Archive for the ‘Internet’ category
Following to Get Followed
Twitter is one of the most popular social media networks of today, used by millions worldwide including celebrities, fashion designers, Fortune 500 entrepreneurs and common people like us. The platform provides a powerful way for those who use Twitter to become a part of an online and offline community. To get recognized on Twitter, you [...]
AT&T To Customers: AT&T Free Tethering is Gone
With the current ailing economy, the saying “the best things in life are free” truly holds. However, these things do not last as in the case of AT&T with its free tethering service which has been accessible for three years via jailbroken iPhones. Tethering is a method to share the Internet connection of an Internet-capable [...]
‘Do Not Track’ Feature added to Browsers by Mozilla and Google
Mozilla and Google have introduced new privacy feature on their Firefox and Chrome browsers. This new feature will prevent third party advertisers from tracking internet users. The new addition in the old set of privacy features of these two browsers aim to give their users greater control over the information they divulge online. Though both [...]
Flickr + Foursquare = FlickSquare
FlickSquare is an app that utilizes the APIs of Foursquare and Flickr so that your Foursquare checkin photos will be added to your Flickr account automatically. This means that you do not need to upload that photo again in Flickr. Thanks to Benny Wong for developing this handy app. Machine tags will also be added [...]
Steve Jobs is Financial Times’ Person of the Year
While Mark Zuckerberg got the title “Person of the Year from TIME Magazine, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, is Financial Times’ (a British international newspaper) Person of the Year. 2010 is a very good year for Apple indeed. Apple’s stocks went up to 53% in 2010. The success of Apple in 2010 is primarily attributed to [...]
Google Apps Marketplace Billing API
It’s actually about time Google Apps Marketplace offer a Billing API. With this Billing API, I think that more apps SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors will appear in the Google Apps Marketplace. What is the Google Apps Marketplace Billing API The said API will enable Marketplace apps to be integrated with Google’s billing services. [...]
Globe Launches SuperStick — Tattoo’s most powerful broadband
Globe announced a couple of days ago the latest addition in their line of mobile broadband products, the new Tattoo SuperStick. The new internet stick acts like a modem and a router at the same time. It lets you surf the web at 3.0 mbps, faster than any mobile broadband stick (service) available in the [...]
Much Ado About Groupon
If Google wants to buy you for $6 billion, then you must be doing something big, right? Or at least what you’re doing is gonna get big. Then again, if you turned down that $6 billion, you must be doing something even better than big. Groupon, apparently, certainly thinks so. The site and it’s owners [...]
WikiLeaks app removed from the Apple App Store
After Bank of America has blocked payments to WikiLeaks, the WikiLeaks app for the iPhone and for the iPad has been removed from the App Store. The unofficial WikiLeaks app lets one access to leaked memos and government documents. Thus, one will have access to the WikiLeaks website and WikiLeaks tweets. The said app was [...]
Jason Child (Amazon exec) joins Groupon as CFO
Jason Child was Amazon.com’s Vice President – Finance and he’s now joining Groupon as CFO (Chief Financial Officer). According to Jason Child, “Groupon is one of the most amazing businesses I have ever seen. I am thrilled to join a great team that is attacking one of the biggest opportunities in e-commerce today.” Groupon turned [...]