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There are some big games coming this weekend! The 49ers are playing the Falcons at 3:00PM Eastern on Fox and the Ravens are playing the Patriots at 6:30PM Eastern on CBS. Below are a few funny items. These are meant to be fun, so please enjoy. FYI, the video below was published on January 15, …
The mysterious announcement that Facebook promised to make is a mystery no more. During a live media event at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, Mark Zuckerberg introduced the beta version of what they are calling Graph Search. Over the years Facebook has accumulated 1 billion users, 240 billion photos, and 1 trillion connections. The …
Facebook recently opened itself to the public while the Alibaba Group (featured in New York Times) may have plans to put itself back in private holding. The Chinese company has long been shouting at Yahoo (its American partner) regarding buying back the former’s shares (Yahoo owns 40% stock in Alibaba). Those discussions grew sour on …
“Looking for the best cookies in Santa Monica, CA? Drop an iPad 3 off at Sarah’s house and try some tasty snickerdoodles and organic milk.” Santa’s Nice List Dear Siri Santa, I know there is a high demand for iPads this year, in particular among children. I’m not saying a child should go without an …
Beginning December 17, 2012, Google’s new Director of Engineering is Ray Kurzweil, a renowned futurist whose affinity for Google has been known for years – since Google funded Kurzweil’s Singularity University. At Google, Kurzweil will be working on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. The announcement comes one month after Kurzweil’s release of …
Google has made a significant change to the way its mobile ads work, in order to remedy the so-called “Fat Finger” problem of users accidently clicking on ads while browsing on their phones.
First we had Twitter, followed shortly after by Google, and now today Facebook has joined the party with its own retrospective end of year review page, only this time with a unique, personal take for each and every user.
Great news for iPhone users: as of today, they will no longer have to put up with a world of missing towns and villages, melting highways, and shops located in rivers, for the world’s most popular, most reliable map app – Google Maps – has finally risen from the ashes.
Google has just compiled its 12th annual Zeitgeist — its list of top global trending searches for the year — and guess what? Somehow, the search term “Gangnam Style” didn’t make it to the top of the pile.
The 12-day World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) being held in Dubai has some proponents of a so-called free Internet worried, but news this morning virtually assures their fears were unfounded. A draft yesterday of a proposal that basically derails efforts by Russia and China to regulate the Internet, tells of a watered down compromise to …
