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Jaja: A Pressure Sensitive iPad Stylus With A Clever Twist

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 9:54pm CET by Digg

"Who Wants A Stylus?" As it turns out, plenty of people do.

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Viacom’s Philippe Dauman Says “Mob Mentality” Doomed SOPA and PIPA

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 7:47pm CET by Digg

Surprise, surprise: Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman says he's unhappy with how SOPA and PIPA turned out.

MegaUpload ripped off YouTube, tried smearing rivals, U.S. says

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 6:15pm CET by Digg

In the indictment filed in a New Zealand court earlier this month, the U.S. Justice Department says Kim DotCom oversaw an attempt to copy all of YouTube's videos and tried to inform on rivals.

Why women are leading the transformation of IT

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 6:04pm CET by Digg

Until just a few years ago, CIOs have largely been defined by how well they could deliver products or solutions to their core customer, the business user. However, as the cloud emerges as a tru...

Whistleblowers sue FDA over e-mail monitoring

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 5:04pm CET by Digg

The Food and Drug Administration is being accused of monitoring the personal e-mails of six employees who had previously reported inappropriate device approvals to Congress and the press.

Buick Smartphone App Makes A Game Out Of Saving Fuel

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 4:21pm CET by Digg

Want to get the next generation of drivers thinking green, long before they get behind the wheel? Buick has come up with an innovative and fun app for Android and iPhone platforms that carefully blends entertainment with education. It bundles three games into one app, called Buick Fuel Efficiency...

Justice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating Student

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 3:55pm CET by Digg

The Department of Justice has filed a brief siding with the RIAA in its civil case against the file-sharing student Joel Tenenbaum.The RIAA is protesting a demand from the student's legal team, who want the court to reduce the massive $675,000 fine on due process grounds, to the minimum statutory damages of $750 per song.

The Making of A 3D Printer

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 3:34pm CET by Digg

Ever wondered how a 3D printer actually works, or thought about building one from a kit? These step by step photos show how to start with a collection of parts and end with a finished printer.

VIDEO: Shit Programmers Say

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 3:31pm CET by Digg

Yes, this "S**t (fill in the blank) say" meme is getting tiresome, but I actually laughed at the end of this video, so I can't resist sharing. (Warning: NSFW language.)

Why I turned down Facebook

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 7:56am CET by Digg

Mark Zuckerberg's college room-mate, Joe Green, has revealed how he turned down an invitation to help start Facebook, perhaps costing himself hundreds of millions of dollars.

Everything You Need To Know About Smart TV

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 4:45am CET by Digg

Technology is transforming the humble idiot box into a powerful Internet appliance. Whether you call it “smart TV,” “connected TV,” or “Internet TV,” it has the potential to upend our boob tube experience, letting us watch our favorite shows whenever and wherever we want, and merging TV shows with online content in cunning, clever ways.

Hackers put hijacked Web views up for sale for webfraud

Posted: January 31st, 2012, 12:31am CET by Digg

Using iFrames in exploited websites, hackers are offering thousands of page views on demand to websites looking to generate cash with ad fraud or other types of browser scams.

$50 F-BOMB: Cheap spying for stalkers, hackers, or cash-strapped feds

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 10:42pm CET by Digg

At ShmooCon, a security researcher showed off the F-BOMB, a tiny and disposable 'spy computer' which could provide super cheap GPS surveillance for cash-strapped feds or future stalkers. It could also be used by hackers to collect data and send it over Wi-Fi. F-BOMB won a DARPA Cyber Fast Track research award. The inexpensive and common hardware also makes it nearly impossible for 'gun-toting bad guys' to finger just precisely who dropped the spying F-BOMB on them.

Israel Tops Cyber-Security Poll

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 10:41pm CET by Digg

A major report from security firm McAfee assesses the so-called "cyber-readiness" of major countries in the connected world.

One Thousand Volunteers To Get BT 100 Mbps FTTP Broadband Trial

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 9:41pm CET by Digg

One thousand apartment dwellers will get a chance to try out BT’s 100 Mbps FTTP broadband network. They might even get to test out a 300 Mbps network connection if the trials go well.

DARPA Plans to Revolutionize Manufacturing, Crowd Source Vehicles

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 9:25pm CET by Digg

The US defense research organisation, DARPA, is planning to build vehicles for the military more quickly by adopting a crowd-sourcing approach, much in the same way as open-source software is developed.

9 Things Siri Could Learn to Do

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 6:13pm CET by Digg

Just four months old, much has already been written and said about Apple's speech-recognition "personal assistant," Siri. It's the kind of technology that both excites and incites pundits and consumers alike.

ACTA Protest Guide: Rally Details From Around the World

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:59pm CET by Digg

Protests are spreading across the globe, as outrage grows over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement treaty in the wake of the SOPA bill being shelved last week by the U.S. Congress. Find all the details about these protest events below.

Half of U.S. shoppers rely on phones for in-store research

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:51pm CET by Digg

The Pew Internet and American Life Project shed light on one of the biggest challenges for retailers: more than half of U.S. adult cell phone owners used their mobile phone during the recent holiday season to get in-store help for their purchases.

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! to fight email spam

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:39pm CET by Digg

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: email spam and 'phishing' attacks.

Why you could soon be wearing your smartphone

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:35pm CET by Digg

Picture wearable technology and you probably imagine Star Trek characters sporting shimmering glasses. Yet wearable tech is closer than ever to being everyday.

Ten Bizarre PC Designs [Slideshow]

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:45pm CET by Digg

Bravely, these firms were willing to take a chance on a crazy design idea. At times, those risks worked out for the best, and other times they failed miserably. In the following story, you're about to get a look at ten bizarre PC designs of late (all debuted over the course of the past 12 years, as it happens).

Google Fires Kenya Lead Over Mocality

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:34pm CET by Digg

Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani, over a fraudulent use of Mocality's data. Nairobitech reported: "The Google Mocality saga has drawn its first casualties. Kenya country lead for Google, Olga Arara-Kimani formerly of Safaricom has been let go by the company. Also axed is a technical guy in Zurich... It is not clear how Olga was picked for the fall but as one observer noted, sometimes a sacrificial lamb has to be found for the brand name to weather the storm."...

Pentaho Opens Up Its Big Data Tools

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:24pm CET by Digg

Pentaho Corporation today announced that it has made freely available under open source all the big data capabilities in its Kettle v4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle project to the Apache License Version 2.0.

Analyst: China could bring 57M iPhone bump by 2013

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:22pm CET by Digg

Apple's iPhone was a hot seller in the company's first fiscal quarter of 2012, but that's nothing compared to what one analyst predicts we could see in just a couple of years' time. Morgan Stanley thinks Apple's efforts in China could pay big dividends by 2013.

5 Ways Twitter Is Changing Media Law

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:16pm CET by Digg

Here are five examples that show how Twitter’s unique platform is creating a new set of media rules that are forcing the law to play catch up.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:12pm CET by Digg

Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing.

Apple Puts New Engineers On Fake Products Until It Can Trust Them

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:00pm CET by Digg

A clip from Adam Lashinsky's appearance at LinkedIn headquarters, the first stop on his publicity tour for "Inside Apple," in which a former Apple employee asks "What creates the perfect Kool-Aid drinker?"

Why Suddenly Pinterest Is A Big Deal

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 2:44pm CET by Digg

It's no surprise that @Pinterest is capturing the attention of social network users. From Oct 2010 to Oct 2011, Pinterest rose from 40,000 to 3.2 million monthly unique visitors. Then that number skyrocketed to 7,208,409 million unique visitors in December of 2011.

10 ridiculous Super Bowl party gadgets

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:35pm CET by Digg

The Super Bowl is coming. Time to lock and load your Grill Sergeant tactical apron and get cooking. Condiments? Check. Grilling utensils? Check. Six rounds of beer? Check. All right soldier, here's your burger. Remember — there are many like it, but this one is yours. Here's a beer.

Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:23pm CET by Digg

All the data on Megaupload - legal or illegal - could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2. Since Megaupload’s assets have been frozen, the service cannot pay its hosting companies to keep hosting the data.

British children feel 'sad' without internet connection

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 8:38am CET by Digg

British children under the age 12 feel ‘sad’ without an internet connection, a new study has found.

Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share

Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:00am CET by Digg

After three months, the Kindle Fire has an equal share of the Android tablet market with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and has already outstripped the Motorola Xoom, Asus Transformer, and Acer Iconia Tab.

Retaliation Fears Spur Anonymity in Internet Case

Posted: January 29th, 2012, 11:49pm CET by Digg

U.S. law-enforcement officials say they are increasingly concerned about cyber-retaliation against agents and prosecutors after they say people linked to the hacker collective Anonymous targeted the private life of a government official investigating WikiLeaks.

What the Green Bay Packers can teach us about broadband

Posted: January 29th, 2012, 7:36pm CET by Digg

If Green Bay, Wis. with a population of 105,000 can raise $70 million to re-hab its football field by selling $250 stock shares, There must be a community in America that can raise up to $3 million for a broadband network. Here's how it might work.

HP's Jon Rubinstein Leaves The Company, webOS Dies A Little More

Posted: January 29th, 2012, 9:40am CET by Digg

And just like that, he's out. The former head of Palm is leaving HP, and with webOS all but buried, it's no real surprise.

Study of the Day: Why We Often Chicken Out at the Last Minute

Posted: January 29th, 2012, 12:08am CET by Digg

Researchers say people wrongly predict their behavior in embarrassing situations because of an 'empathy gap' with their future selves.

Call Twitter From A Hacked Rotary Phone

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 10:52pm CET by Digg

The Rotary Emotiphone is a vintage rotary phone that’s been revived to tweet emoticons. This particular project, by Instructables user zvizvi comes with a list of predefined emoticons, each assigned to a single digit and matched with a uniquely colored LED.

Twitter's New Censorship plan rouses Global Furor

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 10:29pm CET by Digg

Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

10 Ways Your Startup Can Hook Into Facebook, Part I: On The Web

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 9:33pm CET by Digg

Having already covered how startups can use search and Twitter to find customers, here's 10 steps for finding people on another key marketing platform: Facebook

Apple, Google Must Face Employee-Poaching Ban Antitrust Lawsuit

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 5:28pm CET by Digg

Google Inc. and Apple Inc. were among seven technology companies that must face a lawsuit claiming they violated antitrust laws by entering into agreements not to recruit each other’s employees, a federal judge said.

NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 3:55pm CET by Digg

This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, and other researchers on fast-track computations using GPUs. The new version features an LLVM (low-level virtual machine)-based CUDA compiler, new imaging and signal processing functions added to the NVIDIA Performance Primitives library and a redesigned Visual Profiler with automated performance analysis and expert guidance. NVIDIA says the new enhancements are ways to advance simulations and comput

Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 12:41pm CET by Digg

While last week's shutdown of MegaUpload is of huge interest in itself, but a wave of aftershocks and side-effects are proving equally fascinating to watch. In addition to causing all sorts of problems for legitimate users of file-sharing services, there is no avoiding the fact that certain elements of the piracy scene are in a mess. But amazingly, still the beat goes on.

SOPA and PIPA are on the wrong side of history

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 5:35am CET by Digg

Author Neil Gaiman said in an interview this week that the media industry is trying to "put genies back in bottles" with laws like SOPA and PIPA, and the Internet has fundamentally changed the landscape, just as Gutenberg's invention of the printing press did.

Sneak Peek at the Five Techiest Super Bowl XLVI Commercials [VIDs]

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 11:50pm CET by Digg

Advertisers beat the rush by posting Super Bowl XLVI commercials on the Web. Here's a sneak peek at the techiest from the bunch.

Does Apple Help iPhone Thieves?

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 11:30pm CET by Digg

The theft of smartphones is rising and thieves have been turning in stolen iPhones for replacements. If the warranty is still good, the support centers just swap out the iPhone with no questions asked. This is making it easy for thieves to “launder” the stolen iPhone.

US Voters: Censorship is a Bigger Problem Than Piracy

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 11:20pm CET by Digg

In the wake of the online protests against the pending PIPA and SOPA anti-piracy bills, Rasmussen asked US voters what their opinion is on the issue. Should the public worry more about piracy or Internet censorship? Through a telephone survey voters were asked the following question. “Which is a bigger problem, that some people download [...]

The 50 Hottest Women On Twitter

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 8:22pm CET by Digg

Sexy girls you can follow, in a socially acceptable way.

BREAKING: Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 7:50pm CET by Digg

The long-awaited tech IPO of the year -- perhaps of the decade -- is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, acco

Verizon Wireless Invested Around $730 million in California

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 7:10pm CET by Digg

California benefitted from a great investment by Verizon Wireless. More than $729 million was spent on all the materials and equipment just in California.

Rare minerals dearth threatens global renewables industry

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 7:05pm CET by Digg

China's near-exclusive access to terbium and yttrium sent prices soaring in 2011, potentially hobbling clean energy industry Shortages of a handful of rare minerals could slow the future growth of the burgeoning renewable energy industries, and affect countries' chances of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, business leaders were told at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week..

Samsung Galaxy Note teardown shows small LTE chip

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 4:53pm CET by Digg

We often see third-party device teardowns but Samsung bucks the trend by showing breakdown of its 5.3-inch Galaxy Note. Those who say Android screens are getting larger mainly because of LTE radio size need to take a closer look at this dissection. I think they're wrong.

