Google's announcement that it was retiring Reader at the end of June was quite fortunate for at least some people, namely those working on Reader alternatives. The Digg team saw this as an opportunity to push forward something they had already planned to build, a news reader. So, in the three months s... [read more >>] Throughout the first few days of the NSA PRISM scandal, there was one detail that bugged me more than the entire avalanche of information, especially after Snowden made his statement on his motives for revealing the programs, namely why had he chosen to wait so many years to reveal the issue.
When he offe... [read more >>] Feedly has announced once more that it is on the verge of finalizing the migration from the Google Reader backend to the new cloud backend and that the transfer of the millions of accounts will take a few days.
The company says that it advises everyone to run version 16 of Feedly on all devices to assure ... [read more >>] Another tech giant has decided to come forth with some details about the information they have been required to deliver to the authorities in the past few months.
Apple, who has denied even having heard of the NSA PRISM program before the documents were leaked two weeks ago, is now revealing how many... [read more >>] Google is building a new system that will allow Internet search engines and web firms to help eradicate images where children are being abused by simply swapping information about this type of online content. The database is expected to be operational in a year and will allow images that have been flagged... [read more >>] After DuckDuckGo, another two search engines have noticed a spike in the activity on their sites in the aftermath of the PRISM scandal where three major search engines are involved: Google, Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo. StartPage and Ixquick, two small search engines that come from the same company, announced... [read more >>] KickassTorrents had to do an emergency relocation yesterday, when its kat.ph domain stopped working. The site quickly moved to a new home, Kickass.to, but it didn't manage to redirect users from the old domain.
Later, it was revealed that Philippine authorities seized the domain at the behest of music... [read more >>] The popular KickassTorrents disappeared from the Internet yesterday and rumor had it that the domain had been seized.
That seems to be the case as it has been confirmed that the domain name has been seized by the Philippine authorities, TorrentFreak reports.
The move seems to be a response to a complain... [read more >>] Kim Dotcom’s Google+ account could be suspended because the company didn’t think his name was real.
According to a print screen the MegaUpload founder posted on his Twitter account, Google is threatening to suspend his Google+ account and he will not be able to make full use of the service unt... [read more >>] A week ago today, the world shook as The Washington Post and The Guardian revealed that the U.S. government was actually spying on everyone in the world. First, it was the fact that Verizon and AT&T had allowed the NSA direct access to its network; then it was a bunch of Internet giants, including Microso... [read more >>] |
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