British Facebook hacker gets jail time
February 20, 2012
A British hacker who infiltrated the world’s most popular social network has been jailed for eight months. Which seems a little harsh.
Category: Internet
DuckDuckGo hits 1 million daily searches
February 16, 2012
DuckDuckGo is not Google. Or Bing. Or Yahoo. Or Ask. Or AOL. But that’s a good thing. A fact which 1 million souls agree with.
Streaming TV startup takes unusual approach to law
February 15, 2012
A new company is offering broadcast television streamed over the Internet for $12 a month. It’s not entirely clear how many people will be interested in subscribing, but the unusual technical set-up behind it will certainly interest lawyers.
Anonymous continues its attack on government websites knocking the CIA offline
February 12, 2012
Anonymous knocked the CIA website offline in one of its latest attacks. The group posted “CIA Tango down” @YourAnonNews Twitter feed, apparently feeling rather good about their latest disruption.
Growing number of homes choose broadband + broadcast TV
February 10, 2012
More than nine in 10 homes pay for cable television. However, with new economic realities and an increasingly competitive climate, change is very much in the air. Whereas cable’s share has declined, the number of homes with broadband internet continues to rise and, interestingly, many of those with fast internet are choosing to get television the old fashioned way.
This is future of watching the Super Bowl
February 8, 2012
How far has world come in 45 years? Believe or not, the television audience for the first Super Bowl in 1967 totaled more than 51 million people — it was broadcast (few people had cable back then) on both NBC and CBS. For latest iteration of the event, over 111 million watched on a television.
Whatever happened to Pottermore
February 4, 2012
The website announced by J.K. Rowling back in July has yet to come out of beta. That means that only a select group of Harry Potter fans has been able to access Pottermore. When will it ever open to the rest of the public? Who knows.
Spotify’s freemium model comes good
January 31, 2012
Spotify continues to go from strength to strength. Proving its freemium model is the correct one for the business.
Yawn: First commercial Super Wi-Fi network goes live
January 26, 2012
Here is a technology that’s both long on promise and, disappointingly, even longer in the time it’s taking to roll out. Whereas there are some notable White Space Television (WSTV) network deployments, including one just launched in a mid-size North Carolina city, the fact that you can count all of them with fingers to spare says a lot.
Megaupload’s Dotcom – The battle begins
January 25, 2012
The founder of Megaupload, a digital locker service taken down by the feds last week, has appeared in court in New Zealand. And so begins the long legal battle we’re all gearing up for.
Cloud services are vying for government business
January 22, 2012
While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, various businesses specializing in cloud services are going after the U.S. government’s business. Companies like Box and Amazon Web Services are looking to pick up federal government business by providing extra security and specialized “cloud areas”.
Over 90 million reasons to join Google+
January 21, 2012
There’s no question Google’s going all-in with its new social networking service. There are search, promotional and advertising tie ins that are designed to pull us in and keep within searchzilla’s warm embrace, but can Google succeed where so many others have failed?
Does Apple own Steve Jobs’ likeness?
January 5, 2012
Does Apple own Steve Jobs’ likeness? Or perhaps the question should be, Can Apple own Steve Jobs’ likeness?
RIP IE6: 2001-2012
January 5, 2012
Microsoft has officially declared Internet Explorer 6 dead — in the United States at least. The 11-year-old browser has been a major security risk in recent years, but looks to be doomed in the coming months.
File-sharing an official religion, in Sweden
January 4, 2012
Sweden is either a forward-thinking country or a country where any crackpot can get a new religion officially recognized. It all depends on your point of view.
Wendi Deng Twitter fake gets verified
January 3, 2012
Twitter seriously needs to rethink its account verification policy, whatever that policy may be. Otherwise more Wendi Deng-style fakes will sneak through.
Java ME-powered dumb phones overtake Android
January 1, 2012
Here is a theme that just keeps coming up again and again that begs an in depth examination. “Smartphones” running some older, often jurassic version of Android – how many devices offer Ice Cream Sandwich? — just aren’t showing up in web metrics, mobile commerce or otherwise generating the kind of data that oozes money.
