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Posted in: Technology News by Vidican Sergiu | February 6th 2012 | no comments
Numerous people protested against the SOPA bill which was supposed to be included in the American parliament. After the bill was dissolved, Europe introduced a similar bill, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, also known as ACTA. People protested against it as well. In Poland, the politicians wore masks depicting the main character from the movie V from Vendetta, same mask which is [...]
Posted in: Technology News by Vidican Sergiu | February 6th 2012 | no comments
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s owner, wants to experiment with mobile phone advertising, such as inserting sponsored stories in update streams. It is believed that in 2012, the mobile advertising in the United States of America, will reach $2.6 billion. That would be an 80 percent increase, in comparison to 2011, when the mobile advertisement was worth $1.45 billion.
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Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | February 4th 2012 | no comments
Anonymous, the international group of hackers managed to surprise the FBI when they posted a 16 minutes recording between the bureau, Scotland Yard, and other police agencies from the world. The group seems to be extremely powerful, as it recently hacked the website of the law firm which represented Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who was accused of leading a troop of marines which killed 24 [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | February 4th 2012 | no comments
Curt Schilling is a retired World Series champion pitcher with the Boston Red Sox and the Arizona Diamondbacks. He managed to win lots of games, and two championship titles. For a certain period, he was considered to be the best pitcher in the world. He is now retired, and after he was done with baseball, he wanted to challenge something new. So he started 38 Studios, a video game [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | February 3rd 2012 | no comments
The Kinect is now available for Windows, and as a result, the application developers can create programs which can be activated with motion and voice control on the desktop computers. Microsoft has already started working on Kinect Windows with numerous partners, but even so, it is very likely that the good and useful applications will not be released anytime soon. It is very likely that [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | February 3rd 2012 | no comments
Numerous people have stated that Google+ does not have a chance, and that it will fail sooner or later. It is true that Google+ isn’t a treat for Facebook yet, but that might change. The reason why Google+ has a very powerful chance of becoming important is the fact that Google has a very big influence over our lives. Try to think how many searches you perform on Google each day. It is [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | February 2nd 2012 | no comments
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook stated that the website needs to follow five well defined cores in order to become even more successful. The statement was included sent to all the potential investors in the company, which will soon go public.
One of the main things the company needs to do is to move fast. By doing so, they will be able to learn more things in a faster manner. In the [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | February 2nd 2012 | no comments
Facebook intends to go public very soon, and for the people who have stocks in the company, that is great news. One of those people is David Choe, the artists who wanted to have some shares at the company, instead of money, when he painted the walls of the company. His decision was a very smart one, as he might be able to make a profit of $200 million in case he wants to sell them. A [...]
Posted in: Technology News by Vidican Sergiu | February 2nd 2012 | no comments
Samsung’s Galaxy Note will be released on the 19thof February and it seems that the new product tries to bring together the tablet and the phone. As the company stated, it seems that the phone/tablet is able to work properly as a phone and, at the same time, function as a usual Android handset.
Phone And Tablet? Samsung's Galaxy Note To Be Released (Source: [...]
Posted in: Technology News by Vidican Sergiu | February 1st 2012 | no comments
In the past couple of days a petition has been going around, telling people to sign it, so as to let the Apple company know that the whole world wants the new iPhone 5, which is to be released sometime this year, to be an ethical phone. What does this mean? Keep reading!
Ethical IPhone Wanted (Source: msnbcmedia.msn.com)
The petition which has gathered more than 35,000 signatures in [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 31st 2012 | no comments
The big e-mail companies such as Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp, AOL Inc., and Google Inc., have started a mutual fight against the phishing e-mails, which have the purpose of tricking the recipients that they come from a reliable source. These companies together with Bank of America, eBay, and other large corporations, want to find a method of assuring the recipient that the received e-mail [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 31st 2012 | no comments
As you probably know, Megaupload, one of the biggest file sharing websites in the world has been closed for the past weeks. The website was used by many to upload files which violated the copyright laws, this being the main reason the website was taken down. As soon as the website was seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was stated that all the data will be deleted.
This [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 30th 2012 | no comments
Twitter is one of the most popular websites in the world, tens of millions of people are sharing their daily activities on a constant basis.
