Tech Week in Review 7-1-2011
HBO Go Gives Viewers a Reason to Not Cut the Cable I would really love to cut the cable , but there are still a few reasons why I and many others can’t go through with it. It boils down to quality of programming. Netflix, Hulu, and others give you a way to watch a [...]
Read MoreGoogle Makes It Easier for Small Businesses To Create Mobile Websites
Google has launched a new tool that makes it easy for businesses to create mobile-friendly websites incredibly quickly with Google Sites. The new mobile templates for Google Sites is a follow-up to the mobile sites rollout the company introduced last week. Now in addition to automatically rendering pages in mobile friendly layouts, users can select [...]
Read MoreGoogle Launches Google+ To Battle Facebook
Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s top secret social layer that turns all of Google into one giant social network. Google+, which begins rolling out a very limited field test on Tuesday, is the culmination of a year-long project led by Google Senior Vice President of Social Vic Gundotra. The project, which has been [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 6-24-2011
ICANN Approves New Top-Level Domains In a monumental decision this week, ICANN gave final approval to allow for the expansion of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This means that companies, organizations, and other brands (yes, there is now a .brand TLD) can better express themselves via their domain names. Strings like .CAR, .SPORTS or .BANK are [...]
Read MoreBlack Startups Get Huge Push From New Me Accelerator Program
It was an historic last night in Mountain View, CA as the first annual New Me Accelerator program, designed to motivate African-American technological entrepreneurship, launched on the campuses of Google, Inc. Created by Angela Benton (founder) and Wayne Sutton, NME has been the continuation of Ms. Benton’s commitment to empower and create opportunity for African-Americans in the digital [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 06-17-2011
Restart to Safari MacRumors reports an interesting feature in Mac OS X Lion called Restart to Safari. This feature is reminiscent of Google’s Chromebook, which cuts away your operating system and puts all the focus on accessing the Internet via a web browser. In Apple’s case, though, the motivations are different. They are probably not [...]
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