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Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711 million

Posted by admin on Saturday, October 31st 2009   

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A U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the “Spam King.”  Read More

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YouTube/Google to Rent Movies

Posted by admin on Thursday, September 3rd 2009   

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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Online video site YouTube is in talks with several major movie studios about renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet according to a person familiar with the talks on Wednesday.

It would mark the first time the world’s most popular video site would charge its users to watch videos.  Read Full Story

*** I just hope they have a monthly subscription so that I can watch movies on my Iphone all the time***

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Facebook Addiction

Posted by admin on Thursday, September 3rd 2009   

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I read this article today on basically the evils of Facebook. I, myself, am admittedly a facebook junkie. My i-phone makes it very easy for me to be logged in and actively updating about 15 hours out of the day. When I forgot my phone at home today (I am very ill obviously), I also left the ability to log on to facebook at home since this site is blocked at work. I found myself impulsively having the thought to check my Facebook page. This same involuntary reaction I recognized as the same kind of impulses I had after I had quit smoking!

I came across this funny link that is a serious step-by-step guide to getting off Facebook.  Maybe I’ll consider quitting one day.  Not today…

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AT&T to enable MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS on Sept. 25

Posted by admin on Thursday, September 3rd 2009   

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Finally! Read announcement here: Apple Insider

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Camera Bag Iphone APP – AmaZING Before & Afters

Posted by admin on Tuesday, September 1st 2009   

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This is the most amazing iphone app I have ever purchased. It makes the pictures taken from my iphone look incredible. Here is a gallery of before and afters with the various filters. The app can be downloaded here.








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Top 10 Iphone Apps: My Favorite Applications

Posted by admin on Tuesday, September 1st 2009   

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1. Facebook

2. Megatouch PhotoHunt

3. Camera Bag

4. Pandora

5. Aim

6. Holy Bible

7. Megatouch Lucky 11’s

8. Discovery Channel

9. RunKeeper

10. NPR News

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iPhone Leak Interrogations Drive Foxconn Employee to Suicide

Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 22nd 2009   

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The security team for Foxconn, the company that manufactures the iPhone for Apple, is said to have subjected employee Sun Danyong to “unbearable interrogation techniques,” leading him to commit suicide. He was under investigation for losing a prototype device.

The rumors and reports, collected and translated by ex-Gizmodian Elaine over at Shanghaist, tell a plausible story: Sun had been handling a shipment of sixteen iPhone prototype devices (though it’s not clear when), one of which went missing. In the following days, Sun told his friends that Foxconn’s Central Security Division had been incredibly severe, subjecting him to intense interrogations, harassment, and even “laying hands” on the worker. Confiding in his friends was just a prelude—on the 16th of this month, Sun jumped from a 12-story building.

Foxconn has issued a statement on the matter, which, though creditable in its honesty, is chilling. The company is currently investigating a section chief of the Central Security Division for possibly using “inappropriate interrogation methods” in his investigation, including unannounced home searches, solitary confinement and physical violence.

Labor protections in China are minimal, a situation not helped by spotty enforcement and insular company cultures—especially at a manufacturing juggernaut like Foxconn. The company has been dogged by allegations of poor working conditions over the years, such that hearing an employee may have been mistreated doesn’t come as much of a surprise, save for the fact that the mistreatment was so severe that it killed him. That Sun killed himself doesn’t seem to be in question here, nor does the fact that Foxconn had at least some part in his death. From a company spokeperson:

Regardless of the reason of Sun’s suicide, it is to some extent a reflection of Foxconn’s internal management deficiencies, especially in how to help young workers cope with the psychological pressures of working life at the company.

If it turns out the these “psychological pressures” include getting your head slammed against the floor, there’d better be consequences for Foxconn, be it from the government, Apple, or both. It goes without saying that Apple can’t be held accountable for a tragic one-off event at a different company, but they absolutely should be held accountable for continuing to do business with a company that treats its employees like this. We’ll have to see.

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Officially Addicted to BingTweets

Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 22nd 2009   

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This is a really cool site that merges Bing (web) Trends and Twitter Trends!  I’m kind of getting obsessed.  So, I thought I would share the love/addiction.  Click ——>HERE

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Playlist.com Iphone App Continued…

Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 22nd 2009   

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This blog post by the founders of Playlist.com or Project Playlist was in 2007!!! What happened?  Can we start a petition to get a playlist.com Iphone App?  I need it.  Here is a comment from this blog (apparently, I am not the only one)…

They desperately need to make a project playlist app, I can’t think of any reason why they shouldn’t, and it would be WAY better than the other free music players (pandora, slacker, last.fm, etc.) I’m tired of having to wait an hour to be able to wait an hour before being able to listen to the same song again and not being able to rewind in the song so PLEASE think about making an app, or at least let the website work for iPhone and iPod touch. Thanks

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Video: Kevin Spacey tries to explain Twitter to David Letterman

Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 22nd 2009   

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This is Kevin Spacey. He’s a man who gets paid millions of dollars to pretend to be other men, for entertainment. And here he is on the “Late Show With David Letterman” trying to explain Twitter, the pulse of the planet, to Mr. Letterman.

Key points to remember: Twitter is free; you type with your thumbs; it’s “a waste of time.”

Mr. Spacey: “And now, I’ll get, in about an hour, lots and lots of people saying ‘hi’ back.”
Mr. Letterman: “That really is a miracle.”

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