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Facebook user data sold

Nov 1, 2010
On Friday, Facebook posted on their developers' blog updating their most recent privacy breach - the one in which the company was sharing user IDs...

Big time Googler leaves for Facebook

Nov 1, 2010
Back when the ill-fated Google Wave was launched, one of the stars of the video announcement was Wave's developer Lars Rasmussen. He was a big deal...

Verizon to pay the FCC and customers

Oct 28, 2010
I'm not really sure how much of a difference $25 million makes to a company like Verizon (they'll probably make that in the opening seconds of the...

Chatroulette's new redirection

Oct 28, 2010
While the novelty of Chatroulette has worn off and traffic is down from a few months ago, the site is still popular. And riddled with penises. So...

Limewire, which still exists, gets disabled

Oct 27, 2010
The file sharing site has been battling lawsuits from the recording industry for years now but was finally disabled after a court injunction from...

Bananas pay wall in New York paper

Oct 26, 2010
Boing Boing flagged this rather alarmist approach on the part of an upstate New York newspaper to monetizing their online edition: threats! The...

Amazon loves Kindles, hates quantifying

Oct 26, 2010
Amazon.com is hoping to take a little of the shine off today's expected announcement of Barnes & Noble's Nook Color. Amazon says that they sold...

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3D glasses for people with glasses and interested in Samsung

Oct 21, 2010
3D TV sales are far below the industry's aspirations. Why? Could it be that people who buy these TVs have to either sit at a particular angle and...

Back to Mac event coming up

Oct 19, 2010
There's been a lot of speculation about what Apple will announce tomorrow at the Back to Mac event. We're assuming it's at least a new operating...