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Hacker spites Symantec, puts pcAnywhere's source code out in the open
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Symantec said that folks running its pcAnywhere utility were at an "increased risk" when it revealed that the company had been hacked and its source codes pilfered, and advised customers to stop using pcAnywhere for the time being. Sage advice, as a hacker with the handle YamaTough -- who's...
Is your smartphone a good investment? If it’s an iPhone, yes
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Credit: Priceonomics Priceonomics, which keeps track of the resale value of items like cars, bikes and gadgets, published a report Wednesday that shows how the value of iPhones, Android devices and BlackBerrys hold up over time. Short answer: iPhones, even years-old models, retain their value the longest, which means iPhone owners...
Apsalar's Daily Cohorts Gives Mobile Developers Real-Time Analytics to Engage Users
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When a person downloads an app to a smartphone, the first interactions the user has with the app will determine its overall success ands potential longevity. If a user likes an app, its long-term potential greatly increases. If not, well, it is destined to the black hole of app oblivion....
Israeli-American Accelerator UpWest Labs Graduates Its First Batch Of Startups
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When it comes to countries with thriving startup ecosystems, Israel ranks among the best. With nearly 5,000 startups currently in business — second only to the U.S. — the country’s pool of entrepreneurial talent has been attracting Western businesses and entrepreneurs for years. But, in January, Gil Ben-Artzy and Shuly...
Mobile’s newest star Songza is red hot with 1.15 Million iOS downloads in 10 days
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In 2008, when Aza Raskin and his co-founders decided to call it quits on Humanoid and its best known product, Songza, they got themselves gigs at Mozilla, and they quietly sold the assets of the service to Queens, New York-based online music retailer, Amiestreet. In reality, that was the last anyone...
The LulzSec hacking arrests won't make it safer online | James Ball
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The FBI's infiltration of LulzSec is astonishing – but the group's activities are small fry in comparison to professional cyberwarFor you, LulzSec, the war is over. Maybe. In an astonishing series of revelations, the FBI on Tuesday issued charges against four individuals alleged to be principal members of the hacking...
ASUS first out the gate with 802.11ac laptop according to Broadcom
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Oddly, ASUS has been mum on this particular Computex announcement, but we're going to take Broadcom at its word for now. According to the wireless chip manufacturer, ASUS's G75VW gaming laptop will have the honor of being the first machine on the market with an 802.11ac radio inside. During...
Facebook goes back to college, releases Groups for Schools
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It’s back to school time for the world’s largest social network. Partially returning to its roots as a locked-down site just for college kids, Facebook has launched Groups for Schools, or university-centric Facebook communities restricted to active faculty and students with .edu email accounts. “You can join a group...
Tumblr Tuesday: Celebrating the WTF of QR codes and the mobile web
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Welcome to our twenty-seventh Tumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind a new blog. Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It’s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more...
Too Big To Fail: Why Anonymous And Hacktivism Will Go On After Sabu
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Earlier today, authorities descended on a hacker called Sabu and five of his cohorts, who are now in custody, with more than a little love lost between him and the bigger Anonymous group with which they were associated. The reports claim that Sabu (real name, Hector Xavier Monsegur) had been...
Have The Samwers Gone Too Far With Their Blatant Amazon Clone Lazada?
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Try as they might the poor innovative startups of Germany – we’re talking guys like Soundcloud, Amen and 6wunderkinder to name just three – still have to deal with their most famous exports being out-and-out cloners. Germany’s most famous tech entrepreneurs are not Steve Jobs-like figures, original thinkers, but a...
Hulu Announces Four More Original Series; Will Feature SNL Vets, Adrian Grenier Of HBO’s Entourage & Others
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Hulu has been having a busy week. On Tuesday, the company announced a new deal for advertisers, which now charges them only for ad completions, and today at Hulu’s upfronts, the company announced the arrival of even more new, original shows. We already knew of several of the programs Hulu...
Hulu Announces Four More Original Series; Will Feature SNL Vets, Adrian Grenier Of HBO’s Entourage & Others
AllThingsD: Google diggs Kevin Rose
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You might know Kevin Rose from his days at TechTV, as the cofounder of the social news website digg.com, or from his awesome drunken (and sometimes quotable) ramblings on his former video podcast diggnation. However, per AllThingsD, it appears that Rose, and perhaps a bunch of his cohorts at...
Bing launches massive redesign, working with data from Quora, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Google+ and more
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Today at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft’s Bing launched a massive redesign of its services, bringing in a grip of partners to form a new threat to Google’s crown as the search king. Bing has always been the second city of search. An engine that was Google’s foil, but...
Bing launches massive redesign, working with data from Quora, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Google+ and more
Facebook expands app insights to track growth, retention, re-engagement trends
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Facebook is adding three new insights tools for developers to understand the growth and engagement of their applications over time, according to a video on the Facebook Platform page. Developers will soon see additional data for “growth accounting,” “triangle heat maps” and “drill down.” These charts provide more details about...
