So it’s lights out for Wikipedia, a blacked-over logo for Google, Reddit closing up for 12 hours and thousands of others shuttering for a day to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) — what can you …
It’s an Apple-Google-Microsoft World — CES Just Lives In It
I don’t buy the notion that the Consumer Electronics Show is dead or dying, if only because the Samsungs, Sonys and LGs of the world need a place where they can peacock on a grand stage — and Las Vegas is ideal.
But over my …
Rescue Dog Deploys Robot Snake by Barking
Scientists develop a clever new way to help disaster victims by pairing a dog with a camera-equipped robot that moves like a snake.
Don’t Understand SOPA? Help Is Close at Hand
With Wikipedia, Reddit and other sites offline today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, you might be wondering “What’s so bad about SOPA, anyway?” Luckily, the answer to your question is just a couple of clicks away.
Google+ Addresses Internet’s Dangerous Shortage of Memes
Like Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards, memes have burst onto the internet and refuse to leave, no matter how annoying you might find them. Before, you had to have some minor knowledge of Photoshop or at least know the url …
Two Minute Video: The Consumer Electronics Show by the Numbers
After walking nearly 45 miles in four days – and surviving one Bieber-related ruckus without getting trampled – the bags under my eyes’ bags under their eyes still have bags under their eyes. I can’t very well complain, …
The 7 Coolest Gaming Ideas of CES 2012
Another CES has come and gone, so in case you missed all the hullabaloo, here’s a look at seven of the coolest gaming ideas from the show.
Google Explains the Internet with ‘Good to Know’
Not content with (controversially) unveiling the future of internet search by adding personalized results, Google is continuing a particularly active January with the launch of a new campaign aimed at educating internet users …
How to Survive Wednesday’s Wikipedia Blackout
Wikipedia will go offline on Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would allow the U.S. government to cut off funding sources to foreign websites accused of piracy by rights holders.
Wikipedia’s …
Apple Poised to ‘Digitally Destroy’ Textbooks? Don’t Bet On It
We’ll be there (and live-blogging) at Apple’s “education event” this Thursday, Jan. 19 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, but the scuttlebutt going in has Cupertino announcing a platform to — wait for it — “digitally destroy” …
Why Microsoft and Google Fear Apple’s Siri
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Goodnight, Television?
We’re still some distance from a world where online streaming of content can truly challenge the dominance of television, but recent figures suggest that the number of households in the U.S. with at least one television actually …