Apple 'attacking problems' at its factories in China -

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 4:03pm CET by Digg

Apple has defended its ethical standards after a newspaper reported factories in China rely on child labour, 24 hour days and unsafe conditions to manufacture iPhones, iPads and computers.

KeepRecipes creates an iTunes for cookbooks

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 3:41pm CET by Digg

KeepRecipes is launching an “iTunes for recipes” on Friday, in hopes of building an online marketplace for buying and selling culinary ideas. It's starting small but KeepRecipes hopes to show cookbook publishers they can money online and show consumers that some recipes are worth paying for.

Nintendo expects first annual loss in at least three decades

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 2:57pm CET by Digg

Spurned by consumers who now favor tablets, smartphones and higher-definition consoles, Nintendo Co. said it will probably post a loss in its current fiscal year — its first in at least three decades.

EU Signs Controversial ACTA Agreement

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 1:15pm CET by Digg

The European Union has officially signed the controversial “anti-piracy” trade agreement ACTA.

When Antivirus Firms Can't Tell They've Been Hacked, We're All Doomed

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 11:05am CET by Digg

Symantec has been scrabbling around trying address a security breach from 2006 that came to light recently. But the fact that the company wasn't sure its was hacked in the first place doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Symantec originally said that the worst case scenario was that hackers had...

How to Hide Ads in Gmail

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 9:22am CET by Digg

If Gmail's ads—especially the new, experimental image ads—are annoying you but you don't want to go all out and install a sledgehammer ad blocker like AdBlock Plus, here are a few ways to keep Gmail ads from infiltrating your inbox.

Web economy 'to double by 2016'

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 8:00am CET by Digg

With half the world online by 2016, the web economy in the G20 countries is set to nearly double in size to $4.2tn (£2.7tn), research suggests.

FBI seeking social media monitoring tool

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 3:46am CET by Digg

WASHINGTON — The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips. The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors about the feasibility of building a tool that would “enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence.”

Google+ opens up to teenagers

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 1:11am CET by Digg

Google on Thursday opened up Google+ to teenagers, just days after loosening the rules about using real names on the social network.

Social media 'private' data is fair game for e-discovery in court

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 10:01pm CET by Digg

Microsoft Trustworthy Computing released data about how posting on social networking sites can impact more than online profiles and reputation; it can also cause negative consequences in the real world. All that data, even the allegedly 'private' social media data, is not private but is fair game as e-discovery in civil litigation. Another study found who you are digitally on Facebook is who you are offline in real life. Lastly, the more data we overshare on social media, the more it becomes the "norm" for society . . . meaning for society as a whole, it lowers what is considered a reasonable

New Google privacy policy won't affect Apps for business, government

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 8:49pm CET by Digg

Paying for Google services? Your contract may well give you greater privacy rights than the general public.

Consumer 'White Spaces' Gadgets, Chipsets In The Works

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 8:29pm CET by Digg

The official launch later today of the world's first commercial TV white spaces network is likely to spark questions about when the first white spaces-enabled consumer gadget will launch. The answer: one to two years. The first FCC-approved white spaces device is a 1.5-lb. radio.

Apple Patent filing hints at possible Touchscreen TV remote

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 6:30pm CET by Digg

A newly-published patent application, originally submitted in September, hints at some of what Apple might have planned for its rumored TV set. The filing is titled Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control, and complains that most

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Inside Apple’s “Top 100″ Retreat

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 6:28pm CET by Digg

A look at Apple's secretive "Top 100" corporate retreat.

Poles Take anti-ACTA Protests to the Streets

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 4:16pm CET by Digg

Thousands of people have joined anti-ACTA protests all across Poland this week.

Virtual Projection team puts iPhone writing on the wall (w/ video)

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 1:41pm CET by Digg

A collaborative team from the University of Calgary, University of Munich, and Columbia, have figured out a way to use a smartphone to project the phone’s display on to external displays nearby. The team thinks of its technology approach, Virtual Projection, as "borrowing available display space in the environment." Dominikus Baur, Sebastian Boring, and Steven Feiner are behind Virtual Projection. Feiner is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab.

Nintendo confirms Wii U to launch by year end

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 11:58am CET by Digg

Nintendo will launch its Wii U video game console -- the successor to the wildly successful but aging Nintendo Wii -- in the U.S. and other key markets in time for the holiday shopping season later...

Steve Jobs: Second greatest innovator of all time

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 8:45am CET by Digg

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs ranks behind only Thomas Edison as the world's greatest innovator of all time in a survey released today on young Americans' attitudes about invention and innovation.

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State of the Union proves “Spilled Milk” is something to tweet about

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 4:26am CET by Digg

When it comes to significant events that are shared across the country (and sometimes the world), Twitter is getting increasingly good at making sense of the real-time data collected from tweets. Take for example last night’s State of the Union address, which racked up 766,681 tweets during the full 95-minute event.

A computer program "painted" this artwork from its own imagination

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 4:02am CET by Digg

This landscape may not look like that much - it's a solid B+ in middle school art, I'd say - but this might just be proof that its creator, a computer program named the Painting Fool, is a creative being. The program is the brainchild of Dr.

Even at $299, Droid Razr Maxx may be a Verizon hit

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 3:58am CET by Digg

Verizon customers craving a thin LTE smartphone with all-day battery life get their wish later this week. The carrier is launching Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx on Jan. 26 for $299 with contract.

It's True: We Really Are All Publishers Now, Including Brands

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 3:13am CET by Digg

Though it's a relatively new idea, the phrase, "We're all publishers now" already has become somewhat of a cliché. Seriously. Let me Google that for you. I'll wait while you go look ...

EMI Boss Opposes SOPA, Says Piracy is a Service Issue

Posted: January 26th, 2012, 1:41am CET by Digg

The RIAA has been one of the most dedicated supporters of the PIPA and SOPA bills, but not all of the people they represent share their enthusiasm. EMI's VP of Urban Promotions Craig Davis made some very reasonable remarks on the controversial anti-piracy plans, stating that

The World's Worst Privacy Policy

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 11:37pm CET by Digg

With the Internet up in arms about the most recent tweaks to Google's fine print on privacy, it's helpful to remember: It could be much, much worse. Another search engine called Skipity, created last June and registered to one Andrew Corley, offers a refreshingly honest example of the privacy policy most [...]

Symantec: Anonymous stole source code, users should disable pcAnywhere

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 11:30pm CET by Digg

Symantec is telling pcAnywhere customers to disable the product because Anonymous stole source code...

Microsoft, not Apple, holds the key to Smart TV success

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 10:21pm CET by Digg

For Christmas this year, I was finally able to shed the cash to pick up an Xbox 360 along with a Kinect. While I do enjoy playing the games, what I’m most enthralled by is using the Kinect when watching TV. People keep talking about a forthcoming Apple TV, and I welcome it with open arms, but right now Microsoft has the right tool to shake up the market.

Should the Fifth Amendment Cover Your Encrypted Data?

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 8:46pm CET by Digg

You may have the right to remain silent, but if the ruling of a federal judge in a recent Colorado case is anything to go by, your computer doesn't get any such protection -- even if the hard drive is encrypted to prevent people such as law enforcement officers from snooping around to find incriminating evidence.

9 Things Apple Could Buy With Its Mountain Of Cash

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 7:29pm CET by Digg

Apple Inc on Tuesday announced record-setting earnings for the fiscal fiscal quarter spanning the months of October through December 2011.

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The World’s First “Carphone”

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 6:08pm CET by Digg

Meet the 1920 radio enthusiast who had the foresight to invent the annoying habit of talking on the phone while in the car.

The Kurio: A Kid's Tablet That Parents Can Use, Too?

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 5:34pm CET by Digg

We've seen kid-friendly tablets come and go in the past, but most recently the OLPC XO 3.0 looked like it could be the computing savior of third word children. The new Kurio tablet, made by Inspiration Works, will come in three sizes: 7-inch; 8-inch and 10-inch, reports Pocket Lint. What's neat about it, though, is that it's desgined to be used by both adult and child alike, and it seems like the company have put some thought into how they make that happen.

US Pirate Party Launches Book

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 4:29pm CET by Digg

A common criticism lobbed at the various Pirate Parties is that they ‘just want stuff for free’ and don’t produce anything; that if it were their work, they wouldn’t be so quick to offer things to download. Today, the US Pirate Party took on that criticism, by releasing their own book.

Google follows Facebook down the path of no return

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 3:24pm CET by Digg

Google made some sweeping changes to its privacy policies yesterday. It will begin combining data from all of its services, from search to email to photos.

ShopSavvy launches Savvylistings, a dead simple mobile marketplace

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 3:21pm CET by Digg

ShopSavvy, maker of the popular mobile bar code scanning apps, is today announcing SavvyListings, a service that will let you offer anything for sale simply by scanning a bar code. ShopSavvy has offices in San Francisco.

ShopSavvy lets users scan products to sell

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 2:37pm CET by Digg

ShopSavvy, a mobile app known for arming shoppers with the ability to scan products to find the best prices, is now giving consumers the ability to scan products they own so they can quickly put them up for sale.

This Is Mind Blowing: Process This Negative With Your Brain

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 9:42am CET by Digg

Here's something that'll blow your mind (sorry that it's an ad): stare at the colored dots on this girl's nose for 30 seconds, then quickly look at a white wall or ceiling (or anything pure white) and...

The Pentagon Newest Stealth Spy Aircraft Is a Flying Sperm

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 2:55am CET by Digg

This is Argus One, the Pentagon's newest unmanned aerial spy. It can carry 30 pounds of high-tech sensors and it just happens to be shaped like a sperm because this shape is better at handling turbulences at high altitudes.

Bill Gates reveals final Steve Jobs conversation

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:17am CET by Digg

In a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo! and ABC News, the former head of Microsoft talked about how Steve Jobs' death affected him, his fix for U.S. schools and his annual letter, which sets the priorities of the most generous charitable effort in history.

Nokia fined in Australia for spam-texting its own customers

Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:07am CET by Digg

Nokia has been fined by Australia's government for sending unsolicited SMS marketing to its customers without offering an opt-out.

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2012’s 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 10:28pm CET by Digg

Network World’s 6th annual collection of the year’s “geekiest anniversaries” this time includes the births of pioneering companies such as UUNet and NEXTEL; technologies like OS/2 and SPARC; television classics topped by “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the first “Simpsons” shorts; disposable contact lenses; the first naked-eye supernova in four centuries; and, who could possibly forget The Woodstock of Physics.

The New Police Siren You Can Actually Feel

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 7:26pm CET by Digg

A new kind of police siren that emits low-frequency vibrations, is making waves -- quite literally -- in the town of Bartow, Fla. Although pedestrians may find it unpleasant, officers think it's a safer and more effective means of announcing their presence.

From Googol to Glory: The Tale of Sergey and Larry [Interactive]

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 7:15pm CET by Digg

Larry Page and Sergey Brin were once computer science nerds trying to find their way in a world without Google -- but they quickly got to work on what would later become the algorithm behind the world's most heavily trafficked search engine.

100,000 People Visited Reddit at One Time on Monday, Breaking Record

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 6:04pm CET by Digg

As further evidence of Reddit‘s red-hot growth, the news aggregation site had 100,000 unique visitors at one time on Monday, breaking a previous record.

The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:35pm CET by Digg

You wouldn't download a car, the Internet meme predicted. But if The Pirate Bay has its way that action will be a reality in the years to come. In preparation for this world-changing day, the world's biggest torrent site has just premiered a new section containing the plans for physical items that can be downloaded then printed out. Today its a plastic pirate ship, but one tomorrow in a decade or two it may well be a car.

Fold-up car of the future unveiled at EU

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:26pm CET by Digg

A tiny revolutionary fold-up car designed in Spain's Basque country as the answer to urban stress and pollution was unveiled Tuesday before hitting European cities in 2013.

Kelihos botnet creator worked for antivirus company, Microsoft says

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:21pm CET by Digg

The Kelihos botnet that was sending up to 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day before being taken offline was allegedly created and controlled by a software developer who formerly worked for an antivirus firm.

Inside Apple's secret packaging room

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 4:08pm CET by Digg

It's no secret that Apple sweats every last detail when it comes to their products, an obsession which even includes a product's packaging.

How Words With Friends Beat Scrabble At Its Own Game

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 3:22pm CET by Digg

The creators of the social Scrabble-like smartphone and tablet game offer insight into their re-invention of board game night.

Will Call wants to help you decide what you're doing tonight

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:53pm CET by Digg

You are rarely rewarded for waiting until the last minute to go to a ticketed event, especially a concert. Will Call wants to be the place to connect promoters with extra last-minute tickets to sell with the spontaneous and the procrastinators among us.

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Apple’s “thermonuclear war” against Android is an expensive dud

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:37pm CET by Digg

This morning Reuters reported that Apple had lost an appeal to ban Android tablets in the Netherlands. It’s another failure for an expensive legal strategy that has done nothing to stem the growth of Android’s marketshare in the smartphone and tablet space.

Court Rules Americans Can be Ordered to Decrypt Data

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 12:40pm CET by Digg

Colorado federal Judge Robert Blackburn on Monday set a precedent with an order requiring that a woman decrypt data on the hard drive of her Toshiba Satellite M305 notebook by February 21.

An Apple store is worth as much as the White House

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 11:20am CET by Digg

Apple stores sell per square foot what the White House is worth. That's nearly double its closest competitor.

The Pirate Bay Wants You to Download Physical Objects Now

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 6:13am CET by Digg

File sharing site The Pirate Bay has introduced a new content category for sharing 3D data files.

The State of Filesharing Websites

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 9:56pm CET by Digg

The MegaUpload closing has been making gigantic ripples across file sharing sites everywhere, causing other services like Filesonic to shut down sharing altogether.

A Brief History of the BlackBerry

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 9:55pm CET by Digg

Back in the early 1990s, we didn't have BlackBerries or any kind of wireless data devices. Phones weren't very Smart, and dial up still ruled the land.

Anonymous: Facebook is next

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 7:18pm CET by Digg

In a YouTube video that appears to be linked to a known Anonymous account, the hacker collective offers a linked program in order to attack Facebook.

Samsung commercial makes fun of Apple fans again

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 6:24pm CET by Digg

In addition to going after Apple in the legal realm, Samsung isn’t pulling any punches with its advertising campaign either.

5 technologies that will plug the Internet directly into your brain

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 6:15pm CET by Digg

Even among those of us who aren't fluent in geek speak, most are at least casually familiar with the concepts of software and hardware: the digital ghost and the shell. But there is a third computer component without which the other two would be meaningless. We're talking about meatware,* or the tech that connects computers to the meaty organic components, aka you.

Want to go "Inside Apple"?

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 3:50pm CET by Digg

For the second time in three months a book is set to appear that endeavors to explain the "magic" and mystery of why Apple can do with it does. On Wednesday, "Inside Apple" by Fortune reporter Adam Lashinksy will be released. Here's our review.

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Should you use an app to rent a stranger’s car?

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 3:32pm CET by Digg

Apps like Getaround let you rent strangers' cars through a marketplace but how is the experience? We take it for a spin.I don’t have a car but was planning a small trip to California wine country (don’t worry, no drinking and driving here) and I wanted to rent a car for a bit more than a full day.

Soundcloud turns Instagram pics into retro slideshows

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 3:16pm CET by Digg

Story Wheel brings the good old narrated slideshow back to life, thanks to a mash-up of Instagram and Soundcloud. The very first Story Wheel was produced by Soundcloud's co-founders to celebrate a few important milestones.

Cloud provider Joyent gets $85 million for global expansion

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 2:55pm CET by Digg

Joyent will use the cash to fund expansion of its cloud services and take on Amazon, the behemoth in that space. The company hosts its own public cloud services and sells infrastructure that customers use to field their own public or private cloud services.

MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 1:44pm CET by Digg

Call Anant Agarwal's work crazy, and you've made him a happy man.

If the feds can shut down Megaupload, why do we need SOPA?

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 1:13pm CET by Digg

Supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act say it's needed to combat "rogue sites." Yet Megaupload got shut down under existing laws. Does the Megaupload raid prove SOPA is unnecessary, or not?

Latest Cool Gadget for iPhone

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 10:36am CET by Digg

5 Reasons Why You Should Make Your Own Server

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 6:21am CET by Digg

You’ve probably heard at some point that servers aren’t only for those that have a lot of money. In fact, anyone who has a spare box sitting around somewhere in their house can have their very own server, slaving away at whatever whims you may have.

FileSonic has disabled file sharing in wake of Megaupload takedown

Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 2:14am CET by Digg

Only days after popular file locker Megaupload was shut down by the FBI, competitor FileSonic has disabled its sharing functionality. FileSonic will now only allow users to download files that they have uploaded themselves.

Should online porn be blocked?

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 9:49pm CET by Digg

If you switch to a new provider for your internet access later this year, you'll be forced to make a choice: do you want access to adult content or not?

MegaUpload Fights Shutdown With Former Bill Clinton Attorney

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 8:15pm CET by Digg

Two days ago a massive operation took down MegaUpload, one of the world’s leading file-storage services. Eight people we charged with criminal copyright infringement charges, and all files hosted on the site were pulled offline. What follows now is an unprecedented court battle, one that could possibly change the future for many file-hosting sites and [...]

Anonymous Hacks CBS and Brazil in #OpMegaupload

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 7:01pm CET by Digg

The official website of CBS Broadcasting is/was down and Anonymous activists are claiming responsibility. Additionally, Brazil is also under an Anonymous assault today with the Tangara da Serra city site also defaced by them. The attacks called “#opmegaupload” is in protest of the file-sharing site Megaupload being closed down resulting in 7 arrests by authorities.

Optical turntables let you mix it up using beams of light

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 1:37pm CET by Digg

Creating your own music mix from multiple records is a real art, especially when you have to deal with those pesky fragile needles. The Soundmachines turntables gets rid of all that fiddly stuff, replacing the needles with special light sensor cartridges.

What Happens if I Put Rocket Fuel in My Gas Tank?

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 5:14am CET by Digg

If your car is a diesel, it will run. Liquid hydrogen, the fuel that powered the space shuttle’s main engines, could work, says Manuel Martinez-Sanchez, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 4:51am CET by Digg

The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2012, as we noted in our recent summary of the Consumer Electronics Show. As everything analog shifts to digital, we can collect a huge amount of ...

SOPA Shelving Proves Power of the Internet and of We the People

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 1:21am CET by Digg

COMMENTARY | Right now, I'm as grateful to be an American as I've ever been. The old guard entertainment industry had it good for a long time. And all of their support was meant to be paid back with the passage of the so-called anti-piracy bill commonly referred to as SOPA. But the people would not have it, according to an Associated Press report.

Enough, We Get It: Retweets Aren't Endorsements

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 11:50pm CET by Digg

Here and now, let's all agree that we agree. Then let's stop saying this to each other.

Megaupload Founder Discovered in New Zealand Safe Room With Gun

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 9:00pm CET by Digg

In a dramatic, digital-age stand-off that played like a scene from a Hollywood thriller, dozens of New Zealand police backed by helicopters swarmed the barricaded mansion of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom

Analysts Predict Windows Phone Will Be More Popular Than iOS By 2015

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 5:57pm CET by Digg

It seems that there are a lot of people who aren't taking Microsoft very seriously when it comes to competing in the smartphone marketplace. However, various well-known analyst firms, including IDC, Gartner, and iSuppli, believe Windows Phone could actually overtake iOS and become the second most popular smartphone platform by 2015. The head...

6 Google Interview Questions (And 6 You Can Answer)

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 3:01pm CET by Digg

Are you Smart Enough To Work For Cracked?

Finally!: A Kinect-controlled skateboard

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 2:33pm CET by Digg

Speed up and slow down a longboard using only your hand gestures.

PayPal payments coming to a non-virtual store near you

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 12:32pm CET by Digg

Not content with having conquered online payments, PayPal is expanding into real-world stores. The online e-commerce company has decided to expand by allowing shoppers to pay with its service in mo...

Road rage at driverless cars? It's possible

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 10:03am CET by Digg

The road to a future where we jump in our cars, enter a destination, and let them do the driving could be filled with rage, according to an expert on driverless car technology. For starters, driverless cars will likely be programmed to obey all traffic laws.

Will Apple's iBooks Experiment Lower the Price of College Textbooks?

Posted: January 21st, 2012, 3:32am CET by Digg

If Apple becomes the iTunes of the digital textbook world, will college students be able to save some cash?

6 Things We Don't Know About Apple's E-Textbooks Strategy

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 10:36pm CET by Digg

Apple's bold move into the ripe-for-change textbook market has introduced more questions than answers. Here's a look at some of the biggest ones.

App maker SkyGrid hits the big time with LG deal (video)

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 7:49pm CET by Digg

App maker SkyGrid has a plan to bring TV to your iPad. It’s also landed a promising partnership with huge Korean electronics maker LG to integrate its app technology into tens of millions of televisions.

Tablets: the perfect shopping device

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 6:00pm CET by Digg

In just a short time, modern tablets have become potent shopping tools that generate an outsized effect on online commerce. 2011 became the year that tablets became an online retailer's best friend as it emerged as the preferred device for many shoppers to make their purchases.

Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload!

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 5:57pm CET by Digg

The feds shut down MegaUpload a few hours ago. Eight people we charged with criminal copyright infringement charges, and all files hosted on the site were pulled offline. However, do the feds realize that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections and much [...]

Do New 7-Inch Tablets Measure Up?

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 4:42pm CET by Digg

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas generated a lot of Tablet News, especially in the New 7-inch Tablets arena. Samsung, Asus, Acer, Toshiba, ViewSonic and a host of others appear to be committing to the 7-inch form factor.

Why the iPad won't transform education just yet

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 2:42pm CET by Digg

Apple has a long way to go -- and logistical hurdles to clear in tens of thousands of schools -- before it dominates K-12 classrooms.

Inside Anonymous' "Largest Attack Ever"

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 1:26pm CET by Digg

How and why the shadowy hactivist group took down the website of the FBI

Camera-less iPhone 4, iPhone 4S on sale in Singapore

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 12:26pm CET by Digg

The camera is normally a big selling point, but in Singapore Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S are now available without the function -- to cater to military personnel banned from taking image-capturing devices into army camps.

MPAA Fights Back Against Anonymous Attacks

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 11:59am CET by Digg

The Motion Pictures Assocation of America is pushing back against Anonymous. In reaction to U.S. authorities shutting down Megaupload, the hacktivist group Anonymous has been launching attacks on various government agencies and big media companies.

Everything You Need to Know About Apple's New Education Tools

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 3:11am CET by Digg

In an attempt to promote interactive learning and take over the textbook industry, Apple made its education announcement in New York this morning. Just in case you were at the chiropractor all day trying to undo years of damage caused by a heavy backpack, here's what went down:

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What Happens to MegaUpload’s Grammy Winning CEO Swizz Beatz?

Posted: January 20th, 2012, 12:21am CET by Digg

In yet another surprise move, file-sharing site MegaUpload has quietly appointed rapper / producer Swizz Beatz as its new CEO. Swizz Beatz, who's married to Alicia Keys, is claimed to have played a key role in recruiting some of the A-list stars who endorsed the site in the controversial Mega Song campaign. The appointment of the prominent rapper is not going to be applauded by the major music labels, who describe Megaupload as a piracy haven.

AT&T Offers New Separate Data Plans For Smartphones and Tablets

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 11:28pm CET by Digg

AT&T has announced new data plans and pricing. The bad part is that the pricing is increasing. The good news is that the data cap is also rising.

Official Wikipedia app lands on Android

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:09pm CET by Digg

For years, Wikipedia has been available for iOS, but Android users can now get all that information at their fingertips with an official app.

How mobile data plans should be set up

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 8:15pm CET by Digg

Why current data plans suck, and how I’d fixed them.

Kodak: Farewell to the People's Camera [PICS]

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 6:25pm CET by Digg

On January 19, 2012, Eastman Kodak announced it had filed for bankruptcy protection as the 131-year-old film and camera-making innovator struggled to adapt in a world where digital photography rules over ... well, everything. Here we offer a brief celebration of the early days of the company that, for all intents and purposes, introduced photography as a hobby and a pastime to America, and the world.

WATCH: Jon Stewart Makes His Case Against SOPA

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 6:18pm CET by Digg

As someone who makes a living mocking the online content that could become illegal under the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Jon Stewart was at a loss Wednesday night when he realized he couldn't even look up information on the bill he'd been hearing so much about on Wikipedia because of the blackout. "What do they expect us to do?"

Apple launches iBooks 2 digital textbooks

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 4:32pm CET by Digg

The company says the new 'experience' for kids will be much better than what they find with traditional textbooks. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on The Digital Home.

What are the REAL motivations behind support for SOPA?

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 4:30pm CET by Digg

I thought ignorance was to blame. Maybe I was wrong.

New Facebook App Lets Users Compose Last Update Before They Die

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 4:09pm CET by Digg

The deathbed is an inconvenient place to compose your last Facebook update. Frankly, at that point, you might have other priorities. However, a new application for the social media site called If I Die gives people a chance to write their final status update in advance.

How To Fix A Broken iPhone Screen

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:41am CET by Digg

If you have ever experienced the pain and despair of picking your once shiny iPhone off the ground to find a disgusting fissure across the screen? Here's how to fix it!

Why I pirate

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 6:46am CET by Digg

Despite the terrifyingly hyperbolic tone that some anti-piracy literature takes, piracy obviously IS an issue -- but why? To answer that, I have to tell you why I pirate stuff.

What Even Non Nerds Need to Know About SOPA

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 6:20am CET by Digg

Today, some of the best websites on the internet—and Reddit—are blacked-out to protest SOPA. But you think "SOPA" is what an Italian tourist says when asking for the cleaning supplies aisle at an American convenience store.

Internet Rejoices: SOPA Is at Death's Door

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 4:47am CET by Digg

The hated anti-piracy bill may end up in the dustbin, but other threats to a free and open Internet remain live in Congress.

SOPA/PIPA Protest exposes Silicon Valley-Hollywood rivalry

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 3:25am CET by Digg

In a move that heightens the growing tension between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Wikipedia and other websites went dark Wednesday in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.

Digg Social Reader: Now with Diggs, Submits and Comments

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 3:01am CET by Digg

Now with Diggs, Submits and Comments Starting today, we will begin rolling out a series of new actions for Digg Social Reader that you can add on your Facebook Timeline and your friends’ Ticker.

Facebook debuts 60 new Timeline apps

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 2:50am CET by Digg

At a press event in San Francisco Wednesday evening, Facebook unveiled a host of new apps -- more than 60 in total -- that integrate with its Timeline user interface. The social networking company also announced it will begin approving Timeline apps from all developers.

