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CES Live Broadcast Info Booking Information As we have done for many years, those companies wishing to appear on our live CES broadcast need to apply for one of the 80 available slots we have for 2019. Those broadcast slots fill very quickly and by 1-4-2019 we will be 90% booked. So you must act now. Broadcasting From the Sands
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a long end-of-the-year post on Facebook in which he said he was proud of the progress they made in 2018. He starts by mentioning what he identified as the most important issues facing the Facebook community. In my opinion, Mark Zuckerberg downplayed the biggest concerns that people have about Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg identified some of most of
Epic Games, the creator of the incredibly popular Fortnite game, has reportedly made $3 billion in profits in 2018. This number comes from unnamed sources who spoke to TechCrunch. Epic Games itself did not respond to a request for comment from TechCrunch. Epic Games had a good year in 2018 as any company in tech. Fortnite became the world's most
Hi everyone, Kirk here with you for the final episode of the Geek News Central podcast 2018! I will be filling in for Todd while he is away on travel down in Florida and welcoming his new bundle of joy; his granddaughter born this past Christmas Day on Wednesday and then he is off to Vegas for CES 2019 in
Instagram users may have encountered an unexpected change today when trying to scroll through their feed. Instead of being able to vertically scroll through Instagram, the change temporarily switch it to a horizontal scroll. TechCrunch reported that the change was due to a bug that mistakenly rolled out the change to the Instagram feed. Many users found the change from
How many items did you purchase from Amazon as gifts for friends and family this holiday season? All those purchases add up. Amazon announced a record-breaking holiday season thanks to its customers all around the world, with more items ordered worldwide than ever before. In a press release, Amazon revealed some interesting data about what people bought. It also included
As you may have noticed, discussions of politics on social media can quickly become extremely toxic. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook had started working on a feature that was designed to reduce that toxicity and encourage more civil discussion. It was called “Common Ground”, and Facebook canceled the project before launching it. Deepa Seetheraman wrote in the Wall
Slack posted an apology and an update after its controversial decision to block accounts of users who had visited and logged on from Iran. Slack acknowledges that it did not handle communication well in regards to their decision to block some users. The problem appears to have happened when Slack updated its system for applying location information to comply with
Facebook responds once again for privacy concerns of third-party partners having read/write access to our private messages within Facebook. Nothing should surprise us anymore when it comes to Facebook, to be honest. Kirk will be carrying the show into the New Year and I will be back with you live from CES on Tuesday, January 8th. I want to thank
Twitter has released a sparkle icon that you can tap to switch between the latest and top Tweets in your timeline. It is currently available on iOS, and will be coming soon to Android. BuzzFeed News reported that users on iOS can tap a new icon (represented by the sparkle emoji) in the top-right hand corner of the Twitter app
Blubrry Achieves Certification My company Blubrry Podcasting has made history as the first podcast-hosting service provider to have its podcast stats certified by the Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab for Podcast Measurement Compliance. My team has spent the better part of the past 5 months going through the audit and certification. There is nothing like having your entire code-base and
Seems Amazon is tired of losing money on CRaP and will be forcing vendors to pay for shipping. They are purportedly putting a strong arm on companies like Coke to ship items like SmartWater on their own dime. Only Amazon would get away with this kind of demand. But really who buys SmartWater online and have it shipped to there
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