The FBI has seized control of online gambling sites PokerStars.com and FullTiltPoker.com in a sting that has brought down two of the biggest names in online poker in the United States. Based on a tips, and perhaps even direct collaboration from within a suspected money laundering operating, the U.S. federal government received information on the […]
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For President Barack Obama, his Presidency was all about “Change”! Change that needed to come to Washington, “Change” that was going turn around the unemployment rate, and “Change” that was, once and for all, end the politics that plagues our capital. But with the new budget crisis, and the fact that our Federal government was […]
Facebook has something in it’s arsenal that few, if any, tech giants can claim. Powerful politicians in Washington are starting to leverage Facebook for their campaigns. With this type of leverage, it’s going to be difficult for those same politicians to take aim directly at the social networking giant on issues like privacy, commerce, and […]
A United States federal court has issued a subpoena to Twitter requesting for data relating to Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. Twitter received some unlikely news this week from a United States federal court. The feds are requesting information regarding Wikileaks, the Wikileaks Twitter feed, and the Twitter profile’s of top Wikileaks’ officials including Wikileaks founder […]
Google’s new public data explorer graphs out the US budget and shows that Social Security is the biggest cost right now to the government. The graph below allows you to see how the budget fluctuates depending on world events. Last month I wrote about how the engineers at Google are working on a Google Price […]
The image above is of Cheng Jianping, 46, who was sentenced to hard labor in China for a Twitter message (retweet actually) that she posted. Question – how do you know you live in a communist regime? Answer, when you get sentenced to “education through hard labor” for a message you tweet. That’s exactly what […]
The Motorola Droid X has been one of the best selling Android smartphones in the US since Android was released. Verizon has dominated the Android smartphone market as a result of the Motorola Droid X and the Droid 2. The Motorola Droid X is now set to be released in Mexico as the Motoroi X […]