In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama mentioned helping entrepreneurs to start up and grow their businesses in order to stimulate the economy. To that end, three of the biggest tech companies in the nation are committing millions to an initiative called the Startup America Partnership. Intel Corp. said Monday it [...]
Archive for January, 2011
AT&T is back again this year for their 28 Days Black History Month campaign. This is the third year of the campaign and the focus is on celebrating past history makers and a look at new innovators through a free exclusive speaker series. AT&T created 28 Days in 2009 to highlight Black History Month as [...]
$700 Motorola Xoom Launching Feb 17th at Best Buy An internal Best Buy document leaked to Engadget nails down February 17th as the launch date for Motorola’s highly anticipated Xoom tablet. The Xoom features the latest and greatest version of the Android operating system, Honeycomb, which was designed to run better on tablets. The document [...]
On a recent trip to Hawaii, the auto-tune king, T-Pain got a new tat. Apparently, he does this every time he visits Hawaii. “I get a tatt every time I come to Hawaii. I think this ones pretty sweet, unless facebook shuts down soon 0_o” His new ink reads, “You Don’t Have To Like Me,” [...]
Jermaine Dupri is officially announcing his Global 14 social network. G14 was designed and developed by JD to be the “coolest, hippest city” on the Internet. While Dupri is a super producer and music industry mogul, Global 14 isn’t just about music. “Global 14 was created because of the increasing trend of ‘social notifying’ versus ‘social networking,’ says [...]
After first blocking Facebook, Twitter, and Google, Egypt has decided to take it to the next level and completely disconnect themselves from the Internet. The largest Internet Service Providers in Egypt have stopped providing the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing information used to connect the rest of the world with servers in the Egypt. “The [...]
At the end of last year, Google decided they would do their part to make copyright work better online. Among changes like acting on reliable takedown requests within 24 hrs and improving AdSense anti-piracy review was this little tidbit: We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete. While it’s [...]
You thought the State of the Union address was just going to be another stuffy speech? Okay, maybe not, but tonight’s event will be enhanced with a bit of interactive web magic. The Whitehouse has launched a site that will allow you to not only watch the State of the Union at 9pm EST tonight, [...]
Starting today Russell Simmons is hijacking MySpace to host the ‘Hip-Pop Challenge’- a search for the best musicians in hip-hop and pop. Simmons has sifted through the unsigned bands and artists of MySpace and selected 5 hip-hop acts and 5 pop acts. The MySpace community will get to vote on their favorites in each category [...]
About a week ago, Starbucks launched a national mobile payment network that would make it simple for customers to pay at the register using their mobile phones. Not much fancy technology involved, simply an app that displays a barcode that the barista can scan. They claim to be operating the largest mobile payment program in [...]
Demand Media, the company behind eHow.com, is looking to go public this week. They plan to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “DMD,” but there could be trouble for the companies business. Just as Demand Media is launching their IPO, Google is cracking down on search engine spam. Demand Media’s [...]
Many were surprised when WorldStarHipHop.com unexpectedly disappeared from the net today. What’s more interesting is that rapper 50 Cent is taking credit for the shutdown on Twitter, saying in one tweet “I put worldstar to bed.” In November of 2009, 50 filed a lawsuit against the website for using his image without authorization. There has [...]
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley took the stage at DLD today in Munich. He shared a few facts and figures about the company. Although still barely two years old, Foursquare is now about 50 employees serving 6 million users and built on some $20 million of V.C. money; estimates value it at $250 million. About 40 per [...]
Motorola Bootloader Policy Motorola has recently come under fire regarding their bootloader policy. Motorola’s devices are developed so that the bootloader is locked. This means you can’t root them. So, even though they make some of the best and most popular Android handsets on the market, many Android fans steer clear. When one of these [...]
Mashable got their hands on a confidential fact sheet which seems to detail a group buying service: “Google Offers is a new product to help potential customers and clientele find great deals in their area through a daily email.” Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. Users receive an e-mail with a [...]
