Mellisa Tolentino
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Heroes of Newerth Hacked, Is S2 Games To Be Blamed?
Last Sunday, S2 Games informed Heroes of Newerth players of a security breach that occurred and urged players to change passwords of accounts used, like e-mail accounts, for their HoN account but stated not to change their HoN passwords. They took everything down to fix the security breach immediately. All HoN passwords were expired which ...
Flashy Funding for Flash Sales Reflects an Evolving Retail Market
Flash sales sites, where you’ll find great deals on high end products for just a few hours at a time, have greatly transformed the way we shop online. People flock to these sites daily, waiting for a new deal to come up and quickly grab it before time runs out. Some brick and mortar shops ...
Dumbing Down Facebook Privacy Settings for 1 Billion Users
At the heels of Instagram’s confusing new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, it’s parent company, Facebook, also released a new privacy control setting, which the social giant claims would give users more control over the data they have on the service, to Facebook users in New Zealand. The new privacy control setting involves a ...
Google Infiltrates Apple’s iPad With New Quickoffice App
In today’s mobile news roundup: Google continues to infiltrate Apple devices; Intel’s Clover Trail chip delays some tablets’ release; EU to charge Samsung with antitrust lawsuit; And Facebook halts ad network plan. Google continues to infiltrate Apple devices This week, Google finally released their Google Maps app for iOS – a much awaited app especially ...
What Does It Take To Be Runner Up for Time’s Person of the Year Award? Tim Cook Knows
A lot of people, Apple fans or not, grieved the death of Steve Jobs on October 5, 2011. Tim Cook, took over the reigns at Apple, but there was a lot of doubt if the company will ever be the same without Jobs. Though there was concern over Cook’s competence and strategy, it seems that concern ...
Tweet Down Memory Lane With Twitter’s New Archive Feature
A lot of people who religiously use Twitter in their daily lives have often found themselves wanting to go back to certain memorable tweets they’ve made in the past. If you constantly tweet everything that happens to you, 24/7, then you probably have thousands of tweets to go through to see a particular tweet. And ...
Pirate Party Proxy Server Shutdown By BPI
The British Phonographic Industry breathed down the necks of UK’s ISPs earlier this year to block The Pirate Bay from being accessed by UK users. The Pirate Party UK then provided a proxy server that allowed UK users to access TPB but the BPI would have none of that and moved to have the proxy ...
We Thought It’d Never Happen: BB10 Has Beta Partners, Preps Jan. 2013 Launch
In today’s mobile news roundup: Over 120 companies already testing BB10; Samsung’s not-so-selfless act; Instagram faces backlash over new ToS; Nokia to release Windows RT tablet by February 2013; and Apple improves Maps with Foursquare. Over 120 companies already testing BB10 We were starting to think it’d never happen, but Research in Motion announced that over ...
What’s So Impressive About Apple Selling 2M iPhone 5’s Over 3 Days in China?
Apple’s been itching to open up shop in China where their massive smartphone market is untapped as far as the iPhone goes. And the Chinese have been just as anxious. In its first three days in stores, the iPhone 5 sold more than two million units, making it the fastest-selling iPhone to date. Before their ...
Connecticut School Shooting Plagued By Hoaxes on Facebook, Twitter
On December 14, 2012, the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the quiet village of Sandy hook in Newton, Connecticut was shattered when a gunman mindlessly open fired and took the lives of 20 children aged between 6 and 7 and 6 adults. The gunman, Adam Lanza, had access to the guns he used for the ...