Once upon a time not very long ago, the link shortening business appeared to be the tech world’s next golden egg. Site’s like TinyURL and Bitly were able to build fully-realized business models by condensing links down to more manageable Twitter lengths of roughly 20 characters long.
Financers were impressed. In October of last …
Today’s Google doodle is a classic. Grab a plectrum and head on over to Google.com right now, because it’s time to play some tunes.
The search engine’s home page logo has been converted into a slightly odd-shaped, but fully working virtual guitar to commemorate the 96th birthday of guitar legend Les Paul, who died in 2009.
There’s …
While the job market here in the U.S. is far from recovered, according to security columnist Brian Krebs’ latest piece, at least one overseas “industry” is doing well enough to recruit new employees: malware coding.
In Russia, Krebs states that employers are utilizing a new recruitment tool to lure programmers, offering base …
If there has been a silver lining to the recent security breaches at Sony, it’s that they have exposed how insecure major websites, to which consumers entrust their personal information, can be. They show that users should always take their own security seriously.
Another silver lining is that the tens of thousands of usernames and …
I know the future is upon us, but there’s still something about facial recognition that creeps me out. Especially when it suggests those not-so-flattering photos of me accurately…
Soon, Facebook will be able to scan all photos posted to Facebook and suggest people to tag based on their facial features.
And though Facebook’s …
She’s the pop powerhouse dressed in those unforgettable costumes. He’s the Executive Chairman for the web’s largest search engine. Though worlds apart, Lady Gaga and Google’s Eric Schmidt now have something in common: They’re both investing in a new startup called Backplane, co-founded by Gaga’s business manager, Troy …
The latest invitation-only webapp to get the geeks excited goes under the snappy name of IFTTT, aka If This Then That.
Think of it as digital duct tape. A Rube Goldberg machine for connecting up all the other web services you use.
The idea is that you set up rules, based on triggers and actions culled from your activity on those …
You may recall that last week, a group of hackers identifying itself as LulzSec were able to break into Sony’s entertainment website, SonyPictures.com, and claimed to make off with passwords and other private information belonging to over a million users.
Looks like LulzSec is at it again, and this time the group’s target is… Sony. …
The early candidate for weird Facebook lawsuit of the year took another turn this morning, when representatives for the social network discredited Paul Ceglia’s alleged e-mail exchange with Mark Zuckerberg as fake. A sham. A forgery. You get the idea.
As you’ll recall, Mr. Ceglia is the wood pellet salesman from upstate New York who …
It looks like Google Gmail wasn’t the only online service pummeled in recent hack attacks: It turns out Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail were, too.
That, and while the targeted attacks—technically dubbed “spear phishing” attempts—were carried out independently, the methods were eerily similar to those employed against Google, says security …
After landing contracts with the big four record labels – Warner Music Group, EMI Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment – the LA Times is reporting that Apple is closing in on deals with music publishers, which should be announced at some point today.
In essence, Apple’s iCloud seems poised to overtake …
If you live in Tennessee, July 1st 2011 could become a day that lives in infamy for anyone caught sharing login info with pals to access streaming media. That’s D-Day for a bill just passed by the state that criminalizes using a friend’s login—with or without permission—to stream movies or songs via services like Netflix and …
