ALBANY, N.Y. - The social networking Web site Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. (Read content ‘Facebook warned in N.Y. on safety claims (AP)’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 11:03 pm | Hitech | No comments
>digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_protest_vid_uses_Apple_s_own_words_to_support_the_crazy_ones’; src=”http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js”> A lot of people out there with Apple right now. Some of them express their displeasure with expletive-filled tirades in the comments section of any pertinent blog post they can find. (Read content ‘iPhone protest vid uses Apple’s own words to support the “crazy ones”‘…)
30 Sep 2007 | 10:51 pm | Gadget | No comments
In the era of Web 2.0 that sees content going digital and people communicating through blogs and wikis, Hewlett Packard says the printing world needs to keep pace. Its solution, dubbed Print 2.0, aims to provide a quality printing experience no matter where the content resides. The goal? Keeping those print drums rolling. (Read content ‘HP Adjusts to Online Printing (PC World)’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 10:08 pm | Hitech | No comments
Let’s face it, we’ve only got what, maybe three or four hundred years left to enjoy the great outdoors before pollution levels eventually prohibit even stepping foot outside without our personal breathing apparatus. Well Suzuki thinks that it will be in this bleak and toxin-filled future that motorized single-passenger vehicles like the will finally thrive, and is preparing to capture a piece of this potentially lucrative market with a concept transportation system known as PIXY + SSC. (Read content ‘Suzuki’s PIXY + SSC concept thrives in post-nuclear wastelands’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 9:29 pm | Gadget | No comments
NEW YORK - IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company controlled by media mogul Barry Diller, plans to relaunch its Web site Monday with new games, more prizes and plans to add social networking functions. ADVERTISEMENT
The site also now incorporates a search toolbar that links iWon users to the company’s search engine. (Read content ‘Barry Diller’s IAC revamps iWon.com (AP)’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 8:00 pm | Hitech | No comments
(Read content ‘Thermaltake’s DH 102 HTPC chassis rocks 7-inch touchscreen’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 7:01 pm | Gadget | No comments
Like most teens, Richmond, Va., eighth graders have active online lives — and that’s exactly why they’re so taken with Rusty McGuire’s class.
“What you guys have to think about is, how much information do you put on your social networking pages?” McGuire says to the assembled students.
McGuire is not a teacher. He’s a prosecutor who goes after online sexual predators. (Read content ‘How Virginia Teaches Kids Online Safety’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 6:59 pm | Hitech | No comments
The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide of photos and videos shared with the rest of the world but people outside of the troubled country continue to use new media sites and other technologies to protest military activity in the Southeast Asia country. (Read content ‘Internet Blackout in Myanmar Stalls Reports, Oversight (PC World)’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 5:59 pm | Hitech | No comments
Cablecom.
LONDON: In the film “The Cable Guy,” Jim Carrey plays a cable television installer who goes to great lengths to befriend a customer, giving him a free, unauthorized service upgrade.
(Read content ‘Cable companies try to make inroads in Europe’…)
30 Sep 2007 | 5:15 pm | Hitech | No comments
They sure do look beautiful flying in formation during their annual migration, but when one of Illinois’s rare crashes and burns on a busy Moscow street corner, well, it’s never a pretty sight. Check out another pic of the carnage after the break…
[Via Tech Ticker Blog, thanks ]
30 Sep 2007 | 5:12 pm | Gadget | No comments
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