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,
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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
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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
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Sandboxie, one of the most popular security programs available for Windows, has been acquired by US based security company Invincea. It’s difficult to know exactly what this might mean for users of the free version but I doubt it will be good news. A couple
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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YouTube + Google+ = Trouble for Google In an exceedingly unpopular move, Google is requiring YouTube commenters to sign in with their Google+ account in order to comment on a video. Officially, this is Google’s attempt to try to control the oftentimes ‘not nice’ or
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According to a multitude of press reports, an iPad Air exploded this week in a Vodafone store in Canberra Australia, sending a stream of sparks flying from the device’s charging port and filling the store with smoke. Emergency services were called, the store evacuated, and
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The BlackBerry Saga Continues Last week, I reported that former Apple CEO John Sculley was considering purchasing BlackBerry. At this point, forget John Sculley or anybody else, for that matter. BlackBerry announced on November 4th that it was abandoning the idea of selling the company and fired its
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A 12-year-old Canadian boy has pleaded guilty to hacking government and police websites during the student uprising in spring 2012, creating computer havoc and causing $60,000 damage. According to a story published by the Toronto Sun, the boy traded pirated information to Anonymous in exchange
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