About Jeff Belanger
I'm a Canadian, I like to write, I like to play video games, watch movies and read books and all that. Also interested in current affairs and comic books as well.
Memeoirs will now allow you to create a book out of your Facebook messages. Let’s hope that they’re interesting. The new feature was announced earlier today (March 12) and it works by connecting your Facebook account t...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited as the founding force behind our beloved World Wide Web, has called for there to be an online Magna Carta to protect the Internet’s independence. Berners-Lee spoke to the Guardian on the ...
According to Sucuri, which is a security firm, hackers have used a weakness present in WordPress to use 162,000 of their sites to launch a DDoS attack against a well-known WordPress site whose identity is being kept secret. The we...
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has accused the CIA of hacking into Senate computers and looking for an internal agency interrogation report being compiled by the committee. ...
After Apple, it seems that it’s Google’s turn to feel the wrath of parents whose children has spent too much money on in-app purchases without proper consent. The company has been hit with a class-action lawsuit that i...
Tweeting has played a part in the sentencing of two separate Saudi men to time in prison. The two men, whose names have not been released, have both received severe penalties for sending out tweets. The first was given ten years f...
Despite the fact that Lenovo is buying a server factory from IBM, which is located in Southern China, it doesn’t consider the fact that 1,000 workers are on strike at that factory to be their problem because they haven̵...
Hackers, who are remaining unidentified at this point, claim that they have proof that Mt Gox has actually kept the bitcoins they claim to have lost in February. Last month Mt Gox claimed that 744,408 bitcoins were stolen from the...
Those who subscribe to Comcast will soon be able to watch House of Cards through the Xfinity Store, which came out in November and is Comcast’s response to services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. An exact date for wh...
Edward Snowden recently delivered a speech at South by Southwest, which is in Austin, Texas, and called for American citizens to help “fix” the mass surveillance that is being done by those in the government. This publ...
Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner, believes that more safeguards need to be in place to protect both businesses and people from the intrusions that were brought to our attention by Edward Snowden. Kroes spoke about these iss...
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has committed more funding towards to the Internet of things, which is a concept that involves having sensors which connect to the Internet in almost everything. Cameron announced earlier...
During a session at SXSW 2014, Eric Schmidt, who is Google’s executive chairman, discussed Google’s security while sharing the stage with Jared Cohen, who is Director of Google Ideas. Despite the news that the Britain’...
Two US senators want to ban in-flight calls because they believe that they will raise tensions between passengers and possibly be the cause of physical altercations. “We are concerned that the addition of this entirely avoidable a...
The Japanese government has decided that Bitcoin is not a currency, and therefore those in charge of regulations may not get into any trouble concerning the $500 million loss of Bitcoin that Mt Gox recently suffered before shuttin...