April 17th, 2012 
Tyler Mark Zuckerberg acted as a true entrepreneur as he apparently closed a billion dollar deal with Instagram without Facebook board approval. The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook’s purchase of the mobile photo sharing app Instagram was by Mark Zuckerberg and only Mark Zuckerberg. Apparently the board members were notified only hours before the deal was set to [...]
April 16th, 2012 Tyler For nearly a decade, tungsten carbide wedding bands have been the most popular choice. Apparently, a lot of jewelers are selling more tungsten rings than white gold or platinum. As of September 1, 2011, the average tungsten wedding band is roughly $225. However, the same ring in platinum will cost you $1900, and one in [...]
April 12th, 2012 Tyler Today, Internet traffic dropped significantly to and from China. Paul Mozur of the Wall Street Journal‘s China Real Time blog tracked the entire outage as a data dropoff lasted from 11:00am to 1:00pm local time. What theories were made as to why the Internet of China would be down for 2 hours? There was an [...]
April 11th, 2012 Tyler Google has removed more than 15 Android apps from its Android Play market after receiving reports that the apps in question were in fact malicious trojans that siphoned names, telephone numbers and email addresses of every person in the phone’s contact list. The apps, reported by McAfee researcher Carlos Castillo, were masked as video players [...]
April 10th, 2012 Tyler Google has officially announced a major redesign and a set of new features for users of Google+. Navigation and several user interface features have received a makeover, and several new features have been implemented to attract more users to share photos and promote more interactions with each other. Google+ pages now feature a cleaner and [...]
April 9th, 2012 Tyler Verizon Wireless has announced that beginning April 22, they will start charging customers $30 to upgrade to new devices. While many may complain about the $30 fee, it is still cheaper than both AT&T and Sprint’s upgrade fees. Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile had been charging $18 to customers for buying new phones with two-year contracts [...]
April 5th, 2012 Tyler For quite awhile now, rumors have been around the Internet that Google is developing a pair of glasses with a built-in HUD (heads-up display). Google has just now confirmed the project’s existence. Google has titled the project as “Project Glass,” and outfits the wearer above with the Google glasses. These glasses include one lens worn [...]
April 4th, 2012 Tyler Cody Kretsinger, accused of being a LulzSec hacker, pleaded guilty in a federal court located in Los Angeles, California. He pleaded guilty to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. Kretsinger went by the alias “Recursion” and testified that he indeed took part in a SQL injection attack [...]
April 3rd, 2012 Tyler Already known, Apple is planning to build a data center in North Carolina that powers iCloud. However, they now plan to build a massive fuel cell facility to go with this data center. Apple revealed the plan for a fuel cell facility as part of a filing with the North Carolina Utilities Commission. This project will be [...]
April 2nd, 2012 Tyler The ACLU has recently obtained documents that reveal the surveillance control taken by state and local law enforcement agencies with the assistance of certain cell phone companies. Location-based tracking has become popular, with cell phone companies offering what are called “tower dumps” of everyone who used a certain cell phone tower during a certain time [...]
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