CY.TALK: The latest internet news

Facebook is killing text messaging

Mila Fisher — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:40:49 +0000

We’ve heard many times and from multiple sources that text messaging is declining. There are multiple reasons for this (BlackBerry Messenger, Apple’s iMessage, and even WhatsApp), but the biggest one is Facebook (Messenger).

Despite Huge Facebook User Pool, Millions Still Say, ‘No, Thanks’

Karina Wasserman — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:32 +0000

They say they don't want Facebook. They insist they don't need Facebook. They say they're living life just fine without the ...

Facebook offers 50.6 million more shares, new $34-$38 price range

Karina Wasserman — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:39:05 +0000

Facebook has increased its IPO price range from $28-$35 to $34-$38 per share, and is also selling 50.6 million more shares. Facebook will thus raise between $13.19 billion and $14.75 billion.

Mother’s Day Cubacel x2 Promo

Karina Wasserman — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:30:10 +0000

From www.cysend.com send money to Cubacel prepaid mobile in Cuba and double your credit. Send 20/30/50 CUC Get 40/60/100 CUC. Mother's Day Cuba X2 Deal will run from 9 to 12 May (Cuba time) 2012.

Google Easter Eggs: 15 best hidden jokes

Karina Wasserman — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:20:25 +0000

Google loves to slip in-jokes and hidden features known as "easter eggs" into its products.

Klouchebag Site Mocks Klout, Measures Your ‘Asshattery’

Mila Fisher — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:28:38 +0000

Whether you love or hate Klout, you’ll get a kick out of Klouchebag. The website went live Friday morning and pokes fun at what Klout is trying to do: gauge online users’ influence across social networks.

Quick fix for Hotmail password bug

Mila Fisher — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:27:48 +0000

The bug allowed a hacker to reset the password for a Hotmail account, locking out its owner and giving the attacker ...

Microsoft’s IE reclaims lost ground in browser battle

Mila Fisher — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:37:02 +0000

Internet Explorer resumed growth in browser usage in March, reversing a years-long slide at least for now. IE9 in particular grew fast, but Microsoft is weak in mobile browsing.

Facebook criticised over data download tool

Dana — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:59:06 +0000

The update gives people an "expanded archive" of their activity on Facebook letting them see friend requests and login locations.

Icann’s internet suffix application deadline looms

Mila Fisher — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:54:07 +0000

Organisations wishing to buy web addresses ending in their brand names have until the end of Thursday to submit applications.

Teacher’s aide fired for refusing to hand over Facebook password

Mila Fisher — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:10:34 +0000

You can add this one to the short but growing list of employers demanding access to Facebook accounts. After refusing to give her Facebook password to her supervisors, Kimberly Hester was fired by Lewis Cass Intermediate School District from her job as an aide to Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis, Michigan. She is now fighting a legal battle with the school district.

Investors cash in on web-based scams

Mila Fisher — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:44:34 +0000

One of the first significant studies of cons known as High Yield Investment Programs (HYIPs) reveals that a small number of people are trying to use them as regular investment vehicles.

Student found guilty of charges in webcam suicide case

Mila Fisher — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:33:55 +0000

Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi, 19,was found guilty of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, in a charge described as a ‘hate crime’.

Super Cuba X2 Deal doubles your Cubacel mobile recharge credit

Mila Fisher — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:26:31 +0000

From www.cysend.com send money to Cubacel prepaid mobile in Cuba and double your recharge. Send 20/30/50 CUC Get 40/60/100 CUC. Super Cuba X2 Deal will run from 19 to 22 March (Cuba time) 2012.

Facebook hit by technical problem across Europe

Mila Fisher — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:47:22 +0000

Facebook was unavailable for a number of users mostly across Europe on Wednesday due to "technical difficulties".

Angelina Jolie’s leg has a Twitter account

Megan Gray — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:46:55 +0000

The Twitter feed dubbed "Angie's Right Leg" has more than 12,000 followers by midday Monday.

Yahoo and Facebook patent fight

Mila Fisher — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:12:06 +0000

The foundering Web pioneer reportedly wants the social-networking giant to license 10 to 20 patents related to advertising and Web page personalization.

Linux: Flash Player on Chrome only

Mila Fisher — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:15:10 +0000

Adobe has announced that in future, the Flash Player for Linux will only be available through Google as part of the Google Chrome browser and not as a standalone download.

Top 10 Valentine’s Day cards for geeks

Frank Stewart — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:13:31 +0000

Do you have a special geek in your life? Then don’t send them an ordinary card this Valentine’s Day — mail them an awesome geeky design that will speak right to their heart.

Iceland: online incest database helps to avoid inbreeding

Mila Fisher — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:17 +0000

The site claims to track 1,200 years of genealogical information about the island’s inhabitants. Anyone with an Icelandic ID number — that is, citizens and legal residents — is accounted for.

CUBA: St. Valentine’s double recharge promotion

Brad Catcher — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:37:10 +0000

From www.cysend.com send money online to Cubacel prepaid mobile in Cuba and double your recharge. Send 20/30/50 CUC - get 40/60/100 CUC. St. Valentine’s promotion will run from 13 to 15 February (Cuba time) 2012.

Google Doodle for Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday

Mila Fisher — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:17:15 +0000

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens.

Twitter top records

Jordan Smith — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:12:35 +0000

Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people — 100 million active users at last count — continue to flock onto the microblogging service every month.

