Design majors, fashion bloggers and connoisseurs of artfully applied nudity rejoice! Yesterday, Tumblr announced in a series of blog posts that it was giving a facelift to its iPhone and iPad experiences, making it easier for users to tumble things on the fly.
(MORE: Tumblr Goes Offline and Other Technology PR Fails)
The iPhone …
Has anything gone from “That’s dumb!” to “Ooh, I wish I could get in…” to “Hey! This is cool!” as quickly as Google+ has?
It’s like a hot new nightclub opened in town, and everyone’s waiting to get in—but you’re not really a party person, so you’re at home playing on the internet sorting your contacts into Google+ Circles. You …
At 3:54 PM on Tuesday afternoon, I received an e-mail telling me that my friend Hope was “hanging out.” Having no idea what this meant—and being at work and therefore in no position to go “hang out” with her—I ignored both the e-mail and the novel “(Google+)” label next to her name. Surely this was another of those Google …
Myspace has been purchased by an advertising outfit called Specific Media to the tune of $35 million, reports All Things D.
The once-ubiquitous social networking site was acquired by News Corp. back in 2005 for $580 million, with All Things D adding that the $35 million sale price “is well below the $100 million that News Corp. had …
Today Microsoft announced its foray into the cloud with Office 365, a line of collaborative Microsoft Office-like tools that users can access on the web.
The service aims to minimize the number of users jumping ship over to Google’s free cloud services (i.e. Google Docs) while enticing business owners with the ability to streamline …
“Phishing”—or the act of following jam-band Phish across the country tricking people into handing over private data via e-mail—is a serious offense. So serious, in fact, that a 27-year-old Los Angeles man who was found guilty of running a major phishing operation just got sentenced to 13 years in prison.
To be fair, he got 11 …
Google wants to know what you love.
That’s according to a new site it launched earlier this morning. Sneaking one past us, What do you love? (http://www.wdyl.com) seems to be an amalgamation of search results throughout Google’s products and services all rolled into one.
So long, LulzSec, we hardly knew ye. The infamous—and I say “‘infamous” like the term was used to describe El Guapo in Three Amigos—band of merry hackers called it quits over the weekend. And I say “called it quits” like someone goes from smoking inside their house to only smoking outside, at parties, and when all the windows are …
LulzSec claims they are retiring. The hacker group released a statement saying that they just wanted 50 days of chaos. However, like it or not, they’ve decided that they will not go quietly into the night.
(MORE: Why LulzSec’s Disbanding Doesn’t Really Mean Much at All)
As part of their grand finale, LulzSec has also dropped more …
Hacker group LulzSec has struck again, this time targeting Arizona law enforcement by releasing thousands of pages of confidential documents and communications presumably acquired in a security breach. Among those documents are several that show law enforcement’s special interest in the iPhone and other smart phones.
One document, …
Hacker collective LulzSec has just claimed to release “hundreds” of private documents belonging to Arizona law enforcement officials, saying:
“We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has just issued a short statement that reads as follows:
“Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company. NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information
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