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  • FBI developing social media tool

    People like to share everything on social media, and that apparently includes the crimes they commit. The Guardian reports that because of our love of sharing, the FBI is working on building a tool that will allow them to monitor sites like Twitter and Facebook more effectively in order to help fight crime. By decoding the publically pos ...

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    by Blogger
    Friday, 27 January 2012
  • Next Xbox to be six times more powerful

    There's been rumors about the next hardware version of Microsoft's Xbox console in the past few months. This week, IGN reports, via unnamed sources, that the console will have a graphics chip that will be based on AMD's Radeon 6000 series. The article further claims that the graphics chip will have hardware specs close to the Radeon HD 66 ...

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    by Blogger
    Thursday, 26 January 2012
  • Life is Crime

    Overview Life is Crime is a location based massively multiplayer online game where you commit virtual crimes at real locations. Visit places to perform missions, sell contraband, and fight other players to own a location. The more active you are, the higher your criminal reputation and the more notorious you become. Features:- Gear up ...

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    by Blogger
    Thursday, 26 January 2012
  • Nine Things You Didn’t Know About Twitter

    SAVE YOUR FAVORITE TWEETS Everyone seems to know that you can retweet another user’s Twitter post on your own account’s feed. But many users have never tried the star-shaped Favorite button next to Twitter’s Retweet button. Clicking on Favorite below a Twitter status update adds it to your personal Favorites list, much like bookmarking ...

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    by Blogger
    Wednesday, 25 January 2012
  • Google's new privacy policy good or bad?

    Today, Google announced on their Official Blog that they have redesigned their privacy policies for their services (numbering well over 70), and are looking to unify the bulk of them under one privacy policy. It's actually great news. Under the newly announced policy, Google services can share information gathered about you with othe ...

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    by Blogger
    Wednesday, 25 January 2012
  • YouTube views at 4 billion a day

    YouTube remains the world's number one video-themed web site and today the site's owner Google announced some new statistics that are sure to blow some people's minds. On the official YouTube blog site, the company revealed that the site is generating a massive four billion video views per day. Google says that number is up 25 percent fro ...

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    by Blogger
    Tuesday, 24 January 2012
  • alternate names on Google+ accounts

    Ever since Google launched its Google+ social networking service, the company has not allowed people to sign up using names that were not their real names. However, Google has now realized there are a lot of people out there who are mostly known by their nicknames and other names that were not given to them at birth. In a post on his Goo ...

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    by Blogger
    Tuesday, 24 January 2012
  • The State of File Sharing Sites

    How things stand as of this morning... Fileserve – Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files. Deleting multiple files. Banning Premium accounts. Closed Affiliate Program. Changed server location Jan 22, 2012. Taken down it's Facebook page Now using Digital fingerprinting. Files are being deleted as soon as uploaded (as ...

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    by Blogger
    Monday, 23 January 2012
  • Anonymous launching file sharing site?

    Anonymous went on a big cyber attack spree last week, shutting down a number of major government and entertainment trade group web sites in retaliation over the US government's shut down of the Megaupload file sharing web site. Now it appears that Anonymous, or at least a sub-section of the hacker group, wants to launch a file sharing sit ...

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    by Blogger
    Monday, 23 January 2012
  • Fileserve shit themselves!

    Fileserve, like several other file-sharing websites, used to pay uploaders when users downloaded their files (up to $25 for every 1,000 downloads according to their “About” page). However, as MegaUpload was taken down potentially for paying users when pirated material was downloaded, file-sharing websites such as Fileserve have had to cle ...

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    by Blogger
    Monday, 23 January 2012
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