Fabled sunken city of Atlantis found on Google Earth?
An article claiming that someone found Atlantis using Google Earth has been published by The Sun. The possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated. According to a Google spokesperson,the criss-crossing lines were sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor. But google...... Continue Reading
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Is Facebook’s Value $3.7 Billion – less or more?
Facebook has settled last summer a dispute with a rival social network, ConnectU. The ConnectU founders -- the Winklevoss brothers and colleague Divya Narendra had accused Zuckerberg of ripping off their idea for a college-based social network. The case was settled for $65 million.The Associated Press has obtained a court filing......... Continue Reading
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Favorite Passwords used “1234″ and “Password”
A new US study conducted found that out of the 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website people often do the easy thing. 16 percent took a first name as a password. 14 percent relied on combination's such as "1234" or "12345678."Five percent were names of television shows or stars.Four percent accounted for The word "password" Continue Reading
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‘Blackout’ protest goes viral – Launched by the Creative Freedom Foundation NZ
The protest campaign is encouraging New Zealand users of social media to black out their images this week in protest at section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act. The campaign has been launched by the Creative Freedom Foundation NZ. The Guilt Upon Accusation law 'Section 92A' that calls for internet disconnection based on accusations of copyright infringement without a trial and without any evidence held up to court scrutiny. This is due to come into effect on February 28th unless immediate action is taken by the National
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Bill Gates on the move to Help the Third World With Cellphone Banking
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $12.5 million to support 20 projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The goal is to Supply 20 million unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012. The Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) will work with mobile operators, banks, finance institutions, government to encourage affordable mobile financial services to the unbanked. Continue Reading
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So What will your startup be worth in 3 years?
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MySpace Sees a Mobile Future – Video interview with Travis Katz of MySpace
Mike Butcher from techCrunch UK had a video interview with Travis Katz, international head of MySpace at Mobile World Congress to get his views about MySpace mobile traffic. Check out the Video Continue Reading
The Average Shelf Life Of An iPhone App Is Less Than 30 Days!!!
CEO Greg Yardley of Pinch Media in a recent presentation shows the drop-off rate in iPhone app usage. For free applications, only about 20 percent of users return to use the app the first day after they download it. The chart for paid apps shows a slightly steeper fall-off rate. The Presentation has been embedded below for you to view. Continue Reading
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TinyChat lets people create a basic web-based chat room with just one click
Robin Wauters posted on Techcruch how TinyChat enables people to create web based chat by generating a unique URL that can be shared with anyone you choose to invite to chat with. Instant chat rooms are starting to become pretty popular on micro-sharing service like Twitter. The service was created by Daniel Blake from Tinychat. Daniel Blake has also created services such as ControlC and-
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