History of Censorship With the recent death of Kim Jong-Il, Americans can’t help but to be glad that he is gone and hope his youngest son, Kim Jong-Un,will be a less harsh dictator and maybe even lead North Korea out of the darkness. Keep it real though, he won’t. North Korea will remain the way [...]

Microsoft, since the beginning, has been a major influence at the CEA organized CES event that takes place every January in Las Vegas, Nevada. Most often that not, Microsoft has current CEO, Steve Balmer, speak at the first media event of the show on early morning, January 9th. The CES timing, as Microsoft noted in [...]

WSJ reports this evening, that Apple isn’t seeing the success they imagined when they launched their advertising platform, dubbed “iAd”, in 2010. The company, who uses the service to deploy advertisements across their slew of iOS devices, is making some much-needed changes in hopes of attracting more developers and ad-spending in the program. First of [...]

Twitter only introduced their photo sharing service so recently which came just prior to the release of iOS 5. Since the arrival of their service they have claimed their spot as #1, according to Skylin.es, with 36.1% of photos being shared to Twitter using their service. More details show the applications used for these photo [...]

It is likely that prior to the release of the official Twitter application for Mac Tweetie was the best Twitter client on the market. Tweetie was made by Loren Brichter who then sold it to Twitter and was picked up by the team at Twitter along with the purchase. The purchase of Tweetie included Tweetie [...]

Google+ relies on a seemingly simple grouping system to manage your friends, family, acquaintances, and even business relations, but managing these groups or “circles,” as Google calls them, is hard. A grouping tool, Group.as, makes managing these groups much easier without suffering the shared space with your social feed, which not only takes up space which [...]

Today, I experienced my first every at store product launch at the Dallas, TX store on Knox Street. There I met a few friend including the business manager for my local Apple store. Another person I met was David Collins, he decided  to operate a survey via his iPad 2 of customers in line for [...]

What felt like a lifetime was only a few month time frame, 7 months of waiting is what Facebook engineer, Jeff Verkoeyen, had to wait until Facebook for iPad, his creation which eventually led to his resignation, was released to the public. Facebook for iPad wasn’t always kept from the public’s eyes though, at one point [...]

Today’s shocking news of Steve Jobs’ passing away is leaving the world in shock, whether they be Apple supporters or not. Steve Jobs left a legacy for all of us, to, “Think Different,” a traditional Apple slogan. Tribute is being paid to Steve, among the most innovative people of his time, from Apple, Google, President [...]

Jeff Verkoeyen, Facebook engineer, quits his job and bridges the gap towards a job at Google. His change of heart came from a wait, a wait such as one experiences in yearning of a raise or promotion. In such a wait there is hope and much promise although unless you are 100% sure you are [...]

Today we’re excited to announce the new Blogger app for iOS. With the Blogger app, you can write a new blog post and publish it immediately or save it as a draft right from your iOS device. Blogger has been one of the first, if not the first, CMS or blogging platform. Yes, there was [...]

About a month ago, Google had revealed their social photo-sharing service, Photovine. The service was in private beta, having testers report the kinks in the iPhone app. Today, Google has released the application for public use. Users can download the free application on iOS. The service was described as a mix between Instagram and Piictu, [...]

A long awaited feature has just hit Facebook- video calling. Yes, you may now video chat with your Facebook friends right on the site. Pretty cool, eh? The feature was created as a partnership between Facebook and Skype. To activate the feature, all you have to do is click on the video call button, which [...]

It isn’t news that Twitter and TwitPic have had quite the heated tension between each other. With Twitter implementing photos in-stream and, just recently, creating their own Twitter photo service, it isn’t hard to see why Noah Everett, creator of TwitPic, would be a bit on edge. Today, the TwitPic creator has launched his own [...]