On Saturday April 26, NASA presented long-time Star Trek Captain, William Shatner with the Distinguished Public Service Medal. According to a pun-filled announcement from NASA: After nearly 50 years of warping across galaxies and saving the universe from a variety of alien threats and celestial disasters, Star Trek’s William Shatner finally went where no other member [...]
The Webby Awards are like the Oscars,Emmys or Grammys for the web industry. Think all of those wonderful internet only tv shows, radio shows, podcasts and YouTube channels. Like most award shows, the internet elite assemble for a red carpet award show in New York. The New York Times calls the Webby Awards the "Internet's [...]
On Monday AT&T announced plans to start offering an inflight internet product with speeds that reportedly will rival those of LTE. Late last year the FAA softened rules when it comes to using electronics in-flight. Now, passengers are no longer required to stow their electronic devices during take-off, landing and taxi. This has caused in [...]
Thus far, Google's computing platforms have been relatively standard. Android on phones and tablets, and Chrome OS on laptops (Chromebooks). However, it looks like that may soon change. Notebook Italia spotted a video on HP's website - which has since been pulled - shows a new laptop powered by Android. The HP Slatebook 14, according to Notebook Italia, will [...]
The rise of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, combined with the still strong performance of the Xbox360 and PS3, and the constant announcements and surrounding these consoles has created a situation in which these consoles are the de facto gaming leaders. It is easy to fall into this sort of fallacy. The unrelenting barrage of commercials [...]
Towards the end of last week and through the weekend, tech news outlets were abuzz over Gurbaksh Chahal - then CEO of RadiumOne - with good reason. Without getting into too much detail - many others have done an excellent job covering the story Kara Swisher, Re/code, "RadiumOne’s All-Male Board Is Now Deciding Whether (Or Not) to [...]
As with most of the big news in the past year or so, the Donald Sterling tapes have found their way to Rap Genius. For those not in the know Rap Genius is the very popular site that crowd sources annotations on popular hip hop songs, current events, and even poetry. What started out as [...]
Although T-Mobile is still the fourth largest wireless carrier in the United States, they definitely have the loudest voice. Since introducing their Un-Carrier movement, T-Mobile has attracted more customers, and created more buzz than any of the other three wireless customers. In fact earlier this year T-Mobile surpassed Verizon Wireless in customer perception. The efforts [...]
On Thursday, April 24, Facebook announced a new feature. FB Newswire brings a new news discovery component to Facebook: Today, we’re excited to announce FB Newswire, a resource that will make it easier for journalists and newsrooms to find, share and embed newsworthy content from Facebook in the media they produce. Powered by Storyful, the leader [...]
Microsoft is expanding their Bing in the classroom program. The company is hoping to improve their market share against rivals Google and Yahoo and as we've seen time and time again, the classroom can be a very lucrative place to do that. The new Bing in the Classroom program actually has some really great points [...]
