Amazon’s HD Fire chases budget and premium buyers alike

If the Kindle Fire was an experiment at marketing quality tablets at a low price, Amazon appears to have judged the results a success. The follow-up is three different models that aim to challenge every section of the tablet market. Back when reports of the first Kindle tablet surfaced, the speculation was that the device […]


SOCIAL MEDIA IS CONSUMING OUR LIVES! [Video]

We live in a ridiculously hyper fast pace life where information is exchanged so rapidly that it makes us feel inadequate and drains our attention span. This painting was executed at the GALORE festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. The painting is a time-lapse composed of over 9,000 photos and painted over a 5-day period. As irony […]

Behind the Great Firewall of China [Video]

Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao,) a key figure in China’s new journalism, has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” — he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere […]

Only 16% of Americans Understand “The Cloud”

That’s right. A stunningly low proportion of only 16% Americans know what “the cloud” is, according to a national survey conducted by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix. Other stunning statistics to come out of the survey are as follows: 29% of correspondents responded with a reference to an actual cloud, the sky or something related […]

At Least 14 million Americans Still Can’t Get Broadband

The official figure for the proportion of US homes without broadband access has dropped by more than a third in the space of a year. But the Federal Communications Commission notes the apparent drop may be partly due to improved data collection. The official figure for the number of Americans without adequate access is 19 […]