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A few years ago, Media Temple was the darling of the social media world with the claims of being able to withstand a “Digg front page”. With Digg all but dead and most hosting companies able to withstand massive traffic spikes, they will be reinvented under GoDaddy. Domain registration a
There was a time when the friendship had to be mutual in order to send and receive a direct message on Twitter. Those days are behind us if you opt into it. Twitter is rolling out an option to ease the use of direct messages. Traditionally, Twitter has allowed users who follow each other to [&hellip
Yahoo is excited to announce that their email is going to be on a secure https URL… four years after Gmail did it. Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption by default for users logging into its Web-based mail service, the company has told The Washington Post. “Yahoo takes the secur
Over time, important research, findings, and even laws rely on links on the internet that simply cease to exist. There’s a plan in motion to stop that from happening. Imagine a research library where most of the books are missing footnotes — where the bottom of the pages are stained or ripped
Is the National Security Agency targeting thousands? Are they collecting tens, even hundreds of thousands of emails around the world? How about millions? The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the wo
Don’t listen to the news reports. Don’t listen to the rumors. Don’t pay attention to the layoffs, the cutbacks, the trends, or anything that has to do with numbers. BlackBerry is here to stay… according to BlackBerry. They have your back. Hoping to tamp down the concerns of c
No, there’s no buyout in the works. However, in the entertainment world, the deals are important even if they’re only for production purposes. Stalwart Sony and resilient Netflix have worked out something disruptive. Sony Pictures Television will become the first big Hollywood studio to
Nothing is safe. If it’s online, on your mobile device, or in any way attached to technology, pretend like you can be implicated by it even if you’re not breaking the law. Welcome to 21st-century non-privacy. Snapchat originally rose to popularity thanks to the false sense of security it
Move over, Apple. HTC is coming. Okay, so they probably aren’t worried about HTC. Heck, HTC is probably not worried about HTC. Still, the technology is spreading as everyone knew it would. Are your fingers clean? HTC Corp., the Taiwanese handset maker which posted its first loss on record last
What you see is what you get. Of course, in the world of virtual reality, what you see is often far from what you get, but that’s not stopping a former Valve guy from taking his dream to Kickstarter. Former Valve engineer and inventor Jeri Ellsworth and colleague Rick Johnson today launched a
Twitter has more data than they know what to do with from an advertising perspective. Now, it seems they are going to make a play for ad dollars using targeting. Now that Twitter is almost a publicly traded company, it’s under pressure to find meaningful new sources of revenue. That may includ
Grand Theft Auto has been on a roller coaster the last month. They started off by releasing a game that was widely heralded and that broke records. Then, the released an online environment with flaws that would make one think the US government built it. They’re offering a little cheddar to mak
