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Data Loss from PlayStation Network Extended to Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment went temporarily offline Monday after it was discovered that they also lost customer records in a hack that attacked the PlayStation Network. In this latest string of video game and entertainment related information loss, it continues to send ripples through consumer awareness of how vulnerable their information can be online. The initial ...
Android WiFi Takes Blows in Tracking Class-Action Lawsuit and Tether-Wars
A class-action lawsuit has finally emerged from complaints against Google Android over handsets tracking customer locations. This seemed only inevitable after Apple found itself on the receiving end of its own lawsuit involving the furtive tracking of users. The differences between the two devices seem to be that iOS doesn’t send tracking data to Apple, ...
Twitter Doesn’t Compete with Broadcast Media, It Amplifies
The recent reports of the death of Osama bin Laden have brought up some interesting remarks about the role that social media has begun to play in the journalistic sphere. In fact, Twitter became the kindling the lit the fire behind the news when tweets confirmed Osama’s death before the President of the United States ...
Memo Reveals How Important WiFi Location Services are for Google Android
Location services are becoming a big part of what smartphones do for us and as a result they gather a lot of information about where we are. With the recent debacle of Apple’s iOS recording everywhere you go by pinpointing nearby WiFi signal’s in a file, it’s become a question of how important that information ...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Amazon EC2 Crash
Last week generated the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the cloud and specifically Amazon’s cloud when their service crashed and took down a multitude of sites that depended on it. It’s taken a week, but Amazon has finally generated a vast enumeration of exactly what went down and why—the explanation is not ...
Zappos.com Puts Crowdsourcing where its Mouth is with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
The idea behind crowdsourcing has always been taking the combined efforts of a large group and directing them towards a single task. In a lot of venues, crowdsourcing can be used for charity by taking small donations from large numbers of people, it can be used to rapidly develop a lot of information about a ...
Hulu Plus on Xbox LIVE this Friday, First Week is Free
Like chocolate and peanut butter, Hulu and Xbox LIVE are great tastes that will go great together and they will be together this Friday. Starting April 29th, Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox LIVE and through a promotion the opening week will be free for XBL subscribers. The service, which offers streaming HD content of ...
Apple Reaches into iCloud.com; Facebook Acquires Daytum
It’s a strange week for acquisitions involving personal data and the lives of users this week as both Facebook and Apple have generated stories about what acquisitions they’re making. On the Apple site, we’re watching from a precipice overlooking a cloud-filled vale as the company appears to be preparing to leap into streaming music and ...
News Corp Looks to Sell MySpace as Friendster Goes Extinct
It’s the end of an era. This week Friendster announced that it’s finally giving up the ghost and will delete user photos and blog posts as it is shoved into the sepulture of old ventures. Now the owner of MySpace, News Corp, is seeking to auction off the site to the highest bidder to get ...
RIM Acquires Tungle to Round Out their Corporate Social Standing
Research In Motion, the developer of the Blackberry, has acquired Tungle in a move today that fits well with the business-centric mobile company’s past cultural decisions. Tungle.me, which produces social-calendar software, provides a powerful interface for multiple parties to schedule events and meetings together by highlighting overlapping spans of available time. It’s a brilliant tool ...