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Google chairman Eric Schmidt says it is “extremely curious” why Apple does not sue Google
Last week Google chairman Eric Schmidt sat down with Wall Street Journal for an interview on all things Mountain View. When asked if Apple and Google have any plans to settle the patent disputes going on between Apple and Android manufacturers, Schmidt responded with a coy we-are-always-talking-about-it but was also [...]
Read More »How Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and RIM apologize after they screw up [Comic]
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People are humans. Humans make mistakes. Companies are not human, but they are comprised of humans who, as you know, make mistakes. (Unless you live in Japan in which case there may be more robots at your company than humans.) When Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and RIM make mistakes, [...]
Read More »Facebook encourages employees to dump iPhone and get Android
Facebook has official apps for iOS and Android. The Facebook app on Android is, frankly speaking, crap. How does Facebook planning on making its Android app not crap? By getting its employees to use Android.
In the world of companies and corporations, there is a concept called “dogfooding”. Dogfooding is [...]
Read More »Did the US (or Israel) hack the office of French president, Nicolas Sarkozy?
French magazine L’Express is reporting that, last May, the computers in the offices of Nicolas Sarkozy (who was still president back then) were hacked by the “Flame” malware. This is that same malware that made headlines for being developed by the United States and Israel for intelligence and disruption purposes [...]
Read More »How to enable (or disable) Facebook Messenger in Firefox 17 and higher [Guide]
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Firefox 17 is out and it comes with one new big feature: Facebook Messenger. Yes, you read it right — Facebook Messenger is now integrated as a native application in Firefox… no add-on required to use it! However, it can be a bit confusing as to how to turn on [...]
Read More »Firefox 17 is out, brings new security feature to protect against outdated add-ons and Facebook integration
Mozilla continues to chug along the Firefox road with the release of Firefox 17. (Now I’m so used to writing this same line every few weeks, I cannot even think of something clever to say.)
As is typical of Firefox releases, most of the major changes/modifications are under-the-hood changes and [...]
Read More »How social networks are affecting our in-person communication [Comic]
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How many dotTechies use a social network, may that be Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Orkut (people still use Orkut?), etc.? If you are on a social network, have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have nothing to say to the person you are currently with because everything you [...]
Read More »“Is anything really official until it’s on Facebook?” [Comic]
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I remember reading a news report, yes news report on a major news channel (*cough* CNN *cough* — yes I do watch TV… sometimes…), that the first thing a couple did after getting married is post a status update to Facebook that they have been married (presumably after he kissed [...]
Read More »Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are “douchebags” [Comics]
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According to Wikipedia “douchebag” could refer to “device used to administer a douche”. However, when a person calls someone (or something, in the case of companies) a douchebag, s/he typically isn’t calling them a “device used to administer a douche” but rather referring to the more common usage of douchebag [...]
Read More »[Chrome, Firefox] Privacyfix allows you to control how Google, Facebook, and other websites track you
A decade ago the internet was just a tiny little speck and online privacy was not a huge issue. Your information was only in a few places and back then we were more careful with what we did. Plus the notion of online privacy wasn’t really popular. Now our information [...]
1 out of 7 people in the world (aka 1 billion people) use Facebook
The human population of Earth is estimated at just under 7 billion. (to be exact, the World Bank estimated our population at 6,973,738,433 in 2011.) 1 billion of these 7 billion humanoids are “actively” using Facebook. Wow.
In an interview with TODAY, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, dropped the bombshell:[...]
Read More »[Firefox] Tab Badge puts new message notifications for e-mail accounts and social networks in your tab
In the age of e-mail and social networks, we are often bombarded with new messages, may those be e-mails, Wall posts, or tweets. In fact, we get so many messages it can often be hard to keep track of the new ones. That is where Tab Badge comes in.[...]
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Read More »[iPhone] Earn rewards and deals for simply wishing for a product with Wish
Wish is an intriguing product discovery app that could save you some money. The app provides a large selection of popular product categories that you can browse through at your leisure. Each category contains many interesting products, each with a photo and link to the website it originated from. If [...]
[iPhone] Post to Facebook and Twitter quickly with WordOut
WordOut is a neat little app for users that post frequently to Facebook and/or Twitter. When you add your Facebook and Twitter accounts to the app, you will notice that they are placed at the bottom of your screen (as shown in the screenshot) with an ON/OFF button next to [...]
Is free speech dead? UK court convicts teenager for posting “disrespectful” message on Facebook
On March 6, 2012 six British soldiers were killed in the Lashkar Gah area of Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device (IED). Two days after this incident Azhar Ahmed — a 19 year old from West Yorkshire — posted the message “all soldiers should die and go to hell” on [...]
Read More »Facebook is building a search engine, will give Google a run for its money
TechCrunch, a technology blog, holds regular ‘Disrupt’ conferences where a bunch of geeks gather to talk about geeky stuff. At the most recent ongoing conference in San Francisco, TechCrunch interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook. The interview itself is roughly 30 minutes long and has a good [...]
Read More »Zynga rolls out FarmVille 2, a welcome update to the classic Facebook game
You’ve suddenly been made aware that your family owns an old farm at the end of the road above, and you decide (for some reason) to single-handedly bring it back up to operating condition. This is the premise behind Zynga’s latest offering, the creatively named FarmVille 2. I can [...]
