How many people are using Google+? The scales should tip at around 10 million users today, according to Ancestry.com founder—and Google+ user, of course—Paul Allen. This Paul Allen is not to be confused with the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, though. But I digress…
Allen’s been crunching some numbers lately, with his …
The masked crusaders at Anonymous have struck again—this time against the American military.
They didn’t manage to break into the Pentagon itself, but instead took aim at an easier target: private company Booz Allen Hamilton, which does a lot of contract work for the armed forces and other government departments.
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Every year, TIME.com publishes a list of the fifty best websites (here’s the 2010 edition). I’m fortunate enough to be working on this year’s installment—and I could use your help.
Here’s what I need: nominations of cool Web sites. Lots of them. Sites of all sorts—both practical and entertaining—but especially ones which aren’t …
A few weeks ago our friends at NewsFeed dubbed Dear Photograph their “Tumblr of the Week” — and for good reason.
Its premise, like most good things, is incredibly simple: Someone snaps a modern-day photo in the exact place where a memorable photo had been taken years earlier. The images are then presented side by side.
The result …
Securing an invite to the Google+ treehouse has more or less been a crapshoot, as Google appears to be opening and closing its invite system arbitrarily. It’s kind of like waiting in line all night for a nightclub, only for the bouncer to finally let you in to a near-empty room of tech bloggers poking at their smartphones. So while …
If you can’t get enough of Gmail’s Priority Inbox feature, or if you’ve got an OCD-like predisposition to managing your inbox, rejoice. Google is adding several additional inboxes to Gmail. Staving off boredom by organizing your e-mail while your girlfriend tunes into Grey’s Anatomy? Yeah, I know.
The changes won’t be …
As the team at Fox News discovered—to its chagrin—earlier this week, security lapses on social networks can have wide-ranging consequences.
As we reported, persons unknown took control of the Fox News Politics Twitter feed in the early hours of July 4th, and started trying to spread rumors that the president had been …
The Washington Post is reporting that its “Jobs” website was attacked on June 27 and 28 by “an authorized third party,” resulting in the collection of 1.27 million user IDs and e-mail addresses.
The Post claims that “no passwords or other personal information” has been collected aside from user IDs and their associated e-mail …
Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Cloud Drive, you’ll remember, is Amazon’s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon’s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a …
Days of wild speculation as to what “awesome” really is can finally be laid to rest.
Today Mark Zuckerberg, coated in a hurried layer of sweat (and excitement!), announced from the company’s Palo Alto headquarters that Facebook would be implementing a newly designed chat interface that allows for group chatting, and partnering with …
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Facebook is holding a press event at its headquarters in Palo Alto on Wednesday, July 6th. It’s invite-only, but I’m among the invited, and I’m inviting you to attend our live coverage, starting at 1pm ET. I’ll blog the news as we learn it, right here and at technologizer.com/facebookevent.
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Did you ever think you’d see the day? Spotify is coming to the U.S. I should have quotes around that last sentence, because those are Spotify’s exact words per its U.S. launch page.
Spotify distances itself from competing streaming music services by offering a free plan that allows users to stream any of its millions of music …
