The Arrest-App Development
Getting arrested at Occupy Wall Street? There’s an app for that ‘Before you do anything that could earn you detention, open the app and write a text message to any number of recipients. Then, just as...
View ArticlePayPal Cash Transfers on Facebook
Image via CrunchBase PayPal Debuts a Facebook App for Sending Money Between Friends Makes me wonder if it would be wise for freelancers to friend their clients so they could both use the app ‘PayPal...
View ArticleWindows 7 Trouble Again
Jolicloud Desktop on Joli OS 1.2 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Just when Win7 was declared the number one OS now, it gave me hell again. It suddenly disconnected from the Net. And when I managed to connect...
View ArticleSeven Deadly Sins of Netizens
‘Recently Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey wrote a great article for the BBC. He wrote about the deadly sins of users which may lead to getting their accounts hacked, losing their...
View ArticleThis Will Revolutionize Privacy and Scare Governments
privacy (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) ‘“This has never been done before,” boasts Mike Janke, Silent Circle’s CEO. “It’s going to revolutionize the ease of privacy and security.” ‘Back in October, the...
View ArticleThis 12-year-old Hacked for Anonymous
Most 7th-graders are busy playing Grand Theft Auto V or discovering how their voice changes through puberty, but one in Montreal was hitting the internet and causing mayhem. story Proof that Twitter...
View ArticleAutomation-apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths
Things that seem useful in the moment can be disastrous long-term ‘…Ultimately, the reason technologies like BroApp are problematic is that they’re deceptive. They take situations where people make...
View ArticleWhen Social Networks Conspire to be Sinister
Remember Secret? It’s the network that allows you to send messages anonymously and it will be integrating with the Russian social network VKontakte ‘Russia’s one of those places where people could...
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