Posts Tagged 'tech'

By The Atlantic Remember GeoCities? The quirky, city-themed web hosting service and early social network that, by 1999, was the third-most-visited site on the World Wide Web? Fourteen years ago, Yahoo acquired it — and with much the same fanfare as the Internet behemoth has done, today, with Tumblr.
There is reason to be optimistic about Yahoo’s latest acquisition: ads, audience, coolness, etc. But it’s worth remembering GeoCities today — and the cautionary tale it ...

By Sam Laird
Nicole Muxo is a senior at Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High in Miami. She’s also a huge fan of Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. So last month, she made a minute-and-a-half YouTube video asking Wade to be her prom date.
Fat chance, right? Social media prom invites from fans have become a fairly standard trapping of modern celebrity, but — understandably — they rarely lead to an actual date.
SEE ALSO: OMG, Prom! ...

By Heidi Moore The high price Yahoo paid for Tumblr acts as validation – and encouragement – for New York’s burgeoning tech companiesBarely had the ink dried on Yahoo’s announcement of its $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr – “we won’t screw it up,” the acquirer promised – than the New York tech world erupted in gossip and speculation about which company among them would be next to find an equally rich and self-deprecating corporate suitor. “That’s all ...

By Neha Prakash Abercrombie & Fitch’s small sizes aren’t stopping this blogger from taking a stand when it comes to the public image of plus-size women
Jes, known on the Internet as The Militant Baker, recreated popular topless A&F ads, but with her own twist — adding the tagline “Attractive & Fat.” She published the images on her blog along with an open letter to the retailer’s CEO Michael Jeffries
Jeffries and A&F ...

By TabTimes Apple’s fifth-generation iPad will hit mass production in July and launch “as early as September,” according to supply chain sources.
Digitimes reports that the next iPad will still have a 9.7-inch 2048 x 1536 resolution display, albeit one which is built on a glass substrate thinner than its predecessor (0.2mm versus 0.25mm on the fourth-generation iPad).
The news website also says the tablet will have slimmer bezels, use more efficient LED backlighting and ...