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Facebook Fattens Up Status Update Character Limit from 5K to 60K+
In what almost feels like an exponential progression, Facebook has updated their previous 5,000 character limit to a whopping 60,000 characters. The change was first discovered by All Facebook on the Facebook+Journalists page announcing the upped limit as well as outlining the history of such limit changes. In September 2011, Facebook made their first giant ...
Microsoft Boasts Biggest Sales Week in Xbox History, 1 Million Consoles Sold
The Xbox 360 has been out for almost seven years—that’s also how old Blizzard’s colossal MMO World of Warcraft is—and it’s still going extremely strong. According to the Official Microsoft Blog, last week closed the biggest sales week in Xbox 360 history: more than 960,000 units sold during the week of Black Friday. Sales highlights ...
Carrier IQ Android App Caught Secretly Logging Keypresses, HTTPS Queries
A recent YouTube video posted Monday by Trevor Eckhart, an Android app developer, says that a particularly popular app that hides from plain view and watches everything that happens on the phone. During the video, Eckhart used a packet sniffer and a USB debugging app to show how the Carrier IQ agent watched everything that ...
Nexon’s MapleStory Hacked, 13.2 million Korean Online Gamers’ Data Exposed
Last week, a massive private data breach struck Nexon’s extremely popular massively multiplayer online game, MapleStory that affected nearly three quarters of the 18 million players. According to the MMO publisher, much of the sensitive stolen information had been encrypted; however, as a matter of course, the company is suggesting that users change their passwords ...
Rumor: Is Microsoft really in the ‘early stages of licensing’ for a Kinect-enabled TV?
Microsoft is working hard behind the scenes and right up in front to bring Kinect technology into commercial enterprise. It has already proven itself as a powerful human-computer interface for video games, and now with the Kinect Accelerator program, but what about overtaking the living room for families without an Xbox gaming console? Well, The ...
Zynga the Dirty Faced Neighborhood Scoundrel
When it comes to casual massively multiplayer games distributed over social media like Facebook, Zynga is the go-to-developer; but when it comes to the treatment of employees and corporate culture, they’re woefully behind the mark. Right now the social media gaming company is taking a beating in the press after last month’s widely publicized employee ...
Free-to-play MMO Spending Up 24 Percent in the US; DC Universe Online Revenue Leaps 700 Percent After Going F2P
It’s a jungle out there for massively multiplayer online gaming and the tigers like World of Warcraft are still prowling with their 7 year age and 10.3 million paying subscribers, but what does this mean for the smaller outfits? Well, it looks like the new working model for MMO games is free-to-play: a model that ...
Department of Homeland Security Slams Reports of Cyber Sabotage at Illinois Water Pump
The Department of Homeland Security has revved up their engines to run circles around widespread media reports that hackers had taken control of a water pumping station in Springfield, Illinois. The report of the hacking incident suggested that Russian IP addresses had been implicated in damaging a piece of critical water infrastructure; this was based ...
Study: Gamer Girls Who Play Online Enjoy More Sex
If you’re a woman, a video gamer, and enjoy online gaming chances are you enjoy more sex than your non-gaming counterparts. At least that’s what a study run by Harris Interactive on behalf of GameHouse according to this Forbes article on the subject entitled: “American Women Who Play Online Video Games Enjoy More Sex In ...
Dried Strawberries Bitcoin Style, Uses Heat from a Mining Rig
An enterprising grocer, and Bitcoin miner, from Canada has decided to put the waste-heat from his or her mining rig to good use and produced a product with it: dried strawberries. BetaBeat caught the news from a post on Reddit where a Redditor posted an image of some of the wrapped, dried strawberries now on ...