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The Web is Dead

A few weeks ago we posted a powerful graphic about the rise and fall of online empires. It seems that just as AOL, Myspace and Yahoo saw unprecedented growth for a period of time, so did they see a steep decline as other online empires such as Google and Facebook rose...

What Google’s Privacy Changes Mean for You

You may or may not have heard about the privacy changes Google announced yesterday. In a nutshell, it is going to be able to collect more information on you than you ever thought was possible. The goal with these changes, according to Google, is to streamline your...

A Tribute to Steve Jobs

At R&M, our worldview of computers centers on Apple and the Apple world centers on Steve Jobs. Yes. We’re one of "them", Mac people – the people that just don’t understand why anyone would own a PC! On Wednesday our worldview was...

QR Codes: The Future of Marketing?

Have you ever seen one of these and wondered what it was? It looks like a funky barcode, right? Well, that’s pretty much the gist, and we cannot get over how cool they are. What you see above is called a QR Code, which stands for “Quick Response.”...

Happy Birthday, Google!

Search engine giant, Google, celebrates its 12th birthday today. In honor of that, here are a few fun facts about the company. The name "Google," is actually a play on the word "googol," which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros....