It would seem that changes are afoot at Facebook.com. As a casual user, you probably won’t notice much – unless you choose to express your affection for a favorite television show or musician via your cover photo, or engage in posting activity that an algorithm might rule to be spam; but if you run a business with a Facebook Page, then the message: pay up or lose the juice. There was a time that all [...]
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Cloud storage provider Box has drastically revamped its consumer offerings – has it become a DropBox killer? When it comes to consumer-level cloud storage, Box has been something of an also-ran for as long as it has been around. The company offered good amounts of disk space, but syncing was always a premium option – which is something that made the competition a lot more attractive. Now Box has brought syncing to free accounts and [...]
If the US Supreme Court has it their way, we might all be kissing eBay, Craigslist, Pandora and other used stuff exchange sites good bye soon. Hidden within the Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons case, to be disputed this fall, is a clause that might dispute the first sale law which allows you and I to buy and sell used stuff like bicycles, cars and smartphones. Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court has recognized [...]
A French T-shirt company by the name of Early Flicker has successfully trademarked the Anonymous logo in France and in so doing has found itself in a little bit of trouble. Anonymous has obviously declared war and has not wasted any time in launching Operation AnonTrademeark. The group has published information about the brand and its owner, one Apollinaire Auffret including Auffret’s phone number, personal email address, the year of his university graduation, and the [...]
4chan’s long history of prankery and scallywag behavior didn’t earn the above pictured Burger King any sympathy from the Anonymous legion. The worker posted a picture of himself standing in a couple of tubs of lettuce on the imageboard along with a caption that read, “This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King.” It is not clear if he was trolling, or looking for laughs – but perhaps he should have considered the possibility [...]
Nestlé Australia and New Zealand made a hilarious foray into Instagram this week, when they decided to use a guy in a brown bear suit playing a drum set with a pair of Kit-Kat chocolate bars. Drum roll please … Kit Kat is on Instagram Unfortunately for Nestlé, the guy in a bear suit bore an uncanny resemblance to Pedobear. The company subsequently removed the photo and posted this explanation: We produced this photo – [...]
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Not all that long ago, in 2008 to be precise, Google was set to drop a staggering $200 million to buy Digg. Now it is being sold off to Betaworks for a mere $500,000. What does that $500,000 buy? Everything. Betaworks gets the Digg brand, the website and the technology – all of which will be rolled into News.me, Betaworks’ social news aggregator. Employees, were not part of the deal, but Digg CEO Matt Williams [...]
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The story goes something like this: a Redditor, delverofsecrets, claimed that while on a train in NYC he bumped into a man wearing raggedy clothes who handed him a $50 and an encrypted message (pictured above). Delverofsecrets posted the puzzle on Reddit and within a few hours someone figured out that it had been encoded using bifid cypher and the puzzle was solved. There’s plenty more money to make figure this out and prepare to [...]
A leaked internal letter has revealed that Mozilla intends to halt development on its free email client, Thunderbird. The news isn’t all bad for users, Mozilla will continue to support the program, but development, on the Mozilla side of the equation, will stop. Thunderbird managing director Jb Piacintino wrote: We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious organizational goals. We’re not [...]
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When I got an email asking if we would be interested in reviewing a DNS-based location-spoofing service that allows people outside the United States to breach the region blockade, I was very interested. As an English speaker living in a non-English-speaking country, keeping up-to-date with TV shows and movies is pretty tough to do without breaking the law. I had toyed with the idea of setting up a VPN on a US-based server, but all [...]
Thousands of PCs across the world will be temporarily banned from the Internet come this Monday as the FBI’s latest effort to counter Internet data theft will take place. For several months now, the FBI has been warning people that their PCs might be affected by a DNS changing malware which made them vulnerable to data theft, allowing a third party to steal or log any data stream coming from, or going to, said PCs. [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, Game of Thrones has been the most pirated television show this year. There is no doubt that it is a popular show – it has certainly made my top 10 favorite TV shows of all time… but is it being torrented into the ground because it is good or because HBO has clung too long to a dying distribution model? In case you didn’t know, you can’t get HBO without [...]
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