Google Wants to Get You There While Amazon wants to know what you want before you do, Google just wants to get you to the store when you want to buy something. Google was recently awarded a patent for ads that will offer transportation to […]
Amazon Knows What You Want Even Before You Do The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon has received a patent for “anticipatory shipping.” Products could start making their way to your door before you even order them. Amazon could use your searches, previous orders and, yes,
Target Breach – The News Keeps Getting Worse Target announced this week that 70 million customers have had their personal information hacked. These customers had their name, address, phone number and email address stolen. These victims are not limited to those who have recently shopped
Mars One Announces Round 2 Astronaut Cut Mars One mission is to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Starting in 2024, crews of four will depart every two years. To that end, Mars One announced the selection of 1,058 candidates from the pool of over
Online Shopping Surge Makes for Unhappy Christmases A larger than anticipated surge of shoppers ordering their gifts the weekend before Christmas, coupled with a shortened shopping season and a nasty storm in the Midwest, caused some packages to not make it under the tree for
Debit and Credit Cards Hacked at Target Up to 40 million credit and debit cards may have been hacked at Target stores. According to Target, “unauthorized access may impact guests who made credit or debit card purchases in our U.S. stores from Nov. 27 to Dec.
Send Direct Messages in Instagram Instagram has announced a new feature called Instagram Direct. This is a private messaging feature that will allow users to send a photo or video privately to up to fifteen followers. Unlike other messaging services such as Twitter and WhatsApp,
In the past, Apple has offered its 12 Days of Gifts free downloads in its iTunes Stores in Canada, some of Europe and Asia as well as a few other countries. The US iTunes Store was left out in the cold. This year, the free
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Two Million Stolen Accounts Trustwave security researchers announced that they have discovered a criminally controlled web server that contains nearly two million stolen account usernames and password. Many popular sites, such Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and Yahoo, were affected. Trustwave reported the following number of
Twitter Changes Direct Messaging, Again It used to be that in order to someone a direct message (DM) on Twitter, you had to follow each other. Then, a while back, Twitter did away with that requirement and, basically, you could send a DM to anyone
Comet ISON is on its way towards the sun. The comet will make its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving, November 28th, when it gets to within 730,000 miles above its surface. Its closest approach is known as perihelion. If it manages to come around
Sickweather is an app that lets you see what illnesses are around you. Analyzing public tweets and Facebook posts, it maps out reported illnesses. The idea is that you can be forewarned of any illness outbreaks in your vicinity and take precautions. For me,
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Free BlackBerry, Anyone? In an effort to unload their BlackBerry Z10 stock, Verizon is offering the phone for free and it is just 49 cents at AT&T. A two-year contract is required, of course. The Z10 was originally priced at $199 by both carriers. But
Apple released an updated version to its mobile operating system, iOS 7.0.4. Included in the update are bug fixes, security patches as well as some improvements. The latest update fixes a FaceTime issue for some that caused video calls to fail. An update has
