After unveiling its lovably dinky trike a few weeks ago, Google Street View has updated its homepage to give users a behind-the-scenes peek at how the Street View team operates.
This added transparency is not without reason, as Google Street View continues to be mired in controversies around the globe concerning privacy. The new site …
Have you ever stopped to wonder what might happen to your digital stuff after you die?
The folk at Digital Beyond have, and they’ve been talking about it at the SXSW festival this week.
These days it’s easy to put stuff online thanks to dozens of free services offered by third party companies. Blogs, microblogs, social networks, …
Remember Blogger? Of course you do. But do you still use it, or did you start using WordPress or Tumblr years ago?
Blogger is one of the oldest names on the blogging block, but hasn’t had a lot of love from its owners for a long time. Aside from a gorgeous and easy-to-use template design tool launched last year, its user interface
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The hackers at last week’s Pwn2Own contest had a field day with some of the world’s most popular browsers, but they didn’t make a clean sweep.
Pwn2Own pits security experts against web browsers on laptops and smartphones. At stake are cash prizes of $15,000 per exploit, along with the actual hardware on which the browsers were hacked. …
Data caps on your internet? It was only a matter of time.
Starting May 2, AT&T will start putting caps on people who surf the internet just a tad bit too much, according to DSLReports.
AT&T DSL users will be capped at 150GB, while AT&T U-verse users will get a slightly higher allowance at 250GB.
Users will probably want to be …
Japan’s Friday earthquake estimated death toll is in the thousands; and while the story can be told in words, nothing can describe the videos and photos that have followed. ABC News in Australia has pooled together some interactive Google Earth aerial satellite images surveying the before and after photos of the chaos on the …
March 11, 2011 –
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Live long and prosper.
Making music is never a crime, except in this case there’s a possibility it might be. [via You Are Listening …
Don’t blame the bloggers for starting all that gossip. Chances are, the email in your inbox from your friend is what started the rumor mill going.
Scientific American reported that when it came to the 2008 presidential election, which was rife with false gossip items along the likes of “Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US” and “Sarah …
Shortly after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami hit northeastern Japan, Google set up a “Person Finder” website that people can use to find someone who may be missing in the area or to report someone who’s been found in the area.
Google set up similar sites after the Christchurch, Haiti, and Chile earthquakes as …
New from the people at WordPress is Jetpack, a helpful add-on for those who manage their own personal copies of the popular blogging software.
WordPress is by far the best-known and most-used blog tool around these days, and it comes in two delicious flavors: WordPress.com is a fully hosted service, operated and maintained by the …
Do you feel a propensity to sign up for one email domain over another? Have you noticed that most of your address book consists of people who use Google Chat or Yahoo! Messenger? Just don’t get why people would stick with one old domain over another?
Hunch looked through the stats of their users and asked them about which of the four …
The war between the search engines and the spammers continues, with up-and-coming Google alternative Blekko wielding the stick against over a million spam sites.
Its action is quite different to Google’s recent efforts to foil the PageRank scammers. Google ranks its results and gives each one a PageRank score. Over the years, spam …
