On Monday Apple removed a WikiLeaks application that had been available on the iTunes App Store for three days. The application, available from December 17, allowed customers to read WikiLeaks material and get updates from the rogue site’s Twitter feed. The app was developed by a Russian called Igor Barinov. He submitted the app to [...]
On December 17, 2010 Facebook revealed several beta-phase features by mistake. One of the new features revealed was a renovation of Facebook Pages. The accidental update only lasted about 45 minutes, after which Facebook shut the site down and apologized on Twitter for the interruption of their services. Shortly after the site was reopened in [...]
A great number of Internet patrons are being warned to change their passwords as more is learned about a significant security risk. Many social and gaming sites, such as Twitter have told users to reset their passwords after hackers broke into the gossip site Gawker. Online game World of Warcraft WoW, has asked some of [...]
The change that many have been waiting for has finally come to Micosoft’s search engine, Bing. The service has just undergone a major facelift. During a San Francisco conference Microsoft announced that they had implemented upgrades on Bing that will now put Bing up on the same playing field as Google’s Search Engine. Microsoft has [...]
The Gnosis group hacked into the Gawker website last weekend and compromised the site for more than twenty fours. The Gawker is a media publishing website concentrating on gossips from the media world in collaboration with Jezebel and Gizmodo. Following Monday of the hacking incident the FBI (now investigating the case) called on the CEO [...]
Recent survey has showed that the number of people actually tweeting has declined. Even though the number of avid internet users has been maintained, response to tweets has decreased. On a closer observation, twitters seem to have lost interest in tweets mainly because of the content. They do not spark the interest to be responded [...]
PayPal announced that intervention from the US State Department has convinced them to terminate payment facilities to Wikileaks. PayPal’s VP, Osama Bedier, said that as of December 4 WikiLeaks account had been frozen. Bedier said that PayPal had been informed that WikiLeaks is engaged illegal operations. The company was informed by U.S. government representatives. On [...]
Amazon has given in to pressure to stop hosting WikiLeaks. The decision came on Wednesday after a potential cyber-attack on Tuesday that forced the sight to move from their Swedish service provider. The source of the attack has not been determined. Amazon came under pressure from government officials after the controversial leaks that WikiLeak distributed [...]
The success story of 2010 is Rovio, the game designer that has gone from little league to major league in under a year. The application that has caused such a stir is called Angry Birds. It is a game application that can be downloaded onto iPhone and Android. The game consists of hurling balls in [...]
Smartphones and Twitter proved to be the two most popular products for Japanese consumers in 2010, according to a survey by ad agency Dentsu. Flat screen TVs developed for the digital broadcasting age came in at a surprising fourth place in the agency’s annual ‘Hit Product Recognition Survey’ behind a “munchable chilli oil”, a chunky [...]
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