Rocco Penn

  A tech blogger, social media analyst, and general promoter of all things positive in the world. "Bring it. I'm ready." Find me on Media Caffeine, Twitter, and Facebook.

   

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1478 Stories by Rocco Penn

Indiegogo wants large corporations to start crowd-funding too

Crowd-funding doesn’t just supply aspiring entrepreneurs with the financing they need to turn their ideas into actual products or services, it helps measure people’s interest in...
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Pirating video games might be impossible in a couple of years

Anyone who’s pirated a video game knows that you need a crack to break through the game’s anti-piracy protection, and there’s a number of hacking...
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Snapchat might be getting into advertising technology

It looks like Snapchat is in the process of entering the advertising technology market, or at least, that’s what a report from Digiday is...
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After months of running, The Pirate Bay is right back where it started

The Pirate Bay has spent most of the year hopping from domain to domain in order to avoid being taken down by law enforcement,...
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Facebook’s free Internet initiative is exploitation disguised as charity

For those of you who have been living under a rock over the past few weeks, Facebook has been trying to spread its free...
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This is our first look at the next-generation Google Glass

We’ve been hearing tons of rumors about the next Google Glass ever since the first one was more or less killed off at the...
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It looks like everyone received a Fitbit for Christmas

Most consumer electronics companies see their revenue spike during the holiday season, but Fitbit sold so many of its fitness trackers this Christmas that...
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More than 45,000 drone owners have already registered with the FAA

It looks like the threat of a massive fine and potential prison time was enough to convince more than 45,000 American drone owners to register with...
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Google wants your smartphone to replace your passwords

Google has spent the last few years looking for an alternative to traditional passwords that’s both more convenient and more secure, and it may...
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Ericsson now gets a slice of every iPad and iPhone that Apple sells

Apple and Ericsson have spent the last several months in a patent dispute regarding Apple’s use of the Ericsson-owned technologies that allow the iPad and...
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Microsoft made an app that helps you find its other apps

Now that Microsoft is actually bringing its products and services to other platforms, it’s run into a bit of an issue where it simply...
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This single technology could revolutionize banking and the internet

Bitcoin and most other digital currencies rely on something called a blockchain to operate, and while the technology has become more or less synonymous with Bitcoin, the Blockchain’s...
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Facebook will pay employees $10,000 if they move closer to its HQ

We live in a world where thousands of people can all work with each other for the same company without having to live anywhere...
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Sony may be working on two Snapdragon 820-powered flagships

This year’s Sony flagships did little to improve the company’s horrendous smartphone sales, but as stated many times before, its handset division has no...
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iFlix wants to expand to all the countries that Netflix hasn’t yet

Netflix is finally starting its expansion into Asia, but several local competitors have already popped up while the company was taking its time. One...
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Americans now have until February 19th to register their drones

This morning, the FAA made good on its promise to have a national drone registry in place before Christmas, and people who register their...
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Tim Cook believes we need to reinvent America’s education system

The vast majority of Americans agree that our nation’s education system is seriously flawed, what we can’t agree on is which parts are flawed,...
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Airbnb has surpassed Google to become the best company to work for

Glassdoor’s list of the best companies to work for has been dominated by Facebook and Google in recent years, but not only did Airbnb...
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