Researchers: Android Wallpaper App Shows “No Evidence Of Malicious Behavior”
Jul 30th
Yesterday, mobile security firm Lookout announced at the Black Hat security conference that it had discovered a seemingly benign wallpaper application for Android that had been downloaded millions of times — and allegedly harvested user data like text messages and browsing history, which was being sent to servers in China. At least, More >
Google’s Latest Search Story Makes Having A Baby Seem Really Depressing
Jul 30th
Launched during this year’s Super Bowl with its inaugural “Parisian Love,” Google’s Search Stories campaign is meticulously engineered to be relatable and tug at your heartstrings.
Their latest offering, “New Baby,” portrays the joys and costs of parenting a little too well, heavy on the latter. So you’re clueless, your wife is pregnant and crazy More >
Po Bronson: “That’s why academics are so boring” [VIDEO]
Jul 30th
There are few more creative writers than the San Francisco-based Po Bronson. The author of four best-selling non-fiction books, two novels, a book of short stories and many articles for Newsweek, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Bronson’s work has been translated into 19 different languages and his 2005 bestselling More >
Here Come the Cheap EReaders and Most of Them Will Be Junk
Jul 30th
With the announcement of the $99 Ocean Reader Copia Tablet we are entering familiar territory. As you probably remember, netbooks went through the same race to the bottom as ebooks and this Ocean Reader is the first of the lot to hit our shores with any fanfare.
While I’m sure a mention More >
Fox News: Apple Is The New Religion And The Pope Is Scared
Jul 30th
Jesus. Maybe literally.
Fox News has a long and illustrious history of saying some fairly outrageous things. A story today on FoxNews.com may be one of the best yet — certainly from a tech perspective.
The post entitled “For Apple Followers, It’s a Matter of Faith, Academics Say” argues that while people More >
Y Combinator Backed GazeHawk Heatmaps With Web Cams
Jul 30th
You’ve normally got two choices in site heatmapping (figuring out where eyeballs land on your site), you can either buy costly specialized equipment ($40K) or pay a consultant to use their own equipment, which costs upwards of $5K. Y Combinator funded GazeHawk has figured out a more pared down and innovative solution; More >
Five Reasons You Want To Come To The Social Currency CrunchUp Tomorrow
Jul 30th
Tomorrow, Friday, is our fifth annual yearly blowout party at August Capital – the event I look forward to all year. Tickets to that event are long gone, but a handful are left for the all day conference we hold prior to the party, the Social Currency CrunchUp.
Here’s five More >
YouTube Boosts Maximum Upload Limit To 15 Minutes
Jul 30th
For years, YouTube has allowed its users to upload however many videos they wanted, but with a catch: unless you were part of one of YouTube’s special partner programs, no video could be more than 10 minutes in length. Today, YouTube is changing that: it’s boosting the maximum upload length More >
Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads
Jul 30th
Google’s mobile ads are becoming more location-aware. Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android phones which can be geo-targeted. Advertisers will be able to check a “location extension for display” box and their ads will become geo-enabled when viewed in mobile browsers or apps. More >
Facebook Celebrates People’s Birthdays In A Special Way: “F*ck You B*tches”
Jul 30th
TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading “fuck you bitches”.
Yeah right, we thought. I checked it out on my Facebook profile and More >
Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They’re Two Different Products For A Reason.
Jul 30th
Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn’t look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display, previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX. (The low price, $139 for the Wi-Fi version, certainly doesn’t hurt.)
Immediately following the announcement, I More >
Google’s Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.29%
Jul 30th
How’s this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment?
Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.29%, with it closest competitor Yahoo taking up just over 0.8% of market share and Microsoft’s Bing barely touching even half that, according to recent data from StatCounter as relayed by Pingdom.
This graph, More >
Groupon And The Problem With The Daily Deal Religion [Video]
Jul 30th
With the debut of Groupon personalization, I have little doubt that the daily deal site will double the number of deals (and double its revenue run rate) in just a few months.
According to CEO Andrew Mason, the service is churning out 75,000 transactions per day. Through personalization, Groupon will be able to More >
Kindle iPhone/iPad App Now Smarter With A Dictionary, Wikipedia, And Google
Jul 30th
Despite their clear commitment to the hardware version of the Kindle, Amazon continues to make the Kindle apps that run on the iPad and iPhone better. Today, version 2.2 of the app brings a full dictionary with it. This matches the functionality of Apple’s own iBooks app, but the Kindle implementation is even a More >
Pet Society Cheats // 3.2.33 Database MB, Coins Cheat, Cash Wigs and more
Jul 29th
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-Unable to purchase the Love Globe even though date has been changed.-Tested most items and they save fine. If you encounter any fail save, try purchasing lesser items each time before saving.
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