With Twitter rolling out the two-factor authentication just a few hours ago, Kim Dotcom takes a step forward and says that he’s the inventor of this feature. And he has a patent to prove it. The Megaupload founder didn’t come up with this type of authentication yesterday, but a long time ago. ... [read more >>] The Kindle Store is stocked with books from all genres in the world, but now Amazon takes it a step further and launches Kindle Worlds, a new publishing platform that promises to pay writers royalties for stories inspired by established works. The company has partnered with Warner Bros. Television Group&r... [read more >>] A new study reveals the fact that Google employees are the most optimistic about the company’s future. Career website Glassdoor has asked employees what they think about the companies their work for and how they see their prospects for the next two quarters. The study was done across 250,000 compan... [read more >>] Firefox 22 has landed in the beta channel and, while it's light on features, the ones it does bring are quite important. On top of the list is WebRTC, which is now fully baked and enabled by default.
At this point, Firefox should be able to support any WebRTC calls, video, voice, and data. It�... [read more >>] Yahoo is reportedly eyeing Tumblr for their next buyout. The deal, according to sources, could reach as high as $1 billion (€778 million), which would put it in the same league as Facebook’s Instagram acquisition last year. So far, Marissa Mayer has stayed away from big acquisitions and has res... [read more >>] The tech companies are trying to become more mobile, acknowledging this as the future of the industry.
In the past few years, with the increased popularity of smartphones and tablets, more and more companies have tried to get a piece of the cake. Some managed to be among the first companies to bet on mobi... [read more >>] As the world raves about copyrights and piracy, a new study shows that file-sharing pirates actually spend 300% more on content than the other consumers.
Telecom regulator Ofcom has published a new study into the state of online copyright infringement in the UK and came up with several conclusions, Torren... [read more >>] As the Syrian government announced that it was working to repair the widespread Internet outage in the country, most think something else is going on. And their opinion is justified. A state-run news agency said that an optic cable malfunction caused the outage, CNN reports. However, that excuse doesn&r... [read more >>] With Syria being cut off from the rest of the world through a new Internet blackout for more than 14 hours, various entities and government officials are showing concern for the situation in the country that is the middle of a civil war.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation group that militates for Internet... [read more >>] Adobe is killing off the Creative Suite, its main cash cow, in favor of Creative Cloud, the web-based service it debuted not so long ago. This is not as radical a shift as it may seem, since Adobe isn't abandoning the product suite that made it famous, and it's not abandoning desktop software in... [read more >>] |
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