You may remember our announcement in January rejoicing with the rest of America that Verizon now carries the iPhone! Well it turns out that the nation’s largest carrier might have nailed their own foot to the floor. In 2008, Verizon accepted the contingencies that were attached to the wireless spectrum offered by the FCC in [...]
Alcatel-Lucent has developed a new technology to hopefully get rid of those unsightly cell towers scattered across the country-side and in the middle of cities. They’re using a technology which significantly reduces the size of current cell towers. They are set to introduce their “lightRadio cube” at the Mobile World Congress, which started Monday, February [...]
Ever get tired of the same poor-quality sites coming up for your search engine queries? As effective as Google usually is, it hasn’t always been successful in stopping search spam from content farms. Enter the Personal Blocklist. This extension for Google Chrome allows you to block specific websites from displaying in search results. While you [...]
I knew there was a reason I didn’t like Bing and it’s because they cheat. Here is a great write up of how Bing was caught steal search results from Google by creating fake searches and results.
While today’s blog article isn’t exactly tech-related, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share something mind-blowing that I read lately. A recent discovery by the famed Hubble Space Telescope has led researchers to believe that they have found the most distant gallery to date! How far you ask? Try somewhere in the neighborhood of [...]
Sergey Brin and Larry Page together founded the behemoth we all know as Google back in 1997. After pressure from Venture Capitalists years ago, Eric Schmidt was named CEO as a move to bring leadership to the vast company. Fast forward to today. Even though Google had the largest Q4 profits of their 12-year history [...]
Believe it or not I still, on rare occasions, find myself having conversations with people who don’t see a great need for their business to have a website. An even tougher sell, but an increasingly important one, is whether or not to create a mobile-specific version of an existing website. It’s estimated that smartphones will [...]
After numerous leaks over the last month and speculation for the last few years, Verizon has finally been announced as an official carrier of the iPhone. While many have been waiting for this moment, it remains to be seen whether this is a beneficial move for both Verizon and new iPhone users. Due to Verizon’s [...]
It’s almost impossible to see a movie in theaters now without having the option of seeing it in 3D. Over that past few years, 3D technology has forced its way into theaters and living rooms all over the country and has become very popular with audiences. The biggest complaint with 3D technology is the bulky [...]
Ever since I was little I’ve had some sort of controller in my hand. I remember spending days with a neighbor of mine that owned an Atari 2600 VCS, the fourth video game console to hit the market since the brown box was first invented in 1967. After proving to my parents that I could [...]