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Twitter adds https option

Mar 16, 2011
Twitter has joined Facebook and a few other sites in offering a higher level of security for users. Twitter users can now opt for https setting on...

Facebook is showing baseball games

Mar 16, 2011
Yeah, sure, because why not? They already have social media, Batman movies, geolocation, games, email, and other stuff. Baseball? Sure, hell, sla...

Zune player dies, Zune lives on

Mar 15, 2011
Microsoft will no longer make Zune music players citing weak demand and a desire to focus on the smartphone market. This should come as no shock to...

HP goes to the cloud

Mar 15, 2011
HP CEO Leo Apotheker made his first real big vision statement since taking over the company and said the future of HP is in cloud based services. ...

Microsoft launches IE9

Mar 15, 2011
Microsoft formally announced the browser that has been kicking around in test versions for a year now. Internet Explorer 9 began rolling live last...

Apple store becomes hub in Tokyo

Mar 15, 2011
Interesting news from an anonymous Apple employee sent to Digg founder Kevin Rose. Apparently people stranded from the disaster in Japan are...

Poker bots are getting better at gaming

Mar 14, 2011
While the country is poised to re-consider current laws making online gaming illegal, online companies are pouring a lot of money into developing...

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Google social network to launch in May, I guess

Mar 14, 2011
There was a flurry of rumors over the weekend that Google would launch a social networking service called Google Circles at SxSW. The company...

Twitter makes life harder for app developers

Mar 14, 2011
Twitter has notified developers who build on the Twitter platform that they can't emulate the timeline function of Twitter since they would then...

AT&T to cap DSL data usage

Mar 14, 2011
AT&T has announced it will start charging extra to DSL customers who use a lot of data. Beginning May 2nd, customers who exceed 150gb in a mon...