By Adriana Lee |
The Syrian Electronic Army just loves hacking into Twitter. It breached the accounts of the BBC’s weather service, Financial Times, The Guardian, Telegraph and the Associated Press, and it’s more than likely not done yet. Well, Twitter’s not just going take that lying down, so…
By Adriana Lee |
File this one under “people who should be stripped of their social media accounts.” What’s worse than being in a car accident? Being in a car accident when you’re not in a car. And what’s worse than that? When the perpetrator nails you on the…
By Todd Haselton |
Dozens of high profile Twitter accounts have been compromised over the past year or so. Jeep, the Associated Press and Burger King are just a few of them, and the consequences for both brands and the fans that follow them are far-reaching. In an effort…
By Brandon Russell |
Your Google search history is probably embarrassing—I don’t want to know it. What about the entire world’s? Less so, according to Google’s own charts, which breaks search trends down by cities, movies, scientists, animals and more. The top trending food right now? Pizza. Lionel Messi…
By Todd Haselton |
Google’s conversational voice search engine is starting to roll out in the latest version of Chrome, though some features are still missing. We just updated our Chrome browser to version 27.0.1453.93 and gave it a quick whirl, but found that it hasn’t changed that much from…
By Todd Haselton |
Last week Google announced that it totally revamped its Google+ social network with tons of new features. We love it so far, and now we’re looking forward to enjoying the company’s brand new Android application, which was announced and released on Monday. Google promises that…
By Todd Haselton |
Yahoo took the stage in New York City today—the site of its new headquarters—and discussed the future of Flickr. The company said that it wanted to re-focus Flickr on photos again, instead of on all of the clutter that surrounds pictures on the current interface.…
By Adriana Lee |
Now that Yahoo! has nabbed Tumblr in a $1.1 billion deal, users are wondering what will become of their Tumblogs. As a preemptive strike, many are even leaving the service, looking for a new home for their food photos, cat pics, art portfolios and random…
By Adriana Lee |
Some people long for small-town life — to live in a heartwarming place where everyone knows your name and your neighbors have your back. But these days, one could argue that the whole world is like one, well-connected community. At least that’s what a New…
By Roy Choi |
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is reported to speak at a 5:00 p.m. EST product event scheduled for Monday in New York, NY. The invite states, “Join us as we share something special.” Nothing else hints at what the possible announcement may be. It could be…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just announced during Google I/O 2013 that it’s introducing 41 new features to Google+. The stream experience will be completely redesigned on phones, tablets and the desktop. Google said it thinks the old design was flat and the new one is about finding depth.…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft on Tuesday added Google Talk support to Outlook.com, allowing users to seamlessly keep in touch through the Redmond company’s sleek email service. The move comes hours before Google is supposedly preparing to introduce its unified Hangouts service, which we’re hearing will be available through…
By Brandon Russell |
Lucky Sort, a data visualization startup that makes bigger gobs of information more manageable, has been acquired by Twitter. According to an announcement on Lucky Sort’s website, members of the team will join up with Twitter in San Francisco in the revenue engineering department. Current…
By Brandon Russell |
Ahead of its I/O event this week, Google is performing some quick spring cleaning—the good kind!—by unifying Gmail, Drive and photo storage into one lump sum. Moving forward, instead of having 10GB for Gmail and 5GB for Drive and Picasa / Google+ photos, the search…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft announced on Friday that it has updated its Bing search engine with an updated version of its Facebook sidebar, which was first introduced last year. The bar shows social results, so if you search for the Galaxy S4, for example, you’ll see posts from…
By Todd Haselton |
Yesterday Facebook held a brief event in which it revealed that Facebook Home has been downloaded a million times. That might seem like a large figure, but the social network didn’t reveal the important stat: the number of active Facebook Home users. Aside from that…
By Adriana Lee |
Jennie Lamere was the only female to present a completed project at a national coding competition in Boston. At just 17-years-old, she’s a lone tech-head at her all-girls school and wound up being the only participant in the TVnext Hack event to work alone. But…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook will make good on its promise to frequently update its Facebook Home software by releasing a new patch today. CNET said the update will land at about 1p.m. Pacific and will mostly include bug fixes and will be available for the half-dozen or so devices that…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook may be close to finalizing another $1 billion deal. According to several new reports spotted by TechCrunch, the social network is readying a $1 billion bid for the social traffic application Waze. Apparently the offer currently sits between $800 million and $1 billion, right around…
By Todd Haselton |
Target is trying a new ad program it calls “Cartwheel” on Facebook that it hopes will bring users of the social network into its stores, and away from online retailers such as Amazon. The Cartwheel approach is relatively simple: a Facebook user can decide to…
By Todd Haselton |
Google Fiber’s rapid expansion is continuing. The company announced recently that Grandview, Missouri recently voted to launch Google Fiber in the area around Kansas City. Google said it will still be “awhile before [it] can build Fiber in Grandview” and that it needs to engineer…
By Todd Haselton |
Do we have another Kin on our hands? The HTC First – a phone that puts Facebook front and center to a user’s experience, launched less than a month ago on AT&T for $99 with a new two-year contract. It’s now available for $0.99, which…
By Todd Haselton |
Boingo announced on Tuesday that customers can now use an iTunes account to purchase a subscription to its Wi-Fi hotspot service. The company currently offers more than 600,000 hotspots around the globe, and users simply need to download the company’s Wi-Finder application for iOS to…
By Brandon Russell |
Google’s very active rollout of Fiber Internet is making its way to Shawnee, Kansas, adding yet another city to the search giant’s growing portfolio. Following a city council vote, Google announced the news but refrained from sharing an estimated timeframe when residents could expect the…
