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Tomorrow Is Data Privacy Day (DPD)

Posted  January 27th, 2012  by  Vanessa Brisson-Fischer (Staff Writer)

Tomorrow will be Data Privacy Day, or DPD. This day will be used to increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues. Access to technology is so integrated with our everyday lives and so it’s easy to forget that anything we decide to post online will not always stay within the realm of our immediate [...]

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Apple’s iBooks Off to a Good Start

Posted  January 27th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

Recently Apple seems to be on quite the winning streak,with every endeavor they embark on becoming extremely successful. Apple’s latest creation, iBooks Textbooks, is a testament to this claim, as it is already boasting some pretty impressive numbers, just a few short days into its service. So far the tally for the textbook service is [...]

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‘Facebook Timeline’ Becoming Permanent Real Soon

Posted  January 26th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

Not long ago when the Facebook Timeline was first announced, Mark Zuckerberg said that early on in its life it would be totally optional to people whether or not they wanted to have the new addition to the site. However, Zuckerberg did say that at some point in the future, he was going to make [...]

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Android App Inventor to be Released

Posted  January 26th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

When Google first opened the doors to its secret Google Labs, one of the most anticipated things to come from it was the Android App Inventor. Just as the name suggests, the Android App Inventor is an open source code that is designed to let noobies in the programming world construct their own apps for [...]

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Xbox 720 Wil Be 6 Times More Powerful; Won’t Play Used Games?

Posted  January 26th, 2012  by  Omeed Asadi (Associate Editor)

Although there is still quite a bit of time until the Xbox 720 comes out, the headline practically speaks for itself. The next-generation Xbox will definitely be a home-run for Microsoft and gamers alike, assuming this recent report is, in fact, true. Sources close to the development of the Xbox 720 claim that it will [...]

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Tomorrow Is Data Privacy Day (DPD)

Posted  January 27th, 2012  by  Vanessa Brisson-Fischer (Staff Writer)

Tomorrow will be Data Privacy Day, or DPD. This day will be used to increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues. Access to technology is so integrated with our everyday lives and so it’s easy to forget that anything we decide to post online will not always stay within the realm of our immediate [...]

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Apple’s iBooks Off to a Good Start

Posted  January 27th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

Recently Apple seems to be on quite the winning streak,with every endeavor they embark on becoming extremely successful. Apple’s latest creation, iBooks Textbooks, is a testament to this claim, as it is already boasting some pretty impressive numbers, just a few short days into its service. So far the tally for the textbook service is [...]

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‘Facebook Timeline’ Becoming Permanent Real Soon

Posted  January 26th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

Not long ago when the Facebook Timeline was first announced, Mark Zuckerberg said that early on in its life it would be totally optional to people whether or not they wanted to have the new addition to the site. However, Zuckerberg did say that at some point in the future, he was going to make [...]

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Android App Inventor to be Released

Posted  January 26th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

When Google first opened the doors to its secret Google Labs, one of the most anticipated things to come from it was the Android App Inventor. Just as the name suggests, the Android App Inventor is an open source code that is designed to let noobies in the programming world construct their own apps for [...]

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Xbox 720 Wil Be 6 Times More Powerful; Won’t Play Used Games?

Posted  January 26th, 2012  by  Omeed Asadi (Associate Editor)

Although there is still quite a bit of time until the Xbox 720 comes out, the headline practically speaks for itself. The next-generation Xbox will definitely be a home-run for Microsoft and gamers alike, assuming this recent report is, in fact, true. Sources close to the development of the Xbox 720 claim that it will [...]

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Inside the Mind of Megaupload’s Founder: Kim Dotcom

Posted  January 25th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

Those that have been following the recent surge of fighting against file-sharing sites will know that the most notable victim of the Fed’s efforts is the file-sharing giant, Megaupload which set Anonymous on a DDoS Spree. At one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular website on the internet, and until it was seized by [...]

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Apple, Yet Again, Posts Record Breaking Earnings

Posted  January 24th, 2012  by  Omeed Asadi (Associate Editor)

Feel like you’ve read this headline before? Well, you’re probably right. Apple has been posting record breaking, and seemingly unstoppable, earnings for a few years now and their first quarter was no different. Many people expected this year’s consumer spending slump and the surge of new competitors Apple is facing in both the smartphone and [...]

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Microsoft Gets $27 Per Windows Phone

Posted  January 24th, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

Microsoft is much like Apple in the sort that they only make software, hence the “soft” in the latter part of the companies name. So when you buy a Windows Phone, it is actually being named that not because of the hardware (like the processor or battery) but rather the mobile operating system that you [...]

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All Aboard the Anti-SOPA Train

Posted  January 23rd, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

Rewind the clocks just a few weeks and the SOPA bill looked like it was going pass. Sure, there was certainly a lot of criticism and action that was being taken against it, but it wasn’t enough to truly threaten whether or not SOPA and PIPA were going to be passed. Fast-forward to today, and [...]

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Facebook’s IPO: When can we Expect it?

Posted  January 23rd, 2012  by  Matt Lavelle (Staff Writer)

An IPO (or initial public offering) is when a company goes public by offering shares of their company for sale on a stock index. Those that have been trading for a while will remember a time in the late 90s when a company could soar after an IPO on nothing more than hopes and wishes; [...]

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RIM Shakeup: Thorsten Heins Is Their New CEO

Posted  January 22nd, 2012  by  Omeed Asadi (Associate Editor)

Did you hear that sound? That’s the sound of millions of people: from RIM employees, shareholders and just generally concerned persons breathing a sigh of relief as RIM replaces their co-CEOs after falling short of almost every projection in the past two years. Just a couple days ago, the very thought that they were being [...]

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Google Tablet Coming In 6 Months?

Posted  January 22nd, 2012  by  Omeed Asadi (Associate Editor)

Google chairman Eric Schmidt recently, and supposedly “accidentally”, revealed that Google intends on marketing “a tablet of the highest quality” within the next six months. This slip up sparked a lot of debate and speculation surrounding Google’s plans to take on tablet leaders Apple and Amazon within the foreseeable future. The company refused to clarify [...]

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