Apple revealed some mind-boggling numbers at its quarterly earning call last week (January 27th). Apple posted record quarterly revenue of $74.6 billion, an increase of 30% when compared to the same quarter a year ago. QUARTERLY. Wow! It’s hard for me to imagine that much […]
GoDaddy has been forced to withdraw its Super Bowl ad featuring a lovable puppy after an animal rights petition collected more than 42,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Following the outcry, GoDaddy decided to pull the ad, even yanking it from YouTube, but predictably,
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A children’s show produced by Sweden’s public service broadcaster SVT recently released a music video for its “Snoppen och Snippan” [penis and vagina] song to coincide with the premiere of its new season. Since the show chose to illustrate the bouncy, catchy track with a
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As many freeware followers will know by now, FreewareBB was sold recently although unfortunately it fell into the hands of people who wanted to use the good name and reputation of the site to scam and trick others. Those very tactics are the likes of
It seems like just about every day there is news of yet another wonderful piece of innovative gadgetry on the horizon, and the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held recently in Las Vegas has provided a plethora of mouth watering previews to help whet the geek
It’s no secret that the two technology power houses, Microsoft and Google, often don’t see eye to eye. The latest heated discussion erupted over Google’s decision to publicly reveal a security flaw in Windows 8.1 just 2 days before Microsoft was due to issue a
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I love tech. Gadgets, in particular. When I saw on November 6th that Amazon was going to release Amazon Echo, a kind of Siri-meets-Sonos device, I had to have one. As an Amazon Prime member, the cost “for a limited time” would be $99;
The Internet has provided us with such a great range of wonderful resources, and no more so than in the field of communications. Some may consider this a tad overstated but, in my humble opinion, Skype represents one of the technological marvels of the modern
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Updates to Apple’s Mac operating system has always required user intervention to install the update through the Mac App Store or intentionally allow updates to occur automatically (Apple Menu –> System Preferences –> App Store). Apple has had the ability to perform automatic OS updates
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Petrol heads and post apocalyptic fans rejoice, Mad Mad IV is almost here! The Mad Max trilogy, kicking off in 1979, was the vehicle (pun intended) which helped turn Mel Gibson into a major movie star. Now, a fourth movie in the series, dubbed ‘Mad
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While not everyone chooses to search online via Google’s search engine, I think it’s fair to say that the majority of users do. In fact, Google clocked up trillions of searches worldwide during 2014. The most searched event during the year was the unfortunate passing
Two of my all time favorite movie franchises are set to make a welcome return. Jurassic World: Official Trailer The 4th in the series of “Jurassic” movies, named Jurassic World, is due to be released in June next year, some 21 years after the original
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This doesn’t have too much to do with computers or technology, but hey… it is almost Christmas. To celebrate the holiday season, Lego has built a giant Christmas tree in Sydney, Australia, complete with life-sized, surfboard-wielding Santa and sleigh. The tree, constructed from more than
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Due to a pretty hectic schedule lately, I haven’t been keeping up with the iOS updates. As a result, I updated from iOS 8.0.2 to 8.1.1 this week. All was fine until I tried to enter my blood glucose readings in the Health app.
