David Sydiongco's Tech Blog



Business or Books: The Student Entrepreneur Dilemma --Dec.15th 2011

$100,000. This is the amount PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel awarded 24 former students for dropping out of school and pursuing their proposed business venture full-time..



SOPA-alternative proposed, emphasizes international trade policy over censorship --Dec.7th 2011

A bipartisan-supported alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was proposed late last week, supported by a group of ten representatives and senators, including outspoken SOPA-opponents Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore).



Major players opposing and supporting SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) --Nov.19th 2011

As the debate surrounding SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy / Protect IP Act, fires up, major names, including a certain House Minority Leader a two tech giants....



Valve's Steam Hacked, Personal info at risk --Nov.14th 2011

Last week, Valve Software confirmed that Steam, their gaming digital distribution service, had been compromised, allowing hackers access to a database containing sensitive, encrypted user information, including addresses, credit card numbers and passwords....



Anonymous moves forward with Mexican Cartel attack --Nov. 7th 2011

Despite reports of backing down earlier this week, and their initial demands being seemingly met, Anonymous seems to be going through with OpCartel, despite the campaign arguably being one of the groups most dangerous yet...



"Blacklist Bill" attacks internet freedoms and user-generated content --Oct. 28th 2011

User-generated content, which fuels social media giants like Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, has come under major fire this week, as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as the ...



Funding Blockade halts Wikileaks exposure campaign --Oct. 24th 2011

Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, announced that the whistleblower website will temporarily halt publication due to the unrelenting financial stress being placed...



Uh Oh: iOS 5 suffering installation error 3200 -David Sydiongco --Oct. 11th 2011

Good luck if you're one of the millions of iPhone, iPad or iTouch users trying to upgrade to iOS 5 before day's end.



Netflix acquires "The Walking Dead" and "Portlandia" --Oct. 7th 2011

AMC's "The Walking Dead" television series will begin streaming its first season, via Netflix's "Watch Instantly" service, perfect timing for viewers wanting to brush up on the zombie apocalypse before the upcoming second season debut, according to The New York Times. The first season finale of "Walking Dead" garnered as much as 6 million viewers last December.