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Meet Google’s new thing: Google Buzz
TechCrunch is calling this FriendFeed reborn. The difference, of course, being that all your friends are already on it.
So be afraid Facebook… be very afraid... read more
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Facebook turns 6 today and it’s celebrating with another major redesign of its homepage. The search bar is larger and more prominent, underlining that Facebook is getting serious about search capablities, Mashable notes. Messaging has been made easier and many functions shunted to the applicat... read more
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A US hacker who gained notoriety for unlocking Apple’s iPhone as a teenager has told BBC News that he has now hacked Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3).
George Hotz said the hack, which could allow people to run pirated games or homemade software, took him five weeks.
He said he wa... read more
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We’ve all seen them on the train or the bus. Chins glued to their chest, thumbs hovering and their eyes locked in a digitally-induced trance.
But according to a British occupational psychologist, persistent monitoring of your BlackBerry will increase stress levels and most likely decrea... read more
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of search engine giant Google Inc., are selling their stock for $2.75 billion each over the next five years, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made Friday.
The sale is expected to cut the duo’s voting power to 48 percen... read more
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When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother’s Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, “Did someone blink?” No... read more
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Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.”
Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.”
Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google’s e-mail... read more
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The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security.
The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems.
Microsoft re... read more
