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Twitter DM Loophole, Shortly after Massive JS Attack
A recent report has uncovered a security loophole in Twitter, concerning users’ private direct messages (DMs). It’s one that can potentially give web developers easy access to private information exchanged between two individual users. After numerous concerns regarding privacy breaches in the Twitter API, the pessimists had proven to be right, and while Twitter has ...
Zynga Expands Once More, this Time towards Dallas
After announcing earlier this morning their new VP David Ko, former Head of the U.S Audience unit at Yahoo!, Zynga has made yet another significant step forward, and acquired the legendary Bonfire Studios; now renamed to Zynga Dallas. The mastermind behind Halo Wars and Age of Empires will now be developing original IP for the ...
Toll-Free TV Broadband? BoxTop.tv Is Making it Happen.
A very fresh start-up appropriately named BoxTop has recently emerged out of Silicon Valley, and is now diving straight into an accelerated roll-out of an entirely new platform. FreeBand, as the start-up named it, is aimed at delivering free broadband to homes, businesses and even government sectors, and is supported by none other than TV-based ...
Syncplicity’s Launches All-in-One Business Edition for the Cloud
The long-time file management solutions provider Syncplicity launches today’s its significantly improved and featured-pack new Business Edition. This introduces numerous and notable concepts, highlighted and realized, as well as the extremely time-saving and simplifying capacity for users to operate in their own native environments, without allocating them to yet another place for data storage. “Syncplicity ...
Juniper Networks Enters the Echo-friendly Arena
Juniper Networks, the international cross-sector provider of high-performance network infrastructures, heads straight into the green tech arena with a recent report launch. In the advancing (and ever-updating) roll out of their efforts to “connect everything and empower everyone”, they’ve set themselves an aim to contribute to more responsible and efficient business operations. This is in ...
Windows 7 Launches in One Week: T-mobile & AT&T Join In On the Profit
T-mobile and AT&T join forces under the wing of Microsoft to launch an HTC Smartphone in one week from now, as reported by sources. The rather anticipated device will run on Microsoft’s most recent and hottest-debated attempt to gain back its share of the mobile market – Windows Phone 7 – and will finally reveal ...
Seesmic Updates iPhone & Desktop Apps, Staying Ahead of Several Curves
Seesmic, the cross-platform social networking client that covers all of the major social networking sites on the web, has updated its iPhone and desktop apps over the weekend to contain even more features, much to the liking of this free app’s users. “Here are a few highlights for the mobile updates: Retina Display Compatible for ...
Google’s New WebP Image Format, Boost for Mobile Browsing?
Doing something similar to what Microsoft did with the Office pack, Google has recently released a developer’s preview of a new and lighter image format called WebP. It’s capable of decreasing an average of about 39-percent of a picture’s size. This innovative format follows an array of updates (including Page Speed & Speed Tracer browser ...
India Gains on RIM with Manual Access to Messages – Still After Automated Access
The Indian government now has manual access to BlackBerry messages. It’s a step India’s hopeful about, with goals of receiving automated access to messages in the coming months. Officials here, sharing their concerns with several other countries regarding the potentially dangerous uses of the BlackBerry smartphone, is threatening Canada-based Research in Motion with a ban ...
Microsoft Appoints New Head for Xbox, Office Division
After having to see the former head of their Office division being snatched by Nokia only to become their CEO, Microsoft rushes straight into filling the vacancy by hiring one of their own – Kurt DelBene, an executive with 18 years of experience with the corporation. “DelBene is an 18-year Microsoft veteran. He led engineering ...