Social Tech on TFTS

Technology nowadays lets people do some extraordinary things. That’s how some brilliant minds at the FBI decided to use some of this public tech in their favor. FBI’s most wanted list is now being featured in New York, right on one of those impressive digital billboards otherwise used to influence …

A blog posting by Christopher Soghoian reveals that Sprint served up customer location data over 8 million times to local police forces during the course of one year. The shocking part is that this was done without any warrant from the courts. Soghoian learned this while he was a college …

In the new social media era we live in, people are always flooded with warnings about what they post on the internet. MTV is filled with public service adverts warning young women about the dangers of sending revealing pictures and graduating high school students are warned about how pictures on …

Having only earlier today offered you a heads up concerning Twitter and Facebook coming to Xbox Live we continue with the Twitter related news as, whilst specific details are, as yet, in particularly short supply its being reported today that Twitter’s founders are looking at rolling out the integration of …

Announced last month, the Facebook 3.0 app for the iPhone is finally ready for download at the Apple App store. Using Facebook on your iPhone has never been better as the new application format is almost similar to the one you use normally on your PC. Do not be hassled …

The Japanese love their vending machines. Their country has taken the automatic dispensing of everything from electronics to underwear to a level not seen in most other countries and when you couple this with their almost unnatural love for electronics, you get Hitachi’s latest invention, the Biometric Vending Machine. …

With the iPhone OS 3.0 in full swing it was just a matter of time until Twitter addicts would get the new “push notification” feature, implemented for their handsets. So here’s iTwitter, the first free iPhone Twitter client application to do push notifications. It allows you to access your friends’ …

Vending machines are ubiquitous. It seems like everywhere you look you’re being offered something to eat or drink from one of these metal monsters. There is also something comforting about these dietary dispensers. The sound of your money clinking down the slot, the rotating display as your Mars Bar travels …

If you are anything like me, and I know you are, you spend too much time fending off photogs hoping to get a glimpse of your famous face. OK, so maybe that’s just wishful thinking, but a guy can dream, right? The bottom-line, it seems like most celebs want to …

Back in September of last year we offered you a heads up concerning the release of the Facebook 2.0 App for the iPhone and iPod Touch and now we can confirm that the new version – known as Facebook for iPhone 3.0 – of the decidedly popular Facebook app (which, …

If you have ever sent a particularly harsh and pointed email when under the influence of alcohol – to, for example, your boss to tell him/her in no uncertain terms what you think of them or, perhaps, to your partner following a petty argument – which you’ve had cause to …