SOPA can try to stop Internet innovation, but it will fail

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 2:24am CET by Digg

Dmitry Shapiro tells us how legislation killed a company he founded, that the Internet will continue to invent anyway, and introduces us to his new site MingleWing, which could be easily in SOPA's clutches.

Use Your Mobile Phone To Make Digital Graffiti

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 2:06am CET by Digg

Nothing would liven up a mid-day lunchtime stroll quite like stumbling across an interactive graffiti installation, and if you happen to be taking your lunch break in Shanghai, that may not be such an unlikely scenario.

Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA petition today

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 1:04am CET by Digg

SOPA blackout: Google says 4.5 million people signed its anti-SOPA, anti-PIPA petition during on Wednesday.

The awkward moment when you break the law you proposed

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 11:29pm CET by Digg

Stop SOPA

How Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:22pm CET by Digg

Already under construction, these two projects are saving humans from having to work in two of the most inhospitable environments on the planet: the Sahara Desert, and the South Pole in Antarctica.

Artists: SOPA Would Hurt More Than Help

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:13pm CET by Digg

A group of artists signed an open letter opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).

25 People Who Thought SOPA Was About Soap

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 9:06pm CET by Digg

25 People Who Thought SOPA Was About Soap: Internet blackouts fade. Dumb is forever...

No SOPA consensus in Congress, Boehner says

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 8:58pm CET by Digg

The House speaker acknowledged the lack of agreement among lawmakers on the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Follow All the Morons Confused by Wikipedia's Blackout in One Place

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 6:13pm CET by Digg

OMG why is wiki down?? How will I do my homework? WTF is this??? JESSIE have u seen this?? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE WAR OF 1812 STARTED OR WHY OR WHAT IT IS??

Urban Dictionary nails SOPA

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 6:11pm CET by Digg

Couldn't agree more

It's Not Just Wikipedia: SOPA Protests from Google to Wired [PICS]

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 5:31pm CET by Digg

Protests against the anti-piracy legislation now in Congress have spread across the Internet. Here's a round-up of participating sites.

Why one game developer is skipping E3 to start an anti-SOPA crusade

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 4:58pm CET by Digg

Firefall developer Red 5 Studios is taking part in a day-long shutdown to protest SOPA, but it's also putting its money where its mouth is by dropping out of E3 and using the funds to start a gamers' grassroots lobbying organization. We talked with CEO Mark Kern about the bold move.

Mozilla, Firefox Join Anti-SOPA Strike!

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 3:04pm CET by Digg

Protect the Internet. Help us stop Internet censorship legislation

Maps of SOPA & PIPA Supporting Senators

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 1:50pm CET by Digg

Spatial Situation has created two maps to show congressional support (and opposition) for H.R. 3261 (SOPA) and S. 968 (PIPA).

What We Talk About When We Talk About SOPA

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 12:27pm CET by Digg

SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, is the latest congressional move to put an end to the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material.

It has begun - Google protest's SOPA and PIPA using censored logo

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 7:22am CET by Digg

Please help get out information about the harms that SOPA and PIPA can do. Let's band together to stop it!

8 Things the Internet Completely Ruined

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 6:08am CET by Digg

The Internet is amazing! It gave us the ability to get food delivered without having to talk to another human being on the phone. Also, a bunch of other stuff. But all progress comes with a price. These are the things we’ve lost to this new, technologically advanced future world we live in.

Pirate Party goes dark for SOPA

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 3:58am CET by Digg

The Australian Pirate Party has blacked out its website in protest against the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA) today, warning that censorship could come to Australia.

SOPA Is Baaaack!

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 12:29am CET by Digg

That didn’t take long. A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached. Although the announcement was rather vague, some news sites and blogs declared SOPA dead, or “shelved,” or erased from history. Wishful thinking, because today SOPA is back in [...]

Supreme Court rejects Internet speech cases

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 12:03am CET by Digg

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take two cases involving three separate incidents involving free speech protection for public school students on the Internet. In all three cases students were punished for posting obscene and derogatory information on students or school officials by using their home computers.

BREAKING: Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Resigns!

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 11:20pm CET by Digg

Yang, who started Yahoo in 1995, is leaving the company's board of directors as well as all other positions within the company effective Tuesday...

MPAA blasts 'dangerous' anti-SOPA blackouts as 'stunts'

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 11:19pm CET by Digg

In a statement issued today, Chris Dodd, the chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America--and a former U.S. Senator--railed against the blackouts planned for tomorrow of sites like Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, and others. SOPA is a favorite of Hollywood. Read this blog post by Daniel Terdiman on Geek Gestalt.

The best phones, computers and mobile tech at CES 2012

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 10:38pm CET by Digg

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show revealed some exciting technologies and devices whose release is just around the corner.

Our test for the best cell phone service provider at CES 2012

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 6:55pm CET by Digg

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, everybody wanted to talk. And when they talked on their mobile phones, they put a great deal of stress on the mobile phone carriers. We tried to figure out who handled the load the best.

Google will protest SOPA using popular home page

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 6:06pm CET by Digg

The search giant will post an anti-SOPA link on home page tomorrow as part of a unified protest planned by the tech sector.

Oh Great. Google+ Got A Built-In LOLcat Generator

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 5:48pm CET by Digg

Google+ now has a meme text generator for images, allowing the Internet to parody itself until it's no longer funny. The Google+ stream, already jammed with animated GIFs, full-width images and videos, Google Music players (theoretically) and 1,000-word rants, is now a full-fledged competitor to I Can Has Cheezburger. Google engineer Colin McMillen announced the feature this morning. The Google+ Creative Kit for editing images already had a text tool with lots of fonts to choose from, but this "funny text" tool is more brutal.

How To Reuse Or Recycle Your Old Tech

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 5:41pm CET by Digg

What do you do with tech leftovers? Combat rising e-waste by using old PCs and electronics in different ways or recycling them conscientiously.

Pushing the 3D Boundaries in WebKit with CSS 3D and Three.js

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:37pm CET by Digg

Sometimes, you need to see what a technology can do before you can fully appreciate it. Take, for instance, CSS 3D and Three.js. It's one thing to hear ...

24 million customer accounts hacked at Zappos

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:32pm CET by Digg

(Reuters) - Online shoe retailer Zappos told customers this weekend that it has been the victim of a cyber attack affecting more than 24 million customer accounts in its database.

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The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won’t Stop Us!

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 1:47pm CET by Digg

Supporters of the pending PIPA/SOPA anti-piracy bills often use The Pirate Bay as a prime example of a website that can be taken out under the new legislation. But is that really the case? The Pirate Bay team has been silent on the issue, until now. As it turns out, the people behind the popular torrent site don't believe the laws will do much to stop them, but they do fear for the future of the Internet.

Koobface Gang That Spread Worm on Facebook Operates in the Open

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 10:05am CET by Digg

The Koobface gang, a Russian-based group, has grown wealthy by apparently spreading a computer worm on Facebook and other social networks and cashing in on various schemes.

Woz Wishes His iPhone Could Beat Android

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 1:40am CET by Digg

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak still loves his iPhone, but he's a big fan of smartphones running Google's mobile OS . . . and finds Android voice commands and GPS superior to mobile phones running iOS.

Dumb hacker tweets FourSquare location while hacking Ashton Kutcher

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 7:44pm CET by Digg

Idiots, the world is full of them and sometimes that includes stupid social media hackers. Several high profile Twitter accounts were hacked yesterday, including Ashton Kutcher, the Huffington Post, and actor Eric Stonestreet. But Kutcher's hijacked accounts highlight the hacker's extraordinary degree of dumbness by tweeting his FourSquare location.

Uh oh PC: Half of computing device sales are mobile

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 6:18pm CET by Digg

Is the PC "dead"? Of course not, but if you can't see the trend moving away from local / desktop computing and towards mobile / cloud computing, you're not paying attention to the sales figures for each market: Nearly 50 percent of recent device sales are mobile.

Full iPhone 4S jailbreak is almost near

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 5:33pm CET by Digg

It’s taken longer than usual for hackers to release a complete jailbreak for the iPhone 4S, but it looks like one is almost here.

Cloud server shipments to skyrocket in 2012

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 5:31pm CET by Digg

For anyone who doubts that cloud computing is driving IT check out new numbers from IHS which predicts that unit shipments of "cloud servers" -- computers that run public and private cloud computing infrastructure -- will grow 35 percent to a whopping 875,000 this year, up from 647,000 in 2011.

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How to: ‘Go dark’ on Jan 18 to fight SOPA/PIPA

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 5:23pm CET by Digg

Join Reddit and dozens of other high-profile sites this Wednesday. While the House has delayed a vote on SOPA yet again, thanks in large part to unrelenting pressure from opponents, the Senate is still scheduled to vote on PIPA January 24.

WORLD'S FIRST SELF-HEALING iPhone CASE

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 4:55pm CET by Digg

Nissan brings automotive innovation to the world of technology

The Newest Apple Store Will Be Almost Invisible

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 4:25pm CET by Digg

It turns out Apple's questionable rebuild of its 5th Avenue store wasn't in vain—the company now has the ability to make some pretty daring glass structures. Case in point: this French shop will be almost totally transparent.

Rupert Murdoch doesn't understand how the internet works

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:55pm CET by Digg

Jeff Jarvis for BuzzMachine: In attacking piracy and blaming Google for everything it links to, Murdoch has failed to see past old models of owning content

AWS offers free Windows on EC2 (kind of)

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:51pm CET by Digg

Amazon will let customers run micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for free on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform.

With LED Keyboards, Every Key Is A Screen : Discovery News

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 2:46pm CET by Digg

With the Optimus line of keyboards, each key is its own separate, customizable LED screen.

Google Doodle Honors Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 1:16pm CET by Digg

Google today, on the 26th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, is honoring the holiday and legacy of the preacher of nonviolent activism with a special Google Doodle.

Want to create an ARG? There may soon be an app for that

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 1:12am CET by Digg

Lonelygirl15 writer and ARG creator Jan Libby is currently seeking Kickstarter funds for a new alternate reality game experience called Snow Town, but the underlying technology could become a secret weapon for creating transmedia experiences.

Ten percent of world-wide data users hog ninety percent of bandwidth

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 6:57pm CET by Digg

A small 10% of users hog 90% of the Internet bandwidth. That said, these so-called data hogs are really not preventing the other 90% from using the Internet. Could it be that 90% of the users do not want to take advantage of all that is available on the Internet?

Google Gently Nudges Devs Toward More Unified Android Designs

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 4:46pm CET by Digg

Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) is a big step for the platform, and Google is clearly interested in maintaining some level of uniformity across the ICS-based products created by developers. In a blog post, the Android User Experience Team announced a new site called Android Design, which is chock full of practical advice and guides for anyone...

More Than 1,000 Man-Years Have Gone Into Developing Google Search

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 4:02pm CET by Digg

Wow.

7 Essential CSS3 Tutorials For Web Developers

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 2:48pm CET by Digg

Today showcase consists of fresh development concepts that being developed in 2012. The CSS3 Tutorials and techniques can be proficiently functioned using markup, HTML, and some improved properties of CSS3. You can start learning new concepts of CSS3 using these amazing Concepts.

CES 2012: 10 things we learned about the gadgets of the future

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 1:33pm CET by Digg

Retailers and distributors show what they will offer in the year ahead at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. By Charles Arthur

25 "Worst Passwords" Of 2011 Revealed - Forbes Good Reminders

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 1:22pm CET by Digg

Here are the "Worst Internet Passwords" For Both 2011 and 2010. See your password? Change it now!

Samsung's Transparent Smart Window at CES 2012 [Official]

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 5:11am CET by Digg

Samsung's Transparent Window got a lot of attention at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Watch this video to find out why! Connect with Samsun...

The big picture: What truly stood out at CES 2012

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 4:09am CET by Digg

As we pack up our edit trailer and tear down our booth, we look back at the most memorable technologies, and those products that will actually affect our lives. And most of it isn't what was pushed hardest by manufacturers. Read this post by Jennifer Guevin on CES 2012.

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Does File Sharing Resemble Stealing—and Does it Matter?

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 1:18am CET by Digg

This is the argument of publishing houses, and increasingly, artists: they should be able to decide whether you get to make non-rivalrous use of what they created, and whether your use damages them. Electronic files have zero marginal costs. But hotel rooms and airplane seats also have near-zero marginal costs. Is it therefore okay to sneak into a hotel room, as long as you make the bed perfectly before you leave?

The 50 Craziest Lies in Wikipedia History

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 11:50pm CET by Digg

From death hoaxes to straight slander, this is the other side of The Free Encyclopedia.

How Nations Can Be United With Social Media

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 8:09pm CET by Digg

How the United Nations uses social media to share its mission with the world.

Motorola Scores Win in ITC Apple Patent Case

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 5:24pm CET by Digg

The United States International Trade Commission on Friday issued a prliminary ruling stating that Motorola Mobility smartphones do not infringe three Apple patents.

Guy Creates Realistic Photoshop Simulator For the Web

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 4:37pm CET by Digg

Wow, I am blown away by this! A programmer over at Visual Idiot has created a perfect simulation of Photoshop that runs in your web browser. It's only been tested under Chrome, but it should work in other browsers too. Coded with only HTML 5, CSS3 and jQuery/Javascript, this web-based version of...

