PlayStation Network member? Me too, man. Me too. I didn’t have my credit card number on file because I’m cheap like that but I think I may dip into this free identity theft coverage Sony’s offering just in case. The world does NOT need another Doug Aamoth. And I’d hate for an identity thief to get arrested thanks to one of the 38 …
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Why Spotify and Facebook Would Make a Great Team
The rumor mill is in overdrive with the suggestion that Facebook might have done a deal with European music streaming service Spotify. Why would they do that?
Facebook is the undisputed winner of social networking. The more people who spend a lot of time on Facebook, the more money there is to be made.
Music is an excellent way of …
Amazon Offers 99-Cent Lady Gaga Album Again (with New No-Crash Promise)
If you stumbled over yourself to download Lady Gaga’s new Born This Way album when it was priced at 99 cents from Amazon on Monday, you may have found Amazon’s servers to be working about as well as a porcupine at a child’s birthday party (does NOT work—trust me).
(More on TIME.com: Amazon’s 99-Cent Lady Gaga Album Heralds Cloud …
Greenovation: Google’s New Data Facility Cooled by Seawater
Keeping stride with Google’s recent run of green-friendly initiatives, a new data center in Hamina, Finland, takes advantages of the facility’s surrounding environment by using ocean water to cool its servers.
Google Senior Director of Datasite Construction and Operations, Joe Kava, relays that the building, purchased in 2009, was …
Cash Crop: ‘FarmVille’ Maker Zynga Preparing for IPO?
As anyone who’s ever been bombarded by others’ status updates knows, no company better represents the current shift in the gaming landscape than Zynga. The casual game revolution caught fire on social networks like Facebook and brought in millions of players who are otherwise uninterested in hardcore console and PC games. Now, rumors …
Zuckerberg: Under-13s Won’t Be Allowed on Facebook Just Yet
Breathe a sigh of relief, parents. Your pre-teens aren’t lawfully wreaking havoc on Facebook anytime soon (though we know those sneaky young’ins exist illegally in droves on the site).
Mark Zuckerberg has set the record straight about his stance on underage kids on the social networking site: It’s a conversation that should …
Will ‘Minecraft’ Be the Killer App for the Xperia Play Smartphone?
You know Minecraft. It’s got a hold on your soul. You held a party when new weather effects came to the game and doodle designs for your next creations during meetings. Your dreams? They now unfold in giant pixellated blocks. In short, Mojang‘s runaway hit owns your imagination.
But, you’ve tossed and turned at night, hoping for a way …
Can’t Play DiRT 3 Online? Blame Sony’s MIA PlayStation Store
You just picked up Codemasters’ grit-flinging, gravel-grinding rally racer DiRT 3 for PlayStation 3, and let me guess—you can’t play online or swap YouTube video replays with pals. Bummer.
You’re not alone. It’s because the PS3 version requires a special piece of downloadable code to put its online mode in gear. And since that …
Five-Year-Old Girl Invents Impossibly Cute Video Game
A man takes his five-year-old daughter to a three-day game development festival in Toronto and CHANGES THE WORLD FOREVER.
That may be a tad melodramatic on my part, but you have to admit that the browser-based “Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure” game has it all.
There’s magic—everybody loves magic. There’s adventure—again, …
Sony Admits Canadian Site Hacked, Thousands of Records Stolen
Down, down, to offline town: Sony says it’s shuttered online services in Canada, Indonesia, and Thailand this morning after detecting a ne’er-do-well on the (virtual) premises. This, after a 26-day PlayStation Network outage, followed by a veritable spree of copycat hacks.
Poor Sony, the world’s biggest cyber-pincushion. Every time I …
How to Avoid or Remove ‘Mac Defender’ Malware
Recently, our own Harry McCracken revealed that even he’d been hit by the Mac malware known as Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector). Here’s how to remove it from, or avoid getting it on, your Mac.
First of all, let’s clear up some definitions. “Malware” means “stuff that’s bad for your computer”, and this most certainly …
‘Opera’ Software Company Won’t Miss E-mails Meant for Oprah
It’s Oprah’s last show. A nation mourns.
A software company in Norway, however, probably breathes a sigh of relief.
Turns out the team at Opera Software, who make a neat little web browser of the same name, have for years been fielding incorrectly addressed emails intended for Oprah Winfrey.