September 2010

Apple TV Unboxing

by Jeff Weisbein September 30, 2010

Today, I received the brand new Apple TV. As I previously wrote about, I think the new Apple TV will fill the gap between the computer and the TV. You can find the full specifications and details for the Apple TV on Apple’s site. My first impressions after unboxing the device were that it is [...]

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How To: Recover A Hacked or Compromised Email Account

by Jeff Weisbein September 29, 2010

Today, my email account was compromised and used to send out spam. Thankfully, I was able to login to my account which is hosted with Google Apps and change the password before most of the spam emails were able to be sent out.

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Does The TechCrunch Acquisition Mark The End of An Era?

by Jeff Weisbein September 29, 2010

Now that it’s a done deal and Aol has acquired TechCrunch (along with two other companies today), I began to wonder whether this marks the end of an era. While I guess deep down, I knew a day like this would come – it just had to eventually, I never fully considered the implications it [...]

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Aol Buys TechCrunch, 5Min Media, and Thing Labs

by Jeff Weisbein September 28, 2010

It appears that it has been extremely busy the past few months in Aol’s Mergers & Acquisitions department. Today, Aol announced the acquisition of three companies – 5Min Media, TechCrunch, and Thing Labs.

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Apple and Google: Stealing the Technology Spotlight

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2010

What do technology giants Google and Apple have in common? Besides staying relatively stable in a otherwise shaky economy, both companies have managed take the spotlight in the media; something that cannot be said about other technology entities such as Microsoft. So why is it that a report today from the Pew Research Center says [...]

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Steve Jobs Is Responsible For Facebook’s Downtime

by Jeff Weisbein September 26, 2010

Earlier this week Forbes announced that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has passed Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Forbes’ richest people list. Obviously, this upset Steve very much and apparently he used his epic powers to bring down Facebook on Thursday for several hours. I’ve been told from several sources that the picture below represents how [...]

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Why I’m Fed Up With Facebook

by Mike Mansell September 26, 2010

As a long-time Facebook user, I have become more and more frustrated and fed-up with the social networking site over the the last few weeks. This frustration is being fueled by numerous instabilities and vulnerabilities on Facebook, some of which Facebook doesn’t even appear to be addressing. As you likely know, Facebook was the subject [...]

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iTunes Improves Ping Integration. Now Works Within Your Music Library.

by Syndicated Posts September 25, 2010

The latest update of iTunes 10 was released earlier today. The update (iTunes 10.0.1) included many bug fixes, but most importantly, it improved the integration of Ping within iTunes.

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Digg Traffic Takes A Nose Dive

by Jeff Weisbein September 24, 2010

It has been approximately one month since Digg released their latest redesign of Digg.com version 4 and it appears that the site is now experiencing a major decline in traffic. At Digg’s peak, they reached over 40 million unique visitors a month. However, the uproar and disappointment with the new design appears to have truly [...]

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Aol Plans to Succeed in 2011

by Jeff Weisbein September 22, 2010

The Wall Street Journal reports that Aol CEO Tim Armstrong is expecting to see Aol rebound in 2011. ”I would be disappointed if we didn’t get back to what the market was doing,” said Armstrong at an investor conference. Aol is in the process of a massive restructuring changing their focus from being an ISP [...]

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