Remain Diligent: SOPA and PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 8:42am CET by Digg

As members of both the Senate and the House start falling back to a more defensible position by considering the removal of the DNS provision from SOPA and PIPA, many voices of opposition to the bills are claiming victory. This is a big mistake.

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How Intel’s Medfield will dismantle ARM

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 6:56am CET by Digg

As I watched Intel CEO Paul Otellini at CES 2012 announce that both Motorola and Lenovo would be shipping x86 Android smartphones, just one question echoed around my skull: So what? Reading through the details of Medfield, the SoC that that provides the foundation for Intel’s smartphone push, the same question began to reverberate.

Infographic: The Tablet Takeover

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 6:02am CET by Digg

Tablets are entering every aspect of our lives faster than many may believe.

New Chinese malware attacks Department of Defense

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 5:48am CET by Digg

Access cards are often used in governmental departments for both physical access as well as access to protected information. A new strain of malware called Sykipot is infecting US government access cards, and AlienVault has traced the virus back to China. Access cards are often used in governmental departments for bot.

Federal agency recommends killing LightSquared LTE plans

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 5:23am CET by Digg

PNT ExComm, the federal agency overseeing the national GPS satellite network, has concluded that any LTE network LightSquared would build, no matter how much it scales back its transmission power, would interfere with GPS devices nationwide. LightSquared's hopes of building its network are quickly dwindling.

Google caught pilfering Kenyan business directory in sting operation

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 5:21am CET by Digg

After getting some weird phone calls, a Kenyan business directory found that someone was harvesting the business details it collected, then calling the companies and telling them that the directory was going to start charging them—which it wasn't. The directory did some detective work and set up a sting. Who was slurping down their data and lying to their businesses? It turned out to be none other than Google.

How the Internet of things could make the world safer and greener

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 1:27am CET by Digg

The coming era of the "Internet of Things" has many implications for the tech industry. But the shift toward total connectivity could also have lasting impacts on the broader world, making it harder to commit crimes such as theft, and raising awareness about consumer waste.

The Simpsons Are Already Making Fun of Steve Jobs

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 1:17am CET by Digg

You probably missed this among the CES clusterfuck: the Simpsons made fun of Steve Jobs on this week's episode, titled Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson. As Homer is being interviewed on TV, "Steve Jobs unveils iGhost" crawls across the news ticker. In the episode, Homer becomes a Glenn Beck...

I Wish I Had Long Exposure Vision To See Reality Like This

Posted: January 14th, 2012, 1:08am CET by Digg

Is this PROOF THE US NAVY HAS UFOS or just the launch of an F/A-18 Hornet from the aircraft supercarrier USS Carl Vinson en route through the Arabian Sea?

DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 10:50pm CET by Digg

Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary committee, said he will remove the provision in SOPA that requires ISPs to block access to foreign Web sites accused of piracy. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Media Maverick.

Congratulations, Nokia, now get to work

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 9:07pm CET by Digg

Nokia's Lumia 900 wins CNET's Best of CES Award, but the company must work with AT&T to make the handset and Windows Phone 7 a success.

Magic bullets

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 9:05pm CET by Digg

IN WARFARE, an outgunned force that manoeuvres to shoot from behind cover such as rocks or the rim of a ditch can often save itself from an otherwise nearly certain rout. Smart ammunition is about to make things a lot more dangerous for guerrillas fighting regular troops.

Do You Really Need a Password You Can Barely Remember?

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 9:04pm CET by Digg

Think of a word. A password. Make it at least eight characters long, but no more than 12. Don't repeat any characters more than twice. Make ...

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How to Access iOS 5′s Hidden Dictionary

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 8:34pm CET by Digg

While iOS 5 brought along with it a whole slew of cool features (like iMessages, the Notification Center, and text expansion), one of the least talked about yet coolest features is the inclusion of a great built-in dictionary similar to OS X’s.

Frugalo Your Daily Deals in One Place, Rescues Your Inbox & Sanity

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 5:47pm CET by Digg

Daily deal sites are a dime a dozen, and even if you're only signed up for one or two, it can seem like your inbox is flooded with bargains and deals every morning when you look at it.

What's Next: Eco friendly hybrid energy generating systems

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 12:48pm CET by Digg

As we know it As we move towards a time of increasingly depleted energy resources, we find ourselves faced with the question of how to sustain ourselves and the planet. As it is not feasible to continue using conventional sources like coal and natural ga

The Westernization of Japanese Games

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 9:06am CET by Digg

As time goes on, Japanese developers are reaching out to Americans using western design philosophies. Brilliant tactic, or death sentence?

China iPhone sales halted after shoppers pelt Apple store

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 8:37am CET by Digg

BEIJING (Reuters) - Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc's flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches with police broke out when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the

Ex-Apple boss Sculley sets record straight on Jobs

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 6:49am CET by Digg

The ex-Apple chief executive discusses the portrayal of his clash with Steve Job’s in the late co-founder’s biography and why he has invested over $1m in a new social network.

5 tech founders you should know who are changing our world

Posted: January 13th, 2012, 2:28am CET by Digg

Whether it was changing how we shared our lives, how we communicated or how we sought to make a living, these are founders you should know.

The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 11:17pm CET by Digg

In a month The Pirate Bay will no longer offer downloads of .torrent files. Instead, the largest torrent site on the Internet will only provide so-called magnet links to its visitors. The first step in this direction was made today with The Pirate Bay replacing the current default torrent download links with magnets. Could this be the end of an era?

The Most Tech-friendly Airports and Airlines in America

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 10:22pm CET by Digg

Generally speaking, I like traveling and usually don’t mind not having super reliable access to the internet while waiting for flights. This, of course, is the complete opposite if it’s a business-related trip and I’m having to work from afar. If you do require constant internet access, it helps to know what the best options are in terms of airlines and connecting airport locations.

Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 9:30pm CET by Digg

I just switched the default search engine in my browser from Google to Bing. And if you care about working efficiently, or getting the right results when you search, then maybe you should too.

Internet addiction affects the brain 'like a drink or drug problem'

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 9:27pm CET by Digg

Internet users who become dependent on being online have showed signs of changes in the brain similar to alcoholics and cocaine addicts, it was reported ....

IBM Smashes Moore's Law, Cuts Bit Size From 1 Million to 12 Atoms

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 8:54pm CET by Digg

IBM researchers have discovered a way to create a bit of data using only 12 iron atoms, which compares to today's magnetic data storage technology requiring about one million atoms for a single bit.

The Future of TV Is Beautiful and Simple and Good

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 8:14pm CET by Digg

The televisions that are going to be invading our living rooms in 2012, the ones that Samsung and LG and the rest have been trotting out this week at CES?

Critics raise the alarm over U.S. police drone plans

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 8:03pm CET by Digg

Jan. 11 - U.S. civil rights groups are raising the alarm about plans by the Houston and Miami police forces to add unmanned aerial drones to their crime-fighting arsenals. Law enforcement officials say the drones will help in the hunt for criminals and missing persons but critics claim they could also be used to spy on ordinary citizens.

Windows 8 looming for October 2012 launch

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 7:54pm CET by Digg

Windows 8 will be shipping around October this year if a hint dropped to Pocket-lint from Windows Business Group director of PR Janelle Poole eventuates. The radically redesigned OS, which Steve Ballmer has referred to as Microsoft’s biggest gamble in recent times, had been rumored to ship early.

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Gear4′s Sleep Clock uses iPhone, radar to help you sleep better (video)

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 5:25pm CET by Digg

Sometimes you wake up and you feel drained. It's like you never slept at all. Right now, in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, I know the feeling.

The Coolest Audio Gear At CES 2012

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 4:31pm CET by Digg

From headphones and speakers to wireless tech, a hands-on look at some of the most promising audio gear and technology coming your way in 2012.

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Congressman Fears That SOPA May Kill His “League of Legends” Addiction

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 2:46pm CET by Digg

It’s no secret that congressman Jared Polis is not a fan of SOPA. He is among the representatives who support the SOPA alternative #OPEN. But, little known is the fact that one of the reasons for Rep. Polis to oppose SOPA is the threat it poses to the gaming community.

Stockholm Techies Use Water To Charge Mobile Phones

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 12:37pm CET by Digg

A Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm has figured out how to power smartphones using a system that includes some water, a tray, a little round container, and an eyeglass case styled cover. The company, myFC, is introducing its PowerTrekk system to Americans at the CES show in Vegas. PowerTrekk describes its charger as a pocket size, lightweight gizmo for users “who spend time away from the electricity grid.” Translation: If you are hiking over the weekend with no Starbucks or friend’s flat in sight, your phone can still get charged.

4K: Sony's 3D exit strategy

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 12:34pm CET by Digg

Less than a year after the Droid 3 saw a release, Verizon and Motorola have announced the Droid 4 at CES. It’s basically a Droid Razr with a keyboard and smaller display, but that’s nothing to underestimate.

Google to launch Maps-based game for Google+ in February

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 5:41am CET by Digg

Read 'Google to launch Maps-based game for Google+ in February' on Digital Trends. An original Maps-based game from Google is set to launch in February.

Developers will flock to public cloud in 2012

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 3:10am CET by Digg

The cloud is looking pretty good to software developers this year, according to new Zend research. More than half of the 3,335 developers surveyed said they expect to use a public cloud for their work in 2012, with AWS being the top dog.

Google creating its own social game using Google Maps

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 1:46am CET by Digg

Watch out, Facebook. Google is making its own game for Google+ ...and it involves maps.

New Test Results: Google Rewires Search with Personal Touches

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 1:32am CET by Digg

For some, it is a question about whether Google serves "the same Web" for the millions of users who rely on Google as their principal portal.

First 100 GB Network in UK Launched by BSkyB

Posted: January 12th, 2012, 12:50am CET by Digg

The pace of life is getting faster every second, so does the speed of the networks we use. It seems that notations like 100 Mbps will soon get obsolete, at least in the UK. We are not joking, as one of the major Internet Service Provider in UK - BskyB - has upgraded the speed of their network to nothing but a 100 gigabit per second speed, making the first of its kind in the country.

How Facebook's Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks Down [INFOGRAPHIC]

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 11:22pm CET by Digg

Infographic breaks down how Facebook can possibly raise $10 billion in 2012 to bring their IPO value to $100 billion -- more than any tech company in history.

The Sad Death Of The Knob, Switch And Button

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 9:29pm CET by Digg

I want to start by coming out and saying I'm not one of those car luddites who think everything should hover in some magical past; while I'm very fond of old-school cars, there's an amazing amount of amazing new tech in cars, and LCD dashboards in so many new cars here at the Detroit Auto Show are a genuinely great advance.

Apple's HDTV and the challenge of subscription programming

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 6:35pm CET by Digg

Why Apple's desire to secure subscription-based content for its rumored HDTV may prove impossible

Apple Has 250 Ninjas Spying the Competition At CES

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 6:13pm CET by Digg

Don't think Apple is not at CES. They are there, everywhere. You can't see them, but 250 stealth Apple employees are at CES 2012. They are not there to show things. They are there to voraciously analyze the competition.

Sony Closing Little Deviants Developer

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 4:08pm CET by Digg

BigBig, the Sony-owned studio behind Little Deviants, is being shutdown. More changes to Sony's European studios are forthcoming, too.

Google TV is Back, With Friends

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 3:25pm CET by Digg

Google TV is making a return this year, with partnerships announced with LG, Samsung, Vizio, and other companies.

BitTorrent Seeders Harrass Victim, High Court Rules

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 10:59am CET by Digg

Anyone who understands The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent and the viral nature of file-sharing will appreciate just how difficult it is to have content taken down. So what can you do when previously private explicit photos of you appear online? For one young lady it seems that no effort was too big or too costly, as court papers from this fascinating case reveal.

Apple in 2012: Things to expect?

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 10:57am CET by Digg

For many of us tech enthusiasts, the year 2011 will be marked with baleful essence of the exalted Steve Job's demise. Yet on the technological and commercial front, Apple did take quite a few progressive strides. The year was started with the launching of Mac OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard.

'The Phone Stack' Game Civilizing Dinner Out With Friends

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 10:28am CET by Digg

Tired of cell phones interrupting every meal? A clever new "offline" game poses a solution.

Dell plots late-2012 consumer tablet launch

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 9:02am CET by Digg

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Dell Inc intends to launch its first consumer tablet computer in late 2012, marking its entry into a hotly contested and increasingly crowded arena that has already claimed arch-foe Hewlett Packard. The once-dominant corporation founded by Michael Dell has seen a growing crop of tablets and smartphones entice consumers away from PCs. But Dell learned from the hastiness of some of its peers and understands better now how consumers value the "ecosystem" of a tablet as much as the hardware, chief commercial officer Steve Felice said. ...

Twitter lashes out at Google search changes

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 8:31am CET by Digg

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter lashed out at changes Google Inc unveiled for its search engine on Tuesday, describing the changes as "bad" for consumers and for Web publishers. Twitter, a microblogging service that allows its users to broadcast short, 140-character messages to groups of "followers," said Google's changes would make it tougher for people to find the breaking news often shared by users of its service. "As we've seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter. ...

