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Reddit teaches Amazon the power of over-the-top customer service

Reddit teaches Amazon the power of over-the-top customer service

Good deeds are supposed to be rewarded, but all too often they simply go unnoticed. When Reddit user zambuka42 had...

Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, serves Adult Content

Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, serves Adult Content

For 22 minutes, viewers unexpectedly encountered unauthorized content when they went to the Sesame Street YouTube channel, and certainly not...

Microsoft gets aggressive in cloud CRM market against Oracle, Salesforce

Microsoft gets aggressive in cloud CRM market against Oracle, Salesforce

Microsoft really wants more cloud Customer Relationship Management (CRM) clients and now they're willing to pay for them. Medium-sized companies...

The Google+ honeymoon is over

The Google+ honeymoon is over

It was fun while it lasted. Something new and shiny popped into our social media lives in the last month...

The Google 2-Step: Security, Squared

The Google 2-Step: Security, Squared

With online security filling the news, even becoming a government issue with the National Internet ID on the horizon, Google...

Eat Your Heart Out, Kinect – Robot Arm Mimics Your Gestures

Eat Your Heart Out, Kinect – Robot Arm Mimics Your Gestures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbZYN1Db14 How cool is this? The answer, before you read any further or watch the video for additional information, is...

4 Issues Leading To A Permanent Fail Whale

4 Issues Leading To A Permanent Fail Whale

Twitter has been known to push the envelope on social communication and interaction. Twitter is even credited for heavily influencing...

The Internet is Serious Business: Conservatives Conspire to Rig Digg

The Internet is Serious Business: Conservatives Conspire to Rig Digg

Who said the internet was a sunshiney liberal wonderland of free speech? In an attempt to steer the internet, a...

Foursquare Will Find You. No Matter What.

Foursquare Will Find You. No Matter What.

Foursquare's looking for a search suitor, and Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are all on board to whisper sweet nothings into...

Android App Inventor Democratizes App Creation, May Flood Market With Crap

Android App Inventor Democratizes App Creation, May Flood Market With Crap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADwPLSFeY8For all the chatter regarding the great democratizing power of the internet - its capacity to enable a generation of...

How Foursquare Will Become the Google of Local

How Foursquare Will Become the Google of Local

On the web, small, seemingly insignificant things can have incredibly wide-reaching effects. A small ad placed next to a search...

Firefox 4 Beta Is Out – A Fanboy’s Fantasy?

Firefox 4 Beta Is Out – A Fanboy’s Fantasy?

I sat here for too long trying to come up with a headline about Firefox, and Chrome, and reflections. I...

Five Things Old Media Still Don’t Get About The Web

Five Things Old Media Still Don’t Get About The Web

Today the internet seems to have changed the information aspect, it just actually smashed the monopoly of the old media....

Sorry RIAA, MPAA: The Pirate’s Boat Will Stay Afloat

Sorry RIAA, MPAA: The Pirate’s Boat Will Stay Afloat

The entertainment industry has embarked in an all-out war against piracy around the globe, with the hopes of scaring would-be...

Why Location Apps Are The Next Big Thing

Why Location Apps Are The Next Big Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLLqdizxTs When Twitter finally hit the mainstream press in 2009, you could essentially predict the comments on every fluff piece...

Facebook vs. Canada. It’s about to get ugly.

Facebook vs. Canada. It’s about to get ugly.

It looks as though Facebook might face a court appearance before a federal judge in Canada real soon. This ongoing...

Adobe Adds HTML5 To Dreamweaver As An Afterthought

Adobe Adds HTML5 To Dreamweaver As An Afterthought

If you're a web designer, web user or a human being who's touched a computer in the last year, you...

Skype to Add Advertising to Its Already Cluttered Interface

Skype to Add Advertising to Its Already Cluttered Interface

Skype has been building itself up to becoming the most respected and used Internet phone company on the net, in...

Firefox 4 Looks To Be The Most Cunning Yet

Firefox 4 Looks To Be The Most Cunning Yet

Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, presented a slide show to the Mozilla community, outlining possible new features planned for Firefox...

Cell Phone Robots Make Calling Out Really Bulky and Awkward, But Are Totally Adorable

Cell Phone Robots Make Calling Out Really Bulky and Awkward, But Are Totally Adorable

Robots, man. Freaking robots. Your robotic fix today comes from PhD student Ji-Dong Yim, who has built two cell phone...