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Does Instagram Think All Of Its Users Are Stupid?
Less than 24 hours after we revealed Instagram’s plans to sell off user’s photos to third party advertisers without their knowledge and without any form of compensation, the photo-sharing site has made a humiliating climb down, and now insists it never had any intention of doing such a thing. Instagram’s new Terms of Service sparked ...
Collectively, We’ve Watched 1.2 Million Years of Porn. Not Bad, Huh?
The Web is rapidly evolving, changing as each year passes, moving from search to social, to mobile and the cloud as it grows into the most enormous, most widespread informational resource ever known to man. But while the Web throws up new ideas and innovations with each passing year, you can always rely on some ...
Apple Might Climb Into Bed With FourSquare To Spice Up Its Maps Life
Given its humiliating climb down last week when Apple reluctantly allowed Google Maps to make its iOS 6 debut, we could be forgiven for thinking that the company had thrown in the towel in the “Maps Wars”. Not so. While the all the signs were pointing to Apple’s apparent capitulation, senior vice president Eddie Cue ...
Nvidia Tegra 4 Leak Shows Specs With 6X The Power Of Tegra 3
The first details of Nvidia’s next-generation Tegra 4 processor, known as Wayne, have emerged, and if they turn out to be genuine, the mobile chip will provide some serious competition to the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung. According to the specs listed on a leaked slide posted to the Chinese language forum Chiphell, Nvidia’s latest ...
Instagram Plans To Sell YOUR Photos To Advertisers, Without Telling You
Instagram has just crossed the line, big time. As of next month, Facebook’s protégé will make some major changes to its terms of service, giving itself the right to use your photos in its ads, or sell them to third parties for the same purpose. You, will not receive a penny for your photos, nor ...
The WikiLeaks Show Is Back On The Road Again, But For How Long?
WikiLeaks is back in business and once again accepting donations to its cause, thanks to a new partnership with the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a brand new organization that’s been set up to channel much-needed funds to the whistle blowing site and other worthy causes. A post titled “WikiLeaks Declares War on Banking” informs ...
Cisco To Dump Linksys; Sights Firmly Set on Enterprise
A report by Bloomberg this morning has revealed that Cisco is looking to offload its home networking company Linksys as part of a broader strategy aimed at dumping consumer markets altogether and focusing entirely on its higher-margin enterprise products. Cisco has reportedly hired the services of Barclays to find a buyer for its Linksys division, ...
IBM and its “Sense-ational” Future Computer Predictions
If you’re lucky enough to be the proud owner of a shiny new smartphone, tablet or PC, you’re probably feeling pretty pleased with its capabilities. We like to think that today’s modern devices can do pretty much everything – for example, paying our bills, plotting our route to work, and telling us what the weather ...
Google Likely To Wriggle Out Of Anti-Trust Probe
Google is believed to be close to reaching a settlement with US anti-trust investigators that would allow the search engine to escape heavy punishment in return for an agreement not to scrape content for its own sites and indexes, and to operate more “transparently”. The agreement, which was revealed this weekend by Bloomberg and reflects ...
Big Data Takes Us One Step Closer To A Big Brother State
A major investigation by the Wall Street Journal has revealed how the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) has been given permission to access a vast database containing thousands of US citizen’s personal information, raising concerns that the country has just taken another huge step towards becoming a total big brother state. You can read the article ...