5/18/2012 3:10:20 PM | Josh Cantrell
-Article by Philip Icuss
Facebook has managed to come up with an idea worse than making the timeline profile mandatory. The idea is that you should pay your hard earned money to promote a status, picture, video, etc. so that more of your Facebook friends will see it. Facebook spokesmen have told reporters that this feature, named the “Highlight feature,” is just in the testing stages in New Zealand.
Statistically speaking, a person’s Facebook post only reaches about 12% of their Facebook friends. This new update gives a user the ability to promote their post to all of their friends, thus, if the post is important, you can make sure that no one misses it.
ZDnet.com gives a "Highlight feature" example in their article:
5/16/2012 6:30:08 PM | Josh Cantrell
If you want to see a cheap movie from home, I’ll bet you a whole Lincoln you don’t think “Let’s to go Blockbust…oh yeah, it’s not there anymore.” We’re so used to streaming videos online or seeing what’s at the Redbox. And the numbers make a strong argument against not just Blockbuster, but the DVD medium itself (including Blue Ray). The flexibility, portability and price of online streaming is motivating the same migration that happened from CDs to MP3s in the music industry.
5/14/2012 3:32:01 PM | Josh Cantrell
There is a trend developing in the technology world: everything is getting [surprise!] smarter. Your phone is smart, your car is smart, your TV is smart, and now the remote control is smart. Several TV manufacturers make remote controls that utilize voice and motion detection to allow the user change channels, volume, access web browsers and other applications. Dan Thompson visited WBIR-TV to chime in on the smart remote trend. Watch the video here or skip below for the wordsmithed version.
5/10/2012 12:56:31 PM | Josh Cantrell
We like giving away free stuff. It’s fun. Today we’re giving away 4 tickets to see the folk-rock-blues icon Bonnie Raitt in concert next Monday, May 14
th at the Tennessee Theatre. Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a short survey posted on our site. Fill it out and you were entered to win. Today, we’re happy to announce that the winners are…
…drumrollllllllllll…
Eric Sexton of Jacksboro, TN and Jennie Johnson of Cleveland, TN!
Eric and Jennie will each receive 2 tickets, front and center on the 7
th row, and a gift card for dinner to Bonefish Grill.
Congratulations Eric and Jennie! Thanks for participating and enjoy the show!
5/8/2012 1:43:27 PM | Josh Cantrell
You may be infected with a virus that could block you from the internet. Around 350,000 computers are already infected with this malware, called “DNS Changer.” Dan Thompson with Claris Networks and Jason Graf with Sword and Shield Enterprise Security visited WBIR to give the entire scoop. If you’d rather just watch the video, skip on down to watch.
What is the virus and how does it work?
Dan: “Essentially, DNS is a technical term that references the translation that goes on behind the scene when you and I are browsing the internet. For instance, if you type
www.facebook.com, DNS is the stuff that goes on behind the scenes that lets your computer know to go on the internet. So what the virus has done is to redirect all those requests to go to somewhere besides Facebook. It looks like Facebook, but it’s not. For every person that this virus directs to this fake site, the malware creators are making money. Some people make money on the internet by clicks, so they’re funneling all these people over to a site that’s making them cash.