Two simple maps show us how Comcast is about to take over the country
As it stands today, Comcast is a massive service provider that controls home and business broadband offerings across a number of key markets. Following the …
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‘Netflix for pirates’ brings streaming video to BitTorrent users
If Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus are any indication, torrenting isn’t quite the destructive force many groups have made it out to be. Torrenting …
New BlackBerry CEO lobs insults at iPhone owners
As BlackBerry looks to pull itself out of the fire and regain its former glory, new chief executive John Chen has so far done a …
Hackers call Mt. Gox CEO a liar, say he still controls ‘stolen’ bitcoin
Anonymous hackers on Sunday claimed to have published evidence that Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles lied about the theft of more than $500 million worth of …
$100 million worth of ads are headed to your Instagram feed
You may not notice a lot of ads in your Instagram feed on a regular basis but that might be about to change. Unnamed sources …
Yahoo has become the graveyard for once-promising startups
Yahoo’s growth appears to be in some way dependent on the widespread acquisition and subsequent annihilation of some of the Internet’s most promising startups, and …
How Facebook is grinding its mobile app rivals into dust
Yahoo keeps grimly churning through acquisitions; buying and shutting down small tech firms with mechanical fervor. Facebook is buying far bigger, far more expensive companies …
Samsung unveils an iTunes Radio rival that won’t annoy you with ads
Samsung announced on Friday that it has officially entered the music streaming market with a brand new app on Google Play called Milk Music. Milk …
The 5 worst kinds of tech fanboys
To steal from an old Chris Rock joke: “I love tech fans but I hate fanboys.” What I mean is that I think it’s great …
Preview: ‘MLB 14: The Show’ gets you to the action faster
It wasn’t until last year that I finally took a chance on baseball. It was the outcome of a single, crazy, stressful game early in …
Supposed Bitcoin founder denies any knowledge of Bitcoin
Did Newsweek pick the wrong guy for its big Bitcoin exposé? In an interview with The Associated Press, 64-year-old Temple City, Calif. resident Satoshi Nakamoto has …
Google’s Schmidt predicts benevolent, ‘omnipresent’ robot overlords
What will Google’s robots have in common with Google+? Apparently they’ll be everywhere and you won’t be able to escape them. Bloomberg reports that Google …
This app will put your love of making quick money to the ultimate test
Who doesn’t love making money while doing little to no actual work? The answer is, “No one.” However, some ways of making quick money are …
Revealed: Everything you need to bring Google Fiber to your city
Do you want Google Fiber to come to your city? Well get in line: There are plenty of other cities that want it as well. …
Facebook’s Android app wants to do strange things to your phone
In a post on Geektime, My Permissions CEO Olivier Amar points us to the new permissions in the Facebook Android application that are a bit …
Spotify is about to get a whole lot smarter
Spotify announced on Thursday that it will be acquiring The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company that has helped power Rdio, Vevo, iHeartRadio and dozens …
Every single satellite orbiting Earth, in a single image
As we gear up for an era where space travel becomes more common thanks to the efforts of companies like Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and …
2014’s smartphone slowdown is extremely painful for Apple
Apple’s profit growth has stalled. The company started an aggressive Chinese expansion program this winter to rejuvenate its iPhone division. Now IDC is sketching out a …
Tired of waiting for Google Fiber? Take matters into your own hands
If you aren’t on the list of cities Google is considering bringing into its fiber-optic cabal, you’re probably wondering if there are any alternatives. High-speed …
This could very well be the man who really created Bitcoin
According to Bitcoin lore, the cryptocurrency got its humble beginnings in a white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” written by a man …
Google exec bashes Facebook for $19 billion WhatsApp buy
Google wanted to acquire WhatsApp but it couldn’t get the deal done. Now, Google is apparently venting some frustrations that Facebook beat it to the punch. While …
Apple awarded nearly $1 billion in huge court win, but judge won’t ban Samsung phones
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday delivered her final judgement on the damages awarded to Apple in its huge 2012 victory over Samsung. The …
One graph shows the slow death of big box electronics stores
Amazon and other online retailers are slowly bleeding big-box electronics stores to death, a fact made all the more obvious this week when RadioShack announced that …
New report suggests Ballmer screamed his way out of a job
By his own admission, outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is “big, bald and loud.” These are traits that have helped him impose his will at Microsoft …
The Sprint-T-Mobile merger has been put on ice
It figures: Just when we were starting to see one good reason for Sprint to acquire T-Mobile, the whole transaction has been put on ice. …
This awesome interactive map details the undersea cables that wire the entire Internet
If you’re reading this post right now, odds are good that you’re one of millions upon millions of people who access the Internet each day …
Get ready for unbearable full-screen ads on your iPhone
You know those horrendous full-screen ads that pop up on some news sites? The ones that hover there for a while until you angrily click …
Samsung pushed out of iPhone 6 chip production?
A new AFP report, which cites a Commercial Times story, says that A8 chip production for the iPhone 6 family of phones has started, with …
Meet the guy that hung up on Steve Jobs not once, but twice
The stories we hear about Steve Jobs, much like the stories we hear about any public figure, often paint him in broad strokes — as …
Scientific proof that trolls are ruining the Internet
Internet trolls are not a new phenomenon, but people have yet to find a way to effectively stop these woeful web goers from spoiling the …
