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19 Oct 2009 21:15

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Tech: “Oh lord.” Twitter’s gotten through five billion tweets.

  • @robinsloan smelt it, so we’re pretty sure he dealt it. Twitter is like McDonald’s. So many tweets get made nowadays that you’re surprised someone is counting. But someone is counting, and that guy (Robin Sloan, formerly of Current Media) noticed that he managed to get tweet number five billion today. Does he win a prize? If not, he should. source
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19 Oct 2009 20:55

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Tech: Now that the PS3 doesn’t cost a month’s rent, people are buying it

  • three years amount of time Sony’s costly PS3 has been on the market; the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii routinely beat its sales numbers source
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19 Oct 2009 20:18

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Biz, Tech: After a killer profit report, Apple’s stock is on a tear

  • Somehow, Apple outdid themselves again. More people than ever are buying Macs, with sales up 17 percent from a year ago. And the stock, as you can see, is reacting positively to the fact that the company has $1.67 billion in profits this quarter. It hit a record high today. The cult of Steve is stronger than ever.source
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19 Oct 2009 01:52

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Tech: Think you have a solid antivirus on your PC? Double-check, bro.

  • Lots of times, in fact they’re a conduit for attackers to take over your machine. They’ll take your credit card information, any personal information you’ve entered there and they’ve got your machine.
  • Symantec’s Vice President for Security Response Vincent Weafer • Describing the nefarious ways that fake antivirus software works. Weafer says that there were as many as 43 million attempted downloads of realistic-sounding antivirus software with names like “Antivirus 2010” and “SpywareGuard 2008.” But they’re really just vectors to take over you computer. Even worse, Weafer notes that there was an affiliate program for middlemen who wanted to earn as much as 55 cents for each PC they infected. The top affiliates were bringing in hundreds of thousands each month through early Conficker virus server TrafficConverter.biz. • source
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18 Oct 2009 21:29

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Tech: Dear Wolfram Alpha: Nobody’s gonna buy your iPhone app

  • $1.99 the amount we could see ourselves paying for a Wolfram Alpha iPhone app source
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18 Oct 2009 09:59

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Tech: Message to take from this ad: Everyone iDon’t, Droid Does

Not bad Verizon, Motorola and Google. You actually made some Apple-critical advertising with teeth. And we hear the Droid is a cool phone – with a better network. source
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17 Oct 2009 19:47

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Tech: Canabalt is the biggest dead-simple time-sucking game ever

Canabalt
  • Canabalt makes us want to stop everything we’re doing and just play it for six hours. But we couldn’t do that to you guys. The game, originally designed for the Experimental Gameplay Project, somehow turns a one-button game into the most-exciting duck-and-jump adventure this side of “Die Hard.” Best part? There’s an iPhone version that’s just as exciting (and simply-designed) as the Flash game.source
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17 Oct 2009 18:34

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Culture, Tech: Happy birthday, IMDb: You’re almost old enough to drink

  • 19
    years     the amount of time the movie-data-centric site has been online – it predates the Web, even source
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17 Oct 2009 11:43

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Tech: Microsoft screwed over Firefox users with a sneaky update

  • While the vulnerability is in an IE component, there is an attack vector for Firefox users as well. The reason is that .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installs a ‘Windows Presentation Foundation’ plug-in in Firefox.
  • Microsoft engineers on the company’s Security Research & Defense blog • Describing how a vulnerability which would usually only affect Internet Explorer users also affects IE users, too. The reason? Well, some genius thought it’d be awesome to stealthy foist a Microsoft-centric feature onto Firefox users without them asking – essentially bringing Firefox’s security quality down to the same level as IE. Way to go knuckleheads. • source
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17 Oct 2009 11:30

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Tech: If a Facebook app brings up a screen like this, don’t click on it

Facebook app attacks are becoming sophisticated enough that they can end up in an app by simply being on the app developer’s PC. And they look realistic. That’s scary. source
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