Billed as a free app, Ask the Cheesemonger for iPhone and iPod Touch is anything but. You’ll get a paltry glimpse of the app’s content before being prompted to upgrade to the full version of the cheese-filled directory, but is it worth shelling out extra cash? For its regular price of $ 2.99, my vote [...]
We’ve seen some pretty cool homages to Super Mario Bros. over the last year, including an epic Super Mario Land Minecraft project, Super Mario Bros. shoes, and even a Super Mario Bros. Super Show dance routine. But our latest find, a retro Super Mario Bros. … Continue reading → Tech News Headlines – Yahoo! News
In a Facebook posting today, Florida Senator Marco Rubio withdrew support of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) the Senate’s anti-piracy legislation–a bill he had originally co-sponsored. The bill is the Senate’s complementary bill to the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (which are two pages that Wikipedia did not black out todayt). At around 10 a.m. Rubio [...]
Facebook has conducted a study to defend itself from old arguments. In 2010, the social network conducted research to see who people associate most with most on Facebook. Strangely, more than a year later, Facebook has chosen to publish results of the study, which proves that “Facebook isn’t the echo chamber that some might expect” and [...]
We’re all for showing anti-SOPA/PIPA sentiment. This proposed legislation would dismantle the Internet as we know it and freedom of expression would take a serious hit. All that said, we also know how important Wikipedia is to the Web user’s everyday existence, and a full 24 hours without might be more than you can handle. [...]
In the hours before the blackout hit, coders and bloggers alike scrambled and many succeeded in finding ways around the anti-censorship protests on sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Wired. Now that everyone’s had the chance to tinker with the site, more details are emerging about the real effects of the blackout. Chief among them, because [...]
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – With Wikipedia closed for business Wednesday in protest of anti-piracy legislation, media outlets such as the Washington Post, the Guardian and NPR are stepping in to fill the void. Writers and editors from the different news outlets will answer questions posed on Twitter, some with the hashtag #altwiki, thus using crowdsourcing [...]
We know Apple operates in a shroud of secrecy, partially to keep its fanboys hungry, but the latest inside look at the company from Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky describes a intense culture more akin to an organization protecting life-or-death secrets. ”We have cells, like a terrorist organization,” says Jon Rubinstein, a former Apple senior hardware executive, in a 2000 Businessweek article. “Everything is [...]
The SOPA protest is moving from the Internet to the streets. The NY Tech Meetup community, an organization of more than 20,000 “geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers, etc.,” sent out an unprecedented emergency email last week, in which they lit the proverbial geek batsignal: Tech News Headlines – Yahoo! News
COMMENTARY | In case you haven’t already heard, Google is trying to become the next Facebook. Because apparently, in Google’s mind, Facebook is the next Google, and social networking is going to mess up “websites and a search box” in the same way that Google messed up Microsoft. Tech News Headlines – Yahoo! News