Gawker:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back. Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ad (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You back up your computers, or at least know that you should. But what about your smartphones? They carry massive amounts of personal data, and are subjected to life-or-death situations on a daily basis. Here's how to back them up: You don't have to use a smartphone for more than a few weeks to amass a staggering amount of (Read More)
KillerStartups.com - all:
Are you looking for property? Are you interested in anything connected with Real Estate? In that case you just need to give this site a visit in order to get all the information you need about a fully-featured property management web service that might make your life easier. MyOwnRealEstate.com can be accurately defined as (Read More)
Lifehacker:
A lot of contacts, documents, text messages, games, and other data live on your smartphone, but manufacturers and service carriers aren't going out of their way to make backing up easy. Gizmodo, however, has you covered on nearly any platform. John Herrman runs down the best, easiest, and cheapest methods for backing up iPh (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The things people post on Facebook have gotten them in trouble with spouses, their employers, the law (or not, as the case may be), and now their insurance companies. A 29-year-old Canada woman is now battling her insurance company, Manulife, after her sick leave benefits were revoked thanks to photos she p (Read More)
GigaOM:
Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that the speed at which web pages are available might become a factor in SEO moving into 2010. He said that because many within Google consider (Read More)
Scripting News:
I've now seen two movies that had bloggers in leading roles.1. State of Play. A remake of a brilliant BBC series that was so bad, that portrayed the blogger in such a superficial and humiliating fashion, that I actually walked out in disgust. (A movie has to be very bad for me to walk out on it.)2. Julie and Julia. I saw it (Read More)
TechRadar: Internet news:
The Financial Times has suggested that Microsoft has held talks with News Corp to discuss paying the publisher to de-index its news websites from Google. With Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. seemingly set on a course of action that would see its content taken off of the world's biggest search engine, the FT is suggesting that M (Read More)
TechRadar: Internet news:
Opera has released Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite, the service it claimed would 'reinvent the web' when it was announced back in June. Unite essentially puts web server functionality into your browser, allowing things like file transfer, media streaming and photo sharing. Opera Unite has been in beta for some time, and has no (Read More)
Slashdot:
MeatballCB writes "Hey folks. Being the 'technical' guy of the family, I often get calls from friends and family members when they're having PC issues. Most of these folks are not technical, so trying to troubleshoot problems over the phone can often be a challenge. Anyone know of a simple to use, and preferably free, servi (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The Queen announced on Wednesday that her government would deliver Internet piracy legislation; today it arrived in the form of the massive Digital Economy bill meant to modernize the UK's approach to everything from copyrights to broadband to video game ratings to domain names. The bill contains no sanctio (Read More)
Engadget:
It's been a long time coming, hasn't it? OCZ Technology's Colossus is the outfit's first in the desktop SSD space, and with capacities scaling as high at 1TB, it's certainly tempting for performance junkies who just can't pry themselves away from their tower. The benchmark-minded kids over at PC Perspective were able to get (Read More)
Engadget:
The Powermat may have slung "inductive charging" into the mainstream (at least to some minor extent), but it's still far too niche to be taken seriously by any electronics aisle in Target. Take that same technology and shove it into wood, however, and you've got something that each and every table owner on the planet could (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Apple made it possible for iPhone developers to offer in-app purchase five weeks ago, an option Android devs currently don't have. But now Shanghai-based mobile technology company Urbian found a work-around to enable in-app purchase, saying they're the first developers that did. The app in question is Ringz, a puzzle game t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
WinBuyer has just announced that it has raised institutional funding for the first time, to the tune of $6.9 million, in a Series A round led by Pitango Venture Capital and joined by Giza Venture Capital.The young Israeli company markets a so-called Onsite Comparative Pricing (OCP) application, which aims to help Internet r (Read More)