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Is Wikipedia dying?

People use Wikipedia. They even edit it. They're just not adding to it like they used to. The hub of all all human knowledge may be dying. The sixth most...

Twitter hits the road in preparation for their IPO

The Twitter IPO is coming and the team is hitting the road to sell their potential. Twitter has posted media related to its upcoming IPO Roadshow, scheduled to begin next...

Germany wants to disconnect from America’s internet

Germany is joining other countries in calling for isolation as further revelations about the NSA's spying techniques come to light. As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and...

Is HBO on its way out of the bundling constraints of Comcast?

If you have Comcast and you want HBO, chances are you have to pay for a lot of other things that you don't want. Comcast may be singing a different...

From none to many: the smartwatch boom

This time last year, most had no idea what a smartwatch was or that they were on the horizon. Today, everyone seems to be building one. Wearable devices are in....

Samsung is basically printing money

With net profits of $7.6 billion last quarter, Samsung is moving forward and still looking strong before the lucrative Christmas quarter. Samsung Electronics has reported a 26% jump in profit...

New York City is going all LED by 2017

With a quarter of a million street lights, New York City is always lit up. In less than four years, they'll be lit up the right way. New York City...

California joins initiative to put 3.3 electric vehicles on the road

If you can't convince people that going green is the right way to go, you can either give them an incentive to do so or a penalty for not doing...

I, for one, embrace our future robot overlords

The thought of artificial intelligence being the catalyst for the eventual demise of the human race makes for some pretty cool science fiction, but as we get closer to having...

NSA monitored at least 35 world leaders

The latest report is 35. The reality could end up being a lot more world leaders whose cell phones were tapped by the NSA when the dust finally settles. The...

Tumblr finally has search that doesn’t suck

Hashtags were made for grouping common thoughts together and to aid with search, not to be the sole method of searching a website. Tumblr didn't know that before, but their...

Here are the details on Twitter’s IPO

They are coming in at around half of where Facebook started last year and their cash ambitions are smaller, but it's not exactly chump change in the tech IPO world....

A bad experience with Box.com

Mistakes happen. Things get hacked. Data can be lost. This tale is, however, a little different. In this case, Box.com helped make the situation fall apart. Let me start by...

Is BlackBerry faking reviews for BBM?

The one shining positive in the world of BlackBerry, their BBM messaging system, is looking mighty suspicious when one takes a closer examination of the reviews that are popping up...

Vine brings video editing, draft saving to their social app

There's not a whole lot you can do to edit a six-second video and there's probably not a reason to need to save multiple drafts, but hey, if Vine can...

Possibly worse than the NSA: your boss

Many companies have the technology, resources, and incentive to keep close tabs on their employees. Are they getting too deep into our work affairs to border on spying? Dennis Gray...

Can VPNs defend against the NSA?

No. No they cannot. Not yet, at least. Let’s start off by saying that no VPN service can ever guarantee your anonymity 100%. That said, there is good reason to...

75% of AT&T customers own smartphones

When the smartphone rush began in 2008, even the most aggressive estimates put feature phones in the lead until at least 2018. Oh, how wrong they were. You would think...

DARPA offering $2 million to anyone who can build Skynet software

Call it what it is. DARPA's grand challenge to programmer is to build self-healing cyber-security software. If you think about it, self-awareness and the ability to protect itself is essentially...

Is the death of patent trolling near?

"Death" is a powerful word to use, but if this bill makes it through, it would essentially put in too much potential pain for anyone to mess with frivolous trolling...