Magnet links become the official currency of Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay announced more than two years ago that it would stop supporting .torrent files in favor of magnet links. Today TPB made the change official.The Swedish file hosting site replaced all .torrent files being shared by ......
Facebook and others aim to make the mobile Web a competitive app platform
A coalition of 30 technology companies hopes to turn the Web into a competitive platform for building mobile applications. They have launched a Core Mobile Web Platform (coremob) community group through the W3C to provide...
Snapstream industrial-strength DVR gets Mac browser client
Snapstream is an enterprise-level TV monitoring service. It's used mostly by news organizations and companies to keep an eye on what's happening on television every night, looking for a certain piece of video or bit of text or speech (the Daily Show ...
iOS Web Traffic Trumps Mac OS X For The First Time [Report]
According to a new report, iOS web traffic has surpassed Mac OS X for the first time in history. iOS market share has grown nearly 50% over the last 6 months, and Apple’s mobile products are now driving more web traffic while the Mac’s...How To Set Up Super Quick Web Searches In Alfred [OS X Tip]
The latest update to Alfred adds a selection of smart new features, one of which is a new way of grabbing selected text from any Mac app and pushing it straight into one of your other Alfred actions – such as a web search,...Huge portions of the Web vulnerable to hashing denial-of-service attack
Researchers have shown how a flaw that is common to most popular Web programming languages can be used to launch denial-of-service attacks by exploiting hash tables. Announced publicly on Wednesday at the Chaos Communication Cong...
Apple More Popular Than Wal-Mart On The Web [Report]
comScore is reporting that Apple was ranked as the 13th most-trafficked web source during the month of November, attracting more hits than companies like Wal-Mart, eBay, VEVO, and ESPN. Apple saw 79 million unique US visits while Wal-Mart saw almost 59...Raven Browser Offers New Ideas, But Don’t Make It Your Default Just Yet [Review]
Raven is a new browser for OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion), currently in beta. What sets it apart from the rest is a sleeker appearance, and a Twitter-esque side panel called the Smart Bar. What does this Bar do? It acts as a...Google’s New iOS App Gets It Right [Review]
The revamped Google Search app for iOS, which we reported on yesterday, is a huge improvement on what went before. It’s slick, speedy, and simple. Everything you want in a web search app. Enter your query and results show up as you type, thanks...Evernote Introduces “Clearly” Chrome Extension for Easier Web Reading and Clipping
Earlier today Evernote, note-taking/clipping/memory service that comes with a variety of web, desktop and mobile apps, has announced a new standalone product after Peek: Clearly. Available as a Chrome extension for now, but coming soon to other browsers, Clearly allows users to enjoy a distraction-free reading environment on the web so that articles, like this...
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
Adobe and the Open Spoon Foundation are preparing to open up development of the Flex SDK. They plan to donate the technology to “an established open source foundation” so that the Flex community and other stakeholders...
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
Adobe and the Open Spoon Foundation are preparing to open up development of the Flex SDK. They plan to donate the technology to “an established open source foundation” so that the Flex community and other stakeholders...
