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For decades, International Business Machines Corporation, better known as IBM, has been one of the most solid representatives in the tech world from a...
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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...


The best 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...
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...

The Social Network portrayed jilted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin as a victim. His character portrayed by The Amazing Spiderman's Andrew...

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...

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 era on TECHi (pre-2026 financial-coverage pivot). URLs still resolve and Google can crawl them, but they're not on the current beat.

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...
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...

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...

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...

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...
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....

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...
Tumblr didn't say it was hacked. They didn't say that any data was lost nor did they say that that there is any reason for concern. They did, however,...

Anyone who lives in a large metro area has experienced the trouble of finding a parking spot close to your destination. If you drive a large truck or SUV,...
It isn't often that CEOs negotiate a worse deal than the one they're offered. Apple's CEO Tim Cook isn't your average negotiator. At his request, his...

There are luxury items out there that only the wealthy would ever consider. In most cases, they have amenities that nobody really thought they needed...

Listening to what was said without context would leave most surprised that it was delivered at one of the geekiest conferences in the world. When Patrick...

If there's one thing that could bring down the whole Twitter empire outside of a catastrophic meltdown of all of their servers, it's spam. Hackers and...

Has the sleeping giant awoken or is this a last ditch effort to remain relevant? After buying Tumblr last week, Yahoo is now in the mix to buy Hulu with...

There are food shortages around the world. People die from hunger in all countries and regions. Keeping the seven billion residence of the world fed has...

No.Go ahead and mark this one down as one of those nifty features that Google puts out there without telling many people that sits around until they...

Over the last few decades, the way that data is stored has evolved faster than just about any form of technology. What used to take large rooms to hold...
Today's kids are digitally adept. That much is very clear to anyone with a toddler and an iPad. They seem to have a natural ability to take a gadget that...
The internet. It has become such an integrated part of our lives that many do not spend more than a few waking hours without being connected in some way....
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