Earlier this month Ryan Giggs, a professional soccer player who plays for the U.K.’s Manchester United, obtained a court-ordered injunction to keep secret the details of an extra-marital affair with British television personality Imogen Thomas. The short story is that he didn’t want the U.K. press writing about his …
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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 …
Ouch: 24,583 People Sued for Downloading ‘The Hurt Locker’
Voltage Pictures, the studio behind director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker from last year, is apparently pursuing legal action against 24,583 BitTorrent users for illegally downloading the video game-esque war thriller.
In enlisting law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver, the studio’s prosecution marks the largest …
‘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.
47% of Facebook Walls Contain Profanity, but Should Employers Give a Darn?
Well, dang.
A new survey conducted by Reppler, an online service that helps “keep your social reputation safe,” unveiled new data that shows 47% of Facebook users have profanity on their walls. Scanning 30,000 user profiles, the study found that 80% of users have at least one post or comment from a friend containing swear words.
In …
Glenn Beck’s New Discount Site Has ‘Value and Values’
When Glenn Beck first announced that he was leaving his daily Fox News show later this year, millions of people were naturally curious about his next venture. But the country’s most controversial talk show host has decided that he will do the next most logical thing to hosting a show: start an online discount website.
Yes, that’s …
Report: Police Confuse Bitcoin Miner’s Power Use for Growing Weed
There are unconfirmed reports today that at least one Bitcoin miner has been raided by police because unusually high power consumption led authorities to suspect that he was clandestinely growing marijuana. The tip comes from an IRC chat captured by blogger Mike Esspe, though there are no corroborating details.
Twitter’s Super-Duper U.K. Censorship Trouble
The U.K. media is atwitter this weekend over a controversy about press gag-orders known as “super-injunctions” that have recently been disobeyed on Twitter. It’s an unlikely combination of celebrities, sex, social media, and press freedoms that has exploded into a scandal that led Twitter this week to break its U.K. traffic record …
Facebook Fighting Child Pornography with Microsoft’s Help
When photos spread across the web, they’re often distorted and altered ever so slightly—think it a game of “telephone”—making it difficult for detection software to do its job. And as is the case, the propagation of photo sharing across the web has had an unfortunate side effect that’s quickly becoming an epidemic: a corollary rise …
Sony Internet Provider Hacked, Financial Theft Occurs This Time
The Sony-owned “So-net” internet service provider has confirmed that its customer rewards website was recently breached, with the person or people responsible making off with “customers’ redeemable gift points worth about $1,225,” as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
This event comes hot on the heels of Sony’s infamous …
Google’s Financial Comparison Tools Rolled into ‘Advisor’ Site
Sticking to its big-picture plan of organizing the world’s information, Google has recently rolled its various financial advice sites and features into a single site called Google Advisor.
According to a company blog post:
“With Google Advisor, you enter information about what you’re looking for in a mortgage, credit card, CD, or
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