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If you’re planning to access Wikipedia in the next few hours, you may as well go check your library’s bookshelves for their latest hard-bound multi-volume edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The popular online publicly-edited information site will be participating in a 24-hour blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and [...]

Tomorrow, major sites like Wikipedia, Reddit, and Boing Boing will be going dark in protest of SOPA. Since most of the Internet-using public couldn’t care less about politics and, by extension, probably don’t know much about SOPA, arriving at their favorite sites only to find that there’s nothing there is [...]

We have seen Google announce and begin to roll-out some fairly nice changes to Google+ recently. Some of the most recent came just a few days back when Google announced that Google+ would be getting a “visual refresh” for Hangouts. And well, it looks like they have since returned with [...]

In a bid to reduce the incidence of login fraud, Google is implementing yet another alternative way of logging in to users’ Gmail accounts from a Web browser. This time, the system uses a combination of QR codes and a smartphone with a QR code scanner app.

What’s in a name? If you consider the value of a brand, accountants and business people actually put an amount to a company’s brand name, especially if mindshare and goodwill can bring in business. Apple, for one, has jumped to the eigth most valuable brand in the world in 2011, [...]

If you’re a fan of the original A-Team–or even the newer movie (which provided a shout-out to what I’m about to say)–you’re already familiar with the immortal phrase “I love it when a plan comes together”. And that bizarre introduction is the perfect segue to talk about Hulu, who has [...]

RIM had previously announced a big Twitter contest. And well, that contest has officially kicked off as of today. Those interested will want to follow the @BlackBerry account on Twitter and pay attention to all things JanuBerry.

If Microsoft’s purchase of Skype last year meant anything, it was likely to have Skype’s VoIP technologies integrated into Windows Phone 7. According to Microsoft, WP7 smartphones will soon integrate Skype voice and video calling in its “Apollo” update.

Copyright infringement and online piracy are a serious offense, but it’s mostly the U.S. copyright groups that move to sue individuals and companies that infringe on intellectual property. Last week, the extradition agreement between the U.S. and the UK was put into question in relation to a case filed against [...]

Amid regulatory concerns in China, Android Market is not likely to reach the region, even with serious push by Google to bring its official app repository to Android users in the country. Will Google agree to China’s censorship policies?