Feb
18
2009
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Feb
18
2009
The next time you%u2019re stranded without an open WiFi network (but your 3G signal is going strong), you%u2019ll be glad you installed Addition%u2019s iPhoneModem 2 (free to try, full license is .99).
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Feb
18
2009
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Feb
18
2009
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Feb
18
2009
With today’s outrage over Facebook’s newly altered Terms of Service at its peak, I figured I’d do a quick comparison of their terms of service as regards user-uploaded content to the terms specified by other social networking sites, just to see if said outrage is fully justified. It looks as though the finger-pointing at the Bush robots.txt file wa
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Feb
17
2009
Comments Off on Facebook Privacy Change Sparks Federal Complaint – PC World | tags: 3G, facebook, google, network, news, privacy, technology | posted in technical news
Feb
17
2009
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Feb
17
2009
Yes, Twitter had more downtime last year (84 hours) than any of 15 social networking sites monitored by Pingdom, but it showed dramatic improvement from July on. LinkedIn, conversely, had more downtime every quarter. MySpace and Facebook were among the best
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Feb
17
2009
mattnyc99 writes “Two weeks after the launch of Google Latitude, your inbox is probably full of requests and privacy advocates probably have even more concerns than they did at first. But some tech pundits are already seeing the bigger picture of a digital lifestyle based around the always-on, GPS-based mobile map. The NYTimes’s John Markoff has a great piece in today’s Science Times about the map as metaphor for a time when ‘future systems will probably begin to blur the boundaries between the display and the real world.’ Over at Esquire.com’s Tech Therapist, Erik Sofge talks to the geek behind Latitude and offers a similar reality check: ‘Latitude will be precisely as annoying as e-mail and social networking sites and cell phones themselves — and just as useful. What won’t stop Latitude, or the wider rollout of location-based tracking, is bitching about it. These are juggernauts of free, culture-reorienting technology. And you and me, we are but posts on the massive Facebook profile of history.'”

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Feb
17
2009
The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog is reporting that Verizon, long identified as the largest ISP source of spam, is moving to require use of the submission port, 587, in outbound mail — and thus to require authentication. While spammers may still be able to relay spam through zombies in Verizon’s network, if the victims let their mail clients remember their authentication credentials, at least the zombies will be easily identifiable. Verizon pledges to clean up their zombie problem quickly. We’ll see.

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