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The PirateBox is the coolest file sharing lunchbox ever
01/27/2011, A professor from NYU Steinhardt named David Darts has come up with a file sharing box called the PirateBox. Inspired by the free culture and pirate radio movements, the PirateBox uses Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) to create [...]
Facebook to improve site security
01/26/2011, In a recent announcement on the Facebook blog, the world’s most popular social network will be taking some steps to beef up its security for the benefit of its users. In the coming future, users will be able to encrypt [...]
Twitter now blocked in Egypt
01/26/2011, Twitter has just added one more country to the list of countries the micro-blogging service is banned in. As of today, folks in Egypt will not be able to access the service, through Twitter.com or third party apps. This was [...]
AOL Mail is down
01/25/2011, According to the latest reports from CNet, AOL Mail is suffering from some issues that prevent users from logging onto their accounts. When it first started, AOL pointed out that it was a scheduled maintenance that took longer than expected, [...]
HighNote: Free Rich Multi-Media Mobile Messaging
01/24/2011, Another day, another free mobile messaging app… but I found this one really interesting from a user experience prospective. HighNote is launching today for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android phones, and it offers a broad range of multi-media [...]
New Twitter malware rampant
01/21/2011, With every new form of communication, comes new users and of course new threats to security. Twitter has been around for awhile now, but not everybody understands how it works and a lot of them simply click on links they [...]
27% of Americans use Facebook in the bathroom
01/20/2011, According to a study done by an Atlanta-based media firm – 27% of Americans use Facebook in the bathroom. Shocking? No, not really. Ever since we’ve had cellphones and things to do on them, people have been finding other things [...]
Yahoo now accepts Google and Facebook logins
01/19/2011, Looks like Yahoo! is slowly losing ground in its influence on the internet. Last year the once super internet directory started using Bing to power its search engine. Now this year, they have announced that they will be accepting Google [...]
Facebook retracts phone and address sharing permissions
01/18/2011, Remember when we reported that Facebook was going to let apps have access to your personal contact information? Well it appears that the developers at Facebook are now second guessing their decision and have put the feature on hold. Complaining [...]
Facebook privacy issues at a new all time high
01/17/2011, Sure seems like Mark Zuckerberg is really taking his idea of putting everything on the internet a little too far. The world’s most popular social network has silently introduced new permissions that can allow third-party apps access to even more [...]
Google Apps Downtime: Never Again
01/14/2011, It looks like Google Apps is planning to overthrow offline solutions like Microsoft Office with their latest move – Google has just updated their contract concerning Google Apps and it looks like they will have no more downtime from here [...]
Nike+ GPS iPhone App Update with Tag Game
01/14/2011, Nike is updating its popular Nike+ GPS iPhone app with the addition of a virtual Tag game. Inspired from the traditional childhood game of tag, runners will compete against each other based on distance, time or who runs last, the [...]
WebMatrix: Web Developer Suite From Microsoft
01/13/2011, Microsoft is announcing their WebMatrix development tool at CodeMash. WebMatrix includes all the tools to create>test>deploy. You can create a project from scratch, or port your existing web development to WebMatrix. It is also possible to use popular PHP applications [...]
