The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a US bill introduced to stop Online Piracy.The bill is meant to allow the US Government to close websites that host content that is copyrighted. We here at Pixelfind are totally against the bill, because it is meant to threaten speech and innovation, and allow the US Government to close websites that have content generated by users – this means that website as big as Facebook or YouTube could go out of the law because of this bill.

The worst thing about SOPA is that it allows the US Government to close any website with what they consider of having problems directly from the DNS server, so you might have your favorite website closed the next day.

This is worrying for everybody using the free worldwide web.

We here at Pixelfind are worried about the situation on how the SOPA bill could pass in the US. It might be that this bill is in the US, but please consider the fact that almost 60% of all websites are hosted on server in the North American country.

The bill will be voted somewherearound January 2012 from what we know, and we hope that this bill will be denied from the start. Major companies like Google, Yahoo!, Craigslist or Facebook have already made their stand against this ...

A recent study links intelligence test results with browser usage - and the results don't look very good for the users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, especially the older versions.

The study, titled "Inteligent Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage" by canadian company AptiQuant compaired the test scores of a 101.326 individuals older than the age of 16 based on the browser they are using.

The results are fascinating. Users of Internet Explorer 6 have an average IQ score barely more than 80; Firefox and Chrome users fare much better, with an average IQ scores of around 110, while Opera and Camino users have an average IQ score more than 120.

It's also interesting to note that the average score of IE6 users were significantly higher in 2006, and that the IQ scores get better with newer versions of IE.


Internet Explorer 6 has for long been a thorn in the side of developers who hated it for it's non-compliance with web standards, while users struggled with it's many security flaws....

Research in Motion, the producer of the BlackBerry smartphone series, said it will cut approximately 11% of the company's workforce (around 2,000 jobs) and reorganize upper management.

Don Morisson, the company's COO will retire and Thorsten Heins will take the expanded role of COO, product and sales.

This move comes after weak financial results in Q1 and an even worse outlook for the future. As a result for the bleak Q1 report, RIM shares took a beating, dropping 20% overnight.

Once a dominant force in the smartphone market, RIM recently fell third place, behind Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The imminent layoffs are necessary to keep the company financially sound, but RIM will have to rethink its entire smartphone and tablet strategy to catch up with it's rivals.

You can read the full article here: http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/rim-cuts-2000-jobs/

Cosmin | Pixelfind

Hey guys,

The man who revolutionized the Personal Computer Industry is putting his efforts - and foundation - to revolutionizing toilets. Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he will dedicate 42$ million towards the reinvention of the toilet.

Water hygiene and safe waste disposal are two of the biggest causes for infant mortalities in the developing countries. Gates and his foundation hope to create inexpensive toilets to grately improve the living conditions of millions of people.

"No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet," said Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the president of the Global Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. What we need are new approaches. New ideas."

Part of the foundation's plan is the Reinventing of the Toilet Challenge, which funds research at eight universities around the world to develop a toilet that will turn waste into energy, clean water or nutrients....

Hey guys,

Google AdWords is an auction-based marketplace where advertisers bid on keywords to compete for top ad placement.

The top ten keyword categories that demanded the highest costs per click are:

1. Insurance (example keyword: "auto insurance price quotes")
2. Loans (example keyword: "consolidate graduate student loans")
3. Mortgage (example keyword: "refinanced second mortgages")
4. Attorney (example keyword: "personal injury attorney")
5. Credit (example keyword: "home equity line of credit")
6. Lawyer
7. Donate
8. Degree
9. Hosting
10. Claim

You can check for the rest of the 10 keywords here:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/18/most-expensive-google-adwords-keywords/

Cosmin | Pixelfind