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Zynga is Doomed

Zynga recently released a “preliminary financial results” report that isn't a happy one. In short, the company said it is expecting to earn quite a bit less this quarter than it did last quarter. That's never good news for a company, and is the opposite of what investors want to hear. I'm not actually surprised by this news, though, because

Facebook Could Do Better

It isn't unusual for Facebook to change things around. In general, these changes tend to annoy users of Facebook for a while, and we all complain, and then eventually adjust to the new look. An example of this phenomena happened when Facebook changed everyone's pages to the new Timeline format. A rash of blogs hit the internet warning people that

Why Cable TV Subscribers Are Making It Miserable To Cut The Cord

This is what I look like waiting for TV shows to be released on Netflix. Not really - this is what I look like all the time. Image Credit - BigStockThere’s a new report out this week (to be filed in the “Duh” folder…right next to “No Kidding”) showing that some 2.6 million cable television subscribers cancelled their service in

Paying for Content on the Web

Google got in trouble recently when they were caught circumventing Safari’s third-party cookies blocking apparatus. This article isn’t about third-party cookies or what Google did. If you want to learn more about how third-party cookies and how they work, there are a couple of good article the first is Third-party cookies and another is E-Junkie How Does Tracking Work and what

Cobra 7750 Platinum Trucker’s GPS

After my recent unacceptable experience with the TomTom GO 2535M Live with two separate units spontaneously falling into an endless reboot loop, I decided it was time to try another brand of GPS. After getting a refund in full from Best Buy, I decided to try a GPS that’s specifically aimed at truck drivers. Trucker-specific GPS units tend to carry

Is Snow Leopard The New XP?

Like a lot of people, I purchased the Lion upgrade on the first day of availability from the Apple App store. I upgraded two late-model Mac Minis along with an older 17” MacBook Pro. The Lion upgrade solved a freezing problem on the Mac Mini I use as an HD-DVR. However, it created a number of serious problems on the

Are We All Thieves?

The history of advancing technology is long littered with accusations of copyright infringement along with charges of outright thievery. The problem seems to stem from ever-changing definitions of what comprises a song, a performance, or a book. Back in the days when the player piano was invented, musicians themselves seemed to define a song as a live performance. Hence, the