Need to disappear from Facebook or Twitter? Now you can scrub yourself from the Internet with Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, a nifty service that purges your online presence from these all-consuming social networks. Since its Dec. 19 launch, Suicide Machine has assisted more than 1,000 virtual deaths, severing more than 80,500 friendships on Facebook...
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Eastman Kodak Co. has filed lawsuits against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., alleging the two companies’ smart phones infringe on a Kodak’s digital-imaging technology. Kodak alleged that Apple’s iPhones and RIM’s camera-enabled BlackBerry phones infringe on a Kodak patent that covers technology related to image previewing. Spokesmen for Apple and RIM weren’t...
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Charitable Americans eager to help the nation of Haiti recover from Tuesday’s devastating earthquake are being warned to be on the lookout for online scammers. Charitable Americans eager to help the nation of Haiti recover from Tuesday’s devastating earthquake are being warned to be on the lookout for online scammers. A number of “text...
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Hours of fairy-tale fun with Playtainment: The Mystery of Whiterock Castle launches for WiiWare™in Europe and Australia on December 25th US ‘The Mystery of Whiterock Castle’ will be available for download in 1st Quarter 2010. Cologne, Germany, December 15th, 2009 – By releasing The Mystery of Whiterock Castle today, Playtainment became the first German...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook has announced an alliance with Internet security specialty firm McAfee to get user of the world’s leading online social network to better protect their computers. Facebook users whose accounts are breached by malicious software or other cyberattacks will need to have their computers cleansed by McAfee before returning to...
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If Google follows through on its threat to shut down operations in China in response to cyber attacks and spying efforts, it would be walking away from a fairly significant chunk of revenue. The resulting Internet advertising vacuum would lead to hundreds of millions of dollars flowing out of the United States and into...
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Dec. 23 — BlackBerry service resumed as phone maker Research In Motion Ltd. released new software to fix program flaws, which caused a second disruption in less than a week. The interruption was resolved last night, RIM spokeswoman Rachel Colley said today in an e-mail. The breakdown may stem from flaws in two recent...
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Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard (HP) have denied that their webcams are racist after a YouTube video uploaded in America showed the failings of the facial-tracking technology to pick up a black face. A man who introduces himself as Desi demonstrates the problems with the HP cameras as the software fails to adapt to his movements....
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YouTube video appears to show company’s facial recognition technology only works with white people. Hewlett-Packard is investigating a claim that Webcams built into its PCs are incapable of tracking the facial movements of black individuals and only function properly when Caucasians or people of other lighter-skinned races are in the frame. The probe was...
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System flawed: Less than half of most promising men and women researchers gain next level of funding within 10 years ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Women were less likely than men to receive major funding for scientific research, according to a study from the University of Michigan Health System. The study also found that only...
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