Your iPhone is Tracking You…So is Your Android Everyone pretty much lost it once it was discovered that their beloved iPhones were tracking their every move. Never mind the fact that locating a device through triangulation is a well-known technique. In reality, there isn’t much to fear about this iPhone tracking thing. It boils down [...]
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Big Snoop Dogg, well-known for his activities both on and offline, is promoting another brand using social media. Blast by Colt 45 is his new thing and some are not very happy about it. Paul Porter, founder of the media watchdog group Industry Ears, is one of those people. While Snoop and Pabst reach out [...]
Stanley Burrell, whom you may know as MC Hammer, will be lending advice to minority entrepreneurs in the New Media Entrepreneurship, or NewMe, accelerator program in Silicon Valley this summer. Starting June 16, seven minority-led start-ups from across the country will live in a rented house in Mountain View, CA. They will be able to [...]
Greenpeace released a study (PDF) Thursday which gives some top tech companies low marks for energy efficiency. According to the study, Google and Yahoo made the grade while others still have some work to do. “We expect these companies to play a pivotal role in ensuring we move to clean, safe renewable energy system and [...]
Google and Microsoft are in a battle for talent for a diverse set of roles. There are set to fill more than 1600 and 4600 positions in coming months. Google’s uplift was in line with expectations to recruit 6200 globally this year when it was expected to hire more people than in any year in [...]
Today, President Barack Obama will be at Facebook HQ to hold another live streamed Town Hall meeting via Facebook Live. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will moderate the event as Obama answers questions previously submitted via the web. “The president is looking forward to visiting Facebook and speaking directly to the American people about his plan [...]
According to a report by Wireless Intelligence, African mobile connections reached about 547.5 million during the last three months of 2010 compared to about 523.6 million connections in Western Europe. Mobile price wars have also drastically increased on the continent, started primarily by Kenya mobile operator Airtel. In August of 2010, they slashed prices by [...]
The Startup America Partnership saw some tech heavy hitters investing in the initiative when it was unveiled back in January. Now, 15 companies are going in again, providing over $400 million in value on top of the original commitment from companies like IBM, Intel, and HP. Companies will be able to apply for these resources [...]
Nominations for the 2011 Black Weblog Awards are now open. Visit the site and hit Nominate to nominate your favorite blogs and suggest new categories for consideration. Nominations are starting early this year, and for good reason. This will be the first time in their 7-year history that the winners of the Black Weblog Awards will be announced [...]
Recently, UberMedia and G-Unit Records have announced the availability of Uber50, a custom theme for UberSocial for BlackBerry created by 50 Cent himself. There is a free version including special background art and a deluxe version available for $1.99 which includes additional, exclusive art as well as sounds triggered by actions like sending a Tweet [...]
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. took the floor to speak on what he believes is one major cause of unemployment in America…the iPad. “A few short weeks ago I came to the House floor after having purchased an iPad and said that I happened to believe, Mr. Speaker, that at some point in time this new [...]
GameBuilder Studio is a cross-platform tool for creating games. Anyone from a professional game developer to a wannabe can bring their ideas to life using the GameBuilder visual editor. The focus is on building sophisticated casual games and the system allows you to deploy these games across multiple screens, including your mobile devices and the [...]
Cisco Kills the Flip Camcorder Cisco bought Pure Digital, the company behind the Flip, for $590 million two years ago. On Tuesday, Cisco announced they would be shutting down that whole division and laying off 550 people. Nobody really knows what happened, but most tech folks immediately jumped on the fact that most smartphones these [...]
Internet Week New York take place in the first week of June. It’s actually a festival which creates a “critical mass of web-focused events that raises the profile of NYC’s industry as a whole, as well as the partners who participate.” They are allowing panel submissions for the main AOL stage, which will be streamed [...]
Starting Thursday, the Oprah Winfrey Network and Oprah.com will claim an official “Oprah” section on Flipboard, the iPad app that turns your social stream into a magazine. Based on her Twitter feed, the Oprah section will include content from print sources like O, The Oprah Magazine and OWN, in addition to videos counting down her farewell [...]
