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How far has the terrible tyranny of Steve Jobs gone? How about denying the basic rights of Americans and journalists–the right to free speech.
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Last week Facebook, the social media platform, took two major steps in its apparent quest for Internet domination.
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“Have you checked in?” seems to be the question the Internet is asking right now as geolocation services soar in popularity. By far the most popular among these services is the mobile web-based application Foursquare, which has almost 1 million contributing more than 23 million “check-ins.”
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In the classic and historic Apple Super Bowl advertisement, a women runs down an isle of transfixed people, throwing a sledge hammer into the face of a “1984” style big brother. Symbolizing a break from the computer technology that had dominated in years before, Apple has since come to embody
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As May upfronts creep closer, it’s decision time for the major networks on which shows to keep and which shows to get rid of come Fall 2010. For some shows the decision comes easy, a quick pick up or cancellation. For others, their fate is decidedly harder to determine and
Spotify, an Internet music streaming service, may finally be coming to the United States’ shores later this year. Three weeks ago there was dismay at South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) when Spotify’s creator, Daniel Ek, didn’t reveal a release date. It had been assumed by many that he would use the
Monday afternoon the Internet giant Google announced that it would leave the lucrative Chinese market as censorship issues plagued the dominant search engine. For sure this was not an easy decision for Google, but it was a result of four years of negotiation, disagreement and hostility. The fiercest of which has
In the recent expansion of the best movie category at the Oscars, “District 9” was one of the movies that slipped in unwarranted. This is not to say that “District 9” was a bad movie. In truth, it was perhaps the most underrated movie of the year. The advertising never
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In a craze that’s sweeping the world, Chatroulette.com connects two strangers from around the world into a video chat. Whereas applications like iChat, AIM and Skype connect you solely to your friends, Chatroulette connects you to anyone, anywhere. With more than 20,000 consistent users online, the range of users you
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In a huge announcement this week, Google announced last Thursday the development of a gigabit internet service provider (ISP). The California company and internet search giant is going to places it has never reached. Google provided more than 65 percent of the searches in the United States in 2009 and