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How Sony Can Recover From Their PSN Nightmare

How Sony Can Recover From Their PSN Nightmare

If you were in the management team at Sony - especially Sony Computer Entertainment - life is probably a little...

Inside the Mind of a Customer Support Agent

Inside the Mind of a Customer Support Agent

If there's one major complaint that almost every tech company in the world has to deal with from time to...

ATT releases ‘cell tower in a suitcase’ for disaster relief efforts

ATT releases ‘cell tower in a suitcase’ for disaster relief efforts

Communication is often the key to coordinating responses to disasters. From 9/11 to the Japan tsunami, keeping people on the...

Serves them right: Righthaven (aka MegaCopyrightTroll) loses own domain

Serves them right: Righthaven (aka MegaCopyrightTroll) loses own domain

When the tables turn, comedy often ensues. Such is the ironic case of Righthaven.com, the "copyright troll" that attempts to...

Did Minority Report predict the future of advertising technology?

Did Minority Report predict the future of advertising technology?

The year is 2054. While preventing murders before they happen is the plot device driving the movie "Minority Report," one...

Mac people vs PC people

Mac people vs PC people

There is little doubt that the self-perception of "Mac people" and "PC people" are often completely different, just as the...

Flaming the fire of the solar vs nuclear debate: Fukushima

Flaming the fire of the solar vs nuclear debate: Fukushima

Proponents on both sides of the fence will argue feverishly about how the benefits of their chosen energy preference are...

Porsche’s 911 GT3 R is a Very ‘Likable’ Hybrid

Porsche’s 911 GT3 R is a Very ‘Likable’ Hybrid

Porsche is very appreciative of its 1 million+ Facebook fans. To honor these enthusiastic Porsche lovers, the automaker recently created...

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button turns 1

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button turns 1

The Like button turns a year old today. I'd say that it seems like only yesterday that we were 'becoming...

8 gadgets we should’ve never bought

8 gadgets we should’ve never bought

The digital age has brought with it many inventions and breakthroughs that have made our lives better. But there are...

Google Launches Cleaner, Faster Toolbar

Google Launches Cleaner, Faster Toolbar

Google has brought the speed of Google Instant to its latest Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. One of the primary...

Will Flipboard Do To Magazines What Napster Did To Music?

Will Flipboard Do To Magazines What Napster Did To Music?

Flipboard is, on the surface, a pretty, user-friendly iPad app that creates a personalized magazine for you. But it's also...

Dropbox grows 500% in just 15 months

Dropbox grows 500% in just 15 months

While the glitz, glamour, and buzz of Silicon Valley tends to make start-ups seem as though they can grow effortlessly...

From Hacktivists to Cyber Terrorists: The Many Faces of Hacking

From Hacktivists to Cyber Terrorists: The Many Faces of Hacking

There are many reasons why people get into hacking. Some want to change the world, to fight for the little...

Amazon cheapens the Kindle, for a price

Amazon cheapens the Kindle, for a price

Want the new Kindle 3? Want it cheaper than what most people have paid? Amazon may have the answer with...

Uh oh! Mark Zuckerberg might not own Facebook after all

Uh oh! Mark Zuckerberg might not own Facebook after all

Seen The Social Network? Well, they might need to remake the movie if what Paul Ceglia claims turns out to...

The Winklevoss Twins: How the Movie May have Hurt Their Appeal

The Winklevoss Twins: How the Movie May have Hurt Their Appeal

Say what you will about the impartiality of judges and the recent ruling to not expand on the Winklevoss twins'...

Steve Jobs: The Man, The Legend, The Book

Steve Jobs: The Man, The Legend, The Book

Hold onto your TV Hat - Simon & Schuster are publishing the official biography of Steve Jobs. Written by TIME...

The Story of Linux (on the occasion of its 20th anniversary)

The Story of Linux (on the occasion of its 20th anniversary)

Few things say "geek cred" as loudly as invoking the Linux lifestyle. Those of us who are embedded in its...

Why Larry Page is Right and Everyone Else is Wrong About Google Social

Why Larry Page is Right and Everyone Else is Wrong About Google Social

Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were on top of the basketball world in the 80s. They fought back wars against...