Full FeedTwitter goes down again
Twitter went down for a short time Saturday morning for reasons unknown. They simply called it “unexpected downtime.” In a blog post the company announced that once again they had to take their API offline as part of the repair process. This frustrated many developers and users of third party… Continue Reading »
Blogger says Twitter, Facebook outages directed at him
Even if you do your best to ignore the two websites, there was simply no missing the denial-of-service attacks on Twitter and Facebook this past week. What you may not know is why the attacks were brought about. The easy answer is it’s the work of a hacker with access… Continue Reading »
Who is behind Twitter and Facebook DDoS attacks?
Aliens? North Koreans? Fernando Valenzuela? At this point in time, we are unsure who is behind the DDoS attacks today on major social networking sites. Both Twitter and Facebook suffered from these attacks. Twitter was down for most of the morning while Facebook was able to stay afloat. According to… Continue Reading »
DDoS attacks on US and S. Korea came from U.K.
Although many previously thought that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks last week originated in North Korea, the latest reports indicate that the source was actually the United Kingdom. This is according to a study done by a Vietnamese computer security company, Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS). In a… Continue Reading »
Gadgetell introduces a new show: InterrupTech
Welcome to the pilot episode of Gadgetell’s InterrupTech. Here’s how this works: every Monday we get you caught up on the most important tech news with a bit of analysis. Since we don’t want to waste your time, we’re on a timer. When the time’s up, we switch topics. In… Continue Reading »
April 1st to be the day a worm brings down the world’s computers?
Stories are starting to fly around the Internet about the latest worm attacking Windows PCs. Why is this one gaining such mass attention? Because of the mystery surrounding it. The Conficker worm has supposedly already infected millions of PCs around the world and it has plenty of people worried what… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Black Friday 2009
Black Friday is almost here! Gadgetell's got you covered with all the latest news on who's offering the best deals. Dangerous crowds? You're on your own.
Palm Pre Information & Updates
Palm just introduced their next-gen smartphone, the Palm Pre, and next-gen operating system, Palm webOS. Gadgetell's got the latest Pre and webOS information and news for you right here.
