With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
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Facebook has reported fixing a flaw that made it possible to snoop on private New Year's Eve messages sent using a "Midnight Delivery" service. Facebook took "Midnight Delivery" offline temporarily to patch a vulnerability pointed out by ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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Social gaming firm, Zynga has cut 11 games in its planned shutdown of 13 game titles. The latest game to get the axe is PetVille, which shutdown on Sunday Dec 30, 2012. Petville had an average of 1 million monthly active users. Other ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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With the new reporting interface just released by FaceItPages (the popular Facebook Page Tab creation service) ad agencies, marketers, and professionals now have advanced tools that will provide them deeper understanding of the fan activity ...
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A class action lawsuit has been filed against Instagram over the company's controversial update to its terms of service last week. The civil lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses ...
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Yahoo's holiday gift to the masses is three free months of its Flickr Pro photo and video hosting service, which normally costs $24.95 a year. Sign up and you get unlimited uploads up to 50MB per photo, unlimited viewing of your photo ...
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Google on Friday said Chrome 25, now in development, automatically blocks browser add-ons installed on the sly by other software. The measure mimics what rival Mozilla did for Firefox over a year ago. Auto-blocking has already appeared ...
The most controversial tech issue taken up by the outgoing Congress was, by far, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This legislation drew a humongous public outcry that prompted a wholesale retreat by its supporters. But thanks to the ...
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IDG News Service-Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method of harvesting phone numbers. "The ability to search for a person by ...
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Computerworld-Facebook wants to get mobile phone users to forget text messaging and switch to its updated Messenger service. Facebook Messenger has been an instant messaging service of sorts for Facebook users until now.On Tuesday,the ...
Macworld-Pholiumis an iPad app designed to create virtual books of your photos.The app,in turn,is linked to an online service that lets you share your books with friends.Pholium 1.3,the newest version,includes a number of major improvements ...
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Daily's Cocktails, the manufacturer of the original frozen pouch cocktail, is excited to announce the addition of three new light cocktail pouches to their already extensive line of flavors. Three new delicious flavors are joining Daily's ...
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The difficulties in opening different types of packs are of far greater concern to most consumers than environmental criticisms such as perceived over-packaging. This is one of the findings of a major quantitative research study1 ...
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