Friendster, the social network that preceded Facebook and MySpace, is being dismantled.
Although the service will live on, users are now being prompted to back up photos, blogs, comments and groups. On May 31, Friendster will delete all this information in preparation for a relaunch. Friends lists and basic profile information will be …
The ongoing trademark war over the rights to the term “app store” just had another interesting turn. This time Amazon’s assertion of the phrase’s genericness cites a few key phrases used by Steve Jobs himself in a recent conference call.
GeekWire is reporting that the Seattle-based retailer has asked that Apple’s complaint be thrown …
TheWrap is reporting that as early as next week, YouTube will be making the leap into streaming video-on-demand service, putting it in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes.
Currently, the Google-owned video giant states they have “over 7,000 hours of long-form content on YouTube, including thousands of short films and television …
Iran claims to have discovered a new malicious computer virus attacking its government computers.
Little is known about the code other than its nickname – “Stars” – and the fact that Iran’s cyber sleuths have already found it.
Clearly they are on their guard, after the disastrous effects of last year’s Stuxnet worm, widely thought …
Welcome to day six of Sony’s PlayStation Network debacle, as Sony’s original suggestion of “a full day or two” offline stretches to nearly a week. We’re no closer to an explanation than we were six days ago, though the company’s intimated in a handful of laconic PlayStation blog updates that the trouble began with an …
Starting today, Facebook Deals will begin kicking off in five cities, according to the New York Times. The hotly anticipated Facebook Deals taps into the social online coupon market along with heavyweights Groupon and LivingSocial in offering discounts for shared activities.
The feature will initially only be offered in five cities: …
When Facebook Groups launched last October, it came with a fatal flaw for those worried about keeping their activities private: Any group member was able to invite other people in without permission.
It was an idealistic approach to social networking that assumed groups would regulate themselves according to societal pressure. Invite …
Our pals at kottke.org did some digging in the TIME magazine archives and came up with this tasty find: a profile from January 3, 1983, of a young tech whippersnapper named Steven Jobs. Let’s have a read, shall we?
Jobs (rhymes with lobs) did not make the revolution alone. He did not even make the machine that made the revolution, the
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What do you get when you spend $1.2 billion on triple laser laboratories in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania? Try: The building blocks for a mind-boggling super laser that’s almost “didn’t I see that in a Keanu Reeves flick?” powerful.
How much power are we talking? Probably not enough, say, to take out a planet with one …
If you’ve always wanted to surf porn fearlessly and in full view of the world, it looks like New York City’s many libraries are happy to let you.
Or if not happy, at least obliged to. Put another way (and to invoke Cole Porter), it seems just about anything goes at the city’s more than 200 library branches.
Public libraries …
Regular commuters on London’s Underground rail network have now got a new incentive for keeping their journeys short: a social network that turns the Tube into a game.
It’s called Chromaroma, and it’s easy to play.
Pretty much everyone in London already has an Oyster card – an RFID-enabled smart card that they can top up with …
Good thing I reserved a dose of skepticism for those Windows 8 App Store screenshots that surfaced earlier this month, because they turned out to be a sham.
According to iStartedSomething, the images are actually from a third-party Chinese application downloader and manager, called App Marts. The English-language screenshots were …