Read More »New malicious Android app is spreading through Facebook, do not click every random link you see
You know how you are always cautioned about clicking on any and all links you see? The reason behind this is you simply don’t know what may be behind the URL, and by the time you find it out it may be too late. Although this (good) advice is typically [...]
Read More »Be careful of trojan disguised as e-mail from Facebook
You get an e-mail that looks like it is from Facebook. The e-mail says you have been tagged in a photo by a friend and the photo is attached to the e-mail. You open the attachment and BAM you are infected by a trojan known as Troj/Agent-XNN. Or at least [...]
Read More »Facebook hypocrite(s) [Comic]
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Ever run across those people who rag on you for doing something then they turn around and do the same damn thing they just told you not to do? Yeah, haven’t we all. Now let’s look at the same question but for Facebook. Ever run across Facebook hypocrites who tell [...]
Read More »Facebook collects more than 512,000 GB of user data everyday
We all know Facebook likes user data; it helps Facebook improve its product offerings and serve better targeted ads. Ever wonder just how much data Facebook collects? Would you believe me if I told you Facebook collects more than 500 TB — or 512,000 GB — of data daily? Yeah, [...]
Read More »Germany ‘demands’ Facebook destroy facial recognition database and change how it collects biometric data
Facebook, as I’m sure we all know, thrives on being able to collect data on its users for better integration of services and serving targeted ads. For the most part, Facebook has had a free reign in the United States although the FTC did just recently force Facebook to sign [...]
Read More »Users can finally permanently delete photos from Facebook
Facebook is notorious for retaining user information, even after users has opted to remove it from Facebook. One such example is photos.
Although officially Facebook claimed it allowed users to permanently delete photos from Facebook, unofficial reports from Facebook users said otherwise. Indeed while ‘deleted’ photos would no longer be [...]
Read More »Facebook tells court ‘like’ is free speech and should be protected
Story has it there was an election for Office of Sheriff in Hampton, Virginia USA. Five people working under the current sheriff (B.J. Roberts), who was up for re-election, didn’t really support him; three of these five even went so far as to ‘like’ the Facebook page of the person [...]
Read More »Facebook agrees to privacy settlement with US Federal Trade Commission
Facebook has a bad rap across the digital world for its lack of respect for user privacy. Indeed Facebook is often juggling its privacy settings and introducing new, confusing features; Mark Zuckerberg himself has admitted Facebook has made “high-profile mistakes” in regards to user privacy. With all the personal information [...]
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has lost $7 billion since May
In May 2012 Facebook went public, holding its IPO (Initial Public Offering). At the time Facebook stock was floated for US$38 per share. Based off the fact that Zuckerberg owns 503 million shares of Facebook, Zuckerberg was estimated to be worth roughly US$19.1 billion at the time. Ever since May, [...]
Read More »Google, Facebook, Amazon, and eBay form ‘Internet Association’, a lobby group
We just learned Google and Facebook both have stepped up their lobbying efforts in Washington D.C., the capital of the largest economy in the world. What better time to reveal that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and eBay have formed a lobby group that goes by the name of the Internet Association[...]
Google and Facebook greatly increase lobby efforts in Washington
In the second quarter of 2011 Google spent roughly $2 million on lobbying the federal (American) government; Facebook spent $320,000 during the same period. This year both Google and Facebook has drastically increased their lobbying efforts: Google has reported to have spent $3.9 million in Q2 2012 — a 90% [...]
Read More »Facebook is launching targeted mobile ads based on app usage data (i.e. personal user data)
It’s not the first time that we are hearing about the social networking giant trying to peep into the lives of its users. This time around Facebook is planning is to track the usage statistics and characteristics of mobile apps that Facebook users install on their devices to provide users [...]
Netflix users clock 1 billion hours of video playback in June, breaks all known and humane records
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has made a Facebook post mentioning that the Netflix subcribers watched a total of more than about 1 billion hours of video during June 2012, making it a first time in the history for Netflix:
Congrats to Ted Sarandos, and his amazing content licensing team. Netflix
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Facebook’s ‘@facebook.com’ e-mail change results in lost e-mails and corrupted address books
As Ashraf had reported on June 26th, Facebook had changed the e-mail address of all its users to ‘@facebook.com’ from the original primary e-mail address. The move did bring in lots of criticism from all classes of Facebook users and it was also condemned by a large number of dotTechies, [...]
Facebook to introduce “Want” button, a supplement to “Like”
Facebook’s “Like” button has been very popular in recent years; and is one of the features which helps Facebook standout from its rival social networks in a semi-innovative way. Facebook has now come up with a new idea — a “Want” button.
Facebook has, till now, enabled users to “Like” [...]
Read More »Facebook has changed everyone’s e-mail address to ‘@facebook.com’
In 2010 Facebook launched its own e-mail service, giving all Facebook users their very own @facebook.com e-mail address which can be used to communicate with the outside world. When it was launched Facebook e-mail was called a ‘Gmail killer’. Fast-forward to 2012 and we now know the only thing Facebook [...]
Facebook acquires Face.com, a facial recognition service
In another move to strengthen in its stance in the social networking field, Facebook acquired a facial recognition service, Face.com. The acquisition is somewhat of a harmonious one for Facebook since Face.com already has two useful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) integrated with Facebook. The first API, [...]
Use Samsung TecTiles to automagically execute tasks on your Android device
NFC (Near Field Communication) is a set of standards which allows users to communicate between a pair of devices which have the feature enabled; by just touching or bringing both close to each other. While the technology and handsets around NFC are just starting to become [...]