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Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 09/21/11
View The World Of Underwater Internet Cable With New Google Map
Everybody takes the Internet for granted. They don't realize what it actually is. It's a global system of interconnected computer networks, but how are all these computers connected? By miles of cables that stretch underwater from continent to continent. The cable system is actually pretty amazing. According to TIME.com, the cables are called "tubes", or "submarine communications cables, which are giant cables laid on the...
Life / Culture ♦ Posted 08/30/11
Check Out Cheeba.com, The 'Marijuana-Based Search Engine'
While medical marijuana is legal in California and several other sites, those online trying to advertise medicinal sticky-icky are "treated like outlaws" to quote L.A. Weekly. Google isn't very weed friendly, so how does a supporter of legal marijuana make money online? Through a "marijuana-based search engine" called Cheeba.com. "While ad networks like Google AdSense seem to flat out ban companies from reaching out the...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 08/23/11
Wale Crashes HulkShare Servers With Release Of New Mixtape
Wale is getting ready... preparing the November release of his Maybach Music debut, Ambition. But last week, the DC dropped a brand new mixtape for fans, crashing free download sharing services, Hulkshare and Sendspace. The mixtape, titled The Eleven One Eleven Theory, was released as a promise to fans after he reached 1 million Twitter followers @Wale. According to Hulkshare, the traffic surrounding the downlad...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 08/05/11
Kanye West & Lady Gaga Among Group Invested In Upstart, Turntable.fm
Musicians are getting into the tech game heavy. Chamillionaire recently visited the TechCrunch Mobile Conference, and Justin Timberlake nabbed a piece of MySpace ... and now, Kanye West and Lady Gaga are the latest to put their money behind technology. West and Gaga recently joined forces to put their money behind rising NYC start-up, Turntable.fm. According to Business Insider, the celebrity investors teamed up with...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 06/03/11
T-Pain Vows To Never Use Auto-Tune Again, Announces 'The T-Pain Effect'
When Jay-Z declared the "Death of Auto-Tune" in the summer of 2009, with the Blueprint 3 single "D.O.A.," the hip-hop star may have jumped the gun. Afterall, at the time, artists like Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and of course, T-Pain, were using the popular vocal effect with much success. In 2011, its popularity has died down quite a bit. Pain, who helped bring its popularity...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 05/19/11
LimeWire Settles With the RIAA For $105 Million
Limewire is completely lost at the hands of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) last week, when they agreed to a nine-digit payout to major record labels. The now-defunct peer-to-peer client agreed, last week, to pay $105M to the major record labels as part of a settlement between both parties -- the labels being represented by the copyright watchdog. They paid for 9,715 pirated...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 04/05/11
Jay-Z Launches New, Lifestyle Blog/Website
Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has taken a page outta Kanye West's book with the launch of a new lifestyle website called LifeandTimes.com. The recently launched website offers a fresh take on categories such as style, leisure, art & design, technology, music, and sports, featuring everything from short video clips, brief blogs and stories, as well as pictures. The site currently boasts feature stories on boxing champ...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 12/28/10
Tech Company Helps Users Video Chat Over Mobile Phones With New App
While we're not a tech-based publication per say, we always keep our eyes and ears open to new things on the technology-based side to things we think are cool. One of the latest things we came across is Tango, a free mobile video calling service that supports and works between numerous devices, including iPhones, and dozens of Android devices over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. The...
Politics ♦ Posted 12/21/10
Website Owners Dispute Government Seizures, Say They Aren't To Blame
While most people were enjoying turkey with their families over the Thanksgiving holiday, federal authorities were shutting down several websites, as part of Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which allows the seizure of domain names without due process or even a mention of wrong-doing. Popular hip-hop websites OnSmash.com and RapGodFathers.com were among the 82 domain names snatched up from under their...
Music ♦ Posted 12/03/10
Billboard Debuts New 'Social 50' Chart, Rihanna Lands On Top
Billboard Magazine debuted a brand new chart this week, and Rihanna sits atop it. The new list is called the Social 50. The Social 50 is a weekly chart featuring music artists, with the order determined by their popularity on social networking sites. While Rihanna debuts at #1, Justin Bieber, Eminem, Lady Gaga, and Nicki Minaj follow in the #2, 3, 4, and 5 spots...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 12/02/10
Soulja Boy Enters Social Media Industry With 'SouljaWorld' Mobile App
At the end of November, Soulja Boy launched a location-based social media app called "SouljaWorld." The app gives users the ability to log on and "check-in" from various locations around the world and connect with others using Soulja Boy-related digital content. In addition to the "check-in" feature, "SouljaWorld" users will also receive exclusive updates on new Soulja Boy music, video content and upcoming tour...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 11/26/10
Congress Passes Web Censorship Bill, Two Hip-Hop Sites Shut Down
Congress finally hammered out a bill on last Thursday (November 18), called the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which would empower the government to take action against websites offering unauthorized copyrighted or counterfeit content. Last week Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the bill, in which the Attorney General gains the right to shut down...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 11/10/10
Anonymous Dev Team Relaunches LimeWire With Pirated Version
Less than a month after LimeWire's "permanent shut down," a pirated version has popped up on the Internet, re-launched by an anonymous development team, said reports. A "secret dev team" -- loyal to the file-sharing software -- worked to resurrect a new LimeWire, following the announcement that the company had been shut down due to copyright laws brought on by major record labels and the...
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 05/17/10
LimeWire Likely Caput, Court Ruling Could Spell Its End
After 10 years of operation, a federal judge likely put the nail in the coffin of one of the most popular file-sharing systems available: LimeWire. Last Wednesday (May 12), U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood ruled in favor of the RIAA, in their copyright lawsuit against LimeWire dating back to...
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