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Radio is alive and well

There are those who think that radio is a dying medium with all of the gadgets and methods of getting music and news, but the stats say otherwise. A few...

Snowden has a job

Edward Snowden isn't just sitting around wondering how the Russians are tapping his apartment or if the CIA has a hit squad searching for him. His new distraction: work. He...

Gate-to-gate airplane made is coming to most flights

The wait is almost over. The need to hide your device during takeoff and landing is almost behind us. For years now, most of us have been quietly not turning...

Wireless carriers are missing the social media boat

It's big in just about every industry, including telecommunications. Why, then, have the big four wireless carriers failed to connect with their customers through social media? Social media has long...

If you can’t keep track of everything the NSA has hacked, here’s what they HAVEN’T hacked

It might be easier to work this backwards for the sake of time. Trying to detail everything they have broken into might be harder to sort than the opposite. In...

Convincing clients responsive design is the way to go

It isn't new. It isn't unique. Tons of sites have gone responsive, especially after Google and Apple both agreed that it's the best way for websites to interact with the...

If you don’t like the new Twitter layout, here’s how to change it

We aren't saying that it's bad. It might be the Facebookification of Twitter, but some people will like it. For those of you who do not, here's a way to...

Yahoo is doing just fine keeping people from their homes

It may have made a stir when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ordered all remote employees to report to the office, but they say that everything is now doing just fine,...

5 million Galaxy Note 3s hit stores in one month

They just keep selling more and more. The popular phablet started off strong and seems to be continuing the trend of increasing sales speed. The original Samsung Galaxy Note took...

NSA spins the Google/Yahoo hacking

They won't confirm it. They won't deny it. They won't acknowledge that it happened or that they knew what they were doing while they were doing it. This is spindoctoring...

First Bitcoin ATM opens in Vancouver

It's now much easier to handle your Bitcoin transactions... if you're in Vancouver, Canada. There's an ATM there that will allow you to deposit or withdraw your money. History was...

Protip: Apple stores won’t run out of iPad Airs on launch day

In case you were considering (or are currently) camped out in front of your local Apple store to get your hands on an iPad Air, don't worry. With 500-1000 units...

Wii U hasn’t broken half a million unites in six months

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Considering how powerful Nintendo was just a decade and a half ago makes old school gamers weep at the current state of the company....

Sprint CEO doesn’t get net neutrality

It's not the simplest concept to understand, but one would think that the CEO of a major tech company that supplies internet to people across the country would be able...

Xbox One loses to PS4 in Call of Duty: Ghosts resolution war

It isn't really a war. It isn't even really anything that 99% of gamers would even notice. Nobody will care. Still, it's 10 points to Sony and brings up the...

Businesses should retweet with caution

Don't get caught making a PR blunder because you didn't take the time to fully vet a Tweet before hitting the retweet button. What you tweet says a lot about...

Congress wants to do something about patent trolls. They just don’t know what.

They're unified on the goal. They have no idea how the details will work themselves out. The first comprehensive anti-patent-troll bill was introduced last week, and yesterday it debuted to...

12 words cost Facebook $18 billion in valuation

"We did see a decrease in daily users specifically among younger teens." Everything was going so well. Revenue was up. Profit was up. Users were up. The stock was up....

That cat urine odor is coming from your Dell laptop

If you own cats, you probably don't even notice. If you don't, you may wonder why every time you turn on your laptop there's a distinct smell of cat urine....

iPad Air graphics perform 40-70% better than predecessor

The rave reviews of the iPad Air keep coming in. Here's a quick little note that shows a clear difference in this latest generation Apple tablet. The iPad Air's graphics...