Tech Week in Review 8-28-09
by rahsheen
Looks like Microsoft made a major error in judgement when they removed the head of a black man on a Polish marketing site and replaced it with a white guy’s. Not only that, but they didn’t even bother to Photoshop the hands to match. At first, I thought this was really racist of them, but it looks like there really aren’t that many black people in that region and they were just trying to match the marketing with the local demographic. Still, how sloppy and lazy of them to simply Photoshop the image. Now, TechCrunch has an excuse to kick off a meme.
Read MoreTech Week in Review – 7/10/09
by rahsheen
Google Apps Finally Out of Beta
Google has probably been the longest running joke regarding apps being in beta forever, but budding geek comedians will now have to find someone else to pick on because Google has dropped the beta label from it’s Google Apps set of applications. These include Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google [...]
Tech Week In Review: Facebook API and Desktop, Swine Flu, 4Chan, and Phishing
by rahsheen
Facebook API
First, Facebook starts copying features from FriendFeed and Twitter. Now, they have decided that copying features isn’t enough to stay on top and they’ve decided to open up their API to developers. The only problem there is that Facebook isn’t as open as we first thought. It’s so-called open API is just a tease, [...]