Strong Apple contingent expected at CES

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 8:13am CET by Digg

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Apple Inc, famous for giving CES the cold shoulder year after year, will field a larger presence at the world's largest trade show than many observers imagine.More than 250 employees

Top 10 Best Free Android Facebook Apps

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 7:48am CET by Digg

This is why piracy is so common in Sweden! (Pic)

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 6:14am CET by Digg

Twitter criticizes Google+ content in search results

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 5:49am CET by Digg

Read 'Twitter criticizes Google+ content in search results' on Digital Trends. Twitter openly criticizes Google's search changes which favor Google+...

Reddit will go offline to protest SOPA

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 3:58am CET by Digg

What's one day without Reddit compared to the enactment of SOPA?

Proof Apple is brainwashing our children [Photo]

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 2:27am CET by Digg

The power of Apple marketing spares no one!

SOPA: "People who grew up on the web vs. people who still don't use it"

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 1:28am CET by Digg

The debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act boils down to exactly this—a desperate last-ditch effort by the reigning Hollywood and recording industry elite to preserve their crumbling empires.

Samsung Galaxy Note starts the tablet/smartphone hybrid race

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 12:39am CET by Digg

Those of us at CES know have seen a million gadgets and gizmos in the last few hours. We’ve seen cool booths, inventive advertisements, and enough touchscreens to make our fingers bleed. There are many standouts at the show, one of which being the Samsung Galaxy Note.

Illegal Tiger Pelts and Turtle Boots are Now all over Craigslist

Posted: January 11th, 2012, 12:10am CET by Digg

We’ve known that trafficking of endangered species has been a global problem for some time now, but a recent series of busts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Southern California and Nevada suggests dealing in protected species (and their parts) has a widespread Web presence. While that’s really not surprising, what is shocking is how quickly the black market moves online.

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Pro-PIPA Group ‘Pirates’ Anti-PIPA Group

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 11:17pm CET by Digg

Oh the irony… Last week the anti-PIPA group Public Knowledge sent out an email asking people to attend town hall meetings to oppose the Protect Intellectual Property Act. Today the pro-PIPA group Creative America did the same, but unlike their name suggests their email isn’t very creative. In fact, some parts appear to be directly [...]

CES 2012: Are the dancing girls really necessary?

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 11:09pm CET by Digg

TOSY, the robotics company that tomorrow presents Justin Bieber, is one of the first to present scantily clad dancing girls in its booth. Isn't this a little old?

Asus Transformer TF700T Hands-On: 1920X1200 10-Inch Display -- Gorgeous

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 11:08pm CET by Digg

One of the standout products was the new Transformer Prime TF700T, which builds upon the original design but adds an absolutely awesome WUXGA 1920x1200 resolution screen, a higher-resolution front facing camera, and reportedly more reliable Wi-Fi performance. iPad 2 definitely has competition at the same price point with this Android slate.

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‘Rogue’ Attorney General Spreads MPAA-Fed SOPA Propaganda

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 10:48pm CET by Digg

Last weekend Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff wrote a column in the Salt Lake City Tribune supporting the pending SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. In his article Shurtleff argues that the bills are a necessity if the US is to “stop Internet thieves and profiteers.” An interesting take, but not very credible, as the Attorney Generally who may soon have the power to seize domains, simply passed off MPAA-penned propaganda as his own words.

It's Time to Start 3D Scanning the World

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 10:23pm CET by Digg

Robots would be much smarter if they had a database with detailed 3D models of objects. Let's build that database

CES 2012: Kinect for Windows Coming in Feb

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 8:47pm CET by Digg

During the CES 2012 keynote last night, Microsoft announced that the "Kinect Effect" will officially expand to Windows PCs on February 1.

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Apple’s New CEO Salary: 378 Million Times As Much As Steve Jobs

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 6:59pm CET by Digg

The tech world was abuzz Monday when the compensation package for Apple's new CEO Tim Cook was released. The total for 2011? $378 million.

Mercedes-Benz, Facebook Team Up to Put App in Cars

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 6:49pm CET by Digg

Facebook will be one of the apps in Mercedes' new Mbrace2 telematics system, which will begin appearing in the company's SL class vehicles this spring.

"Enable 3G" toggle may make a return in iOS 5.1

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 4:42pm CET by Digg

Some iPhone users were displeased when Apple removed the "Enable 3G" toggle as part of iOS 5, but the switch may be making a return in iOS 5.1. And that's just the beginning.

Google gets more personal with search results

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 4:40pm CET by Digg

Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information.

How to Take Control Over Your Social Media Proliferation

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 4:38pm CET by Digg

A new report by Jeremiah Owyang out last week describes the growing proliferation of social media across corporations and shows exactly how out of control things have gotten. Owyang, an expert on the topic who is part of the Altimeter Group, has a lot to absorb here.

Why Windows Phone is making waves at CES

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 4:14pm CET by Digg

Microsoft may have finally accomplished something it has failed to do at the last six Consumer Electronics Show events I've attended: It has people talking about its phones. Even with few product launches announced at CES, there's good reason for the Windows Phone buzz.

Skype is killing long distance, one minute at a time

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 4:03pm CET by Digg

Skype is killing long-distance phone calls, minutes at a time. In fact, the growing popularity of the service has seen it steal minutes away from the phone companies. And for consumers that is good news. What's more, the idea of free voice is only gaining traction.

Apple vs. Samsung and the reality of the Android ecosystem

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 3:03pm CET by Digg

If the latest data is to be believed the battle for high-end smartphones is essentially a tussle between Apple and Samsung. With China's ZTE and Huawei aiming for the lower end of the business, is there is room for HTC, LG, Sony or Motorola?

Consumer Tech Spending to Pass $1 Trillion This Year

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 12:11pm CET by Digg

Consumer electronics sales are forecast to climb by 5 percent in 2012 and, as a result, exceed $1 trillion for the first time.

Can Vizio Outsmart The Big PC Makers?

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 12:03pm CET by Digg

With its inexpensive HDTVs, the California company is dominating the TV market. Can it do the same with its cheap, stylish new PCs?

4G Nokia Windows Phone Will Be Released Soon

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 9:36am CET by Digg

LAS VEGAS -- Apple has its iPhone, Android has its Galaxy Nexus, and now, Windows Phone has the Nokia Lumia 900. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show here Monday and unveiled the Lumia 900, the premier smartphone running Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system and perhaps the greatest hope of redemption for Microsoft's struggling mobile software.

CES 2012, as seen by engineers who went to the dark side

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 8:21am CET by Digg

Many at CES 2012 will be looking at gadgets, oohing and aahing. A few, though, are there simply to see what patents might have been broken. This is their story. Read this post by Chris Matyszczyk on CES 2012.

Install Java in Internet Explorer 9

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 8:07am CET by Digg

Do you want the steps for installing Java in Internet Explorer 9 on a Windows 7 based PC

Predicting the Future of Technology at the 2012 CES

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 7:57am CET by Digg

Steve Ballmer Delivers Microsoft's Final CES Keynote

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 7:44am CET by Digg

Steve Ballmer gave Microsoft's farewell keynote at CES, where he talked up its Xbox, Windows 8 and Windows Phone software.

Apple CEO Tim Cook could top pay list in 2011

Posted: January 10th, 2012, 5:37am CET by Digg

Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before co-founder Steve Jobs died.

Apple Products vs. Apple the Fruit (Infographic)

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 9:00pm CET by Digg

Take a look at how the ones we talk on measure up to the ones we eat (and see it in all its glory.)

uTorrent & BitTorrent Surge to 150 Million Monthly Users

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 8:11pm CET by Digg

uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. just announced that the BitTorrent Mainline client and uTorrent have hit the milestone of 150 million monthly users. Together both clients increased their user base by more than 50 percent compared to last year, and the end of this surge is not yet in sight.

Half of mobile users willing to watch ads for free app content

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 7:05pm CET by Digg

Nielsen's latest State of the Media report examined which kinds of apps mobile users like to download, and whether they're paying for them. Most users said they're OK with ads in their apps, too, as long as the content contained within them is free.

Will 4G be Faster Than Home Broadband? [VIDEO]

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 5:53pm CET by Digg

From rural outposts to high-speed cities, Dan Simmons reports on 4G's promise of super-fast broadband everywhere.

Study: iOS set to win share as smartphones surge

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 5:29pm CET by Digg

Apple is set to reap the benefits of increased consumer interest in smartphones, according to a new study. A survey of 15,000 U.S. shoppers found that Apple and Google will dominate, with Apple winning back share over the next six months.

Early Images From CES 2012

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:57pm CET by Digg

PCMag is out in full force at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Take a look at the coolest tech, the hottest gadgets, and the best sights on the show floor.

'Internet Censorship' or Saving Jobs?

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:50pm CET by Digg

Would websites like Google, Facebook and Twitter go dark to protest?

Toilets Designed For The Water Crisis Ahead

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:43pm CET by Digg

The toilet of tomorrow will be a self-regulating and mindful machine, eminently cognizant of the water crisis ahead.

Wireless kit lets your house plant use Twitter to demand feeding

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:08pm CET by Digg

Being a serial killer of house plants doesn't involve elaborate plots or a high I.Q., but it still seems to be a favorite (albeit unintentional) pastime for many geeks. Now a Twitter-enabled solution exists that may help save the lives of millions of innocent plants.

USB 3.0 to land in tablets and smartphones

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 3:56pm CET by Digg

USB 3.0 ports are going to get thinner and land in mobile devices by the end of the year.

The Pirate Bay Shows Futility of Domain and DNS Blocks

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 2:44pm CET by Digg

In October 2011, a court in Finland ordered local ISP Elisa to block The Pirate Bay to stop copyright infringement among its subscribers. Today, the blockade - which covers many domains and IP addresses - took effect, but behind the scenes there is an effort to unblock the site and render the court order useless. Meanwhile there is already collateral damage - the court order has succeeded in blocking a domain linking to Electronic Frontier Finland.

New technologies unleashed at CES

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 2:35pm CET by Digg

The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA, unleashes a first wave of gadgets and shows off other new tech.

The Powerbag charges your electronics on the run (video)

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 2:12pm CET by Digg

Here's a product for the true nerds among us who can't go anywhere without a bunch of digital electronics.

GM to Team Up With on Verizon on OnStar, Release API, & More

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 12:53pm CET by Digg

GM held a press conference -- the first of CES it boasted -- on Sunday night, which focused on the future of its OnStar in-vehicle enternainment, assistance and connection system. GM has started testing the second-generatio'n of the system with Verizon

CES Unveiled The Wackiest Gadgets of 2012

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 12:33pm CET by Digg

This year's CES Unveiled 2012 showed off a 'sneak preview' of some of the hottest gadgets of Las Vegas's Consumer Electronics Show - including the first solar-powered Kindle case.

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 10:48am CET by Digg

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Real Steel' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'. 'Cowboys and Aliens' completes the top three.

Add Sounds in a PPT Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Presentation

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 9:26am CET by Digg

Do you want the steps for adding sound in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation on a Windows 7-based PC

Best List Of Android Apps And Games 2011

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 6:58am CET by Digg

Solar-powered Kindle cover means you never have to plug it in again

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:42am CET by Digg

If you've ever wanted a Kindle that you never have to plug in, SolarFocus has the accessory for you with its solar-powered Kindle case.

CEA chief Gary Shapiro pushes anti-SOPA agenda

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:40am CET by Digg

He said he is disappointed that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is distracting a lot of lawmakers from the larger agenda now as they obsess over what he and many other people in the tech industry consider to be a poorly written proposal to deal with online piracy. But i...

Lenovo IdeaPad S2: Docking tablet with 20 hour runtime

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:19am CET by Digg

Rivaling Asus's Transformer Prime, Lenovo is showing off its own tablet with keyboard dock at the Consumer Electronics Show. The dual-core IdeaPad S2 weighs just 1.1 pounds, runs Google Android 4.0 out of the box and lasts for 20 hours with an optional keyboard dock.

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Lenovo announces world’s first Android 4.0 TV — but it’s no Google TV

Posted: January 9th, 2012, 4:16am CET by Digg

Not content to sit around and let Apple beat it to the TV market, Lenovo today introduced its first television today at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is also notable for being the first TV to run Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich.”

The price of distraction

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 10:47pm CET by Digg

IN 2006 the grandchildren of an 82-year-old Ohio woman discovered that she had been paying AT&T about $10 a month for a phone rental. AT&T changed a long-term leasing arrangement in 1985-86, letting customers buy a handset or return it—or continue to pay if they took no action. Millions ignored the note, and kept up with the lease payments. Hundreds of thousands were still doing so in 2006. The Ohioan's concerned progeny estimated that from the 1960s until 2006 their granny had paid over $14,000 for a pair of rotary-dial telephones. Of that, $2,000 had been unnecessary.

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Cloud is complex—deal with it

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 9:11pm CET by Digg

If you are looking to cloud computing to simplify your IT environment, I'm afraid I have bad news for you. For every problem eliminated by choosing cloud, it just creates more problems you remain accountable for— and perhaps some that you never had to face before.

5 Things You May Have Missed About Windows Phone

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 6:48pm CET by Digg

Recent chatter about Microsoft's mobile operating system has been all over the map.

Don't run your own data center if you're a public IaaS

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 6:14pm CET by Digg

Keeping a data center online is a highly complex and often underestimated task, but one that provides the bedrock of any public cloud availability. Patrick Baillie of CloudSigma explains why he thinks public IaaS cloud service providers shouldn't run their own data centers.

