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You Don’t Have To Support Piracy To Hate Bullying & Extortion
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 11:15pm CET by Digg
Last month, the Gamer/Law legal blog published an article which in many ways failed to understand what so-called pay-up-or-else anti-piracy schemes are all about. Now the owner of Gamer/Law is back with an open letter titled -
Yahoo's Animated Corpse Has a New CEO, And He's a Huge Nerd
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 10:31pm CET by Digg
Gigantic internet zombie Yahoo announced it's installed Scott Thompson as CEO, replacing the scary lady who cussed. Thompson was president of noted precious antique destroyer PayPal, isn't big on journalism, and dresses like Mitt Romney's less cool older brother. A 2010 Wired profile noted... -
4 More Features That Should Come Standard In WordPress
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 9:58pm CET by Digg
So there’s another 4 plugins for you that I know are particularly useful to a lot of WordPress users. Although WordPress does have its shortcomings, WordPress is, without question, the world’s greatest content management system. -
AOL users still being billed for free email
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 9:32pm CET by Digg
It used to be known as America Online and was one of the first dial-up providers around. But although dial-up is being phased out, people’s bills are not. -
Droid 3 Reportedly EOL'd; Situation Highlights Poor Carrier Behavior
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 7:48pm CET by Digg
We've discussed the fragmentation of Android and the shoddy update services of the various carriers before, but the Droid 3's situation is raising these issues again. According to pre-CES reports, Verizon is poised to end-of-life (EOL) the Droid 3 along with its entire current lineup of MiFi hotspots. The BlackBerry Curve 3G and Palm Pre 2... -
Shit! I dropped my Nokia
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 6:43pm CET by Digg
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Geeks vs. Nerds (PIC)
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 6:18pm CET by Digg
The terms geek and nerd may sometimes seem synonymous, but they have very different roots in history... -
Apple reportedly putting DMCA squeeze on App Store pirates
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 5:33pm CET by Digg
Apple is reportedly using DMCA takedown notices to try and stem the flow of pirated App Store apps going from Apptrackr to jailbroken iPhones. -
File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 5:04pm CET by Digg
Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism - which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols - is now approved by the authorities as an official religion. The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds file-sharing. -
Could Chrome overtake Internet Explorer in the browser wars?
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 1:53pm CET by Digg
A month ago, Google's three-year effort to push its Web browser, Chrome, took a major step when it passed Mozilla's Firefox. -
7 signs we're living in the post-privacy era
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 11:54am CET by Digg
Whether by corporate subterfuge, government decree, hacker invasion and our own ambivalence, our digital rights have never faced more peril than they will in 2012. Here's a look at the most egregious losses in privacy — the ways in which the stage was set — during this past year. -
Apple\'s iPad 3: 10 Things We Don\'t Know Despite
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 11:04am CET by Digg
NEWS ANALYSIS: There are rumors everywhere about Apple and the upcoming iPad 3 tablet. But to believe that we know anything of any substance about the device is a falsehood. -
AT&T to pay $215M to TiVo to settle patent suit
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 6:00am CET by Digg
AT&T Inc. will pay TiVo Inc. at least $215 million through June 2018, becoming the latest TV signal provider to settle a patent lawsuit involving the digital video recorder pioneer. -
Wonka Vision is about to become a reality
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 4:53am CET by Digg
Portals is a research project that blurs the boundary between real and virtual worlds. -
Reddit Has Gone Mad with Power
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 4:42am CET by Digg
The past few weeks have seen an impressive burst of political activism from nerd hive Reddit. Now they're talking about "destroying" senators. Oh jesus, this does not bode well. It started in late December, when the domain registrar company GoDaddy voiced its support of the much-reviled Stop Online... -
The Most Important Tech Acquisitions of 2011
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 2:39am CET by Digg
Billions of dollars were exchanged in the tech industry in 2011 as companies gobbled up companies left and right. -
Tagged.com Wants To Help You Meet New People
Posted: January 4th, 2012, 12:32am CET by Digg
Tagged.com CEO Greg Tseng knows how to face reality. The company, which has been around for seven years, used to compete directly with MySpace and then Facebook. But, said Tseng, “In 2007 we decided relatively early on in the game that we actually weren’t going to win.” It was then that the company got “into a space that we now call social discovery.” In other words, Tseng has no intention of competing with Facebook when it comes to keeping up with old friends. Facebook owns that space. Tagged is squarely in the business of helping members meet new people.