A public relations firm has “settled” Federal Trade Commission charges that it wrote bogus reviews of games on iTunes on behalf of its clients. Its the first major such case since the introduction of new guidelines on disclosure from people writing online. Reverb Communications staff had “consistently” posted reviews on iTunes using false usernames. Every [...]
Amazon hit a symbolic milestone last holiday season, when for one day its sales of e-books exceeded the number of dead-tree books it had sold. Now the company has hit a more significant milestone, selling 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books sold over the course of the second quarter. The rate is accelerating: For [...]
To call this a search engine would be an insult! “Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity. [...]
So… in a bold move Popular Science Magazine has opened up its archives for free, yes I said free, browsing and research!
“We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It’s an amazing [...]
WikiLeaks has temporarily shut down, citing funding problems as the reason the site is no longer in operation. The site, a hotbed for anonymous tip-offs and submissions regarding sensitive information, has been around since 2006 and has been staying afloat thanks to numerous donations from undisclosed sources. It seems that these donations have dried up, [...]
Obviously I have no problems with either term given the theme of my blog! I also don’t think many of the people who are labelled ‘geeks’ have any issue with the term. I could see someone being labelled a ‘nerd’ being upset depending on who is assigning the label.
According to David Anderegg, using terms [...]
My brother has to take various medications at all times of the day. He needed a good way to set up reminders without clogging up his calendar or to do list on his phone. Here’s an outstanding use of Google Calendar to set up SMS (Text Message) based reminders for whatever you need a little [...]
“When The Little App Factory received a legal letter from Apple requesting that they change the name of their popular Mac app, “iPodRip”, CEO John Devor decided to pen a heartfelt email to Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself. iPodRip, in case you’re unaware, is a nifty little Mac app that enables users to copy [...]
So after coming to the realization that I have a lot of information on my Mac (not that I haven’t thought about it before), and thinking about how although I have multiple backups of my system they all are here with me and not somewhere else. I could encrypt an external hard drive and [...]
If you load up the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) today, you’ll see a new logo commemorating its 19th birthday. Yes, that’s really old for the Internet. Google, by comparison, is 11. Meanwhile, Yahoo is 14. IMDb is so old in fact, that is pre-dates the first web browsers. How? Founder Col Needham explains the history [...]
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