Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg joined the ranks of the digitally violated after an alleged hacker broke into his Facebook fan page … to post the world’s most mundane rant.
An update, seemingly from Zuck himself, read: “Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users …
Google wants to know what movies you’ve really liked recently. No, its not because the company is thinking of getting you a DVD and doesn’t really know what you like; instead, it’s purchased fflick, an online service that works as a movie recommendation engine by checking what your Twitter friends think of any particular title.
The …
Your Facebook friends are going to start trying to sell you things. The social media giant is rolling out a new format called “Sponsored Stories” that it describes as “a way for marketers to sponsor activities that happen throughout the News Feed,” allowing statuses to be turned into four different types of featured stories for …
Time to dust off that resume, huh? If you’ve been out of work for a while, Google has just announced that 2011 will be its “biggest hiring year in company history.” Back in 2007 it added 6,000 new employees, so the company’s apparently planning to hire at least that many this year.
According to Google’s blog post:
“We’re looking
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For Netflix instant streaming customers, good news: Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos said that the company will make a big push to try and buy HBO’s pay TV output deal with Warner Bros. before it expires in 2014. It’s not that they’re against the premium cable channel: He added that the company also has plans to try and woo …
You’ll be hearing a lot more about NFC—near field communication—this year, as more and more cell phone manufacturers add NFC chips to their handsets. It’s basically a way to use your phone at a tap-to-pay credit card machine used by various retail stores. You may already have tap-to-pay built into one or more of your debit or credit …
Gone are the days when spreading the word about a new band meant handing out homemade CDs. With the growing importance of social media marketing in the music world, bln.kr wants to help emerging and amateur bands share their tracks and manage their social media profiles.
Think of bln.kr as the musical cousin of link shortener bit.ly …
Verizon COO Lowell McAdam told the Wall Street Journal that the Verizon iPhone will be available with a $30-per-month unlimited 3G data plan.
“I’m not going to shoot myself in the foot,” said McAdam.
In early June of last year, AT&T dropped its $30-per-month unlimited 3G data plan in favor of a $25-per-month plan capped at two …
Microsoft’s popular note-taking software, OneNote, is now available as an iPhone app. You can use it to create notes and to-do lists while on the go and it’ll automatically synchronize your data online, where it can then be pulled into the OneNote application on your computer.
Likewise, the notes you’ve created on your computer can be …
Rumors of the demise of the Age of Twitter have, it seems, been greatly exaggerated. The social networking site is expected to earn around $150 million in revenue this year, up significantly from 2010’s revenue of $45 million, and expected to rise even further in 2012, to $250 million.
The revenue bump, predicted by eMarketer, is …
You can’t blame Gail Davis for hanging up on the person who called her to congratulate her on downloading Apple’s 10 billionth app and winning a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate. Her husband and her both don’t have iPods capable of using App store items.
“I thought it was a prank call,” Gail Davis said to Cult of Mac. “I …
If you experience shoddy AT&T reception inside your home or small office, you may be eligible for a free AT&T MicroCell device, according to what appears to be an internal document leaked to Engadget.
The MicroCell is a little box that plugs into your home internet connection and acts as short-range, personal AT&T cell tower of sorts. …
