CES 2012 kicks off this week and we are more than happy to report from there. This is the first major event of the year and a lot of important companies will hold press conferences or keynotes to announce the gadgets of 2012: tablets, laptops, ultrabooks, mobile phones and TVs and much more. CES 2012 will take place as usual in Las Vegas, Nevada during January 8-10. This is the official Schedule:
Many people heard of Bradley E. Manning, a United States Army Soldier, who was arrested back in May of 2010 for passing classified military information to Wikileaks. He had a total of 22 charges laid against him because he released information that he had downloaded from SIPRNet (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network). This information was on a variety of sensitive topics such as Afghan war documents, Iraq War documents, Reykjavik13, and even a video now known as the Collateral Murder video. All in all over 251,287 U.S state department cables were filtered through Assange to Wikileaks.
After leaking the massive amount of information Bradley E. Manning was subsequently discharged and then detained – now awaiting trial for over 22 different charges but the United States government doesn’t stop there. On top of prosecuting Manning, they are also going after several WikiLeaks backers who had helped Manning. +Continue Reading
The social media market is completely saturated with Facebook to the point that there really is no room for other social media sites….or is there? When Google + first came out many were skeptical about it; of course Google + had that heavyweight name behind it, but Facebook was, well, Facebook. Facebook beat out MySpace, FourSquare, and tons of other social media sites that are now unheard of. So when Google + first emerged, many were sure that it was destined for failure.
There were strong supporters of Google + but many more who predicted its imminent doom. With its initial struggle many thought that it would take a nose dive, but new information shows that it is doing better than those naysayers thought! +Continue Reading
Mark Zuckerberg’s energies have gone into not blowing his top. Lately, he has been preening the world’s largest social network company to be transformed into a blue chip business. For eighteen months, as CEO of Facebook, Zuckerberg is reshaping the appearance and behavior.
Enamored with Gates, Zuckerberg hinted that he wanted to emulate Microsoft, “There was a time in Microsoft’s history when their main goal was to put a computer on every desk. This vision casting is how we want to run the company, changing the world as we go.”
In the second quarter of 2012 Facebook hopes to go public with its stock, with an IPO that has the potential of raising $10 billion, a valuation of $100 million or more. In light of the IPO, Zuckerberg is fighting to prep the company to look the part. +Continue Reading
The continued outrage for SOPA was only fueled when protesters saw multiple companies not only complying with the bill but actually listing their support for it. These companies are not thinking about how devastating this act will be if it passes, they are not sympathetic to the fact that this act will enable the government and other private parties the ability to bypass the due process and effectively decimate any site accused of copyright infringement. SOPA will forever change how you use the Internet and it will have lasting effects. Fortunately a lot of important companies are against SOPA: AOL, eBay(+PayPal), Facebook, Google, GoDaddy, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Reddit, Torrentfreak, Tumblr, Twitter, TechCrunch, ESET, 4chan, HostGator, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Kaspersky, Craiglist and The Huffington Post.
So what is SOPA exactly? +Continue Reading
Out of the 1,000 top search terms throughout this past year, Facebook was #1 in the U.S. It is the third year running, and a 46% increase over 2010, coming in at 3.10% of all searches for 2011. If you include variations on the term facebook that occurred in the top 10, the percentage is 4.42, and is only a 24% increase over the 2010 results.
Youtube jumped from third to second between 2010 and 2011. Facebook login followed in third place. Fourth was craiglist, followed by facebook.com.
Clearly, social networking phrases were most dominant for 2011, as could be seen by their piece of the pie: 4.18 percent of the total 50 top search terms, a 12 percent increase over 2010. +Continue Reading
Online gambling was proposed years ago when the states realized the potential of more revenue without having to raise taxes. It seemed like the logical step for gambling and the lottery because the Internet is (and was even back then) the largest and fastest growing marketplace. With states in dire need of more money, the proposal seemed to be their answer however the United States Justice Department ruled against the proposal.
Years later the Justice Department has finally reversed their decision. Apparently their legal opinion was issued in September but it wasn’t made public until the 23rd of December. This was in response to several requests by the states of New York and Illinois to clarify an act from 1961 called the Wire Act. +Continue Reading
1Apple revolutionizing academic textbooks with iBooks 2 App
January 21, 2012
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0Wikipedia will go offline Today to protest against SOPA and PIPA
January 18, 2012
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