Gavin Kim's on the move again, joins NQ Mobile after leaving Windows Phone
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That was quick. A mere five days after saying goodbye to his cohorts at Microsoft, former Windows Phone GM Gavin Kim has landed at Mobile NQ as its Chief Product Officer. By joining the mobile privacy and security firm, Kim will be working with a couple of former Samsung...
How Apple Took On China's iPhone Scalpers, And Won
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Brusque with a 2-day-old stubble and a cigarette dangling from his lip, Zhao Xin is the last guy you'd want waiting on you at the Apple store Genius Bar. But if you need to get your hands on a genuine iPhone immediately, Zhao is your man. Skimpy supplies of...
Tech materials of the future (and how you can make them yourself)
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Flexible screens, wearable computers, conductive ink, wires that move like muscles: These are the materials that will make up the gadgets of the future, and they’re being dreamed up and developed in DIY hacker labs and garages all around the world. Sure, large manufacturers are working on these kinds...
Hollywood loves sequels: MPAA to push SOPA follow-up in 2013
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The first version was hardly a hit, but Hollywood is already planning a sequel to the Stop Online Piracy Act that it will push in 2013, reports claim. Comments made by Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Chris Dodd suggest that the MPAA will work to get a new anti-piracy...
Why apps needs a different kind of VC funding
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For past three years we have seen the emergence of a whole different kind of technology startup: the app startup. It leverages the cloud, standard protocols, open source software and most importantly runs off a platform owned by someone like Facebook. Apple or Amazon. These startups, however, have a fundamental...
Ron Gilbert goes exploring in The Cave
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Sega / Double Fine After weeks of teasing and a slow drip of character reveals, Double Fine and Sega have finally revealed more details about the Ron Gilbert-designed The Cave, an action-adventure/puzzle game that is being described as a mix between games like Gilbert's Maniac Mansion and Metroid/Castlevania-style exploration....
Teens-only job board will help you find the perfect startup internship
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Just in time for summer, Teens In Tech is launching a jobs board just for startup internships. The job board will broker matches between talented (and cheap) labor and exciting startups across the globe. Right now, we’re seeing technical, sales, and design internships at some buzzworthy startups in San...
Kontagent launches its kSuite DataMine analytics tool for monetizing mobile games
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Kontagent is one of the companies that is rich with big data as it provides analytics services to more than 1,000 social and mobile apps with more than 150 million users. As such, it has been able to learn a lot about how to make money from these games. Now...
Just What We Always Needed: A Social Networking Startup… For Dogs
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(Matchpuppy.com) New York already has an Airbnb for dogs in Dog Vacay, so it was only natural that our canine cohorts would eventually nab their own social network. Enter Match Puppy, a New York-based startup that lets you find potential playmates for your puppy pal. Their slogan is "It's a...
In social data, a fight between science and privacy
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There is a fight brewing between academics and industry over the use of your Facebook activity or search history. Academics are upset that companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook have the keys to the underlying data, but they won’t share. The issue may be a small war between universities and giant companies, but its part...
Former Coworkers Dish on Sabu, the LulzSec Leader Turned FBI Snitch
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Among the illuminating factoids unearthed about LulzSec hacker turned FBI informant Hector Xavier Monsegur, one struck us as particularly interesting. “Sabu,” as his Anon cohorts knew him, used to work at Manhattan-based Open Plans, a technology non-profit focused on using open data and software to improve transportation systems. According to...
Apsalar introduces Campaign Source Insights to measure the real financial performance of mobile app marketing
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Mobile analytics company Apsalar is looking to bring more transparency to the performance of mobile advertising and user acquisition campaigns with its newest feature, Campaign Source Insights. The tool gives Apsalar customers the ability to compare the lifetime value of users broken down by source, allowing developers to determine the...
Apsalar introduces Campaign Source Insights to measure the real financial performance of mobile app marketing
Facebook "likes" aren't speech protected by the First Amendment-Bland v. Roberts
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Bland and his cohorts worked in the Hampton Sheriff’s Office, under B.J. Roberts. Roberts ran for re-election against Jim Adams, and the plaintiffs were lukewarm in their support of Roberts. In fact, three of the plaintiffs went so far as to "like" Adams' Facebook page. Roberts won the election,...
Facebook "likes" aren't speech protected by the First Amendment, rules judge
arstechnica.com
This post references a case decided by the US District Court of Eastern Virginia, Bland v. Roberts, 2012 Bland and his cohorts worked in the Hampton Sheriff’s Office, under B.J. Roberts. Roberts ran for re-election against Jim Adams, and the plaintiffs were lukewarm in their support of Roberts. In...
Google+: still not as interesting as Pinterest, new study finds
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Comparing public user engagement suggests that Google+ is still a niche pursuit, despite Google claiming it has 170 million people signed up - while Pinterest's attraction remains highAway from all the hubbub over that other social network, how is Google+ - described by Larry Page and others as the new...
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