Bing: Microsoft's Crown Jewel After 8 Year, $6 Billion Slump

At the beginning of this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlighted the market-share gains for the Bing search engine as the company’s come back from “an economically devastating year.” Since then, Bing, rebranded as the “decision engine” has partnered with Yahoo! to…

Google, Verizon Web Proposal Concerns Net Neutrality Proponents

Net Neutrality (n.)- a concept that advocates unrestricted data access from Internet Service Providers and governments on content, sites or platforms and equal treatment of all sources of content.

On Monday, August 9th, Google and Verizon received criticism for possibly violating the principle of net neutrality with their latest proposal for…

Wipeout Announced for Google Wave

“Who wants a Google Wave invitation?” is what I saw sprawled across the facebook status updates and twitter feeds for months when the collaborative communication tool first came out last May. Having no idea what exactly Google Wave was, I reluctantly accepted a friend’s invitation and proceeded to view the…

M.C. Escher's Impossible Structures Come to Life in 'Inception'

For me, experiencing Inception for the very first time felt as though the very fabric of my intensely curious mind was being unraveled at the seams by three of the world’s most fascinating subjects: dreams, M.C. Escher’s artwork and existentialism. Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece took the theory of lucid dreaming, the idea that…

Old Spice: Does Viral Marketing Outweigh a 7% Drop in Sales?

Red Zone. High Endurance.

Do those names sound familiar to you? If so, chances are they’re not as recognizable to you as the utterly charming, horseback ridding, fantastically smelling spokesperson of Old Spice: Isaiah Mustafa. Even his name sounds intriguing. Last week, the Procter & Gamble company partnered with Mustafa and…