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Google has been doing it. AT&T is doing it. Now CenturyLink wants to bring super-speed internet to Sin City. While the gigabit Internet revolution (well, evolution) continues for the likes of Google, AT&T, and a handful of smaller ISPs, CenturyLink won’t be left behind. The company is nearly
Walmart became the everything store in the 90s. It was a one-stop shop that could clear a calendar quickly of chores with one visit. Now, Amazon is trying to do the same thing from a virtual perspective. Within Amazon.com (AMZN) there’s a certain type of e-mail that elicits waves of panic. It usuall
One of the biggest reasons Foxconn put their intern labor rules in play in the first place was because they didn’t want the international community to be upset by their labor practices. The bottom line won out this time and they decided that production of the PlayStation 4 took precedence over
When it comes to cloud computing, Amazon has been the place to be for large percentage of companies, especially startups. Things are changing. Amazon Web Services is the default, go-to IT infrastructure of choice for startups, right? Right. Er, well not always. No one disputes that AWS provides an i
It’s never a good thing to consider, especially when the future looked so bright for the company half a decade ago, but BlackBerry is becoming more open to the concept of breaking up the company and selling itself off in parts rather than as a whole. BlackBerry Ltd. is more open to a breakup o
It’s the tablets. Blame the tablets. The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 80.3 million units in the third quarter of 2013,
If you’re wondering what an advertisement on Pinterest looks like, here it is. Their upcoming revenue model with in-stream advertising may add value to the already-hot social network. Then again, it might just spam it out. Pinterest today started its preannounced test of “promoted pins,” a.k.a
Twitter is definitely trying to make a statement before going public. In the continued push for success and pre-IPO buzz, Twitter announced that they have formed partnerships with Comcast and NBCUniversal. Twitter is making huge strides in entering the TV market. Fresh off of the first Nielsen/Twitt
A game’s success is normally measured in two ways: sales and reviews. In the case of Grand Theft Auto V, the scale is a bit different. This game’s success can be measured in the number of world records it can break, currently set at seven. The latest iteration of Rockstar North’s G
The world of operating systems is much more encompassing than the browser world that Mozilla has lived in with their popular Firefox web browser. Their OS is growing up quickly with an update and plans to expand. Mozilla’s HTML5-based open mobile platform Firefox OS, which bagged support from a raft
The technology world just got a bit weirder (and more amazing) after Disney announced that they invented a touchscreen that allows tactile differences to be experienced. It’s sort of like old “Smellovision” with your fingers. The company that brought you the first animated feature
As crazy as it may sound, some analysts are predicting that the mythical iWatch could sell as many as 10 million units in their first year. Investment firm Piper Jaffray surveyed 799 U.S. consumers about Apple’s rumored wrist-worn device and concluded that an “iWatch” could have a penetration
