The FBI arrested on Tuesday more than a dozen suspected members of the hacker activist (hacktivist) group Anonymous/LulzSec. The arrests were mainly conducted in the states of Florida, New Jersey and California among several others. If you're planning on picking hacking government systems as your field of expertise, you better think twice.
Téa Smith, a lady from Australia, has announced that she is willing to giveaway an iPad on $500 in cash in exchange for a soulmate.
Anonymous, a well-known hacktivist group, is creating a new social network after its official account on Google+ was abruptly banned for violating Google's policies. According to the group, the new social network won't be censored or moderated at all.
Part of Facebook's 'awesome announcement' recently was the addition of Skype-powered video chat, adding face-to-face calling to the social network's arsenal. As part of this update, Facebook also changed its chat layout, bringing a new sidebar to all Facebook pages.
Kate Hudson and her partner Matthew Bellamy have announced they have nicknamed their newborn baby boy "Bing", which is short for Bingham Hawn Bellamy. While we have no plans to turn Redmond Pie into a pop culture and gossip blog, isn't it great that the son of two famous actors is now named after Microsoft's search engine?
E-Mail account hijacking is a big problem in our digital age. The convenience of sending instantaneous information electronically has seen handwritten letters nearing extinction. Many people rely greatly on their e-mail accounts for work as well as to keep up with those closest to them. Microsoft’s Hotmail service has long been soft a target for hacks and attacks, and is now upping the ante in order to protect its customers.
Following an announcement last week, Swedish-owned online music streamer Spotify is today making its long-awaited debut in the US market. The service, which has well established itself as a game changer in legitimate music services, currently stands second only to iTunes in the digital music revenue for the major European record labels. With over ten million users in Europe and boasting an impressive 15 million song catalogue, it is looking to make a lasting impression stateside, predicting 50 million users in its first year.
Social networking site Twitter has today rolled out a major update to its Android app, according to the Twitter blog, which finally adds push notifications as well as multi-account support.
Hacking group Anonymous has broken into Booz Allen Hamilton, a US-based consulting firm that does a significant amount of business with the Pentagon. This has led to roughly 90,000 email logins and passwords belonging to military personnel to be leaked out onto the internet.
Regular readers of this site know how much we've talked about Google+, Google's new endeavor in the social networking world, in the last few weeks. If you're wondering how well it stacks up against Facebook, this infographic will help.
