A lot of appointments have been made by the Obama administration, but more often than not, people tend to focus on the big positions – and with good reason. But here at SiliconANGLE, we don’t like to leave any stones un-turned, and when it comes to the tech industry, appointments for the FCC are on ...

If there’s one thing I learned from watching Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, it’s that Americans aren’t getting enough fiber. That is to say, fiber optics. You see, I am in the minority when it comes to American citizens.  My house has fiber optics, so when I want to watch my favorite episodes of Dirty ...

Much of the media has been focusing on a number of stories coming out of North Korea, including the typical threats of invasion of the South, all the way to the extraordinarily uncommon and worrying acts of cutting off contact, and nuclear tests. But threats and posturing aside, the Korean War may have just gotten a bit hotter with the ...

YouTube, the World’s most popular video site joins Facebook in the exclusive one billion unique monthly users club. The unique monthly users continue to increase, as content creators upload fascinating videos that go viral. It’s likely that these numbers will go even higher, as Google extends the YouTube brand with the recently announced YouTube subscription ...

  Over the past year or so, there’s been a lot of discussion revolving around the folks over at Valve. Valve, the PC gaming developer, publisher, and distributor is already a giant in the world of gaming, but their newest venture may be their biggest move yet.  They intend on releasing their own console. Now ...

Just As We Predicted – Groupon CEO Fired   Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has been fired. We reported yesterday on NewsDesk that an underwhelming fourth quarter financial report caused Groupon stock to take a beating after analysts had expected higher revenues, and the company fell short of its goals. Some speculated that the dismal report ...

Man I love spaghetti westerns.  Just watched a rather good one the other day, actually.  But even more than old westerns, I love new technology, and in today’s social news roundup we’ve got a whole dang’ wagon full of new tech.  So let’s start with the Good. The Good: Pay Per Channel TV? Thanks to ...

  A lot of people have been discussing lately of the potential use of drones on American Citizens. Generally speaking, the discussions regarding the use of drones have been referring to criticisms of both the United States, and particularly the executive branch, but this latest news regarding drones comes to us from a far more ...

  If you’re a fan of the news, then you probably know who Kim Dotcom is.  Well, it appears the German-born internet titan (in more than one sense of the word) has cast himself into the spotlight again with his latest innovation. “What is the new product,” you might ask?  Well, its simple really.  Each ...

  New Google Plus Sign-In Initiative   Also known as single-login, these services allow users to sign-in to websites and mobile applications using the sign in credentials of their social network of choice. Single login services have become quite popular, because it saves time for the developer, who no longer needs to create a unique authentication ...