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Anonymous Homes In On Facebook, IBM, Intel And AT&T To Protest CISPA For #OpDefense
Posted On April 13, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

[youtube id="45FoVOs42fU" width="600" height="350"] The amorphous Anonymous hacktivist group has set its sights on some of the biggest names in technology …

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Twitter Shutters @FAME For Violating “The Spirit” Of Its ToS Agreement
Posted On April 13, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

Fame's fifteen minutes of, well, fame are up. One of the most intriguing social experiments on Twitter will be selecting …

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Why I Supported Pebble, The Hackable Watch Which Raised Almost $1 Million On Kickstarter On Day One
Posted On April 13, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

Who'd've thought that in 2012, when we're all glued to our iPhones and Droids, our iPads and Android tablets, our …
A Neat Little Hack Lets You See Who You Interact With Most On Facebook
Posted On April 12, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

We all have a vague idea of who we interact with most on Facebook. For most of us, it's our …

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Facebook To Trade On The Nasdaq Under Symbol ‘FB’
Posted On April 5, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

I don't think I even needed to tell you what the ticker symbol was going to be. Seriously. You could …

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A Crack Team Of Facebook Engineers Seeks To Build Out Search
Posted On April 4, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

Take a really close look at the picture I downloaded off Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Timeline. It's a picture of his desk, …

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Instagram For Android Achieves Over 1 Million Downloads On Its First Day
Posted On April 4, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

Since becoming available on Google's Play marketplace just yesterday, over 1 million users downloaded Instagram for Android, which has so …

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Facebook Files Patent-Infringement Countersuit Against Yahoo
Posted On April 3, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

Facebook fires back against Yahoo with a massive countersuit claiming that Yahoo infringed on 10 of the social network's patents …

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Facebook Shares Set Record In Final Private Auction, Leaves Some Private Markets Uncertain
Posted On April 2, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

At noon on March 30th, Facebook stock traded on private markets for the last time. Shares in the social network …

Facebook Privacy Loophole Cloaks Deactivated Friends, Allows Unexpected Creeping
Posted On March 21, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

A zero day privacy fault in Facebook's system allows your friends to creep around your profile without you ever seeing …

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Why We Mourn Kodak & Dance On Yahoo’s Grave
Posted On March 16, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 1

Is this what dying tech companies do? Sue the more successful next generation? Yeah, evidently. The good ship Yahoo is on …

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Facebook Announces Timeline Apps At SXSW
Posted On March 14, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

Facebook released new statistics on Open Graph applications at SXSW, touting success stories of  popular Timeline apps. According to Facebook product …

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Yahoo Vs. Facebook: The 10 Patents In Plain English
Posted On March 13, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

Yahoo is suing Facebook over 10 patents. Here's what they are & what they mean in plain English. (Note: In bold text is …

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[DEVELOPING STORY] Anonymous Lays Siege To The Vatican
Posted On March 7, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 2

Two hours ago, the hacktivist group Anonymous released the following press release on Pastebin: hello Vatican.va Anonymous has now decided to lay …

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How A Russian Developer Hijacked Github To Help The Rails Community
Posted On March 7, 2012 AvatarJason Rowley 0

This past Sunday, Russian software developer Egor Homakov hijacked the databases of Github, an extremely popular software project hosting and …