AT&T Rolls 4G LTE Out To 11 New Markets; Now Reaching 74m Customers

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 3:57pm CET by Digg

More LTE! Celebrate! If you're an AT&T customer waiting to catch up with Sprint and Verizon in the speed department, you just might have a reason to party. The carrier just announced 11 more markets for their 4G LTE rollout, making it available now in 26 total areas including NYC Metro, San Francisco, Los Angeles. This addition makes AT&T...

Smart Grid: Coordinating Efforts For the Road Ahead

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 1:10pm CET by Digg

The concept of a “smart grid” for power utilities is drawing significant interest from researchers, practitioners and governments around the globe. The benefits of making the grid smart would be immense, including improved security, reliability, sustainability, and, perhaps most importantly, more efficient use of renewable energy and storage.

Hey, electric cars don't totally suck: A realistic sort-of rebuttal

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 1:00pm CET by Digg

As a Midwesterner and someone who has been paying a lot of attention to energy issues, I read Joel Johnson's recent Jalopnik essay with interest. "You're Not Alone. America Hates Electric Cars," is a pretty provocative title. But, as with most provocative titles, it doesn't really capture what Johnson is actually trying to say. So my response to this is not going to be exactly what you might expect.

Facebook: A Prime Target for Cybercrime

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 9:27am CET by Digg

With more than 800 million users, Facebook is arguably the most dominant social networking platform in the world. The social network’s popularity and fast growth also make it a prime target for cybercriminals. Below, we take a look at Facebook’s online presence, how it’s being attacked, and what you can do to stay safe.

Skype exec flies the coop to join Urban Airship

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 4:27am CET by Digg

Urban Airship has robbed Skype of some serious executive talent. Christopher Dean, formerly Skype's chief strategy officer and the company's global business development head, will now be Urban A...

Sopa and Pipa: don't let big business break the internet

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 1:12am CET by Digg

US proposals against internet piracy is a kneejerk response of the 'content' industry to change, writes John Naughton

Google Chrome Finally Gets Malware Download Protection

Posted: January 8th, 2012, 12:07am CET by Digg

The new version of Chrome will at last include filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables.

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Facebook Users Need an “Actions” Plan

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 7:59pm CET by Digg

Last month DeviceMAG told you about the new Facebook Timeline release which is rolling out now. Just when you are starting to be surprised on a daily...

Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 7:25pm CET by Digg

"U.S. Congress appears likely to move forward with SOPA and PIPA, despite widespread opposition, IDGNS reports. The U.S. Senate is expected to begin floor debate on PIPA shortly after senators return to D.C. on Jan. 23, and supporters appear to have the votes to override a threatened f...

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was misunderstood on data throttling

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 7:09pm CET by Digg

Everyone who has spent some time in front of a television lately cannot have missed the unlimited data commercials from Sprint. They advertise no usage caps and no data throttling.

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Code Wars: PHP vs Ruby vs Python – Who Reigns Supreme [Infographic]

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 6:48pm CET by Digg

Just as the Japanese, Spanish and French languages are uniquely different, programming languages also have their variations, some more popular and easier to use than others. With the recent introduction of some new ones, there is a ‘war’ of modern day languages.

Apple Files Patent for Password Recovery System in a Power Adapter

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 4:12pm CET by Digg

Imagine this: an onscreen recovery application saves your day when you lose your password, without the need of a brain racking. The Apple Blog has uncovered a patent application detailed by Apple for allowing your power adapter to become a security key for your password recovery process.

Hollywood's desperate plot to pass SOPA legislation

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 3:29pm CET by Digg

Look back at any period of rapid technological progress and you’ll find two groups of individuals: Pioneers tirelessly charting new territory for the benefit of the species and members of the old order standing against the tide to fight back the phantom of their own perceived obsolescence. The debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act boils down to exactly this — a desperate last-ditch effort by the reigning Hollywood and recording industry elite to preserve their crumbling empires, no matter the cost free speech, innovation and security.

Google Honors 'Graveyard Guru' Charles Addams With Doodle

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 3:23pm CET by Digg

Google honors Charles Addams with a "horror" doodle. Charles Addams was an American cartoonist. He was known for his black humor and macabre characters. IT’S CREEPY and it’s kooky Mysterious and spooky It’s altogether ooky The Addams annivers’ry ... To celebrate the centennial of the late, great cartoonist’s birth, Google today features a deft ghoulish “Doodle” in honor of Charles Addams, the longtime New Yorker magazine contributor who was a master of the macabre and a brilliant wit of the weird.

Occupy smartphone: Top 10% of mobile users occupy 90% of bandwidth

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 2:50pm CET by Digg

A recent study finds that the top 10% of mobile users are using up a whopping 90% of wireless bandwidth.

CES: Vizio Introduces Its First Desktops and Notebooks

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 1:34pm CET by Digg

The brand synonymous with cost-effective HDTVs is jumping into the PC making game with five new desktop and notebook products.

5 Things Not to Look for at CES 2012

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 12:26pm CET by Digg

Here we go CES, here we go — the annual tech-letting is nearly upon us, and with it, a deluge of rumors and PR-led ballyhoo. Let's take a look at what not to expect from next week's Vegas-based tech spectacular.

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Is Siri To Blame for Apple’s Data Hogging?

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 11:39am CET by Digg

There has been anecdotal evidence that Apple’s iPhone 4S was responsible for increased data bills. Arieso, a mobile network software and analysis company did a study to see if this was really true.

'Next Xbox and PlayStation to be announced this year'

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 10:32am CET by Digg

Microsoft and Sony are expected to launch their new games consoles this summer, according to reports.

With Congress on break, SOPA fight continues

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:45am CET by Digg

Members of Congress may be on vacation, but that hasn't calmed critics who say an effort to stamp out online piracy would create an unprecedented threat to free speech on the Internet.

Where are they now: CES 2011's most promising tech revisited

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:43am CET by Digg

Was last year's CES just smoke and mirrors, or did the companies that promised their gadgetry deliver? Follow us through as we warp back to last January.

Hackers Threaten to Reveal Norton Source Code, Symantec Shrugs

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 1:53am CET by Digg

In a post on pastebin (which has been removed, though it is cached here), a hacker group called the Lords of Dharmaraja claimed that it hacked an Indian Military Intelligence server and snagged source codes from a dozen different companies, most notably (apparently) the source code to Symantec’s Norton Antivirus. The group posted a file...

Is Your Gaming Laptop's RAM Slowing It Down?

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 12:52am CET by Digg

We look at the effect of memory bandwidth and clock speed on gaming performance.

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SOPA sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith to SOPA opponents: You don’t matter

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 11:10pm CET by Digg

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chief sponsor of the ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA), says that criticisms of the controversial legislation are entirely unfounded, and that the online communities that oppose the bill are illegitimate.

Robots Take Over Japanese Farmland

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 10:00pm CET by Digg

Well, either the future or the robopocalypse is upon us: Japanese officials have just announced that they plan on opening a robot-run farm in the tsunami disaster zone, The Telegraph reports.

Gun Stylus (video)

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 8:32pm CET by Digg

The makers say that the sight is actually functional for “accurate shooting” and there is even a lanyard slot for keeping it close by at all times.

Top 11 Stylish & Eco-Friendly iPad 2 Cases

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 8:17pm CET by Digg

Need some padding for your pad? We searched high and low to find these eleven iPad 2 cases that are both eco-friendly and stylish.

Apple patent sends password secrets to adapters

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 7:13pm CET by Digg

First-time computer users in the early days, pre-hacking security traumas, were confronted with a new life requirement: creating and remembering system passwords. Not too easy, users were warned, to protect their privacy against snooping brothers and sisters, but not too tough, so they can easily remember it all times. This is no longer good advice, and Apple has filed a patent that says, no, make your password as tough as you want.

Facebook locks down 45,000 accounts to stop 'worm' spreading

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 5:41pm CET by Digg

Facebook has acted to stop the spread of a new variety of malicious software that has stolen login details from 45,000 mostly British and French users.

Social robotics: Beyond the uncanny valley

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 5:06pm CET by Digg

From science fiction and academia through assembly lines and telemedicine, robots have become both conceptually and physically ubiquitous. Technologically, robotics technology has advanced dramatically since the time of their namesake introduction in R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots).

To the Church of Kopimism Piracy Is a Sacrament

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 3:16pm CET by Digg

The Church of Kopimism (and I think that name is a play on the word “copy” and turning it into an “-ism”, but that is merely conjecture-ism on my part) has been around for a year or so in Sweden. For all of that time they were trying to become officially recognized as a religion.

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Ericsson’s vision of a “Networked Society” is beautiful, terrifying

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 2:52pm CET by Digg

There’s a fine line between technology that enables a better world and technology that makes us head in the wrong direction. Movies like The Matrix, Terminator, and iRobot have given us a fiction view of what could happen if technology connected us all and eventually had the ability to take over. Such a vision has been a distant whimsical threat until very recently. Today, it all seems possible.

Grooveshark Now Being Sued By EMI

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 2:18pm CET by Digg

The only major RIAA-member label with an official Grooveshark licensing deal is suing the music streaming service. EMI filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday against Grooveshark parent company Escape Media.

The Case for (and Against) Internet as a Human Right

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 2:18pm CET by Digg

Vint Cerf is ruffling nerds' feathers with his Thursday op-ed in The New York Times that claims in almost trollish fashion: " Internet Is Not a Human Right. "

CES: This Year, Intel Takes The Spotlight

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 9:50am CET by Digg

The 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show gets underway in a few days, with the usual rush of product debuts, press conferences, keynotes and taxi lines. Expect this year's show to provide a particularly hot spotlight on Intel. Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung asserts in a research note that Intel will [...]

Social Advice for the Digital Age

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 8:23am CET by Digg

I went out on a first date with a girl who is also a recently added Facebook friend. During dinner she kept bringing up things I had already read about on FB, but I lied and pretended like I didn't know because that's creepy, right? At what point am I allowed to admit I FB stalk her? A month? Longer?

How multitasking really works on Android and iOS

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 3:36am CET by Digg

It would be unwise to think that you can manage tasks on your mobile device better than the engineer that designed it.

BreathalEyes App Brings A Sobriety Checkpoint To Your iPhone

Posted: January 6th, 2012, 2:40am CET by Digg

While the most common way of testing one’s sobriety is blowing into a breathalyzer machine, it’s far from the only way. At roadside checkpoints, one thing police often look at is called horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN).

Thunderbolt headed to iOS devices? Patent pitch says so

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 10:59pm CET by Digg

The high-speed Thunderbolt I/O could be headed to iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad in the future. A new patent application for cables suggests Apple has been working on it.

9 Ways Technology Is Helping Us Predict The Future

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 7:44pm CET by Digg

It doesn't take ESP to know that 2012 will be brimming with increasingly dire warnings that the Mayans were on to something when their calendar mysteriously trailed off at December 21 of this year.

5 Things Yahoo's New CEO Must Do Now

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 7:14pm CET by Digg

New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has his work cut out for him. Here are five things he can do to turn around the brand.

Kanye: I will pick up where Steve Jobs left off

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 6:46pm CET by Digg

Wait, what? No, really. He tweeted it. He means it. His new design-based company will attempt to 'marry our wants and needs.'

If William Shakespeare wrote an Apple rumor blog

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 6:42pm CET by Digg

Let's face it: The state of iPhone and iPad rumors is parlous, petty and paltry, where bad writing and punditry drives out the good.

How WordPress Changed Content Management

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 6:33pm CET by Digg

Estimates of the total number of websites in existence produced on any platform vary from around 300 - 400 million (it is a notoriously difficult figure to calculate). It doesn’t take much of a leap to calculate that around 18% - 23% of websites in the world run on WordPress - a monumental proportion.

Use Your Eyes Instead of a Mouse

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 5:53pm CET by Digg

It's hard to imagine a computer you can control with your eyes, but the technology exists and should be available on store shelves in the next couple of years. Swedish company Tobii, a pioneer in eye tracking technology, has come up with a way to control the screen of a laptop or desktop with your [...]

Will a Google tablet challenge the Kindle Fire? Or the iPad?

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 5:31pm CET by Digg

It could take on Kindle Fire — or the iPad.

DVICE: HP goes after iMac with its 27-inch Omni 27 all-in-one PC

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 5:24pm CET by Digg

The universe is still intact — the PC one — at least. After announcing it's not spinning off its PC business, HP is back in the saddle and ready battle again with its HP Omni 27 — an all-in-one PC with a gigantic 27-inch HD display, Beats audio and a price that Apple can't compete with.

The 2011 Highlights on Digg (Infographic)

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 3:46pm CET by Digg

Social news site Digg.com saw its share of ups and downs through 2010, particularly after the launch of V4. The tumultuous last months of that year had

Google Chrome Penalized for Violating Quality Guidelines

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 3:38pm CET by Digg

When Google recently hired two top marketing agencies to promote the Chrome web browser using video content, Google assumed that the promotion would be conducted in a manner that was consistent with its own quality guidelines.

Internet access IS a human right

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 1:58pm CET by Digg

Technology and philosophy have been at the center of more debates lately than ever before. It

Google's Marissa Mayer Recommends Apple's Routers - Forbes

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 11:35am CET by Digg

Image via Wikipedia What if you had degrees in symbolic systems and computer science from Stanford University? And what if you were one of Google’s first 20 employees? What home router would you get? Would you get the latest and greatest from consumer router specialists [...]

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10 Gadgets we’re anxiously waiting to see at CES 2012

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 10:14am CET by Digg

The CES or Consumer Electronic Show has always been the gadgetry wonderland for thousands of tech enthusiasts over the world.

