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A senate committee hearing was held on Tuesday and they couldn’t agree on anything. Not exactly news is it? The Senate Commerce committee held the hearing over concerns about online privacy. Everything from Google’s accidental interception of some WiFi traffic during a Google Streetview run to Facebook’s privacy issues and… Continue Reading »

Google’s promised to get all of Los Angeles’ city employees switched over to Google Docs by June 30th, then promptly broke that promise. They say now it will take at least until mid August, and are blaming the LAPD. They insist that their data not be mixed in with any… Continue Reading »

Hackers Google-bombed the Vatican’s website over the weekend, redirecting people searching for it to a site called pedofilo.com. Pedofilo is italian for pedophile. Some reports said it was a Mexican religious site, but it has since been taken offline. Obviously it was someone trying to make a statement regarding the… Continue Reading »

For those who upload videos to YouTube often, the ten minute barrier might annoy you because you have to upload multiple videos.  According to Boing Boing, YouTube will be changing the upload limit from 10 minutes to 15 minutes, but YouTube did not release a timeframe.  While five additional minutes… Continue Reading »

The Motorola Droid 2 is all but official at this point.  We have seen numerous rumors indicating an August launch, and today, the entire user guide for the Droid successor has been leaked online.  The 70 page report doesn’t reveal any earth shattering features, but does confirm Android 2.2 and… Continue Reading »

  A new scam is hitting Facebook hard. At first glance it looks like a friend posted a video to their wall, and the description is rather eye catching: “I am shocked!!! I’m NEVER texting AGAIN since I found this out. http://bit.ly/zzzzz – Worldwide scandal!”  (URL edited for safety) However,… Continue Reading »

It looks like Logitech is gearing up for the launch of the Logitech Revue, which for those that may not be as familiar with the name—is a Google TV companion set-top box. The commercial that was posted comes in at 29 seconds and judging from the “part 1” listing its… Continue Reading »

A 2.8GB torrent containing the personal information of over 100 million Facebook users reared its ugly head onto a torrent site. Hacking extraordinaire Ron Bowes developed a web crawler program that accumulated data on all users on Facebook’s open access directory. These list is comprised of those Facebook users that… Continue Reading »

The Boston Globe is reporting that federal investigators have discovered over two dozen federal employees who downloaded and viewed child pornography on their taxpayer funded computers. The individuals worked for the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and other Pentagon related agencies. Some… Continue Reading »

It was just a week ago that we saw the release of the first Firefox 4 beta.  A few days ago we saw a new feature that’s being tested for the browser in App Candy.  Now we have the second beta of the browser, though we’re lacking the Tab Candy… Continue Reading »