What if Netflix could offer the same selection of streaming content but only use half the bandwidth to stream it? If nothing else, the possibility that subscribers won’t be bumping up against monthly caps because they want to …
Those who use social media as a way to get an ego boost from friends and family (you know who you are), be warned: a new study has found that those with low self-esteem can actually make themselves less likable to others based on …
Call it a snake eating its own tail or a smart take on objectively monitoring a particularly under-served area of the internet, but social blog service Tumblr raised eyebrows yesterday with the news that it was hiring two writers …
If — as some have suggested — Twitter is trying to cut down on free speech with its new censorship policies that were announced last week, then it’s not doing a particularly good job.
While the company described the new …
If your immediate reaction to the secret monitoring of mobile devices is something along the lines of, “Shouldn’t that be against the law?” then you might be interested in a new proposal from Rep. Edward Markey, co-chairman of …
With just two weeks before everything stored on Megaupload potentially gets deleted, help is at hand for those who can’t access legitimate, legal files stored in the now-frozen cloud service. The Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Facebook users’ opinions about the 2012 elections may soon go from private to very, very public thanks to a new app that will showcase their views on a giant billboard in Times Square.
The app, called 2012 Matters: What …
How much is a song worth? It’s a question that’s often been discussed since the internet got involved in the music industry. Is it 99 cents, as iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers believe? Is it some minuscule percentage …
With the phenomenal success of Angry Birds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Rovio would be anxiously protecting its core product from every instance of piracy imaginable. As the company’s CEO explains, however, the opposite …
Sick of dealing with — or worse, falling for — spam emails that claim to come from companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Google or the like? Hope is at hand, as those companies (and many others) have joined together to create a new …
Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill has a simple message for companies that violate user privacy: We took care of Facebook, we took care of Google, and we’ll take care of you, too. Even bolder, her remarks came during an event …
I admit that it’s rare for me to say, “You have to feel sorry for McDonald’s” and actually mean it, but after watching the failure of their recent attempt to turn Twitter to their marketing advantage, you actually do have to feel …