President Barack Obama joins Instagram

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 7:32am CET by Digg

The U.S. President adds another social network to his portfolio Read more by Chenda Ngak on CBS News' Tech Talk.

Glorious journey of the most advanced robot!

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 6:39am CET by Digg

The case of the missing gas mileage

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 6:14am CET by Digg

Contrary to common perception, the major automakers have produced large increases in fuel efficiency through better technology in recent decades. Theres just one catch: All those advances have barely increased the mileage per gallon that autos actually achieve on the road.

14 Very Useful Free Music Players for Windows

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 5:18am CET by Digg

For many people Music is an important part of life, here in this post we have collected 14 music players that are free to use on windows and few also work on

Deloitte: 9% have cut cable, another 11% are considering it

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 1:39am CET by Digg

While cable operators and networks continue to downplay the effect of cord cutting, in Deloitte's State of the Media Democracy survey, the firm reports that 9 percent of respondents have already canceled their cable subscriptions, with another 11 percent saying they were considering doing so.

Tumblr releases Fan Mail for private messaging

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 1:06am CET by Digg

Popular blogging platform Tumblr is out with a new feature Wednesday designed to help its growing user base send private messages to each other.

SugarSync intros new photo, video syncing features for iOS, Android

Posted: January 5th, 2012, 1:04am CET by Digg

SugarSync has an impressive new update out for both iOS and Android for photo and video enthusiasts.

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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

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.

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Library computers can block porn—but Wicca? ACLU says no

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 11:56pm CET by Digg

The ACLU sues a Missouri public library that blocks access to information on "minority viewpoints on spirituality."

Lost Hiker Saved by iPhone Flashlight

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 11:23pm CET by Digg

A Maryland man was lost hiking over the weekend, but was able to help rescuers find him using his iPhone's flashlight.

Microsoft 'kills' IE6 use in the US, celebrates with cake

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 11:23pm CET by Digg

Microsoft's hopes that Internet Explorer 6 would die were partly validated after the company's Roger Capriotti noted that the decade-old browser had been reduced to irrelevance in the US.

How SOPA Can Kill Reddit and Many Other US Sites

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 11:23pm CET by Digg

Supporters of SOPA and PIPA, two bills that aim to deter piracy, claim that they will only affect foreign sites and businesses. However, this view is not shared by a wide range of opponents, including the people behind the popular Reddit community. But how exactly can SOPA and PIPA threaten sites like Reddit? Leading First Amendment lawyer and Internet policy expert Marvin Ammori explains.

No Warrant Needed for GPS Monitoring, Judge Rules

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 10:36pm CET by Digg

A Missouri federal judge ruled the FBI did not need a warrant to secretly attach a GPS monitoring device to a suspect's car to track his pub...

Rumored three iPad model lineup could cut entry price to $299

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 8:34pm CET by Digg

If Apple were to add two new iPad models to its lineup this year, it could pave the way for a sub-$300 iPad, a new report claims.

Istanbul through an iPhone lens (Pics)

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 8:20pm CET by Digg

iPhoneography in the Turkish capital.

The best fake news money can buy

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 8:17pm CET by Digg

If you like fake 'news' stories that happen to include sexy pictures, then you'll love the future of Web reportage

Double wham bam: AntiSec hacks, dumps CA & NY law enforcement emails

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 7:49pm CET by Digg

As part of Project Mayhem, AntiSec hackers destroyed and defaced the official site for the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA). Although it has been "wiped off the net," AntiSec dumped email and contact info for California and New York law enforcement groups.

BMW i3 Smartphone App Previews The Future

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 7:44pm CET by Digg

As gearheads get uneasy over increasing numbers of electric and hybrid vehicles hitting the streets, BMW has been working hard on developing two of the most exciting vehicles of any kind we'll see in the next few years.

RIM Considering New Chairmen [REPORT]

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 7:04pm CET by Digg

Reports indicate that RIM's board of directors is considering replacing the current co-founders and co-CEOs in the role of chairman.

LG Esteem gets all-in-one root and custom recovery

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 6:50pm CET by Digg

Good news for those of you with MetroPCS' LG Esteem - you can now more easily root your smartphone of choice.

Should I buy a PlayBook for $299?

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 6:33pm CET by Digg

Say NO!

Fake Wendi Deng account fools Twitter - Telegraph

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 4:32pm CET by Digg

A Wendi Deng Twitter account, set up in the name of Rupert Murdoch’s wife, has been exposed as fake, despite being officially verified as genuine by the microblogging service. Read more here.

How The New York Times Tracks Twitter Secrets in 3D

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 2:22pm CET by Digg

For those of us that use Twitter, it’s an often mysterious and intangible process that happens once we hit the “tweet” button and our 140 character expression is launched out to the web universe.

Rumor: Apple iBooks Event in New York This Month

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 11:35am CET by Digg

Apple is planning a “media event” in New York Later this month, according to All Things D. The event will likely be presented by Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services (and Larry Page look-a-like), Eddy Cue.

Campaign-tech scorecard: How the candidates compare online

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 8:09am CET by Digg

In 2012, a strong Web presence must be part of every political hopeful's strategy.

Everything You Need to Know About CES 2012

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 6:39am CET by Digg

Get the rundown on the world's largest tech show; including when it is, where it takes place, what will be on display and why you should care.

Geeks Under Fire: War on Privacy, Freedom and General Computation

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 4:11am CET by Digg

The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race...

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Crysis 2 leads the list of 2011′s most pirated games

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 2:13am CET by Digg

Editorial 'game of the year 2011' picks favored the likes of Uncharted 3 and Skyrim, but the pirate vote went to Crysis 2. According to statistics published by BitTorrent blog TorrentFreak, the PC ...

Google Chrome Lining-Up To Overtake Internet Explorer in 2012

Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 12:26am CET by Digg

It was always assumed that Mozilla's Firefox browser would one day overtake Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the global browser market, ending IE's reign that began when the Redmond software giant buried Netscape Navigator years ago. But as it turns out, Google Chrome might have a better shot of overtaking IE, and at the rate things are going,...

Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 11:17pm CET by Digg

Previous stories in my Pharma Wars series have identified top kingpins behind the some of the biggest spam botnets. Today’s post does that and more, including never-before-published information on “Google,” the lead hacker behind the world’s busiest spam botnet — Cutwail.

The Most Infamous Terrorists on Twitter

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 10:31pm CET by Digg

If even your grandmother is on Twitter, you can bet terrorists are too. And that's what got the micro-blogging service in trouble this weekend, as an Israeli legal group threatened to sue Twitter for allowing terrorist organizations such as al-Shabaab and Hezbollah to use its services. "It has come to our attention that Twitter Inc. provides social media and associated services to such foreign terrorist organizations," wrote Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center. "Please be advised that (doing so) is illegal and will expose Twitter Inc. ...

Busted: Canadian Parliament Hosts BitTorrent Pirates

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 9:03pm CET by Digg

YouHaveDownloaded is a great resource that reveals what people behind an IP-address have downloaded on BitTorrent. The founders of the site developed the service so people can show what others have been downloading. Over the past weeks we’ve used the service to expose the most fierce defenders of copyright, and today the focus is on [...]

Turn Any WordPress Site Into A BitTorrent Tracker

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 8:19pm CET by Digg

A new plugin for WordPress allows anyone to set up a fully functioning BitTorrent site in just a few minutes. Whether it’s a totally public torrent index or a private torrent tracker with strict ratio enforcement, WP-Trader supports it. The project was born when the developers recognized a huge demand for a simple script that even relative tech novices can set up.

Etsy Shop Value Calculator Shows Your Store's Worth

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 7:30pm CET by Digg

If you'd like to get an idea of where your Etsy store stacks up against the rest, give this shop value calculator a shot.

Ericsson: Mobile operators should evolve in 2012

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 7:12pm CET by Digg

What would it take for a mobile operator to stay relevant this coming year?

Quick Snap: Google Goes All-Electric In Mitsubishi 'i'

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 6:50pm CET by Digg

If you mention internet giant Google and "electric car" in the same sentence, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that the company was working on a car of its own.

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Apple Spoofs ‘Ghostbusters’ in Cheesy Internal Ad from 1984

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 6:31pm CET by Digg

Displayed at the company's 1984 International Sales Meeting, this video shows Apple employees in full Ghostbusters gear fighting "Big Blue" — code for Apple's rival IBM.

The 31 Types of Facebook Users

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 6:07pm CET by Digg

Which one (or more) are (or aren’t) you? Here are a few examples: The Crusader. You’re hoping against hope that others will be willing to sign this petition or peruse that Amnesty International article, and there’s more where that came from. The Musician. You’ve got a show coming up, or several, with other musicians. The Reveler. You faithfully wish every last Facebook friend a happy birthday, on the day, every year—including the Facebook friends you friended by mistake and the ones you don’t really even like and the ones who are, like, acquaintances of acquaintances whose hopes, d

Watch a Hacked Apple TV Run iOS Apps Full Screen [Video]

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 5:41pm CET by Digg

A new hack by iOS app developer and Apple TV tinkerer Steve Troughton-Smith allows you to run iOS apps using a big screen on a jailbroken Apple TV.

The Future of the Internet: Where Do We Go From Here?

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 5:04pm CET by Digg

It’s almost impossible to believe that when a group of American academics and corporate engineers planted the seeds of the internet back in the 60s and 70s, they had no particular ambitions in mind - but that's exactly how the internet started. So, how did we get here from there, and where do we go from here?

Hitwise: Google+ Approaches 50 Million Monthly Visits

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 4:58pm CET by Digg

According to data shared by Experian Hitwise US, Google+ received around 50 million visits in December. That's a jump of nearly 20 million from the month before and its biggest month of traffic since its launch at the end of June. Google's social network launched a holiday barrage of commercials featuring the Muppets and pro basketball stars using Google+ video Hangouts.

Twitterfight! Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Terror Tweets

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 4:50pm CET by Digg

Ever since terrorists started using the internet, amateur crusaders, lawmakers and others have tried to fight back, pressuring technology co...

Phishing Attack Aimed to Obtain Apple Users Credit Card Information

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 3:54pm CET by Digg

A phishing attack aimed at new Mac users was launched the week after Christmas looking to obtain the credit card information of people signing up for a new Apple ID.

12 smart grid startups to watch in 2012

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 2:21pm CET by Digg

After scouring over our 2011 archives, here's 12 smart grid startups you should keep an eye on in 2012.

Website Blocking Law Implemented By New Spanish Government

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 12:01pm CET by Digg

Spain's new government has wasted no time in approving tough new legislation to combat unauthorized file-sharing. After less than two weeks in power, the Partido Popular government has fully implemented the so-called Sinde Law. Spaniards can look forward to previously legal sites being blocked by ISPs or shut down completely, all within 10 days of a rightsholder complaint.

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 10:13am CET by Digg

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Warrior’. ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ completes the top three.

Windows Phone 7: Another holiday season lost

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 6:35am CET by Digg

The second holiday for Windows Phone 7 seems to be just another lump of coal in Microsoft's stocking.

How would you change Apple's iPhone 4S?

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 5:53am CET by Digg

It's the dawn of a new year, so let's take a look back at one of the hottest-selling phones of the last one. A low-key

3 Ways Steve Jobs Made Technology Cool, Stylish & Accessible

Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 3:38am CET by Digg

He didn't invent e-mail or even the concept of the smart phone. But he did make that technology accessible to the average person and that changed everything.

Anonymous Imposters: Hiding Behind the AntiSec Identity

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 10:47pm CET by Digg

Anyone can say they're part of Anonymous. It's the perfect cover for hackers with motives more sinister than fun and propaganda. Could that be why private intelligence firm Stratfor was just hacked? No-one can be sure.

LG OLED TV To Be Unveiled At CES

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 6:46pm CET by Digg

For flat-panel TVs, the choice for years has been between plasma and LCD. In the coming year, there'll be another choice, at least for those prepared to spend big. LG Electronics Inc. says it's planning to sell a 55-inch set based on organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs.

Zut Alors! French Government Deny BitTorrent Piracy Allegations

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 4:20pm CET by Digg

Mid-December, data from YouHaveDownloaded was used to show that several illegal downloads had taken place in the palace of French President Sarkozy. These, however, were just the tip of the iceberg. More than 250 further IP addresses belonging to the French Ministry of Culture have now been linked to illegal downloads but the government, unsurprisingly, say they are completely innocent. OK, so prove it.

2011: Striking Pirates and Stopping SOPA

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 8:28am CET by Digg

The year of Internet censorship wouldn't be complete without the SOPA soap, the row between Megaupload and Universal, three-strikes plans and the countless other censorship attempts and anti-piracy actions that were carried out in the second half of the year. Luckily, there were also a few positive things to report on.

NASA spacecraft orbits moon on New Year's Eve

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 7:39am CET by Digg

The first of two gravity-mapping NASA spacecraft entered into orbit around the moon Saturday, marking a New Year's arrival in a mission that will study Earth's nearest neighbor from crust to core.

The Top 50 Tech Stories of 2011

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 4:06am CET by Digg

2011 has been a crazy year with plenty of wild headlines and plot twists.

Five tech industry predictions for 2012

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 2:22am CET by Digg

The past year in technology was pretty wild. The really big Internet IPO returned and the massive venture capital funding bubble inflated, which seems difficult considering that the venture capi...

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