Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony is one of the most vilified rebel leaders on the planet. He stands accused of brainwashing countless children across northern Uganda, turning the girls into sex slaves and the boys into prepubescent killers….
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Study: Why Do People Use Facebook?
By Alicia Eler Facebook is an accepted means of communication. It is a never-ending virtual social gathering filled with adopted puppies, cute LOL kitties, baby announcements, viral articles and videos, events, groups, organizations and fan…
One company, one store: Why Google axed Android Market for Google Play
BY GEOFF DUNCAN Google is unifying Android Market as well as its book, music, and movie services under the moniker Google Play. But is it clearer, or more confusing? Internet giant Google raised eyebrows yesterday…
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with more than 800 million active users around the world, and roughly 200 million in the United States, or two-thirds of the population. Created in 2004 by Mark…
Facebook – Which personality type describes you best?
by Matthew Inman Facebook Personality Types: The Gamer – The invites and updates will never stop The Event Coordinator – They invite everyone to everything The Desperate Marketer – Their idea of marketing on Facebook…
Sell Apple?! iPad3 May Provide the Chance
It may be time to buy the iRumor and sell the iFact. With Apple Inc. set to unveil its latest blockbuster device Wednesday, the iPad3, a window isn’t only opening on one of the most-profitable…
iPad 3: What we didn’t get
By David Camoy Inevitably, whenever Apple releases a new product, there’s a little disappointment over what was missing. Here’s a look at some of the things Apple didn’t deliver in this iPad release. The dust…
Apple’s Cook lifts lid on newest, 4G-powered iPad
By Poornima Gupta and Alexei Oreskovic (Reuters) – Apple Inc took the wraps off a faster 4G-equipped iPad on Wednesday, hoping the latest version of its tablet can safeguard its dominance as rivals from Amazon…
Apple Unveils New Version of IPad
By Adam Satariano Apple Inc. (AAPL) introduced a new version of the iPad, beefing up its two-year-old mobile computer with a sharper screen and faster chip to widen its lead over Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), Microsoft…
Goodbye Android Market, Hello Google Play
By Chris Velazco Google’s Android Market has undergone some tremendous changes over the last year or so. What started as just a standalone app store has quickly grown to encompass e-books, music, videos, and now…
Google Play launches as online entertainment hub
By Chenda Ngak (CBS News) Google launched Google Play Tuesday – an entertainment hub which will house movies, music, e-books, games and apps in one location. Full coverage of Google at Tech Talk “Starting today,…
Does Sex Sell?
By KARYN MONGET Three decades ago, Calvin Klein triggered debate — and a publicity bonanza — when 15-year-old Brooke Shields purred, “You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.” These days,…
Marketing is Like Sex: Everyone Thinks They’re Good at It
By Steve Tobak There’s hypocrisy in the corporate world that’s begging to be called out. Everybody thinks they’re a marketing expert. Your boss, the CEO, the IT guy – I bet half the people in your…
How to Make Working at Home Work: A Banker-Turned-Entrepreneur’s Story
BY TRACY STAPP “I really didn’t want a ‘real job.’ I wanted to work for myself,” Bill Buckley recalls. “And I loved working from home.” That was 1995, after Buckley had spent 25 years in…
Facebook claimant Paul Ceglia hires new lawyers
By Jessica Guynn A New York man is not giving up his fight for half of Mark Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar stake in Facebook. Paul Ceglia has added new lawyers to his legal team, including Sanford Dumain,…
Finding Your Book Interrupted … By the Tablet You Read It On
By JULIE BOSMAN and MATT RICHTEL Can you concentrate on Flaubert when Facebook is only a swipe away, or give your true devotion to Mr. Darcy while Twitter beckons? People who read e-books on tablets…
Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO — The private photos on your phone may not be as private as you think. Developers of applications for Apple’s mobile devices, along with Apple itself, came under scrutiny this…
Zynga Seeks to Match Up Players for Online Games
By DAVID STREITFELD SAN FRANCISCO — There is an old saying that if you have two real friends, you should count yourself lucky. No doubt. But you are going to have a hard time playing…
Disruptions: No More Innovation for the Fun of It
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO –I wouldn’t describe the car industry as fun. The airline industry isn’t fun either. Phone companies are far from fun. Yet these industries all started out fun. They began with…
Bank of America Alerts Customers To Possible Breach
Rochester, N.Y. — Some Bank of America customers received letters in the mail Saturday informing them of a possible security breach. The bank states, “We take your account security very seriously and have learned that…
Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos
By BRIAN X. CHEN and NICK BILTON It’s not just Apple. Photos are vulnerable on Android phones, too. As Bits reported this week, developers who make applications for Apple iOS devices have access to a…
Food Network in the Kitchen: A delicious app
By Marc Saltzma If you spend a lot of time with Guy Fieri, Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay on TV, why not take these chefs into your kitchen via your iPad? The new and improved…
Apple buys app-discovery search engine
By Charlie Szold What good is it to have 500,000 apps in your app store if you can’t find any you like? Apple is trying to bring order to its app store by purchasing app-discovery…
Review: The iPad 2
by Jason Snell A year ago, nobody had an iPad. Then Apple sold 15 million of them in just nine months, creating a whole new category of technology product. The iPad may have become, in…
