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Yahoo’s Tumblr Acquisition a “Foregone Conclusion”
Yahoo’s bid to acquire the blogging service Tumblr could be wrapped up as early as this Monday, according to reports at the weekend. Whilst neither Yahoo or Tumblr have made any official announcement, the deal is reportedly a “foregone conclusion”, according to the tech blog All Things D. The news was also confirmed by the ...
Transport Plots A Course For The Industrial Internet
The United States is a vast and expansive country that’s become utterly dependent on its transportation infrastructure, including its roads, its railways and its flight paths. Its transport networks can be thought of as the oil that keeps the engine – the economy – of the country ticking over, ensuring that factories are kept supplied, ...
Twitter “Hate Map” Outs Racists And Homophobes In The US
Twitter’s long been one of the favourite sources of information for researchers studying people’s trends and perceptions, and for good reason – with millions of users spread across the world sending out billions of tweets every single day, there are few more easily accessible sources of data that represent the voice of just about every ...
Julian Assange Claims US Cyber Spying Threatens Latin America
Julian Assange has come out with yet another verbal attack on the US, this time warning that Latin American nations are at risk of losing their sovereignty due to their dependence on American telecommunications technologies and companies. The WikiLeaks founder issued his warning during a videoconference at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, ...
Yahoo Stays “Cool” On Tumblr Acquisition
Yahoo’s biggest problem as it tries to reinvent itself into an entity capable of challenging Google and Facebook is that it simply isn’t a ‘cool’ brand anymore. Hence, the majority of its users are a bunch of old farts, as its chief financial officer admitted at a Boston conference earlier this week: “One of our ...
How To Protect Your Yahoo Mail Against Hackers
Almost three weeks after we first reported on Yahoo’s inability to protect its customers from being hacked, it seems that the email provider is no closer to coming up with an effective solution – or even admitting that it has a problem in the first place. You can read my original post on the subject ...
Facebook Hacked Again: Only This Time, Anyone Can Do It
You might think that hacking Facebook accounts is something that only those with advanced technical skills would be able to do. After all, isn’t Facebook supposed to have all kinds of sophisticated security systems in place to protect user’s accounts? Yep, it sure does, but a group of researchers at Rutger University have come across ...
Google’s Auto-Complete Just Ain’t Funny Anymore
It might come in handy for shaving precious seconds off the time it takes to type out our search queries, but Google’s auto-complete algorithm is proving to be pretty contentious from a legal point of view. Earlier this week, a German court ruled against the search engine giant when it said that libelous auto-completes violate ...
Microsoft’s YouTube App for Windows Phone Has Seriously Pissed Off Google
Last week, a ‘proper’ version of the YouTube app finally landed on the Windows Phone. Billed as version 3.0, the app brought with it a number of awesome features specific to Windows Phone users, including the ability to download videos to view them offline, play videos under lockscreen, pin channels and a whole lot more. ...
Firefox 21 Arrives: A Healthier, Faster & More Social Browsing Experience
Mozilla has just come out with a new Firefox 21 open source browser release, just six weeks after its previous update, including at least eight security fixes, three of which were rated as being critical. In addition, the new browser comes with a range of new features including more social media integration and a new ...