Vodafone’s obviously been looking at all that lovely social media stuff on the HTC Hero and the Motorola DEXT. The networks’s just launched its own suite of social media services called Vodafone 360. Vodafone 360 is its own specially created interface mashing together info from Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Twitter, Google Talk and more right into your contacts [...]

Facebook agreed on Thursday to give its worldwide users better protection over their personal information as the result of negotiations with Canada’s privacy commissioner.
The changes will give users of the social networking website more transparency and control over the information they provide to third-party developers of applications such as games and quizzes, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer [...]

We heard about the new Facebook 3.0 iPhone update a few weeks ago, and after Apple taking its time in approving it, it’s now available from the App Store.Even better news is that the app is now even better than the first one that was submitted.After submitting it, developer Joe Hewitt started tinkering with the [...]

As if we already don’t know enough! Soon Twitter will be overloading you with another piece of information, the “location” of your tweets.
GPS is getting increasingly integrated into our lives, and has had some brilliant applications in cameras and mobiles, by providing location sensitive services we couldn’t have thought of before. No longer do we [...]

A new playlist can be created in the iTunes 9 and shared with a Facebook account.
Almost a week back, buzz about upcoming iTunes 9 integrating Blu Ray Discs, Social media and App organization support had surfaced. Now, screenshots of purported iTunes 9 beta build software depicts Facebook playlist integration and third party device support. The [...]

An anonymous user of Pirate Bay, a massively popular website for downloading pirated music and movies, has placed an archive of the entire site online for anyone to download. The file can be found at — where else? — Pirate Bay. How meta.
Fearing the site’s demise, more than 2,200 people have started downloading the file, called TPB [...]

Google Chrome developers have announced that it’s working on a feature to sync your internet bookmarks to your Google account. The feature will launch for developers later this month but will come to consumer versions of Chrome soon. It’s just for bookmarks at the moment but Google Chrome OS will do the same with your data. Bookmark synching [...]

One of the most popular activities on the microblogging service Twitter is sharing links. However, this activity is also one of the most dangerous, too. Ever since Twitter gained in popularity, hackers and spammers have been using the service to direct traffic to their unsavory web sites. For the end user, clicking on those bad links [...]

There was report that Facebook and Twitter users reporting en-masse of a Twitter takeover of their Facebook walls several hours ago which was reported in Mashable.
The report said that anyone with the Twitter or Friendfeed app installed on Facebook saw their posts being automatically pushed to their Facebook feeds which had affected Facebook Beacon settings.
Now, [...]

Windows 7 has yet to even be released officially to the general public, and already the dodgy folk on the Internet have fully cracked and activated the Ultimate version, with help from a leaked Lenovo OEM DVD .ISO file.The news comes from various Chinese forums who state that you can already pass Windows Genuine Advantage [...]

If there are multiple Google AdSense ad units on a web page, it is generally assumed that the top ad unit (the one which appears first in the HTML source code) will serve the highest paying CPC ads. Well, that may be true most of the times but not always. Let’s understand why.
But before you [...]

Government uses both blunt and surgical tools to stifle dissidents, hacker says
One month after a disputed presidential election sparked widespread unrest in Iran, the country’s government has initiated a cyber-crackdown that is challenging hackers across the globe to find new ways to help keep Iranian dissidents connected to the Web.
While the government’s initial efforts to censor [...]

I’ve owned a lot of iPods.
Not anymore.
For the longest time, I could use gtkpod to seamlessly access my iPods from my Ubuntu desktop. It initially took some reverse-engineering effort to understand the iPod’s data format to be able to access it from non-iTunes software, but it was possible. All of a sudden, Apple is trying everything [...]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologise in a post to the Kindle Community forum on Amazon’s Web site, as negative reviews from DefectiveByDesign.org campaign supporters criticizing the Kindle’s use of proprietary software and Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to remotely delete ebooks continued to pour in.
Bezos said:
“This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold [...]

Time to update your Pre, Palm’s just released webOS 1.1.0. Quite a bit of changes here, but most importantly, the patch notes say that it “resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (8.2.1)” — that issue, of course, being a blockade put in place by Apple just one week ago. [...]