Deal Alert: Registration Open for $14.99 Windows 8 Pro Upgrade

Registration is now open for Microsoft’s Windows Upgrade Offer, a program that will provide a deep discount for Windows 8 Pro. If you have already purchased or plan to buy an eligible Windows 7 PC between June 2, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013, you will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $14.99 after the software...

Underemployed? Social Networking Can Help

Most would agree that having a job is better than not having a job in today’s economy. But therein lies the problem you do the job because you have to, not because you want to. Job seekers not only face a selective job market with high unemployment, but with high underemployment. Underemployment, despite its...

Taco Bell Employee Brags on Twitter About Urinating on Food

Cameron Jankowski allegedly posted a photo of himself taking a leak on a Taco Bell order. Hacktivist collective Anonymous tweeted a link to a YouTube video that reportedly lists Janowski’s personal details. He was identified as an employee at a Taco Bell restaurant in Fort Wayne, Ind. The video also includes...

5 Tech Companies That Get Content Marketing Right

How many tech companies do you think have corporate blogs? Given the buzz around content marketing and its importance to branding and reputation building, you’d think most would. Think again. Fewer than 21% of technology companies have a corporate blog, according to a recent report from Percussion Software. That’s...

Millionaire Fashion Designer Wants Your Funding

Crowdfunding can be a great way to get a charity or creative project off the ground if you’re starved for cash. Now, apparently, more established business owners are turning to it too. Case in point: Reality star-turned-fashion designer Whitney Port has taken to Indiegogo with the goal of raising $50,000 to show...

Aereo Makes Cutting the Cord Even Easier, And Cheaper

Cord-cutting startup Aereo announced new pricing plans for its service on Thursday, including a “try for free” plan. Aereo allows users to watch live broadcast-- television from an iPhone, iPad, Mac running Apple Safari or Roku device. Users can also record programs on a cloud-based DVR for access in the future....

Student Texted About Quitting Texting While Driving Off Cliff, Lived

In yet another example of why you shouldn’t text and drive, an Texas-- college student drove off a cliff while texting. Fortunately, he survived, but incurred some serious injuries. After six months of recovering, he’s finally able to talk about it. Right before Chance Bothe’s truck-- went over a cliff, he...

LinkedIn Now Has 175 Million Members

LinkedIn now has 175 million members, the company-- announced on Thursday. In May, the professional social networking service had claimed 161 million --members, up from 150 million in February. The company announced the figure in its second-quarter earnings release on Thursday, in which it also reported earnings...

‘Huffington’ iPad Magazine Goes Free

Huffington, the weekly iPad magazine from AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group, is now available for free in Apple’s Newsstand. The magazine launched in mid-June as part of a call for a “slow news movement,” an opportunity for The Huffington Post‘s readers to sit back and dive more broadly and deeply into stories...

Dropped Calls Are Cellphone Owners’ Biggest Complaint [STUDY]

A recently released survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project confirms that others share one of your biggest cellphone problems dropped calls. 72% of cellphone owners said they experience dropped calls at least occasionally. And 32% of cellphone users say they experience this problem at least...

Getaway Rents Out Your Car for You

Loaning your car to strangers on Getaround just got a whole lot easier with Getaway, a new service launched Thursday. Never again let your car sit in the garage during a long vacation, or have to leave it collecting dirt in your parent’s driveway when you go to college. Getaway will loan it out for you and...

Facebook Stock Price Drops Below $20

Facebook’s stock price plunged to a new low on Thursday, dipping for the first time below $20 almost half the price it debuted at in May. The latest figures put the company’s market cap at around $43 billion a far cry from the $100 billion-plus valuation that had been touted prior to the IPO. However, since...

New ‘Facebook Stories’ Reveals Human Drama Within

Facebook took the wraps off Facebook Stories Thursday, a section designed “to celebrate the different stories that are coming out of Facebook,” according to a spokesperson’s description.The first issue of Facebook Stories, which resides at facebookstories.com, centers on “remembering.” A video at the top...

Developer Claims Facebook Tried to Destroy His Business

The developer of a Facebook app has gone public with a post claiming that Facebook executives tried to hire him because the company was building a similar app. While the idea of an “aqui-hire” might not sound bad to some, Dalton Caldwell, the CEO of App.net, charges that Facebook uses its heft to intimidate...

India’s Call Centers Stayed Open During Historic Blackout

India’s call centers kept answering the phones Monday and Tuesday, as 680 million people in the country’s northern and eastern provinces faced a crippling power outage, the largest ever electrical blackout in world history. Call centers for foreign companies, as well as major hospitals and airports, were able...

Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Joins Instagram, Posts Pics

Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined Instagram last week and so far has posted four photos. Iran’s supreme leader since 1989 chose to share shots that likely show scenes of Ramadan. It comes as a surprise to some that a person who has been slow to get onboard with social media trends not to mention Iran’s...

$800 iPhone 5 Rumor Sweeps Twitter

Will Apple charge $800 for the iPhone 5? Not likely, but a rumor to that effect has been circulating on Twitter.Two topics related to the rumor  #800dollarsforaniPhone” and “iPhone 5 $800″ were trending on Twitter on Thursday. Most users seemed to treat the topic as an opportunity to show off their comic...

Can You Stay Healthy Using Local Deal Offers for Medical Services?

If you’ve ever bought a Groupon for an expensive restaurant in your area, and had a great meal for not a lot of money, you understand the draw of the daily deal sites.Groupon has been around since late 2008, offering daily deals of discounted gift certificates at national companies. Along came LivingSocial...

Flock Is the App for Super Social Photo Sharers

We all know the process: take picture, upload picture to Facebook, create album, tag friends. It’s a tedious process, but someone’s gotta do it. Not for long for Flock users though. The new app makes photo sharing hassle free and pretty smart. Using iOS’s photo detection API, the app cross references your...

Sharp to Start Shipping iPhone Screens in August

Japan’s Sharp has announced it will start shipping screens for Apple’s new iPhone next month, Reuters reports. “Shipments will start in August,” said Sharp’s president, Takashi Okuda, without giving any additional information. Sharp is one of three suppliers of iPhone screens, the other two being LG Display...