15 August 2011
Search engine effectiveness is becoming a big discussion with many online magazines and news sources and today the latest report was released. The results are likely quite surprising to some people because the rankings do not follow the same patterns as the most used search engines. In fact the most used search engine, Google, is [...]
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08 August 2011
The most recent release of smartphone usage in the United States has shown that Android is growing quicker in the U.S. than originally anticipated. Android took a whopping 40% of the market in this most recent survey which is an impressive jump of 2% in just one month. Obviously iOS and Blackberry are the other [...]
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01 August 2011
Facebook announced this week that they will be paying a reward or bounty to anyone who finds and reports security bugs they find on the Facebook site. This is not a new idea as Google, Microsoft, and many other big companies already use similar reward programs but Facebook is coming at it from a slightly [...]
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25 July 2011
For the past 4 months Sony has been going through some tough times. Hacking and other major security breaches left Sony with a big pile of negative press along with millions of unhappy customers. Along the way Sony also had to pay a pretty penny to repair and protect all of their systems; generally companies [...]
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17 July 2011
This week an interesting piece of research was released to the public; apparently Google and other search engines are having a drastic effect on memory and how people remember things. Traditionally people tend to remember facts or details about things and they would then supplement this knowledge with basic ideas of how or where to [...]
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11 July 2011
Google has been hyping their upcoming social network called Google+ and this week it has finally gone into a public testing state. As with many new Google services Google+ is starting life as a beta test which is open only with an invitation but currently the social network is growing at an astounding rate. Already [...]
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03 July 2011
Skype and Facebook have reportedly been working together on a project that may finally be released to the public this coming week. Facebook announced this week that they will be having a press conference event on the 6th at which a major update will be announced; many inside sources have confirmed that this is the [...]
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27 June 2011
For the past few months the notorious hacking group, LulzSec, has been wrecking havoc on hundreds of important websites around the internet. The group was allegedly committing these acts in order to bring online security flaws to the public eye but in the process they also brought multiple legal problems against themselves. Just last week [...]
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20 June 2011
This week Research in Motion released their second quarter earnings report and the report was not nearly as good as many had anticipated. Research in Motion had originally been anticipating significant growth in many sectors but unfortunately these goals were not met, despite the release of RIM’s first tablet PC device. Part of the reason [...]
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13 June 2011
Today an interesting announcement came from NASA regarding the upcoming Space Shuttle Atlantis mission; the crew will be conducting a variety of experiments using two iPhone 4 devices they are taking with them. The two iPhones will be going up on the final Space Shuttle mission as part of a research program which will utilize [...]
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