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When good reviews go bad, the potential beneficiary is always fingered. That’s the case with BlackBerry whose popular BBM instant messaging app was “hit” with a ton of suspicious positive reviews. BlackBerry recently came under fire for a slew of suspicious reviews with five-star r
It launched. It didn’t work. Now they say they’ll get it working by the end of next month. We’ll believe it when we see it. The troubled federal health insurance website will be fixed by the end of November, giving uninsured Americans two weeks to get signed up in time to have heal
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 widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation [&hell
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 week. The video accompanying the posting unites Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, who all pitch the c
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 Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to coo
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 tune, now, as they take their prize fighter into the ring against Netflix. Love HBO, but hate paying for expensive cable bundles? Comcast’s got a
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. We have over the past few days brought to you many such devices from a variety of manufacturers. It was just a week ago that […]
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 in the third quarter driven by strong smartphone sales and a recovery in its memory chip business. It made a
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 is transitioning its 250,000 street lights to energy-efficient LEDs in an upgrade that should be completed by 2017. CBS reports that Mayor Michael
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 so. Knowing California, they’ll probably do both. California leads the nation in electric vehicle sales, and now is joining forces with Oregon a
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 a quantum computer and the other technologies needed to get AI. If the New York Times’s latest article is to be believed, art
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 National Security Agency monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after being given the numbers by an official in another US gover
