Facebook "Likejackers" agree to stop sending misleading spam
A US-based advertising firm has promised to stop bombarding Facebook users with fraudulent messages in exchange for Washington State officials dropping a lawsuit that claimed the practice violated a federal antispam statute.
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Mobile (and least-profitable) users spend most time on Facebook
Facebook users spend more time on the social network on their mobile phones, where monetization and revenue is far weaker than on the desktop site.
According to digital analytics firm comScore, Facebook users on mobile phone......
How Steve Jobs Was Convinced To Dress Up As Franklin Roosevelt To Declare War On IBM
Steve Jobs dressing up as Franklin Delano Roosevelt to rally Apple’s troops is one of the weirdest bits of ephemera about Apple history. The internal video — which followed Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl...Apple, Samsung cut some patent claims to keep July 30 trial date in US
Apple and Samsung have both filed motions offering to cut the number of asserted patent claims in half. The purpose of cutting the claims was to keep a proposed July 30 trial date for the...
SRS iWOW-U, A Dongle To Make Your Headphones Sound Better
I’m not a big fan of music processing. As a child of the 1980s, I spent more time tweaking graphic equalizers than I did listening to actual music. And now, I figure if my iPad can’t manage to make an over-compressed MP3 sound good,...iOS 5.1.1 patches URL spoofing flaw, two other security vulnerabilities
The iOS 5.1.1 update released on Monday doesn't just fix a handful of feature bugs—it also patches a security flaw that allowed an attacker to display the URL of one site...
AT&T ready to board the shared data plan train
AT&T has started to embrace the idea of shared family data plans, Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility, told CNET on Tuesday. With this new interest, the company is playing...
Sprint CEO Hands Back $3.25M To Appease Shareholders Who Are Unhappy With Its iPhone Deal
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has handed back $3.25 million of his own salary in a bid to appease shareholders who have been upset by the...iCandy, A Digital Distraction For Kids
Meet iCandy, a device with one, simple purpose: distracting children. The iCandy is a bracket that screws into the bottom of your SLR camera and holds your iPhone out in front of it, ready to entertain children and stop them from getting bored during...Belching dinosaurs may have helped keep their world a hot one
The world inhabited by dinosaurs was typically a hot one, with high levels of greenhouse gasses, lots of water vapor, and no permanent ice sheets. And, according to a new...
PlayForge Confirms Zombie Farm Sequel Is Coming To iOS Within Weeks
PlayForge, the developers behind the popular undead farming sim Zombie Farm, have confirmed that a sequel will make its App Store debut within the coming weeks, bringing plenty of “changes and upgrades.”...Amtrak Trains To Use iPhones As eTicket Scanners [Report]
Apple’s iPhone is about to be implemented into the American railroad system in a big way. Amtrak, the government agency that oversees the nation’s train services, will be adopting the iPhone as a digital ticket scanner. The 1,700 conductors...