Where the iPad 2 lets you down: Top 12 complaints
The iPad 2 is the best tablet available, but it brings its own share of frustrations. By Galen Gruman I really like the iPad 2. I use mine every day for work and personal purposes,…
IRS Releases the Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2012
WASHINGTON –– The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual “Dirty Dozen” ranking of tax scams, reminding taxpayers to use caution during tax season to protect themselves against a wide range of schemes ranging from…
Bill Gates Calls for More Accountability on Food Programs
By JUSTIN GILLIS The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has brought a distinctive approach to problems of global development: a sense of urgency, a willingness to make big investments in pursuit of ambitious targets, and…
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
By CHARLES DUHIGG Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted…
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
By Kashmir Hill Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you…
Ten Reasons NOT To Invest In Facebook
By Kym McNicholas If you’re a Robert Scoble follower, you know he believes Facebook will be worth a half-trillion dollars by 2015. But not everyone’s as confident as Scoble that the social network will be…
How To Use Social Media To Promote Your Small Business
By Kym McNicholas You have a small business and you haven’t bought into the social media craze? Guess what? Silence is no longer an option. People are online talking about your company as you read…
Apple’s GarageBand And iTunes Have Some New Competition
By Kym McNicholas The former head of Virgin Records, Matt Serletic, is hoping to give Apple‘s GargeBand and iTune’s a little competition. The Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter has started his own music making business, Music Mastermind,…
What Are SOPA and PIPA And Why All The Fuss?
By Larry Magid Knowing that Wikipedia would go dark for 24 hours in protest to SOPA and PIPA, I took the precaution of printing it out last night. Just kidding. Wikipedia is huge. I wanted…
Web Firms to Adopt ‘No Track’ Button
By JULIA ANGWIN A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers—a move that the industry had been resisting for more than…
George Harrison’s Beloved Guitars, Gently Weeping on Your iPad
By DAVE ITZKOFF Some music fans understandably regard the guitars owned and played by George Harrison, in his Beatles career and as a solo artist, as sacred relics that may still contain fragments of their…
Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices
By PETER WAYNER Dr. Eric Topol is only half joking when he says the smartphone is the future of medicine — because most of his patients already seem “surgically connected” to one. But he says…
Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny earpieces…
Windows on the iPad, and Speedy
By DAVID POGUE You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. Your iPad can’t play Flash videos on the Web….
T-Mobile Asks F.C.C. to Block Verizon Deal
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon’s planned…
When the Web Page Comes to You
By QUENTIN HARDY The world of Web marketing is based on the idea of search engine optimization, which means building Web pages that search engines can find and then drive readers to. But what if…
What we learned from the ‘Nightline’ report on Foxconn factories
By Joshua Topolsky After teasing the story yesterday, Nightline has aired its report from Foxconn’s factories on ABC. In the report, host Bill Weir speaks directly to factory workers as well as their managers. You…
Here Come the Cloud Cartels
By QUENTIN HARDY What kind of cartels will deliver business computing, and how should businesses respond? Forrester, the technology research company, just released its business and technology outlook for 2020. The short version is that…
Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover
By Adrianne Jeffries Flickr’s head of product is about to push big changes after a year on the job. Markus Spiering has, as they say, a good eye. Most of his resume was in mobile…
Amazon Broadens Its Computing Reach
By QUENTIN HARDY Attention tech industry: Amazon.com is coming for you. Amazon Web Services, the company’s computing-for-hire division, announced new products on Tuesday that make it easier to run workflow-based applications, both on Amazon’s computers…
An E-Mail App Arrives for the BlackBerry Tablet
By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — Research in Motion, the company that introduced wireless e-mail to the world, on Tuesday finally brought e-mail to its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook. The e-mail application is one of…
Taser’s Latest Police Weapon: The Tiny Camera and the Cloud
By QUENTIN HARDY SAN FRANCISCO — Sgt. Brandon Davis vividly recalled the moment before he killed Eric Wayne Berry, but it was not the way it really happened. “I told him to drop his weapon,…
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End
By NICK BILTON People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information…
A Tech Show Loses Clout as Industry Shifts
By NICK WINGFIELD The International Consumer Electronics Show, which will open on Tuesday in Las Vegas, is impossible to ignore. It will smother the city’s gigantic convention center with gadgets and those who make and…
The Critics Rave … for Microsoft?
By NICK WINGFIELD “GORGEOUS,” raves The Huffington Post. “Best-looking smartphone operating system in the industry,” gushes Slate. “Far superior to most if not all the Android smartphones,” says TechCrunch. Sounds like the usual adulation for…
How to Start a Trampoline Center
If you are considering opening a trampoline center, trampoline park or trampoline arena, step one is being sure to avoid the mistakes that other entrepreneurs learned the hard way. Thinking about opening a trampoline center?…