For all the whining that goes on about privacy and how Facebook is always messing with the boundaries of what is right to share and what is private we still keep posting a whole lot of crap on places like Facebook, […]
Humble Indie Bundle 4- the latest installment in the DRM-bucking, multi-platform (PC, Linux and Mac) pay-what-you-want game bundle series- is officially live, running at an average of $5.30 per purchase. (PC users are coming in at about $4.83, while Mac […]
If you look at the past year in world events, one common theme seems to stretch across many of the common stories: revolution. And the spate of demonstrations across the world- in the Middle East, the US and Europe, among […]
It’s only Monday, but web-favorite comedian Louis CK is owning the social web this week. First, the popular entertainer set tech sites buzzing with news that he was releasing his newest special, “Louis CK: Live at Beacon Theater,” exclusively via the […]
Aw, don’t you just love an inky ending? Last week, Reddit was back in the news for its habit of doing nice things for people in need. The site that hosts a subreddit promoting “random acts of pizza” occasionally embarks […]
Oh, Reddit, you incorrigible band of do-gooders with an insatiable urge to better society through the power of upgoats. Although you may have noticed a spate of false charity in r/atheism yesterday, the ability of Reddit to act as a force of […]
Facebook has checked in at Foursquare competitor Gowalla, consuming the location based app and rolling the Gowalla team into its own, both Facebook and Gowalla have confirmed. Although it sported a more complex and visually engaging user interface than Foursquare, […]
If there is one area where the idea of trickle-down works it has to be in technology. In the beginning any new technology is always expensive but over time it begins the downward curve where it becomes more accessible to […]
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A 25-year-old Connecticut system administrator has discovered what appears to log every action users engage in using their smartphones, and is back with another muckracking video after rootkit maker CarrierIQ attempted to quash speculation about the functionality of their software. […]
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Although smartphones may be struggling to gain traction worldwide, it seems that Americans are adopting the devices at a rate outpacing that of those in other countries. We reported yesterday that smartphones only have 26% of marketshare among cell phone […]
Perhaps getting stomped, pepper-sprayed, frozen or otherwise braving the rigors of Black Friday is finally falling to the wayside proper for Cyber Monday, as sales in 2011 were up 18% over 2010 as of 9PM tonight. Traffic was up even […]
The other day there was some interesting news about how a couple of malls in the United States planned on tracking shoppers, anonymously of course, as they went about their Christmas shopping. They handed out the typical line that this […]
One of the more arduous and entirely devoid of joy tasks of adulthood is that of switching financial institutions, which is why most people only do it when they’ve been boned so badly by their bank that there is no possible […]
If you stayed up drinking too late on Thanksgiving and missed all the doorbusters this morning, take heart. A ton of decent deals await on Cyber Monday, and technically, through the rest of the season here and there. Amazon is […]
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