Kim Dotcom will be forced to live on $60,000 a month
Lorie Wimble
While stuck in his New Zealand mansion, Megaupload mogul Kim Dotcom will have to make it on $60,000 a month and a Mercedes along with his wife’s $20,000 a month…
Privacy versus copyright filters make the RapidShare ruling a catch-22
As business models go, the file-sharing business model has proven to be precarious at best in the last few months. With MegaUpload being shut down in January and other file-sharing…
How Wikipedia is redefining research and killing off iconic encylopedias
It took Wikipedia less than a decade to take down its traditional predecessor, the Encyclopædia Britannica, a series that has helped scholars and students for nearly two and a half…
In 1925, the view of 25 years into their future was epic
If looking ahead 25 years were easy, we’d have flying cars and hoverboards. Unfortunately, it’s pretty challenging to predict the weather sometimes, let alone the future in a scale of…
In a social media minute…
The digital age is loaded with activities that we can perform any second of any day. As long as there’s an internet connection available, we have access at nearly all…
The first 45 years of Star Trek
Space may or may not be the final frontier, but the television and movie series Star Trek and its subsequent incantations have sparked the imagination of sci-fi fans across the…
Google adds “discussions” to get in on the presentation discussion
Microsoft may be trying (and failing) to slow Google’s emergence into business productivity with their Google Apps for Business, but Google is heading in the other direction by demonstrating that…
Geek vs Hipster: The battle for the coolest of the uncool
As terms of classification of humans goes, hipsters and geeks have been battling for the title of the “coolest of the uncool.” For hipsters, the phrase “before it was cool”…
F-Commerce gets an ‘F’ as Facebook storefronts fail miserably
When Facebook started rolling out their plan to put online stores on their platform in November, 2010, many believed that “F-Commerce” was the next big thing. It was heralded as…
The Steam Store: How Valve’s ingenious digital store has taken over gaming
If you ask a non-gamer about steam, they’ll describe boiling water or the stuff that comes out of an iron. If you ask a gamer about Steam, there’s only one…
Is 4G enough to end the high-end tablet war for iPad?
The over-$500 tablet war was, for all intents and purposes, over once the iPad 2 came out with a front- and rear-facing camera. It was the missing feature that kept…
Tesla’s electric Model X adds sexy to the minivan
When one thinks of Tesla, they think of high-end electric vehicle performance. The company is known for putting out some of the best-performing, visually stunning vehicles available in the market.…
As the workforce goes mobile, security concerns rise
As more offices become virtual and more employees work from home or on the go, the logistics of keeping devices and computers secure can be a nightmare for any IT…
What Twitter’s horrific recruitment video says about the state of Silicon Valley
As much as it deserves a tirade about professional recruiting, brand positioning, and using human relations as a public relations tool, the video that Twitter released recently as a recruitment…
Note to Startups: If you’re going to steal from others… well, just don’t steal from others
The internet is rife with theft. People take content and concepts from others on a regular basis and pawn it off as their own. It’s so common that many websites…
