Internet in 60 Seconds
The Internet is a busy place, and well we know it. Many of us have jobs that necessitate the use of the Internet throughout the day, while others have become so accustomed to shopping and using social media in their spare time, it’s hard to find a moment during any given 24 hour time span when the Internet doesn’t figure prominently in the goings on of our lives. But, have you ever given any thought to just how much stuff can happen online in just 60 seconds? How many Tweets get posted, or blog updates, or Facebook status...
read moreComplete Idiot’s Guide to Cyber Monday
You’ve been hearing about Cyber Monday for years now, but perhaps you are one of the few people left on planet Earth who has yet to venture out into the bargain filled waters of savings that are to be found in online shopping during the biggest discounts of the season. Or, if you happen to have been living in a cave for some time, you might genuinely not know what Cyber Monday is. Here’s a quick primer: Cyber Monday began in the United States during November, 2005, as a marketing effort by Shop.org to bolster support for...
read moreKindle Fire Lights Up the World on Wednesday
Tomorrow, Amazon.com is expected to unveil its long rumored and awaited tablet version of the popular Kindle ebook reader. Rumors seem to indicated it will be similar in size to the Blackberry Playbook, sporting a 7″ screen and running a previous version (perhaps Froyo) of Google’s popular Android operating system. It is expected to be priced far below Apple’s reigning iPad tablet, for perhaps as little as $250, and at that price point it could very well give Apple a run for its money, unlike previous Android powered...
read moreOne Percent iPad Two Percent Herbal
A hot electronic device such as Apple’s iPad can know with some certainty that it has come a long way when a company like Net Market Share releases the kind of data we read today. According to its statistics, Net Market Share estimates that a full 1% of all web browsing in the entire world is now happening on the iPad. That might not sound very impressive, after all, 1% is only a fragment of the big picture. There is still the other 99% to consider, right? Well, hold on just a minute there. Let’s have a zen moment and...
read moreMarket Watch: Apple, Inc.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that lithium-ion batteries – the power source for Apple’s super-popular iPod devices, are in dangerously short supply. The chemicals maker to whom the holdup was tracked, Kureha Corp, controls 70% of the global market for a special polymer used to manufacture the batteries. Unfortunately, Kureha Corp’s Iwaki factory was shut down after the earthquake struck nearby on March 11. Iwaki, located in the Fukushima Prefecture along the southern coastal region of Japan, was near the quake’s...
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Internet Guide
- Stephen Colbert returns to his Comedy Central show
- At White House, B.B. King and Mick Jagger, among others, to play the blues
- Comcast to launch networks by Diddy, Magic Johnson
- ‘Incident in New Baghdad’: What happened in Iraq?
- ‘Community’ returns to NBC schedule, Betty White’s show gets a premiere date
- Diddy, Magic Johnson land independent networks on Comcast
- Featured Advertiser
- ‘Red’ becomes highest grossing non-musical in Arena Stage’s history
- Smithsonian links Civil Rights movement, American art on new Web site
- In other news. . . : Prince Pierre Casiraghi beaten in nightclub brawl; Mark Kelly to write children’s book
- Mardi Gras quiz: How much do you know about Fat Tuesday?
- Love, etc.: David Geffen and Jeremy Lingvall break up
- Liquid-Plumr, PETA commercials: Do they go too far?
- Stephen Colbert’s ‘I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)’ to be released
- Taylor Swift and Zac Efron sing duet, are cute (video)
