Tech Week in Review 12-16-2011
Facebook Timeline Available Everywhere Facebook launched Timeline in limited form a while back, but now it is available to all worldwide. In addition to Facebook.com, Timeline is also now active on Android and m.facebook.com. It’s a new spin on your Facebook profile that allows you and your friends to easily see posts all the way [...]
Read MoreLeBron James the Face and Judge of Facebook Ad Contest for Sheets Energy Strips [VIDEO]
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Sheets Energy Strips, a dissolvable strip that goes on the tongue, is looking for a fan to make its next TV commercial and is using Facebook and LeBron James to make it happen. The brand is running a contest for people to create their own ad in hopes to be featured on TV and in [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 12-2-2011
The Carrier IQ Privacy Debacle Carrier IQ is at the center of the latest privacy debacle in tech. There is a lot of outrage, misinformation, and pageview chasing surrounding the event. It started when a security researcher published a YouTube video of the Carrier IQ software accessing all types of personal information. This seems to [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 11-25-2011
No Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, is launching on the new Galaxy Nexus phone minus one standout feature of most Android devices: Adobe Flash. This has been one of the primary differences between Apple’s iPhone and Android devices. Following Adobe’s announcement that they will no longer support mobile Flash and [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Accounts, Life After Death
What happens after you die? One of the most existential questions of all time takes on a whole new meaning when you add technology to the mix. With the recent untimely passing of Heavy D and the profusion of re-tweets of his final tweet –‘Be Inspired’ — the obvious addendum to this question now becomes [...]
Read MoreInteractive One and Songza Launch Online Social Radio for African-Americans, BlackPlanet Radio
Interactive One announced a partnership with a streaming music service, Songza to launch BlackPlanet Radio. BlackPlanet Radio is targeted towards African-Americans and allows users to discover new music in a variety of ways, as well as create playlists from a library of more than 14.5 million songs to share with their social network communities. The [...]
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