January 28, 2012 12:08 AM
On Thursday, Twitter announced that they have given themselves the ability to block Twitter posts in certain countries when they begin to infringe on that country’s laws. Users have shown their anger towards this announcement over the past 24 hours and they are now saying they may boycott the service [...]
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January 27, 2012 12:39 AM
AT&T has just released their reports for the fourth quarter of 2011 and they took a substantial loss of $6.7 billion. This comes largely from the failed attempt to acquire T-Mobile which caused them incredible losses from the fees incurred from the attempt. Reports from the fourth quarter of 2010 showed gains [...]
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January 25, 2012 5:39 PM
In August, Apple had temporarily surpassed Exxon for the most valuable company but quickly lost that spot only a few weeks later. Now, Apple is surpassing Exxon for a second time and may stay #1 for a longer stretch than the last one. Today, Apple’s shares are up 7% while Exxon’s are actually down [...]
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January 23, 2012 11:54 PM
Since Megaupload’s shutdown on Thursday, more file-sharing sites are starting to change their services in order to try and keep their sites free of any piracy and potential lawsuits. The two most well known sites making changes are FileSonic and FileServe, who are making it impossible for users to use [...]
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2:27 AM
After E-Books started to gain their first popularity they averaged around the same price as a normal book and sometimes cost even more. That trend has switched now with the majority of new books being found for only 99 cents! Authors and publishing companies have decided that offering full or [...]
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January 22, 2012 10:11 PM
Hacking group Anonymous has struck again in their retaliation effort against the Megaupload shutdown. The attacks started only hours after the shutdown on Thursday, against the Department of Justice website and then expanded from there. Today, the group attacked the CBS website and brought it almost completely down for around [...]
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9:58 PM
In 2011 Sony Corp. took over 6 days before telling their PSN users that their servers had been breached and user data had been compromised. This could now become an illegal act for any country in the European Union. The European Union is putting forward a new Data-Privacy plan which [...]
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9:25 PM
After a shutdown of the file-sharing site on January 19th, officials in Hong Kong are now freezing around $42 million in assets suspected to be involved in criminal activities. A raid on multiple locations yielded enough evidence to seize the money, with many servers suspected of being related to the [...]
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2:07 AM
Since Google CEO Larry Page released the official engagement numbers for Google+ on Thursday, saying that they have reached a milestone of 90 million users, there has been speculation among the other reported stats given. Analysts speculated whether his other comments saying that 60% of users interact on a given day, were [...]
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1:52 AM
Over the past year, Google has continued to shutdown some of their under performing services and they are now continuing that trend in 2012. Google has just announced that they will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase. Each of the services have yet to reach the needed user base to stay part [...]
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January 21, 2012 4:26 PM
For a while now there has been speculation about Apple trying to expand its market to the Education industry and with the new “iBook 2.0″ innovation, those speculations have been proven. The announcement and release of the iBook came this week at a small convention in New York. Other new [...]
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January 20, 2012 11:04 PM
Things are getting more intense by the minute between both Apple and Samsung after Samsung suit against Apple was lost today. Apple is now saying that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is infringing on Apple’s “Slide-to-unlock” feature. The patent for the concept was obtained back in October 2011 and was first [...]
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