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One of the easiest ways for a hacker to gain access to your personal information is to take it off a website you are browsing on that requires a password. Typically, if you are browsing on an unsecured, wireless connection (say for example at a local coffee shop), anyone with a little know how...
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Remember those reports from last year, suggesting British Prime Minister David Cameron was to receive a personal iPad app, providing real-time access to key public data? Well, it seems there was more truth to them than many may have suspected. We’ve received word from Adzuna, yup, the UK classified ad search engine, that it...
The Apple Store app has been updated with two major new features. You can now ask Siri for item information and pricing, which marks the first shopping integration that the service has seen thus far outside of iTunes purchases in movie listings. There are also EasyPay options available in more countries with this release....
Windows Phone 8 is new to many developers, with its SDK becoming generally available only last week. Given that, developers probing its depths are learning both its strengths, and restrictions. A fine example of this is out today on the MSDN forums in which a user asked the following question : I...
A Microsoft patent application published this week suggests that the software giant could use its Xbox 360 Kinect hardware as a “Big Brother” sensor to prevent too many people from watching rented movies. The patent application, applied for on November 1, is titled “Content distribution regulation by viewing user.” The patent, assigned to Kathryn...
We’ve got two paths into the future: We can chill out, learn to manage our dependence on digital devices and streams of information and figure out how to balance today’s crazy productivity requirements with our personal lives. Or we can jack ourselves into the matrix, pump our bodies with steroids and “cognitive enhancers” and...
Maine Democrat Colleen Lachowicz made gaming history twice this year: First, when she was attacked by the Republican Party last month for being a computer gamer. Second, when she won her election on Tuesday, becoming the first Senator whose gaming habits led, in part, to her victory. Hear that, negative stereotypes about gamers?...
In the late 1990s, web-hosting site GeoCities burst into the world’s top ten websites and attracted $3.5 billion from Yahoo — then quickly became internet road kill. As investors drool over a new generation of sites like Tumblr that have rocket-like audience growth, does GeoCities provide a cautionary tale? Fred Wilson is a good...