Former professional journalist turned citizen journalist and professional Web Designer discussing the world of technology, culture and the two converging.
As Barack Obama made history, Twitter sustained record-breaking activity on its microblogging service as voters across the globe tweeted their election night reactions.
“We’ve yet to do a full analysis for election day, but last night we saw messages per second peak at about 2-3 times what they did during the first presidential debate — which [...]
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of “phishing,” a form of hacking often employed [...]
It used to be that, if you hoped Google would index a PDF file, you had to create a PDF that was text-based, not image-based; Googlebot couldn’t recognize the content of scanned or image-based documents. According to an announcement today, that’s no longer the case.
Google says it’s now using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to [...]
A team of scientists from the United States and China announced last week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule ?CaMKII. It’s a big step forward, and one that will be of considerable interest to the military, which has devoted [...]
Your business name is usually the first thing a start up thinks about. How will I brand my business? The second thing is usually where should I locate my business to get the most traffic. Remember the age old adage, Location, Location, Location. These are the three most important factors that will determine business success.
On [...]
As if waking from a dream, Silicon Valley has suddenly realized that the collapsing economy means trouble for tech companies, too. Especially at risk are the new startups created in the wake of the last dotcom crash in 2001. The signal traits of these Web 2.0 companies are cutesy logos, odd-sounding names—Twitter, Zooomr, Digg, Ning, [...]
Swiss precision. More than 200 tiny parts. A sapphire crystal. A price tag that’s close to twice what I paid for my first car. It sounds like something from Rolex or Omega. But it’s the Aura, a new cell phone from Motorola.
The Aura has the following features:
–the phone industry’s first round display, with 16 million [...]
WHY YOU NEED TO HAVE A WEBSITE FOR YOUR BUSINESS?
Having a website on the Internet offers many benefits to a business owner. When a potential customer or client inquires about your business, having a website on the Internet lends a certain degree of credibility.
People can go to the website, see products or services that [...]
Yahoo launched their new profile product last week as part of their big plan to social networkize the entire Yahoo world. Every Yahoo profile was reset, and users were asked to go through a process of recreating it.
The comments from users were unambiguous - they were pissed off.
Common complaints include the fact that the new [...]
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