Too little, too late — that’s the message some customers plan to send Internet domain registrar GoDaddy today, after the company gave its support to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), then withdrew it, but only …
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What Will 2012 Mean for Social Media?
On the one hand, it’s easy to predict where social media’s going over the next 12 months: more of the same, with the sublime, ridiculous and mundane occurring in equal amounts, both reaffirming and quashing our faith in humanity …
Looking Forward to 2012: Apple TV, iPhone 5 and Goodnight PCs
Onward, tablets, smartphones and post-PC (yet still just as much “personal computing”) devices — call them whatever you like, 2012 will see a glut of me-too mobiles designed to untether us from stodgy office desktops and …
Toshiba’s Thrive 7: Still Searching for the Perfect 7-inch Tablet
The laptop kingpin’s second tablet has a nifty screen and a convenient size, but the overall package falls far short of iPad-level excellence.
Airline Passengers Not So Keen on Wi-Fi in the Sky
Wi-Fi on long flights seems like a no-brainer, but travelers are apparently sticking to other tried-and-true boredom killers in the air — like celebrity magazines and booze. According to SplatF, of the 355 million people who …
Man in China Spends $16,000 on Virtual Sword for Video Game
Most people wouldn’t blow $16,000 on a real antique sword from ancient China, let alone a virtual sword for a video game set in ancient China.
Not only did a man cough up enough cash for a mid-sized sedan, he did it for a game …
Zuckerberg Holiday Vacation Highlights Vietnam’s Unofficial Facebook Status
With Mark Zuckerberg spending Christmas in Vietnam, the opportunity for some snark about the Facebook founder’s apparently ironic choice of destination was not lost. The U.K.’s Daily Mail promptly proclaimed: “Status update: …
Android, iOS Devices Have ‘Record-Shattering’ Holiday Sales
It’s been an exceptionally profitable holiday for Apple and Google, according to research firm Flurry Analytics, which claims that it can detect device sales based on “apps monitoring” and use that to come up with a “roughly …
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ViralVideo Idol? YouTube Gets into the Voting Game with ‘YouTube Slam’
In case you’re wondering how to survive between the season finale of The X-Factor and the new season of American Idol — hey, those three weeks can be very hard on some people, okay? — then YouTube is here to rescue you with …
Looking Forward to 2012: The Continued Demise of Cash
How mobile payments, NFC and person-to-person apps will change the way that people pay each other in the coming year.