Tech Links
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Ten years in, brick and mortar Apple stores have proven to be wildly successful. Eight New Yorkers are suing Chinese search engine Baidu for censoring the internet on behalf of the Chinese government. Google Places will start allowing users to import…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Ack! Android phones vulnerable to attack. Netflix streaming is now the single largest source of Internet traffic in America. The US government sayz: hack us and we might bomb you. Write yr senator & support a new bill that would…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
RIM’s woe cup runneth over: 1,000 BlackBerry Playbooks are being recalled due to the fact that they had the wrong version of the operating system. Did internet piracy help an un-kid-friendly bedtime story jump to the top of Amazon’s best-seller…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Google has big visions and disruptive ambitions for the newest version of its cloud-based Chromebook, but the hardware gets a solid “meh” from the gadget brigade. Speaking of the gadget brigade, they’re pretty psyched about this overclocked Samsung Galaxy S…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Microsoft is buying Skype. The Department of Justice wants wireless providers to store your personal info. Violation of privacy, anyone? Um, in case you work at a computer & haven’t heard, sitting down all day is killing you. Google unveils…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
In money matters, Gilt Groupe is the newest startup to secure a serious pot of investment funding – $138 million of funding, to be precise – and LinkedIn expects to make over $146 million on its upcoming IPO. The new New…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Anonymous, the group that hacked Mastercard & others in defense of Wikileaks, is probably behind the attacks on Sony’s network. A (beautiful) visualization of how information spreads via twitter. Two prominent tech groups have asked the FCC to investigate Internet…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Is international hacking group Anonymous to blame for the recent Sony PlayStation Network hack? File under “painfully postmodern”: British charity National Trust is set to translate Facebook game Farmville into a real life farming experiment. Students, academics, and others obsessed…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Sony chats with Congress about the large-scale hacks of their PS3 network that accessed user data & credit card numbers. Obama’s “Situation Room” photo is well on its way to being flickr’s most viewed pic. Intel’s next chips will have…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound has yielded a bunch of computer data. For the first time in 20 years, the number of US homes with television sets has dropped. Reader, beware: How a fake quote from MLK went…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
News junkies beware! Hackers are taking advantage of the internet traffic spike prompted by Osama bin Laden’s death and embedding news coverage with malware. And of course, people got all snarky about his demise on Twitter. Apple isn’t the only one…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The while iPhone 4, unicorn of the consumer electronics world, hit shelves today after months of delays. Will it cause a spike in sales? What does the device have to say about all this? And what does South Park think…