The Internet is not a safe haven as it once was, with many online attacks happening on an almost daily basis. If that thought brought you to the edge of your seat, then today’s report might leave you with your jaw hitting the floor.
There's a new service in town that hopes to make our hotel room-buying experience a more informed affair, especially if functional Wi-Fi is high on your list of priorities.
Internet auction site eBay has left users of its services, including PayPal, with reason to be concerned after posting a message up on the community page urging users to change their passwords. Since the original message popped up a short while ago, the company has stepped out and clarified the situation, noting that a hacker may have "compromised a database containing encrypted passwords," although was also keen to stipulate that only "non-financial data" had been affected.
If you're a frequenter of The Twitters, then you'll almost certainly have encountered the new, revamped Twitter profile page. Some like it, some don't, and if you're subbed to the opinion of the former, then below, we'll show you how you can switch to the new profile right now!
Popcorn Time, a torrent movie streaming site, dramatically closed its doors only recently amid a swirl of legalese, with users and observers uncertain as to whether the site was in breach of the law. But as is so often the case when these kinds of sites disappear - either by choice or by force - Popcorn Time has been resurrected, and with the site now being run by developers of torrent site YTS, the 'whack-a-mole' nature of shutting down these purportedly illegal sites has once more been underlined.
The Oscars 2014 86th Academy Awards event is live streamed for the first time ever tonight. Here's how you can catch all the action live on your iPhone, iPad or any Android device.
Spotify is an immensely popular audio streaming service, boasting a mammoth 20 million songs with more being added all the time. But while some artists have amassed millions of plays apiece, around one-fifth of the extensive library has never been heard - at least, not through Spotify. This equates to, as those with solid math skills will have already established, around four million tracks collecting dust, and it is at this point that Forgotify, a service that has collected all of these unheard tracks, steps in. The site, which doesn't appear affiliated with Spotify, lets you sign in and listen to some of these forgotten 'gems,' and whether you want to discover new artists or simply help with the initiative, you can log right in now and get listening!
Market research in the mobile industry offers some fascinating insight into how we use our beloved smartphones and tablets. Research firm JDSU has been analyzing the data usage habits of mobile device owners, and rather interestingly, has discovered that those wielding the latest and greatest Apple handset - the iPhone 5s - consume more data than those in ownership of any other smartphone or slab currently on the market.
When Jeff Keacher decided that he wanted to try and get his 27-year-old Mac Plus online, he knew the challenge that he had set himself would require a substantial amount of time and effort. Things have advanced a great deal since the antiquated Apple desktop was released, and to try and connect it to the TCP/IP Internet we enjoy today was a pretty ambitious task, to say the least. But with a little perseverance, he managed it, and although the result isn't quite the Safari / Chrome / Firefox-injected, seamless browsing experience of this Digital Age, it's still a very commendable achievement.
Facebook, as we know, is the world's foremost social network, with well over one billion active users gracing its service via mobile, Web, and other such mediums. With so many logging in at any one time, Facebook plays host to billions of messages and status updates every month, and although we can readily delete them from public view should we so wish, it's common knowledge that what is removed doesn't necessarily disappear for good. But what of the utterances we write, but don't necessarily publish to the world - are they stored in Facebook's vast cauldron of personal information? Well yes - yes they are.
