In short, they caused headaches for administrators, teachers, and tax payers. Did they help the students learn more? Probably not. Last week, I wrote about ...
Finding news on Facebook is a challenge for users
Whether we admit it or not, most of us would be okay with the right news finding its way into our Facebook news feed. After all, it IS called a "news" feed, ...
A bad experience with Box.com
Mistakes happen. Things get hacked. Data can be lost. This tale is, however, a little different. In this case, Box.com helped make the situation fall ...
Twitter should be concerned about Facebook’s publisher tool
Facebook is for updates, Twitter is for links. That is, at least, how it has been for a while, but as Facebook continues to get more people clicking on links, ...
Your own robot just went on sale for $35,000
As robots go, this isn't the type of assistant that you'll see in iRobot. Then again, at least they won't try to take over the world... we hope. Three years ...
New Facebook like button spotted in the wild
Okay, so it's not a HUGE change. They're just taking the familiar light blue and matching the standard Facebook blue. Oh, and the thumbs up are gone. Do you ...
Could the US lose power if the electrical grid is hacked?
Infrastructure is arguably the most important component holding together western society. The utility and transportation grids keep us from falling apart in ...
Who pays programmers the most in Silicon Valley? Not Google or Facebook…
If you're a talented programmer in the San Francisco Bay area and you want to make top dollar for your services, you may want to check out Juniper. Yes, ...
Planning beyond the map
It's important to have a proper vision of the future when building a company or planning a project, but sometimes you have to look beyond the map in order to ...
The underwater internet will help detect the ocean’s furies
Tsunamis. Pollution. Sea monsters. The ocean is a dangerous place, but thanks to recent endeavors we may be able to see the dangers coming more ...
Twitter chooses NYSE
The reports from last week that turned out to be false about Twitter going to the NYSE as TWTR came through into reality this week. It's official. Twitter ...
VR glasses getting kickstarted by an ex-Valver
What you see is what you get. Of course, in the world of virtual reality, what you see is often far from what you get, but that's not stopping a former Valve ...
Social media works. Here’s how it does according to Gary Vaynerchuk.
Wine. He always has some. He loves it and helps others to love it more. That's his business but in many ways it's his hobby now. He's in the business of social ...
Java is not dying
Contrary to popular reports, the programming language that powers components of a huge percentage of websites across the internet seems to be doing just fine ...
Was Dick Costolo fired by Twitter in 2010?
When executives at major tech firms get fired, we normally hear about it. This time, we're hearing about it three years later. Twitter’s founding tale keeps ...