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The Death of the Shopping Cart

The Death of the Shopping Cart

The thing that truly sparked the initial growth of eCommerce has become the greatest point of abandonment on sites that...

How We Are Tracked Online

How We Are Tracked Online

The news is jam-packed with stories about online privacy, "do not track," and Internet security issues. With proposals for a...

Why the Groupon Superbowl Ads are a Symptom of a Sick Culture

Why the Groupon Superbowl Ads are a Symptom of a Sick Culture

Groupon's Superbowl ads have already generated a firestorm of controversy. The spots, which variously made light of endangered whales, rainforest...

Turn Your iPod Touch Into a Phone Using Its Own Packaging

Turn Your iPod Touch Into a Phone Using Its Own Packaging

You thought you were on the cutting edge of geek chic with that iPhone 4. You ain't seen nothing yet....

PC World Inadvertently Suggests You Get a Mac

PC World Inadvertently Suggests You Get a Mac

Depending on which side you take in the conflict eternal between PC and Mac, this is either an enormous fail...

Media Artists Start Prank Dating Site… and YOU Might Be On It

Media Artists Start Prank Dating Site… and YOU Might Be On It

You may want to check out Lovely-Faces. Yeah it's a dating site - and we're not saying you're desperate. The...

Egypt: Why the Web is Broken (And Why We Can’t Fix it)

Egypt: Why the Web is Broken (And Why We Can’t Fix it)

The recent events in Egypt have, among other things, been inspiring, terrifying and remarkable. But though the political situation is...

17 Years Ago, “What is ‘Internet’?” Was Asked on The Today Show

17 Years Ago, “What is ‘Internet’?” Was Asked on The Today Show

Has it really only been 17 years? Apparently, Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel had no idea what the Internet was,...

Why the Internet Kill Switch is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea

Why the Internet Kill Switch is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea

There are certain things, particularly in politics and technology, that seem to make sense on the surface. Take, for instance,...

If You Hate Twitter, Charatter Bear Will Surely Keep It That Way

If You Hate Twitter, Charatter Bear Will Surely Keep It That Way

Some people just don't like Twitter - and can they be blamed? An ever-shifting sand of mostly-idle information, a Twitter...

Rapper T-Pain Reps Facebook – Forever

Rapper T-Pain Reps Facebook – Forever

Among the list of things I believe I can speak on behalf of everyone at Techi about, it's that we...

Ray Kurzweil’s Tech Predictions Have Been Eerily Accurate

Ray Kurzweil’s Tech Predictions Have Been Eerily Accurate

The Wall Street Journal called him “the restless genius." Forbes said he was “the ultimate thinking machine.” by Forbes magazine....