Political donors and Facebook’s IPO

Emmy Wales — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:06:59 +0000

With social network giant Facebook officially gearing up for its initial public offering, the company’s top executives and largest investors are poised for a historic windfall.

Megaupload appeal rejected by court

Frank Stewart — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:22:35 +0000

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's bail application appeal has been rejected in New Zealand. The High Court in Auckland said it agreed with an earlier ruling that Mr Dotcom - a German national - might try to flee the country.

Zynga shares soar on Facebook IPO

Mila Fisher — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:25:53 +0000

The social-gaming company's stock has risen by more than 14 percent at times, as investors responded positively to the company's strong ties with Facebook.

Facebook could be worth $200B

Jordan Smith — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:53:21 +0000

Facebook has defined the social era of computing--and the companies that defined the previous eras of computing each command market values of $200 billion or more. Facebook should get there, too.

Sparkology: a dating website for graduates of elite universities only

Emmy Wales — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:20 +0000

Sparkology was started to help the smart, reserved, hopeless romantic guy win. This new invite-only online dating site allows only college graduates to join and the men are held to an even higher standard — all must be verified graduates of U.S. News & World Report’s top 50 universities.

Google defends change to privacy policy

Frank Stewart — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:40:43 +0000

Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Help offered to Megaupload users

Mila Fisher — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:02:06 +0000

Users affected by the closure of Megaupload have been offered legal help to retrieve their data. A website has been set up to assist former members of the site to contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation in order to start co-ordinated action.

Firefox simplifies add-on updates

Megan Gray — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:08:56 +0000

Web developer site-building tools are only sexy to developers, but they get a big makeover in update to Firefox and that will affect how developers connect to the people who use their sites.

Facebook to file $5 billion IPO today

Jordan Smith — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:59:01 +0000

Facebook is expected to submit paperwork to regulators on Wednesday morning for a $5 billion initial public offering and has selected Morgan Stanley and four other bookrunners to handle the mega-IPO.

FBI to develop its social networks application

Brad Catcher — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:25:04 +0000

The FBI wants an app to combine information from Twitter, Facebook and Google Maps.

ACTA: worse than SOPA?

Mila Fisher — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:52:23 +0000

SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Internet freedoms on the way, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.

Meet Zynga Bingo beta on Facebook

Brad Catcher — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:07:26 +0000

Game developer Zynga, which appears to be unfazed by the controversy surrounding its new iOS game Dream Heights, launched a new social bingo game today in a closed beta test on Facebook.

Web searches: illegal content to be demoted

Jordan Smith — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:20:59 +0000

Illegal content should be forcibly demoted in web searches, a group of UK rights holders has suggested.

Twitter will selectively ‘censor’ tweets by country

Megan Gray — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:05:49 +0000

Twitter has announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis.

Google’s broken promise

Mila Fisher — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:17:26 +0000

Google announced that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services—Gmail, Search, YouTube and more—and sharing data on user activity across all of them.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom: profile

Mila Fisher — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:44:28 +0000

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's online profile was larger-than-life, with fast women, faster cars and chartered planes, yet he lived like a virtual recluse in a sprawling, manicured estate on the outskirts of New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland.

Storage sites unnerved by Megaupload shutdown

Megan Gray — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:45:01 +0000

The arrest of Megaupload's founders has led to other file storage sites taking action in an apparent attempt to protect themselves from legal action.

Could Bing seriously challenge Google?

Frank Stewart — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:36:44 +0000

Google's search is getting cluttered with pointless crap, while Bing has super-clean bare-bones interface and page rank.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom in New Zealand court

Frank Stewart — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:34:23 +0000

The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload has appeared in a New Zealand court seeking bail.

Row over Indonesia atheist Facebook post

Brad Catcher — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:15:36 +0000

An Indonesian man who said that God did not exist in a posting on a Facebook page for atheists could face jail.

Megaupload is shut down

Brad Catcher — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:40:54 +0000

Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US. The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws.

Why SOPA and PIPA won’t stop piracy

Frank Stewart — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:42:49 +0000

Supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA (and its Senate-sister the Protect Intellectual Property Act, PIPA) legislation — like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) — argue that legislation is needed because online piracy puts jobs and industries at risk.

Wikipedia traffic goes up during SOPA blackout

LateNight — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:36:14 +0000

Wikipedia experienced increased traffic Wednesday, despite blacking out its English language content to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).

Facebook: 60 new apps

Mila Fisher — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:45:49 +0000

Facebook is adding a series of new applications to let users share such things as photos, travel or fashion.

Sopa and Pipa protests on major web sites [PICS]

Jordan Smith — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:06:04 +0000

A co-ordinated protest in opposition to two proposed anti-piracy laws in the US - the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) - has seen many high-profile websites "go dark" for the day.

8 US lawmakers back away from SOPA/PIPA introduction

Emmy Wales — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:23:16 +0000

Eight US lawmakers have withdrawn their support for anti-piracy laws, after "blackout" protests on thousands of internet sites.

Song against SOPA ‘The Day The LOLcats Died’

Jordan Smith — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:38:41 +0000

Created by comedy team LaughPong, the video is silly enough to go viral but simple enough to make a difference. It urges viewers to fight back against SOPA/PIPA by finding their senators’ phone number at Cheezburger’s http://bit.ly/lifeaftersopa and telling them how they feel.