From Space to SOPA: 10 Tech Triumphs of 2012 Rovers, particles, and skydiving from the edge of space. And that was just the beginning. Earlier this week, GeekWire documented… Read More
SOPA is a lobotomy, Google’s cutbacks are heartless … and other fun quotes of the week The best observations, quotes, comments and zingers we heard this week. “There’s a fundamental difference between people who want to… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Summify, Picnik, SOPA, PIPA — and doing good with your old PC What happens when big tech companies acquire your favorite online services? Increasingly it seems, they shut ’em down. At least,… Read More
Facing pressure from tech giants, politicians postpone PIPA and SOPA votes Just three days after the blackout of Wikipedia and other sites, U.S. legislators have postponed votes on the Stop Online… Read More
Bring on the nerds! Jon Stewart’s hilarious look at the SOPA fight The Stop Online Piracy Act certainly has generated plenty of controversy in recent days, highlighted by the Wednesday blackouts of… Read More
Watch Ben Huh debate an NBC executive over SOPA It took an email from my mom in Ohio to realize just how big the controversy over the Stop Online… Read More
Seattle snow storm stops SOPA protest in its tracks For the past few days, Seattle’s Zachary Cohn has been spending his days and nights planning for a January 18th rally… Read More
Just in time for SOPA: Clever ‘Grassroutes’ service automates Congressional contacts Sites around the web today are calling on users to contact their Congressional representatives to voice opposition to the Stop… Read More
And so it begins: Wikipedia turns off the lights and Google blacks out logo in SOPA protest Sorry students, journalists, Internet researchers and just about everyone else looking for a tidbit of information related to, well, just… Read More
Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger… Read More
Microsoft says it opposes SOPA ‘as currently drafted’ Much of the tech world’s attention is focused on the Stop Online Piracy Act this week, with Wikipedia and others… Read More
Can this song help kill SOPA? ‘The Day the LOLcats Died’ The campaign to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act has lots of support from some of the Internet’s biggest names,… Read More
Google will alter its home page as part of protest against SOPA Google often plays around with its popular home page, showing creative doodles to celebrate various activities going on in the… Read More
A day without Wikipedia? Um, try these Encarta CD-ROMs Yes, kids, there was a time when Wikipedia didn’t exist, and it looks like we’re going to be transported back… Read More
With SOPA on the ropes, opponents taking their campaign to the streets The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) suffered a pair of blows over the weekend, as the White House spoke… Read More
Cheezburger celebrates five years of LOLs, plans January 18th blackout to protest SOPA Who could have imagined that a Web site featuring oddly-worded captions accompanying cat photos could one day hold so much… Read More
