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Archive for December, 2011

Who “Owns” Twitter Followers

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 28th, 2011

In October 2010, Noah Kravitz, a writer who lives in Oakland, Calif., quit his job at a popular mobile phone site, Phonedog.com, after nearly four years. While at the company, Mr. Kravitz, 38, began writing on Twitter under the name Phonedog_Noah, and over time, had amassed 17,000 followers. When he left, he said, PhoneDog told [...]

WiFi Vulerability Found

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 28th, 2011

On Tuesday, the organization, known as US-CERT, (U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team), issued a warning about a security hole in the Wi-Fi Protected Set-up protocol often used on Wi-Fi routers. The Wi-Fi Protected Set-up or WPS protocol is designed to allow home users to easily set up the encryption method WPA without much hassle, explains [...]

Review of Year End Reviews

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2011

If you’re looking for Year in Review compilations, you might check out these articles, which cover the highlights and lowlights pretty well. RealWriteWeb Year in Review has one of the most comprehensive lists: The 10 Biggest Web News Stories of 2011 Richard’s Top 10 Web Products of 2011 Top 10 Culture-Tech Stories of 2011 Top [...]

Big Christmas for Apple & Android

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2011

Flurry says it was a record-breaking Christmas for mobile applications. In 2011, Apple’s App Store is on pace to exceed 10 billion downloads, which will double the cumulative number of downloads earned across 2008, 2009 and 2010. Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas lets you download a selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for [...]

Space-Based Vessel Tracking

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2011

Globalstar today announced that six new Globalstar second-generation satellites have been rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for a scheduled launch on Wednesday, December 28th. Wednesday’s scheduled liftoff will be the third launch of Globalstar’s second-generation constellation satellites. The Company has contracted with launch services provider Arianespace [...]

Automotive Telematics Goes 4G

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2011

PC World reviews car infomatics systems. Broadband concept cars such as the NG Connect Toyota Prius and the Verizon OnStar 4G Buick LaCrosse are moving from concept to production. The 4G-connected car will perform a whole new set of tricks. Audi Connect. Audi recently partnered with Alcatel-Lucent to show off an LTE version of their [...]