Everything started simple, the owner of the website wanted to develop a web tool through which he could tell his friends what he was up to. This week Twitter announced that it would block some of the messages sent by the users, in case they are [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 30th 2012 | no comments
There are numerous types of smartphones on the market, and because of that, the competition is fierce. BlackBerry is one of these companies, and it seems that in Europe, it is starting to fall behind the other major smartphone producers. In North America, the popularity of the BlackBerry has been diminished by the iPhone in the past years.
However, in Europe, the BlackBerry managed to [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 24th 2012 | no comments
It seems that hackers can infiltrate lots of systems in various manners. For example, this month, one hacker managed to infiltrate various conference rooms from the world, with the aid of video-conference equipment. He managed to control the cameras from his home, zooming in and out, basically doing anything he wanted.
These cameras are very professional, and they have a very powerful [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 24th 2012 | no comments
It seems that this year, the gifts of choice for the adults were the e-readers and tablet computers. According to some studies, the number of adults from the United States of America who own an e-reader and a tablet has doubled from mid-December to January.
The book seller stated that they expected an increase in e-book sales after the holidays, and they did. The same thing happened in [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 21st 2012 | no comments
There are numerous debates about the online privacy, many of the users believing that some of the websites are abusive. On Friday, the Digital Advertising Alliance, a group of digital advertising trade organizations will release its first ad campaign related to a new icon they will release: a turquoise triangle in the upper right-hand corner of the banner ads.
This will be one of the [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 21st 2012 | no comments
You might have heard that on Thursday, the website Megaupload was shut down. The website was one of the biggest file sharing websites on the online world. The ones who operated the website, risk spending more than 20 years in jail.
However, Megaupload wasn’t the only site of this kind. There are numerous other similar website which host files in an illegal manner. RapidShare, Dropbox, [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 20th 2012 | no comments
It seems that eBay’s net income reached very high levels in the fourth quarter of last year, and the reason for the success is the fact that the website invested in Skype, and continued its partnership with PayPal. John Donahoe promised his investors four years ago, that the website will make a huge profit, and it seems that he was right.
The company’s marketplace business invested [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 20th 2012 | no comments
The internet is going through some major changes these days. For example, various large websites such as Google and Wikipedia protested against the SOPA bill on Wednesday. On Thursday, the US authorizes managed to shut down one of the biggest file sharing websites in the world: Megaupload.
They charged seven people connected with running the website. The success of the government was [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 20th 2012 | no comments
You might be aware of the protests that took place yesterday, Wednesday, 18th of January on the internet. Various giant websites such as Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Craigslist took action against SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act.
The move was an unusual one, as it was the first time when websites joined in order to fight against a governmental bill. Wikipedia blacked out its [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 19th 2012 | no comments
Flying can be pretty tiring, especially if you need to travel for a long period of time. Many people who travel for long distances use various products in order to increase their comfort. They use neck pillows, eye masks, laptops, and so on. In the more recent period of time, more and more people use noise-cancelling headphones.
There is a difference between the regular headphones and [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 18th 2012 | no comments
As you might have heard, or even seen, Wikipedia is one of the websites which has decided to protest against SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, which the U.S government intends to use. The act intends to stop illegal downloading and the streaming of TV shows on the internet. Everyone is against piracy, but the tech industry is afraid that the act will give the media companies too much [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 18th 2012 | no comments
It seems that the popularity of the apps, movies, and games, has reached a very high level. Ford, BMW, and Mercedes intend to build cars which will be able to support applications through its entertainment system. However, these apps, games, and so on cause distractions, and the automakers need to make sure that the drivers will not be too focused on the applications. They want to make [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 18th 2012 | no comments
It seems that there are lots of people against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP bills. There are many online companies and famous websites which are against these two bills, and which consider them to be unwanted, and unbeneficial. One of these websites which decided to take a stand against the bill is Wikipedia. It seems that the website will shut down tomorrow, starting at [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 17th 2012 | no comments
The popularity of the personal computers has been on a decline in the past previous years. The reasons are varied. Some people cannot afford buying the computers, whereas other people do not find them very useful, since the release of the iPad. So the PC manufacturers stopped, and analyzed the situation, taking a closer look at the way Apple handled business.
The profits of Acer and HP, [...]
Posted in: Featured by Vidican Sergiu | January 16th 2012 | no comments
People love to root for the underdog. This can be clearly seen in sports, where people will always root for the team who has less chances of winning. They will always root for David, and not for Goliath, so to speak. It seems that this trend happens in the online world as well, as more and more people are willing to buy things from the smaller websites, than from the larger [...]
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