Mike Stenger

Google To Launch Cloud Storage Service, Will Compete With The Likes Of Dropbox

Google isn’t slowing down any time soon and according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, they will soon be launching their very own personal cloud storage service which is said to be called Drive. With the increased amount of data and improvement in technology, both online and offline, the popularity of cloud hosting […]

13y ago

google

Google Wants To Know About All Your Web Usage And Will Pay You For It

Google, as with many online services, tracks certain data and usage whether it be for advertisers or to improve their services for users on a much more personalized basis. Legally, one can only track so much, however, it seems that in their quest to learn more about the end user, they’ve setup a program called […]

13y ago

amazon|Comedy Central|mtv|nickelodeon

Amazon Prime Customers Will Soon Be Able To Watch Viacom Shows

Amazon Prime, the $79 a year service that gives free 2 day shipping and $1.99 per item one day shipping, will be adding Viacom shows to it’s online video streaming service. They signed an agreement with Viacom to add shows from their multitude of channels such as Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, and TV Land to […]

13y ago

iTunes|Music

Used MP3 Music Files Legal To Sell Says Federal Judge

According to a federal judge, MP3 files are legal to sell if the person selling them, bought them. This is after Capitol Records wanted to shut down a used MP3 store which the record company deemed not legal to do. Record labels have quite a stronghold over music and are very serious about people sharing […]

13y ago

Apple|ipad

Apple Being Sued For $1.6 Billion Over iPad Trademark Rights

Apple could be in for a bit of a hit. In a new lawsuit with a Hong Kong based company, they claim the company didn’t have the rights to use the iPad name on their popular line of tablets in China and are suing for a whopping $1.6 Billion. Of course, this wouldn’t be too […]

13y ago

google

Google Chrome Now Available On Android

Google Chrome, the second most popular Internet browser, is now available on Android. Currently, it’s in beta and only for 4.0 ICS devices. Chrome has been out since 2008, but it never did come to mobile devices. This has quite a few speculating as to why and why the tech giant never made it happen. […]

13y ago

verizon

Redbox Acquires NCR, Gives Them Access To Thousands Of Kiosks

Redbox was in the news earlier today after Coinstar, the company that owns the DVD rental service, announced that they would be partnering with Verizon to create their very own online video streaming service. Now, they look to expand the traditional service a bit farther. NCR owns thousands of kiosks such as ATM machines and […]

13y ago

google

Google Starts Building Gigabit Internet Service In Kansas

Google, who had a contest back in 2010 for one city to get a blazing fast, 1 Gigabit Internet connection, has finally started building the service in Kansas City who was the lucky one out of 1100 other cities who entered. Kansas City was chose the winner last March. Since then, they’ve been surveying the […]

13y ago

Ford Upset Over Chevy Super Bowl Ad, Tried To Get It Removed

Ford wasn’t too happy over the Super Bowl ad from Chevy that aired last night and was uploaded to Youtube a few days before that. In the ad, which you can watch at the end of this post, the World ends due to the supposed Mayans predictions and the only things that survive are guys […]

13y ago

android|google|smartphones

Android Smartphones And Tablets Coming To US Government, Military

Android seems to be the operating system of choice when it comes to the US government and military. They’ve managed to create an operating system that is highly secure and is capable of sending highly classified data over cellular networks. Previously, the government and military relied off of more antiquated phones. Being that technology continues […]

13y ago

kiss

KISS Working On Their Very Own Angry Birds Game

KISS, a rock band known around the World for their crazy style and over the top performances, are working on a deal with Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, on their very own version of the game. Gene Simmons, the outspoken frontman for the band, sat down and talked with Industry Gamers about his partnership […]

13y ago

smartphones|super bowl

Super Bowl Watchers To Use Their Mobile Phones Significantly, Good News For Advertisers

The Super Bowl is right around the corner and there’s expected to be a much larger number of people watching this year, 173 Million people to be precise which is the most in the last eight years. According to a study, a mass majority of viewers will be using their mobile phones quite a bit […]

13y ago

android

Android Market Quite Safe Thanks To Google’s Own Malware Scanner

The Android Market has been subject to a bit of controversy. While Apple and the App Store has a much more controlled process of apps getting in, for Android apps, it’s not nearly as difficult. That opens them up to more potential for malware and apps that have very shady things going on in the […]

13y ago

rupert murdoch

The Daily iPad App Hits 100,000 Paid Subscribers

The Daily, a news iPad app from News Corp., has hit 100,000 paid subscribers after being in existence a year. They celebrated their first birthday today with some good news. The iPad app was started shortly after controversy with Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., having quite the fit over services such as Google News […]

13y ago

google

Google Fined $660,000 For Offering Free Maps In France

Google who has a slew of different products and services, was ordered by a french court to pay $660,000 in damages to a French mapping company that claimed they were stifling competition by offering Google Maps for free. The company has been under fire lately due to changes to their privacy policy that basically consolidates […]

13y ago

nasa

Hacker Arrested After Stealing Confidential Information From NASA And Pentagon

A Romanian hacker by the name of Razvan Manole Cernaianu, also known by his nickname TinKode, was arrested after he hacked into NASA and Pentagon. Governments take hacking very seriously as for one, confidential information is hidden on servers and two, if it’s known that they can be hacked, well, that opens them up to […]

13y ago

google|microsoft

Microsoft Attacks Google Over Recent Privacy Changes

Microsoft is the latest to join in the debate about Google and their recent changes to their privacy policy. Recently, Google announced they will be making changes to their privacy policy and consolidating all of the privacy policies across their slew of products, into one single privacy policy. This raised a lot of concerns as […]

13y ago

Nikon Announces Three New Coolpix Digital Cameras

Nikon, known for its solid line of digital cameras, announced three new digital cameras today, the P510, S9300, and S30. This news come shortly after Sony announced three new Cyber-shot digital cameras a couple days ago. The company tends to be a favorite choice among professional and amateur photographers. Hey, if Ashton Kutcher uses their […]

13y ago

amazon

Amazon Net Income Dropped In Fourth Quarter, Stock Down

Amazon released their fourth quarter results today and, well, it’s easy to see why they waited to announce the news until the day was about over. The e-commerce company’s net income dropped despite revenue increasing. The company has been expanding and growing which is one of the reasons for the dip. With that said though, […]

13y ago

Facebook|mark zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg Had The Chance To Sell Facebook As Early As 2004

Facebook has been around for almost 8 years now and what an amazing 8 years it has been. Growth has skyrocketed and the social network is very quickly approaching 1 Billion users, half of which who login daily. The site launched in February 2004 and thanks to its growth out of the gate, it got […]

13y ago