We all love a good laugh now and then. Whether it’s at the expense of someone else, or a genuine happening of the universe, humor comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors. But being that we’re tech gurus, the things that really make us chuckle revolve around gadgets. In recent memory, there’s no better story to pick fun at than the iPhone 4/Gizmodo Bar blunder that is now pretty much known to everyone. In the real word, a judge will ultimately decide...

**Update: Looks like filing that rumor in the rumor cabinet was worthwhile after all — (Link) File this in the “half rumor” file cabinet for now. I say “half rumor” because the comments on which this post is based are in German. A German dialect that is apparently too much for Google Translate to handle. The resulting english output is anything but readable. But we press on. Supposedly bloggers and journalists attending a Microsoft event...

According to Sascha Lobo, co-initiator of the Internet Manifesto, Journalism has to adapt to today’s as well as the futures emerging technologies. Photo: Reto Klar Bloggers as of late have been getting a fair deal of flack from more “reputable” news sources with fat checkbooks and more legal resources than most of us would know what to do with. Time and time again we have seen bigger news publications attack smaller blogs for piracy, siphoning content,...

The digital age has brought the death of many older industries and technologies as constant progress has brought about new methods, processes, products, etc. Perhaps one of the most publicly known and widely talked about issues regarding dying industries is that of the newspaper industry. While some will argue that newspapers aren’t dying (right), or that there is nothing wrong with the industry itself and it is merely going through a period of increased...

I’m sure many of you get your daily dose of news from some form of digital means, eschewing the now archaic and grossly inefficient paper based model. Why spend countless minutes searching through pages of slaughtered trees when you can have an unlimited amount of papers available to you online, at your finger tips? So is the way of the world. Unfortunately, as more readers move online, ad revenue from traditional paper papers continues to fall meaning the...