Crowdfunding, the process of raising funds by collecting small amounts of money from many people, has become quite popular in recent years, and the poster child for the industry is New York City-based Kickstarter. But there are several other lesser well known startups beyond Kickstarter, like the crowdfunding veteran IndieGoGo. Founded in January 2008,...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Tor Project have officially released a Firefox plugin called HTTPS Everywhere, which enables encrypted, secure browsing on some Websites. The plugin, which came out of beta today, works with a list of sites that support HTTPS, but may be doing so in an incomplete or limited fashion. If...
Here’s your chance to let your kitten help other animals, using nothing other than its feline reflexes. You may be familiar with ‘Game for Kittens‘, an iPhone game developed by Little Hiccup that’s exactly what it sounds like: it’s a game for your kitten (okay, so the title is slightly misleading — cats of all...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. If you’re working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you should take note of...
A few weeks ago I was meeting with Peter Thiel and that pesky question of whether we’re in a bubble or not came up. In a debate both sides are getting bored with, Thiel made a point I hadn’t heard: That LinkedIn’s IPO wasn’t some Netscape moment that opened the markets up for everyone...
Back in the blog search heyday, companies like Technorati, BlogDigger, IceRocket and others thought that millions of people would want to seek out topic-focused, long-form, self-publishers, many of whom were using a hosted Content Management System to publish on a website they owned themselves. Oh for those heady days! Right: A survey of the...
Spam King Sanford Wallace has turned himself in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Wallace is facing multiple counts of fraud and related activity and has been charged with three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt. Wallace, who is notorious in spam circles and has been...
Image: Etsy.com The Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week is drawing to a close, but we aren’t ready for the fun to end just yet. As it turns out, Etsy‘s artsy community is churning out bizarre, shark-themed crafts by the dozen. We’ve gathered our favorites; even if they don’t arrive in time for the final...
A few weeks back Apple told us they sold 20.34 million iPhones during the second quarter. Now IDC says that Apple’s deluge of smartphone sales confirms it as the No. 1 seller of smartphones in the world. But the quarterly report, released Thursday, shows something else too: that while Samsung came in second place...
Apple has begun disabling iPhones, iPads and iPods running the preview version of iOS5 if those devices are not actively being used to develop applications, according to a post on 9to5Mac. The company typically gives developers early access to the next version of its mobile operating system so that they can prepare and test...