Social network site LinkedIn filed for its initial public offering yesterday (even though many think the timing is wrong), and in the process, revealed a lot about the company’s inner workings, and how it sees itself. For example, although the site made $10 million profit in the first nine months of last year – from a total revenue of …
Paycheck Friday: Purchasing Suggestions For Your Perusal
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,500)
Rubik’s Cube Mug: $15
Your life
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Poor Advertisers: Most Mobile Ads Clicked On Accidentally
Advertisers aren’t doing a better job on in-app mobile phone ads, you’re just clicking on them by mistake. A new survey by lead gen provider Pontiflex and researcher Harris Interactive shows that 47 percent of people admit that they more often than not click on the mobile ads that pop up unintentionally – with an overwhelming 61 percent …
WikiLeaks Hactivists Released on Bail. Next Target: The UK Government?
The five suspects linked to the Anonymous Hactivist group have been released on bail Friday, reports The Guardian. The five males were arrested by London Metropolitan Police Thursday in connection with online DDoS attacks in support of WikiLeaks last December. Meanwhile, the FBI also issued 40 search warrants across the U.S. in their …
Nikon Patents Gimmicky DSLR Projector, Everyone Groans
Nikon has filed a patent in Japan for a built-in DSLR projector, which should come in handy should you be the type to always carry a blank wall in your camera bag. According to a Nikon Rumors report, the image will be projected through the eyepiece of the electronic viewfinder so that “two or more persons can see the reproduced image …
Will Mark Zuckerberg Appear On SNL This Week?
As The Social Network’s Jesse Eisenberg (an Oscar nominee for his role as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg) takes the reigns of Saturday Night Live tomorrow night, his real life counterpart could join him on stage.
(More on Techland: The Social Network Filmmakers Thank Zuckerberg During Acceptance Speech)
The New York Post is …
What Went Viral This Week
January 28, 2011 –
Soldier Proposes To The Wrong Woman
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Help find the real Samantha! [via Newsfeed]
Truncated News Stories
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Need a short version of the State of …
Does 3D Work?
The debate whether 3D technology is necessary has basically boiled down to one question: Does the technology even work? Leading the anti 3D group has been Roger Ebert. Vehemently against the technology, he’s posted time and time again his reasons to why he doesn’t believe it’s worth our time and money. In his post “Why I Hate 3-D (And …
How Egypt Cut Off the Internet (and How a U.S. ‘Kill Switch’ Might Work)
Reports have now verified that Eqypt has cut off access to the internet amid political protests. Renesys, an internet monitoring firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, calls the situation "an action unprecedented in Internet history," according to a company blog post.
The development of an internet "kill switch" that our own
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NGP vs. 3DS vs. iOS vs. Android: Which Gaming Platform Will Earn Your Love?
In the eternal struggle to win over gamers’ thumbs on the go, Nintendo’s been the uncontested champ for decades now. The only other dedicated gaming device to ever mount a worthy challenge has been Sony’s Playstation Portable. Just a week after Nintendo announced its launch plans for their new 3DS, Sony pulled away the veil of …
TechFast: Egypt’s Internet Goes Dark, Kindle Beats Paper, Netflix Rates ISPs
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Internet Rallies Behind Egypt In An Attempt To Restore Communication
Link: Techland
Egypt apparently just staged the world’s biggest digital lock-in. Connections are still alive inside …
Internet Rallies Behind Egypt In An Attempt To Restore Communication
Since Tuesday’s “day of rage” swelled protests across Egypt, seven people have been killed, thousands have clashed with police and the country is in the middle of an Internet blackout.
(More on TIME: Did Egypt Really “Shut Off” The Internet?)
We heard of a social network ban nation wide earlier this week, as sites like …