LimeWire may have shut down last year, and finally settled its five-years-long lawsuit with the RIAA this May, but that doesn’t mean that its troubles are over. Now, the former file-sharing company is being sued by a representative of more than 12,000 independent record companies that feel the RIAA settlement unfairly favored the big …
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‘Anti-Jailbreak’ iOS 4.3.4 Already Jailbroken?
The whole point of Apple’s iOS 4.3.4 update was to put the kibosh on a serious iOS security defect that allowed hackers to jailbreak iPhones, iPads and iPod touches (as well as surreptitiously remote control them), but it seems the fix may have already yielded to hackers.
Hack group ‘iPhone Dev Team’ (not to be confused with Apple’s …
Top Five Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Acer Iconia Android tablet: $398 at Amazon
The Acer Iconia made news for being the first Android 3.0 tablet to break the $500 price barrier. Originally selling for $450, it’s now been priced at around $400 at several retailers.
The tablet has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, …
Anonymous Incurs Google+ Ban, Retaliates by Launching Own Social Network
If you can’t join ’em, try and beat ’em—that’s the gist of the reaction by notorious hacker group Anonymous to several of its members’ accounts feeling the banhammer from Google’s new social network site, Google+. But instead of hacking Google+ in retaliation for the bans, Anonymous says it’s launching its own social networking site, …
Does Google+ Do It for You?
Does Google+ do it for you?
Here’s the thing: Everyone expected Google+ to fail, because Buzz failed, Wave failed, and Orkut failed everywhere except Brazil. Google, the consensus believed, couldn’t do social.
Wrong. Google+ is a huge hit, amassing 10 million users in just a few days. Phreeeow.
(MORE: Could What Happened to …
Women’s World Cup Sets New Tweets-per-Second Record
Did you watch the Women’s World Cup final yesterday? It was thrilling. And guess how many tweets per second were being bandied about Twitter? A record-breaking 7,196—also thrilling from a more nerdacious perspective.
(MORE: Japan Beats U.S. in Thrilling Women’s World Cup Final)
Even crazier is that another soccer game—Paraguay …
Happy 5th Birthday, Twitter
It’s hard to believe that Twitter turns five years old today, and I’m not just saying that because time flies.
Twitter was a slow burn instead of a slam dunk. When it launched to the public in 2006, it had a different name (Twittr), and hardly anyone used it. A chart at Business Insider shows that Twitter didn’t reach 1 million unique …
Microsoft Leaks Social Search Service, Swears It’s Nothing
Whoops. Microsoft has accidentally revealed an experimental social search project called “Tulalip” on a newly-purchased domain.
Fusible.com spotted a teaser for the service on socl.com, which Microsoft just acquired. Although the site wasn’t fully functional, it hinted at the ability to search for something and get results based on …
Google Strangely Releases ‘Photovine’ App for iPhone, Not Android
If I had a nickel for every time I got pitched an “exciting new photo sharing app!” I’d have something like 40 cents. Maybe 35. Still, photo sharing is a really crowded space, one that’s currently being dominated by the likes of Instagram, which recently charted just over 5 million users accounting for over 95 million pictures …
Moneyland: How to Time Apple Purchases to Get the Best Prices
Believe it or not, it IS possible to get decent deals on Apple products. Moneyland takes a look at how to time your Apple purchases…
Could What Happened to MySpace Happen to Facebook?
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
Social networks have been in the news lately. Last month MySpace was sold and we learned that Justin Timberlake and his partners have decided to …
DrChrono iPad App: Low Cost, High Quality Medical Records
During my first year out of college, I worked as a technical writer for a small medical insurance company out in Orange County. We were required to work carefully with doctors to put together comprehensive reports for patients, making sense out of other doctors’ notes and fact checking them against medical handbooks.
Of course, …