We all enjoy updating our Facebook statuses to let all of our friends know about our totally rad social lives. Sometimes, however, these seemingly innocuous updates can only help tech-savvy criminals to choose their targets with greater accuracy — as one band of burglars in New Hampshire recently proved. As WMUR Manchester reports, police have [...]
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According to a new comScore study, Web surfers spent about 41.1 million minutes on Facebook during the month of August, roughly equivalent to 9.9-percent of all time spent online. That total put the social network slightly ahead of Google, where, last month, users spent 39.8 million minutes (or 9.6-percent of their time). After being leapfrogged [...]
Can’t get your invites in order? Stuck on a desert island? No matter — you can still follow NY Fashion Week on Twitter, and peruse news selected by the likes of Bergdorf Goodman and Women’s Wear Daily. But, if the rush of ready-to-wear tweets gives you runway brain-freeze, you can also catch daily roundups to [...]
In Hugo Chavez’s mind, everyone wants to kill him — even, apparently, on Twitter. According to the AP, police in Venezuela have arrested a man on charges that he used the microblogging site to incite an assassination attempt on President Chavez. Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores Trossel says that the 27-year-old suspect is an engineer [...]
Highlights from this morning’s big tech headlines… According to Fast Company, a new report from Asymco claims that running iTunes costs Apple $1 billion a year. [From: Fast Company] Despite what must be a critical mass of cat videos (and an even higher viewing rate), YouTube still isn’t in the black, Google says. [Form: All [...]
Yesterday afternoon, a massive virus hit e-mail accounts across the world, including those at major corporations like ABC/Disney, Google, Coca-Cola and NASA. According to ABC News, the trojan virus spread through e-mails with subject lines that read ‘Here You Have,’ while other versions of the worm were hidden under subject lines like ‘This is The [...]
Rather than switching back and forth between our cell phones and our PCs, we wish text messages, missed-call notifications and low-battery alerts were delivered straight to our desktops. Android owners have a solution in Android Notifier and its partner app, Android Notifier Desktop. Setting up the apps does take a little work, but nothing that [...]
Scientists have already discovered methods of instantly teleporting information between atoms, and ways of moving molecules using only light and lasers. Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have expanded on those groundbreaking developments by recently transporting particles of a relatively massive size across unprecedented distances. ANU’s teleportation enterprise essentially relies on a laser device [...]
Perhaps like the executioner with axe in hand, we bloggers have, for some time, been grimly certain of print’s inevitable demise. Still, our heads hung yet lower today following New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.’s concessive words: “we will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future.” While Sulzberger wouldn’t speculate as [...]
In the never-ending battle between fantasy and sci-fi, we’ll side with the latter every time. (And we’ll take a sci-fi con over a renaissance faire any day of the week, thank you very much.) No virtual playground entertains like one inhabited by robots, astronauts, spaceships and ray-guns. With the recent release of ‘StarCraft II,’ we’re [...]
