This week, a cat named Hank from Springfield, Virginia announced, or rather his campaign team announced, he was running for Senate. While this isn't the first time an animal has been put forward for a place in government - Molly the Dog was named as a candidate in the US...
(0) Comments | Posted 28 February 2012 | (23:00)
With Google announcing a change to its privacy settings - and the subsequent uproar it caused - it highlights an alarming trend of how easily our identities online are bought and sold, without our knowledge.
If you've ever posted a photo on Facebook, used social networking, posted a comment...
(1) Comments | Posted 27 January 2012 | (23:00)
The start of 2012 hasn't been smooth sailing for the internet and its users. First up, the US government attempted to introduce the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as a way of protecting US citizens' intellectual property on the internet.
The result was a media blackout from some 7,000...
(1) Comments | Posted 17 November 2011 | (22:00)
Last month, Thomas Suarez stood up in front of a packed TEDx conference in Los Angeles and talked about his app development company, CarrotCorp.
A fairly typical presentation you might think. Except Suarez has yet to finish what we in the UK would call primary school.
His first...
(2) Comments | Posted 26 October 2011 | (17:28)
It's been a tough year for Nokia. The company's stock sheet from the last 12 months looks like a downhill skier's dream, and boss Stephen Elop has had to watch Nokia's slice of the 'Market Share' pie chart become slimmer in the markets vital for his survival.
But, in...
(2) Comments | Posted 22 October 2011 | (00:00)
Photoshopped celebrities never fail to cause outrage. The most recent pitchfork parade was started by an article on the Daily Mail website highlighting the "bizarre" practices that go on inside magazines to improve photos.
While the piece focuses mostly on editors' extraordinary abilities to remove entire sections of celebs' physiques...
(2) Comments | Posted 18 October 2011 | (00:00)
It hasn't been a very good year for Research In Motion (RIM). But, it would be too easy, not to mention wholly misguided to lay blame at the door of market forces, or some other external pressure. No. RIM's woes are all by its own hand.
The cracks started to...
(7) Comments | Posted 8 September 2011 | (00:00)
If I hear one more journalist coin the term, "iPad killer" I may have to surgically remove their fingers. Allow me to paint a picture. Motorola's Xoom tablet, sold 440,000 units in the second quarter of this year. BlackBerry faired slightly better with around 500,000. HP's TouchPad crashed and burned...
(1) Comments | Posted 4 March 2012 | (23:00)