ScoopRocket.com The next Digg?

ScoopRocket.com is a new social news website with a clean, basic design along the lines of Digg where users submit news stories and then vote them up to the home page.
The website has a clean and simple layout unlike other giant social news sites so it has a very uncluttered easy to use feeling [...]

Apple Attacks Windows Issues in new TV Ad

Apple is clearly taking a shot at Microsoft Windows in this latest commercial which describes Windows as virus prone and full of headaches. Although Apple does not directly mention Windows 7 it is clearly obvious that this commercial has been released prior to the Windows 7 launch date for a reason. Come on now, does [...]

Yahoo! Site Redesign - Some users are not pleased

Looks like Yahoo! has done it again. A new site design. Does anyone still use Yahoo!? Yes they do apparently. As an IT professional many of my clients still use Yahoo! as their homepage and utilize Yahoo! for email. Every time Yahoo! makes a change to their site the complaints start to flow in like [...]

Windows 7 Release Confirmed

Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that Windows 7, the next version of its computer operating software, will go on sale Oct. 22, in time to possibly give the slumping PC industry a lift in the holiday season.
Windows 7, which will replace the much-complained-about Windows Vista, will be available then on new PCs. Microsoft, the world’s largest [...]

Facebook Login

Is it me or has anyone noticed lately that it’s taking longer than usual to login to Facebook? Perhaps Facebook is just getting too popular. Whatever the case is, if Facebook is going to maintain their status as the world’s largest social network they are going to have to continue to invest in their network [...]

Google Defrauding Advertisers Claims Harvard Professor

According to a report by Benjamin Edelman an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, Google is defrauding advertisers. Professor Edelman claims that Google is charging advertisers for traffic that would normally have been free. One example the professor illustrates is that when a user types a web address into Google’s Chrome browser the browser will [...]

New American Tea Party is Brewing in a Town Near You

I don’t normally write posts on political topics however the decisions that our government have been making recently are causing outrage throughout the country. It’s time for a New American Tea Party.
CNBC’S Rick Santelli couldn’t have said it any better when he stated, “What we’re doing now is making the founding fathers of this country [...]

Acer plans first smartphone

Acer is capitalizing on its recent purchase of device maker E-Ten, and will likely launch a Microsoft-based smartphone near the end of this year
Acer will likely launch its first smartphone near the end of this year or early next year and it will be a Microsoft-based device, the president of the company said Wednesday.
Smartphones will [...]

Skype Tests Application for Mobile Phones

EBay-owned Skype has released into open beta testing a client for mobile phones that supports phone calls, chat and other features of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) application.
“This product is a part of our goal to be on as many platforms as possible,” said Wilhelm Lundborg, product manager, Skype for Business.
About 50 handsets [...]