By Roy Choi |
Come the morning of May 21 Apple CEO Tim Cook will sit before a U.S. Senate committee where he will likely be asked to defend Apple’s $100 billion cash pile that currently sits in off shore accounts to avoid taxes. This comes on the heels…
By Ron Duwell |
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been summoned by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to testify on the company’s offshore tax practices. It is believed to have a horde of about $100 billion overseas, and that is money it does not have to pay…
By Roy Choi |
Senator John McCain introduced a bill today to perhaps change the way cable operators bundle and offer programming. Senator McCain’s bill attempts to change a broad practices meant to be more consumer friendly: Forcing cable operators to break up programming bundles, so you aren’t required…
By Adriana Lee |
Margaret Thatcher may have been a controversial figure in British history — or, really, world history — but there’s little doubt that her passing at age 87 feels like the end of an era. A British Conservative Party leader, she was a no-nonsense politician who…
By Adriana Lee |
Anonymous has taken on everyone from individuals to major corporations, financial institutions and even the CIA. And now it seems to have added a new entry to its list of targets: North Korea. A group of hackers claiming to be from Anonymous say they’re not…
By Todd Haselton |
President Barack Obama will be on stage addressing the United States on Tuesday during his State of the Union speech, and his wife will be sitting next to none other than Apple CEO Tim Cook. The news was revealed by ContraCostaTimes on Monday, which didn’t say…
By Todd Haselton |
President Obama will host his second Google+ hangout this Thursday, Feb. 14 at 4:50 EST, Google announced on Monday. The “Fireside Hangout” will follow two days after the President’s State of the Union speech to the United States. You’ll be able to watch, but the…
By Ron Duwell |
The Internet’s two largest powerhouses must have had a lot to say last year, and they let their wallets do the talking. With the hotly contested election in 2012, no doubt Facebook and Google were feeling a little heat in regards to a possibly shifting…
By Ron Duwell |
It seems the U.S. Senate is very much in touch with social media. For the first time in American history, coinciding with Obama’s inauguration, every United States Senator runs his or her own Twitter account. Even the frailest of our aging country’s leaders have been…
By Roy Choi |
Last week Google and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached an agreement to settle pesky issues that has come up from Google’s practice. At the core of the FTC’s investigation are Google’s ad services and how search results are prioritized. While the FTC felt the…
By Roy Choi |
Thursday a coalition of mostly Western nations refused to sign a new United Nations telecoms treaty. The 193-nation meeting in Dubai covered an array of telecommunications topics including Internet censorship, Internet fraud, spam, transparency on mobile phone charges, and internationally emergency phone number for mobile…
By Sean P. Aune |
As I watched the election results this past Tuesday night, I was blown away by some of the technology we saw in use to do such simple things as show us the vote total of any given state. Being the “old coot” of the TechnoBuffalo…
By Adriana Lee |
Looks like the voting masses may not be ready for touchscreen ballot technology. Or, more accurately, maybe the tech’s not quite ready for them. On Election Tuesday this week, a Reddit user in Pennsylvania chronicled a bug in the system via video: When he put…
By Adriana Lee |
And the election tech stories just keep on comin’. This time, the news revolves around Microsoft Surface, which is being tested as a balloting device in one Virginia location for state and national elections. Charlottesville, VA, gets to have the honors thanks to Democracy Live.…
By Adriana Lee |
In the 21st century, we have advanced consumer technologies that let us to communicate instantly with people around the world. And yet, we are still required to appear in person or mail in our ballots to vote in the election. That may seem backwards, but one…
By Adriana Lee |
Election Day is almost upon us here in the U.S., as huge numbers will rock the vote on November 6. It has been a heated election season, and it seems that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are in a close race — in fact, both…
By Sean P. Aune |
When I was a kid, there was nothing more frightening than hearing your TV show sound cut out, and then hear the words, “We interrupt this broadcast.” One has to wonder, however, if those days are gone for good. With the news this week that…
By Adriana Lee |
In a world of advancing innovations, one of the biggest obstacles are lawmakers who just don’t get technology. Well, any company that has been stymied by this scenario ought to take Google’s lead, particularly when it comes to its self-driving cars: The company has demonstrated quite some…
By Adriana Lee |
The White House has suffered a cyber attack from Chinese hackers attempting to infiltrate the Military Office’s (WHMO) computer system. The attempted breach — which was reported via The Washington Free Beacon this weekend and just confirmed by a White House official — was a “spear…
By Adriana Lee |
When I found out about Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-Mo.) colossal interview fail on Sunday, it wasn’t on CNN, Fox or MSNBC — it was on Facebook. Even pals who never tune into the news or follow politics were sharing this story like crazy, if only…
By Adriana Lee |
The masses have been holding their breath, waiting for the day when they can post funny cat pics and register to vote all in one place. Well, social media users in Washington can exhale now, as the state will be the first to officially allow…
By Brandon Russell |
Google is capable of some truly amazing things. Just a few days ago the company shared a really impressive video demonstrating its self-driving car, and now it’s giving us virtual access to the most famous home in the world. You can now walk the same…
By Sean P. Aune |
When the White House joined Google+, it promised that there would be official Google Hangout sessions with officials from the most famous home in the United States, but it doesn’t get much bigger than the President himself. Today the White House took to its Google+…
By Noah Kravitz |
Alibaba has hired the lobbying firm of former White House official Kenneth Duberstein in a major step towards the company preparing to buy Yahoo, according to multiple reports. Alibaba CEO Jack Ma is already on the record saying he’d like to buy the entirety of the…
