About Jeff Belanger
I'm a Canadian, I like to write, I like to play video games, watch movies and read books and all that. Also interested in current affairs and comic books as well.
According to Nintendo, the Wii U is officially a flop. The company has confirmed what many already suspected and also reported another annual loss, which makes this their third in a row.“We failed to reach our target for hardware ...
While President Barack Obama’s speech this weekend promised reforms, there are members of the tech industry who aren’t quite so happy with it. While the speech focused on things like the metadata collection of phone ca...
On Friday Intel announced that it would be cutting over 5,000 jobs from their workforce. It isn’t the worst loss that a company can get hit with, and presently Intel has 107,000 employees, but its still a blow nonetheless. I...
It seems that in Norway, a teacher at Nordahl Grieg high school is actually allowing his/her students to play The Walking Dead video game. In what can be seen as a definite changing of the times, Tobias Staaby came up with the ide...
Microsoft has announced that they will provide security support for Windows XP until July 14 of 2015. This extension is a year and a few months longer than their previous date, which was in April of 2014. Reports from Microsoft ar...
Henrique De Castro has been fired from Yahoo after only working there for fifteen months. It’s doubtful that he’s unhappy about being fired because he has received a payout of $109 million. Castro, who was Yahoo’...
It seems that Apple will be refunding, at a minimum, $32.5 million for purchases made by children without their parent’s consent. Along with the payout, Apple will also have to alter the way they bill their customers and mak...
Thanks to a report of ComputerWorld, we now know that the Starbucks app on iOS does not encrypt it’s user’s passwords. Executives from Starbucks said that passwords used for the app were stored in clear text, had no pr...
Blair Westlake, Microsoft’s Vice President for their entertainment and media group, has decided to leave the company. Westlake, who has worked for Microsoft for the past ten years and used his experience to help license cont...
Adobe has stepped into the 3D printing world by adding features to Photoshop CC that allows the program to design 3D objects. Adobe announced the news yesterday and if you have the Creative Cloud Photoshop program you will be able...
Microsoft confirmed that during the cyber attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), some of it’s employee email accounts were also compromised. Last weekend the SEA released three emails over Twitter, emails that ...
Scientists have created RoboEarth, which is essentially an internet designed for robots. RoboEarth was created to allow robots to learn from other robots and share their information as well. The system, which runs on a cloud, is t...
Chad Oulson, who lived in Florida, has been shot dead for texting in a movie theater. The man who shot him is 71-year-old Curtis Reeves, a former police officer, who decided to fire his gun at Oulson a number of times after his re...
A Canadian teenager has been convicted after texting naked photos of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend to one of her friends. The girl, who was 16 when the offense took place, was charged with the possession as well as dissemina...
The New America Foundation (NAF) have written a report in which they say that the bulk surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), has “no discernible impact” on preventing terrorist actions. The repo...