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Test Drive A VW Directly From A Print Magazine Ad

Test Drive A VW Directly From A Print Magazine Ad

https://youtu.be/FhbkqFdKnP8?si=UoKmtOcy2QO6lVyL You know things are getting pretty ridiculous in the tech world when you can test drive a car directly...

Head of Flickr Bails: Another Reason Why Facebook Should Buy Them

Head of Flickr Bails: Another Reason Why Facebook Should Buy Them

Matthew Rothenberg, the man who most believed ran Flickr for Yahoo!, announced his departure in a Tweet today. He was...

Google Circles: It’s (probably not) Coming

Google Circles: It’s (probably not) Coming

Update: The most recent word from AllThingsD is that the product does not exist in any form other than in...

By the Numbers: #SXSW

By the Numbers: #SXSW

This year, the popular South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas, returns to celebrate its monumental 25th...

Google Going for YouTube Gold

Google Going for YouTube Gold

YouTube has always been a "nice to have" property for Google. The traffic, the domination of a segment, the feather...

Amazon vs The Tax Man (with Roger Ebert caught in the crossfire)

Amazon vs The Tax Man (with Roger Ebert caught in the crossfire)

Whenever a state's tax man steps foot on Amazon's porch, they make a hasty escape out the back door. That's...

Why I Might Be Out Of A Job Soon

Why I Might Be Out Of A Job Soon

I have been blogging professionally for nearly five years — it has been my sole source of income. It isn't...

From Bits to Yottabytes: Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Data Measurements

From Bits to Yottabytes: Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Data Measurements

We've all heard of bytes, kilobytes, and megabytes for decades. The last couple of decades has put "gigabytes" into our...

Net Neutrality Rules Voted Invalid by House Panel

Net Neutrality Rules Voted Invalid by House Panel

A Republican-led House subcommittee voted 15-8 to invalidate the FCC’s net neutrality rules. The rules will likely stay in place,...

Three Things The Web Can Learn from Old Media

Three Things The Web Can Learn from Old Media

It has become common wisdom in the tech world that old media represents an obsolete mode of thinking that should...

iPad Set to Take to the Air

iPad Set to Take to the Air

It's only a matter of time before the iPad erases print entirely. The Federal Aviation Administration has granted early approval...

Why Netflix Will Control “Big Telecom” (or die trying)

Why Netflix Will Control “Big Telecom” (or die trying)

There are only two viable scenarios that will come to pass in the near future when it comes to home...

Demand Super-Fast Broadband in the US

Demand Super-Fast Broadband in the US

An article in the NY Times yesterday really upset me. If you live in the US, it should upset you...

The Cloud Debate: On-Premise or “Out There”?

The Cloud Debate: On-Premise or “Out There”?

One of the biggest debates raging right now in the IT world is about the cloud. While many who embrace...

Microsoft’s Oh My F****** God Moment

Microsoft’s Oh My F****** God Moment

While Microsoft was preoccupied with its conquest for desktop supremacy, something crazy happened. They called it the mobile revolution. This...

Google Demos Self-Driving Cars at TED Conference

Google Demos Self-Driving Cars at TED Conference

Google made big news last year when the search giant announced it had developed technology for cars that can drive...

iPad 2: Apple’s Secret Weapon is the Ease of Ownership

iPad 2: Apple’s Secret Weapon is the Ease of Ownership

So, today the entire tech world was postively shocked to find out that the iPad 2... was exactly what we...

Microsoft Kinect Could Take 3D To The Next Dimension

Microsoft Kinect Could Take 3D To The Next Dimension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVhgUs3_RGU Steven Bathiche might have just become Microsoft's most popular developer for the time being. He has created a slew...

Gmail Bug Compromises the Cloud

Gmail Bug Compromises the Cloud

If you don't already believe in the poofy white safety of the cloud... keep disbelieving. A Gmail bug has deleted...

Why the Facebook Like Button Change is a ‘Bait and Switch’

Why the Facebook Like Button Change is a ‘Bait and Switch’

Sunday, Facebook rolled out a change in the functionality of the Facebook "Like" button on websites across the Internet, essentially...