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Does Chatroulette, the popular video chat site, lose its appeal if it loses its anonymity? Chatroulette offers a welcome break from the daily digital footprints I leave across the Web on sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz, where every comment, tweet and “like” is tied back to my real-world identity.
A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and disrupt data on servers on an undisclosed date...
We asked Apple PR to help you plan your day tomorrow, and they responded:"Customers can pre-order online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12."There you have it. 5:30 am PT, 8:30 am ET, and for those of you who happen to have US credit cards & shipping addresses but are currently elsewhere here's the global clock!
The recent killer whale attack at SeaWorld could have been the end of the theme park. It was that bad. But it appears by all accounts that SeaWorld will continue operating with relative normalcy. That is in large part due to its social media efforts.
Note: To keep things fair, the original versions of these games had to be at least five years old to be included.
In this corner, with a big head start, a huge user base, and tons of features, it's ... Foursquare! In this corner, with millions of dollars in funding and a great-looking new design ... Gowalla! The two have been going blow-for-blow in the location-based social gaming fight. Who Wins?
Maybe you've seen Bluetooth Johnson, the bathroom texter or Han Solo, a.k.a, the holster master, in action. But hopefully, you don't see any of these 12 annoying cell phone characters when you look in the mirror.
Thats right, The internet is among 237 individuals and organisations nominated for the prize, advocated by the Italian version of Wired magazine for advancing "dialogue, debate and consensus"
Comic by Ash.
The FCC's newest Democrat read the big ISPs the riot act on rising broadband prices and shrinking competition. Mignon Clyburn called the latest round of rate hikes a "red flag" for the Commission.
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing today on the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and things are not looking pretty for the next-generation stealth aircraft. It now appears likely the Air Force will have to declare the program has soared past a key cost-containment barrier, in addition to being over 2 years behind schedule.
BBC lists the top 26 richest internet entrepreneurs according to the latest Forbes ranking, released this week.
Ongoing list of IT companies, technologies and ideas killed off or headed for the end of life (with maybe an occasional one that comes back to life). Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others already contributing
The latest quarterly smartphone results are in from market research firm comScore, and surprise-surprise, Google's Android platform continues to rock the marketplace while everyone else looks on.
Facebook may sue the Daily Mail over a story published on Wednesday which claimed that 14 year-old girls are likely to be subject to abuse from paedophiles while using the social networking site.
All those Android smartphone owners who have been wondering when they can ditch the outmoded Opera Mini 4.2 browser in favor of the latest beta can now unfold their pouts, stop that kicking, and remove their pounding fists from the floor. Opera Mini 5 beta has arrived.
Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.
For many years, the Internet was the “final frontier,” operating largely unregulated — in part because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws. That was then; this is now. Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels.
Whether you're looking for an uber-powerful desktop replacement or a super-portable netbook, here is what you need to consider before buying a laptop.
In their first interview since the shock departure of Owen Van Natta, MySpace’s former chief executive, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschorn, the company’s new co-presidents, say they will be ready to “win back old users” by the end of this year.
This technology may be the future of computer graphics, and while this video may not look up to par with the most recent of games, remember it was designed by engineers, not artists. Can someone more technical elaborate on this?
Notorious as a malware ghetto, LimeWire takes its first steps to integrate authoritative threat protection by signing on AVG to provide premium users with download scanning and blocking.
Mortally wounded by legal assaults from Facebook, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” is no longer helping users of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace automatically dump their friends and wash their hands of those services. However, those behind the site are planning a last great act of defiance: Soon they’ll be giving away their code.
To boldly go where other companies have failed
This is the sad story of RealDVD, the company that recently screwed consumers everywhere by settling a lawsuit that makes it illegal to rip DVDs.
The App Store censorship horse may have been beaten to dead, but the German media --now under Apple's fire-- isn't surrendering. Hopefully, their blitzkrieg will be successful, and the European Union will open an investigation that the US would follow.
Intel has released a 6-core processor that will fit into existing X58 motherboards and really pushes the boundaries of computing performance. There are many cases where the CPU actually is 50% faster than the measly quad-core processors currently for sale! Time to open up the pocket book or steal your neighbors.
The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction of a household's activities: when people wake up, when they come home, when they go on vacation, and maybe even when they take a hot bath...
It seems an ever-more common scenario: a death is captured in a photograph or video. The images are uploaded onto the Web. Within days, thousands, if not millions, of strangers have pierced their way into a family’s grief—gawking at the final moments of a life that were never meant to be public.
Google Reader Play is a full-screen treatment that shows you an image, video, or text from websites that are popular on Google Reader. You can navigate from page to page with right and left arrows at the sides of the screen, or by selecting a site from the assorted options below. You don't even have to be signed in to use it.
There's nothing worse for a bicyclist than finding yourself a mile in to a two-mile stretch of shoulder-less, busy, highway-speed traffic with no alternative route. Before today, this was a common occurrence if you went to trusty Google Maps to get bicycling directions, but starting today, that has all changed.
Part Twitter, part Google Maps, IJustMadeLove.com is the brainchild of Cyprian Cieÿkiewicz, a 26-year-old programmer in Poland who got the idea for the site in May. While driving home one night, he started wondering what it would take to create a Web site with flashing notifications representing where people have exchanged bodily fluids.
