The Pentagon is sending a warning to nations who are considering engaging the US in cyber-warfare and has concluded that attacks coming from another country can constitute an “act of war,” which gives U.S. the right to respond using traditional military force, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Similar to how international treaties guided [...]
May 31 2011 | Posted in
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Facebook will be moving forward with a controversial plan to give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers in the face of criticism from privacy experts, users, and even congressmen. Facebook quietly announced the new policy in a note posted to its Developer Blog in January. It [...]
Mar 2 2011 | Posted in
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Some Gmail users have reportedly waken up to all their messages and information erased from their account.. According to the Huffington post Gmail forums were very busy this morning when people woke up to check their email and nothing was there.. Only an estimated 29% of users were effected by this, One girl on [...]
An isolated report suggests AT&T is beginning to provision its system to support personal hotspot on iPhones running iOS 4.3. According to AppleInsider, a developer with a beta build of iOS was able to setup his AT&T account with this upcoming feature. He reportedly mentioned Verizon a few times to help convince the representative to [...]
Feb 21 2011 | Posted in
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AT&T has said that it plans to offer a mobile, social gaming platform for users of its Android smartphones. AT&T is partnering with a company called OpenFeint, which has 65 million registered users and more than 4,500 games in its catalog. OpenFeint offers users the ability to post scores in addition to live chats during [...]
Feb 15 2011 | Posted in
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IBM’s Watson landed a tie in the first round of Jeopardy’s man-vs.-machine challenge Monday night. Watson, IBM’s supercomputer, and Brad Rutter each ended Day 1 with $5,000 in winnings, while Ken Jennings, the other human competitor, came out with $2,000. Jennings — who had previously won 74 consecutive Jeopardy matches — defeated Watson in the [...]
Feb 15 2011 | Posted in
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The iPhone nano rumor mill is working overtime. First we heard that Apple is working on a smaller and cheaper iPhone, which could be priced at $200 without requiring a contract. Then we heard that the person who saw the iPhone nano prototype claimed that it could come with edge to edge screen. Now, Cult [...]
Feb 14 2011 | Posted in
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Today I thought I would share an experience that I had with a cell phone. About a year ago I decide “I’m going to switch carriers and get a new phone”. After doing a lot of research, I decide that I’m going to go with an Android phone. The Android operating system has a lot [...]
Feb 13 2011 | Posted in
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If you’re an AT&T iPhone customer, you can get 1000 free bonus rollover minutes simply by texting an AT&T number. Here’s what you need to do: Send a new text message to “11113020″ that says “Yes” Wait for the thank you confirmation from AT&T saying the 1000 bonus minutes will be credited to your account [...]
Feb 11 2011 | Posted in
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If you have an At&t account you might want to head over to your account and set this up. Out of all my minutes 95% of them are calls to mobile numbers. Here is the link http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans/messaging-plans.jsp This should save your minutes every month. So now you get unlimited calls to Verizon,Sprint and any other [...]
Feb 11 2011 | Posted in
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