...
Demand for Facebook IPO is "weaker than forecast". Are you worried, yet?
The biggest IPO in tech history is appearing to be smaller than people thought according to a recent report from Bloomberg. With growth prospects for...
IPO will keep Eduardo Saverin's party going in Singapore
The Social Network portrayed jilted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin as a victim. His character portrayed by The Amazing Spiderman's Andrew...
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 Protect-IP Act (PIPA). You may have...
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 and PIPA. Despite backpedaling...
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141 articles from Sal McCloskey's earlier editorial era on TECHi. These remain available at their original URLs but aren't part of the current beat.
How will social media be used differently this election season?
Some have attributed the success of President Barack Obama's rise to prominence over early favorite Hillary Clinton in 2008 to the adept way his campaign handled social media. He generated the early buzz through social before the mainstream media and television started realizing he would be able to sneak right past his opponents into prominence. The Republicans and John McCain had a miniscule focus on social media by comparison.
Finally, the Supreme Court is joining the digital age
One of the promises of the internet was to make more things available to the people in ways that we never knew before. For the most part, this has come...
Is the direct linking model better for consumers?
Since the dawn of eCommerce, there have been companies that have made it their business to generate leads to be purchased by other companies. It was a...
Personalization versus standardization in digital marketing
As technology continues to make it easier for businesses to market online, there has been a fork in the road when it comes to automation. On one hand,...
Is PPC dying?
In the world of marketing, pay-per-click advertising has been strong for a decade. Those who advertise on the search engines have found tremendous...
#Video: Fan-made Nightwing trailer poses an interesting Batman sequel idea
In The Dark Knight Rises and throughout the trilogy, we never hear of Dick Grayson, AKA Robin. Sure, Blake is insinuated as being a Robinesque character,...
Apple attacks Google and Facebook. They have a point
It's often easy to lump in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon into the same pot. After all, they're all big tech companies that focus on...
All the iPad Air reviews, compiled
Okay, so "ALL" is a bold statement. Perhaps it's better to say that these are the 17 you really need to read if you're considering one. If you're not...
#Infographic: 28% of PCs in Asia still run on Windows XP
There isn't much time left. In April of next year, Microsoft will end support for Windows XP, the best operating system of its time. In Asia, the OS still...
How Christian Bale won the role of Batman
There have been many complaints about Christian Bale's use of "gruffy Batman voice" throughout the most recent Batman trilogy, but that's exactly what...
Grand Theft Auto: How it started and where it ended up
With huge opening numbers, Grand Theft Auto V has launched towards resounding success. This isn't just another chapter in a popular video game series....
IM Creator, the free code free web builder
Until a while back, the idea of a software that would be able to build websites without the use of pragramming language was still something of the future...
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