Mellisa Tolentino
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Dotcom Bodyguard Wayne Tempero’s Tell-All Interview
Last month the file sharing site Megaupload was taken down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the founder, Kim Dotcom, along with other Megaupload employees, were taken into custody. Though it seems like the media covered all the angles of Dotcom’s arrest, including Dotcom’s claims of excessive force during his arrest, his body guard ...
Groupon Acquisition Amidst First Earnings Call After IPO
Adku, the stealth startup company founded by ex-Google employees working on big data for e-commerce, announced on Monday that it has been acquired by Groupon, the behemoth daily deals/group buying company. With the acquisition, the three co-founders Ajit Varma,Carlos Whitt, and Jesse Shieh will be moving to Groupon’s Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto, California. ...
The Money-Making Side of Mobile App Development
In a recent study by the International Data Corporation that involves 350 US residents regarding their view about vendors effectively offering services in mobile application development (AD) and mobile testing services (for applications and devices), AT&T stood out from the crowd, followed by Verizon and IBM in third. The IDC study showed that the brand ...
Nokia to Layoff 4,000 Workers, Apple Sued for iPad Trademark
Nokia, the Finnish-mobile manufacturer, will be laying off approximately 4,000 workers from three factories as they move manufacturing to Asia. The factories in Komarom, Hungary, Reynosa, Mexico, and Salo, Finland, have a total of 8,900 employees and Nokia wants to cut it in half as they move manufacturing to Asia. Nokia wants to concentrate on ...
Will 3D Printers Prompt Next-Gen Piracy?
Imagine a world where you can make things, actual, tangible stuff, with just a computer and a printer. Cool, huh? But you don’t have to imagine anymore, that kind of technology already exists in 3D printing. Not everyone knows this, but industrial 3D printers have been around since the 1980s, and they’ve recently gained popularity ...
WolframAlpha Pro: Personalization, Image Input and More
After hinting about “their biggest change” a few days back, WolframAlpha, the answer-engine that computes answers from structured data developed by Wolfram Research, will finally have their big reveal tomorrow, February 8th. Personalized WolframAlpha The new Wolfram Alpha Pro allows people to login so they can be more involved. Personalization has a positive effect on users ...
Norton’s Latest Android Security App Launches Amidst Market Breach
During the holidays, the most popular gifts given or received were mobile devices and according to Google’s Andy Rubin, there were 3.7 million Android devices activated between December 24 and 25. But here’s the troubling fact: more kids and teenagers own mobile devices. According to Nielsen, a typical teenager generates an average of 3,417 messages ...
Leaked White Nokia Lumia 900, Instagram on Android?
It seems like Nokia inadvertently posted a photo of a white Lumia 900 on their Facebook page. Though the description on the photo states that it’s the white Lumia 800, Nokia fans were quick to notice that it isn’t. So what was the giveaway? The front-facing camera. You see, the Lumia 800 doesn’t have the ...
Anonymous Leaked Symantec Source Codes, Crippled Law Firm
Sorry everybody for being silent that much. You won’t believe it but Symantec offered us money to keep quiet. @YamaTough After weeks of silence, that’s the tweet that came from YamaTough, member of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. According to YamaTough, he was bribed $50,000 by Symantec to keep quiet about the hack that happened in ...
BTjunkie Bids Adieu as Megaupload Scares an Industry
After seven years of existence, BTjunjkie, the advance Bit torrent search engine, voluntarily pulled the plug. Yes, you read that right, BTjunkie joined Megaupload in the history books and is now extinct. Word is, the takedown of Megaupload greatly influenced their decision to bid adieu. Now, all we have of the file sharing site to remember ...