President Obama is beginning the final two years of his presidency facing the daunting task of working with a Republican controlled House and Senate. That fact has not stopped him for announcing several initiatives aimed at improving cyber security, expanding the availability of high speed Internet and defending the nation against cyber warfare. This the second of a...

    President Obama is beginning the final two years of his presidency facing the daunting task of working with a Republican controlled House and Senate. This fact has not stopped him for announcing several initiatives aimed at improving cyber security, expanding the availability of high speed Internet and defending the nation against cyber warfare. The AACR is...

  Some of us remember the day when you dreaded that call from your teacher. Or the letter home. It was an old school way of alerting your parents of what was happening in class and it was not always good news. Black parents should be aware and monitor their child’s progress and performance in...

Scammers are phishing for LinkedIn members log in credentials by sending emails that are supposed to be from LinkedIn Support. Symantec Senior Security Response Manager  Satnam Narang wrote about the phishing campaign observed over the past week. In the post Narange stated; “The body of the email claims that irregular activities have prompted a ‘compulsory security update’...

  Car shopping is not something you do everyday. So to do it right you need to study. We all get a little faint and our heart begins to pound when the new cars are introduced annually. But in reality black people need to make sure they are getting the right car for the right price. So again, you...

America’s favorite store, Walmart, is taking trade ins. Walmart has teamed up with CardCash to launch a new Walmart-branded site  that allows consumers to trade in unused, partially used or unwanted gift cards. Every year gift cards by the tens of millions are given as gifts.  African-Americas are no more guilty than anybody else when it comes to taking the easy way...

    Learning is a life-long endeavor. Keeping your mind healthy and active means it won’t abandon you later in life. So why not learn a second language? Duolingo is the App of the Week because we all need to learn another language. We live in a increasingly multi-cultural world and the possibility that you...

The cellphone market is one of the most competitive technology service industries on earth. African-American customers need to be aware and take advantage of the cellphone wars.  You can get paid to switch from one service provider to another. Early cancellation fees be damned. You can get substantially reduced monthly bills, new phones for you and...

Last August an app was launched that has raised some serious questions about racism and technology. The app is named SketchFactor and its purpose is to alert the user of dangerous neighborhoods in cities they maybe unfamiliar with. Does this make the developers of SketchFactor racist? SketchFactor works similar to the Yelp  app which uses...

It seems that at least two hacker groups have gone to war over the Christmas outage of PlayStation and Xbox online gaming network. How bad it will get is unknown but it seems that the mysterious hacker  group Anonymous  is not pleased with Lizard Squad for their attacks and has declared war. The group has released two...