This was the year of Internet activism with a sharp political point to it: Protests drove a stake through the heart of a Hollywood-backed digital copyright bill, helped derail a United Nations summit, and contributed to the demise of a proposed data-sharing law. In 2012, when Internet users and companies flexed their political muscles, they …
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Facebook helped the FBI take down an international crime ring that used a botnet to infect 11 million computers and steal more than $850 million, one of the largest cybercrime hauls in history. The FBI announced today that with the social-networking giant\’s assistance, it had arrested 10 people from countries around the world who it …
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Mozilla released its official first social API called Facebook Messenger for your Firefox browser. So you can continue your conversations on Facebook at wherever you go on the web. You can also chat with your Facebook friends, view your notifications, friend requests, messages and send reply all in your Firefox browser without open Facebook site. …
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It’s no secret that Facebook treats your personal data as a commodity. But when that data ends up on the open market, you may be surprised at the price it fetches: in this case, less than half a thousandth of a penny. That’s the rate paid by Bogomil Shopov, a Bulgarian blogger and digital rights …
Just days before its app launches with Windows 8, Skype announced today that it has updated its current desktop program for Windows and Mac. Dubbed Skype 6.0, the voice over Internet protocol application now includes support for signing into the service with a Microsoft or Facebook account, effectively eliminating the requirement for new users to create …
