Internet Highlights Category

Anti-ACTA Protest Wave Sweeps Europe, SOPA-Like Agreement in Danger? [What Is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Act & Should You Oppose It?]

By on Sunday, 12. February 2012

We talked about SOPA and PIPA recently, but that’s not the only initiative that would hurt the free Internet, the current Internet that we get to experience every day, right alongside our privacy and other civil rights governments should ensure/enforce whether online or offline. There’s also ACTA, which is short [...]

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Steve Jobs Honored With Posthumous Special Grammy Award [Eddy Cue Accepts The Trustees Award on Behalf of Steve Jobs, Apple Indirectly Scores a Second Grammy]

By on Sunday, 12. February 2012

Those of you that followed Steve Jobs throughout his career at Apple probably know how much he loved music. In fact we saw him on stage showing off music features for various devices quite a few times in the last few years, not to mention that his passion for music [...]

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EPIC Group Sues Google for Upcoming Privacy Policy Changes [Electronic Privacy Information Center Protests Against New Google Terms of Service, Sues to Prevent Them]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

Google’s upcoming privacy policy changes are causing more controversy, with various groups taking action against the company’s intention of merging over 60 Terms of Service documents into a single one that should handle all the web services available to a Google Account owner.

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Google Privacy Is Worth $25 in Amazon Gift Cards Paid In Installments [Google Is Conducting New Screenwise Survey to Learn How You Use the Internet]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

Google is getting ready to make an important change to its Terms of Service to cover all its online services, a move that triggered some controversy over the way the Search giant is about to handle the privacy of its customers. Microsoft has voiced its concerns in newspaper ads while EU [...]

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iTunes To Sponsor Free Streaming Paul McCartney Concert On Apple TV [Apple TV About To Get Big Boost From McCartney Show Coming To The Streaming Platform This Thursday]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

The world of streaming video has always been a little on the cutthroat side, as is evidenced by the sheer number of competitors in the space out there. What with Roku and Boxee and all the other hardware providers out there going after the same market, it’s easy to see [...]

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iPhone 4S A5 Processor Has Special Chip To Work Better With Siri [Siri's Limits To The iPhone 4S Not Marketing Related, But Rather A Hardware Necessity, As Found In Recent Reports]

By on Monday, 6. February 2012

More than a few people, back when Siri had emerged on the scene and was impressing everybody half to death with its ability to let you actually talk to your smartphone and have it respond accordingly, thought that Siri’s limit to the iPhone 4S was merely a marketing ploy designed [...]

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Lilyhammer Strikes Netflix, Representing First Original Content Foray [Lilyhammer, Netflix's First Original Series, Now Goes Live For Streaming From Their Network]

By on Monday, 6. February 2012

And so it begins…or does it? Netflix’s first original series, Lilyhammer, has just gone up on Netflix’s streaming service, accessible by Netflix streaming subscribers. The question now becomes, are we witnessing the beginning of a whole new era? Or are we looking at a mere statistical aberration?

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Mystery Google Entertainment Device In Testing According to the FCC [Google Prepares Entertainment Product of Its Own, Google TV or an Android-based Device?]

By on Sunday, 5. February 2012

A few days ago we looked at the main cash sources for three of the most important tech companies in the U.S., Apple, Microsoft and Google, remarking that the latter relies heavily on advertising, with around 96% of revenues coming from ads in the last two years. But Google could [...]

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European Regulators Put Google’s Privacy Policy Changes On Halt? [EU Wants to Know More About Google’s New Privacy Policy Before It’s Turned On]

By on Friday, 3. February 2012

In case you did not find out yet, Google is going to replace all its Terms of Service for existing online services with a single one, a move meant to bring users a better Google experience, although some argue that the move is intended to help Google make more cash [...]

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Everpix iPhone App Makes Sure Your Images Leave Your Phone [Everpix App For iPhone, Automatically Uploads & Stores Your Camera Images To The Cloud]

By on Thursday, 2. February 2012

It looks like a new photo app for the iPhone launched during the TechCrunch Disrupt event. The app is called Everpix and could be nice option if you happen to be looking for a method that will allow you to easily transfer your pictures from your phone.

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