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‘Tango’ Video Chat Gets a PC App to Take On Skype
Tango has launched a PC app, giving desktop and laptop users a new way to video chat with their smartphone-toting friends. The app is available free for Windows PCs from Tango’s website.
Although several other video chat apps exist already for smartphones—Fring and Qik among them—rare is the service that allows PC-to-smartphone or …
VIDEO: If Computer Problems Were (Literally) Real
If you ever wondered what computer problems would look like if they were actually real, you’ve got your answer. Literally can’t open folders? God forbid if your firewall isn’t working, and all your windows are crashing.
Good thing we don’t take our computer problems too literally.
(MORE: Microsoft Spoofs Google with the …
Study: Women Better at Using Social Media to Keep in Touch
If women are from Venus and men are from Mars, then it seems as if Venusians are much better at using social media to stay in touch with those who are closest to them. A recent study has revealed that more women than men use social media like Facebook and Twitter to update friends and family about their lives.
According to the survey, …
Can Devices like the Kindle Fire Finally Pave the Way for a la Carte Cable?
Pundits asking whether the new Kindle Fire will be an “iPad killer” are way off the mark. It’s a killer alright, but the victim is not who you think it is. “We don’t think of the Kindle Fire as a tablet. We think of it as a service,” says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
And the main competing service in his sights is cable …
First Kindle Fire Exclusive: Superman and His Amazing Friends
It was only yesterday that Amazon announced its new Kindle Fire, but already publishers are making announcements about products that will only be digitally available exclusively on the not-iPad tablet device. First up: DC Comics, which this morning announced 100 graphic novels and collected editions making their digital debut on …
The Fed Wants to Know What You’re Tweeting
If you’ve been badmouthing the Federal Reserve on Twitter and thinking no one cares, be warned: That’s not going to be the case much longer. The Fed is already planning to ensure that it knows exactly what you’re saying about it on all forms of social media.
Responses are due today to a Request for Proposal issued by the Federal …
Sony Refuses to Pay for 3D Glasses: Will You?
Sure, you’ll happily go and watch 3D movies in theaters now, but would you be as eager to do so if you had to pay for the special stereoscopic glasses each time you went? That’s now a possibility, following news that Sony will stop paying for the glasses, necessary to view their 3D releases, starting in May 2012.
Currently, studios …
The Future of Local Internet Is…Edible?
“Hyperlocal” has been a buzzword for quite some time, based around the idea that the Internet should be talking to you about your neighborhood in particular, and not just some homogenous “out there.” But according to a new Pew Institute study, there’s one thing in particular users want from their hyperlocal surfing: food.
While …
Facebook Gets into Politics, Forms Its Own PAC
Apparently, it’s not enough to “Like” a political campaign anymore; now Facebook wants to ensure that its voice is heard in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The social media giant confirmed yesterday that it had filed paperwork to start its own Political Action Committee (PAC), following rumors spinning out of the registration of …
Burglars Now Using Twitter, Facebook Against You
Next time you leave your home for any appreciable length of time, whatever you do, don’t tell the Internet. A new study has revealed that an unsettling 78% of burglars use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to choose just where they’re going to break in next.
That’s not the only way that burglars have started using …
Facebook Damage Control: Pledges Privacy Breach Fix
No, it’s not some creepy OnStar-like secret monitoring scheme, where Facebook plans to track you even after you’ve logged out of the social networking site, but that’s essentially what Facebook’s capable of, thanks to a cookie “bug.” The bug allows Facebook to collect browsing-related information even after a user’s signed out of the …