October 27, 2014

Facebook ready to spend billions to bring whole world online

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Facebook is prepared to spend billions of dollars to reach its goal of bringing the Internet to everyone on the planet, Chief Executive Mark...
October 20, 2014

California passes law mandating smartphone kill switch

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Smartphones sold in California will soon be required to have a kill switch that lets users remotely lock them and wipe them of data in the ...
October 13, 2014

Goodbye To MSN Messenger, An Aughties Relic

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Call it the Gchat effect. MSN Messenger, the ubiquitous instant messaging platform of the early aughties, is no more. After 15 years of fac...
September 29, 2014

People like Emojis, I prefer Emoticons :-)

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Hieroglyphics are making an unlikely 21st century comeback, and it's all thanks to millennials ' insatiable appetite for texting. Y...
September 15, 2014

Apple and Home Depot Tread Lightly on Hacking Attacks

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Don’t blame us. That’s what Apple is saying in a very carefully worded statement about the hacking of nude photos of celebrities. “None of t...
September 8, 2014

Could Wearable Tech Like Google Glass Play a Role in Connected Education?

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Guest post by: Online-PhD-Programs.org
September 1, 2014

Searching for better selfies

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The world needs more selfie-friendly smartphones, said Molly Wood in The New York Times . For whatever reason, smartphone-makers haven’t “g...
August 25, 2014

Apps: Why you should be wary of health trackers

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The use of fitness apps “has exploded in recent years,” but you aren't the only one keeping an eye on the data. The use of apps that...
August 11, 2014

3 Good Reasons Why You Need to Like RATS

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Of course no one likes actual rats, but since we have social-media-savvy tweens and teens, we do need to Recognize Acronyms and Text S...
August 4, 2014

Cybersecurity: The vulnerability of online media

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The Syrian Electronic Army struck us last year, said Matt Buchanan in NewYorker.com. If you were on Twitter or NYTimes.com, you may well h...
July 28, 2014

Encryption: Are there any secrets on the Web?

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The NSA has cracked common forms of encryption used not just by terrorists, but also by regular consumers and businesses. Is anything onl...
July 21, 2014

The Largest List of text & Chat acronyms is available as a book!

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Ever seen an acronym you didn’t know? Are you a parent or teacher with kids online? Are you a business professional trying to stay savvy...
July 14, 2014

The economics of Netflix: Making a $100 million show

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Source: GreatBusinessSchools.org
July 7, 2014

The Internet: Is the U.S. losing control of the Web?

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According to some experts, Internet freedom is in danger. L. Gordon Crovitz in T he Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administrat...
June 30, 2014

You’re under surveillance: Dragnet Nation

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In ‘private’ online forums, at malls, and even at home, Julia Angwin reports, someone is tracking you. Sharon and Bilal  couldn...
June 23, 2014

How to create a culture around your brand

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Source: Masters-in-Marketing.org
June 16, 2014

The future of artificial limbs

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The past decade has seen huge leaps in prosthetics. How far will the technology take us? Writers at The Week investigate, what’s driven the ...
June 9, 2014

It's time for women to start asking for raises

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Turns out the old adage is true: If you don’t ask, you don’t get, said Jennifer Ludden in NPR.org . New research by economists at Carnegie M...
June 2, 2014

Did you hear about Teju Cole's essay on Twitter?

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Teju Cole might be the opposite of a book snob, said Aaron Calvin in BuzzFeed.com . Earlier this year, the award-winning Nigerian-American n...
May 26, 2014

The psychology of video game addiction

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What turns a hobby into a sickness? Jack Flanagan at The Kernel investigates. "I would not inflict this game upon anyone" was the...