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College students do care about Facebook privacy, it turns out, and their use of the service's privacy settings has skyrocketed between 2009 and 2010, according to two researchers.
Either Digg hates new users or we're about to see the changeover to Digg v4.0. As of this morning, new account registration has closed for Digg. Attempting to create an account yields this message: "The New Digg Is Coming..."
Apple's got a new product, again, but this time it's not a computer, digital music device, or tablet, it's... a battery charger.
Apparently, RIM is gearing up to unveil a tablet sometime in November and guess what? It actually will be called the Blackpad.
Connecting people to one another is not just Fake’s hobby — she has made it her career. As the cofounder of Flickr, the landmark photography site, Fake provided a place for shutterbugs to share their work; they have uploaded more than 4 billion pictures. It was a seminal service that helped launch the era of user-generated content, spurring...
When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles.
Today is the 11th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, but IT workers who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running won’t see a lot to celebrate in a new report that shows their pay dropping and more of their jobs being farmed out to even cheaper labor.
Chinese users were temporarily unavailable to access search, but Google said the blockage may have been overestimated and that service appears back to normal.
After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1.
Senators compare the Internet to the world's creepiest mall, one where someone follows you into bookstores and ladies' lingerie shops, recording all of your purchases. Also, you may unwittingly lose your soul.
"... Why is Slashdot almost irrelevant to the social media community? It used to be the biggest driver of traffic to tech web sites, but now it hardly delivers any traffic at all to them. We explore some of the reasons, including input from our own community. Slashdot Has Lost Users to Competitors. Much of the reason why Slashdot isn't ..."
Every big publisher on the Web wants to be able to serve up ad-friendly videos, but creating them can be a pain. Answers.com has quietly launched Video Answerswith about 200,000 videos from video distribution network 5min on everything from home repair and fashion tips to cars and travel.
20 helpful tips and tricks to totally utilize iPhoto's features and become the ultimate power user. Your friends will never look at your photo albums the same way.
Developing a Windows-based alternative to the iPad is a "job one urgency" at Microsoft, company chief Steve Ballmer said today during the annual Financial Analysts Meeting. He admitted that Microsoft was uncomfortable with how well iPads were selling and was tuning both its software and hardware partnerships to provide a competitive option.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a new, but experienced kid on the block. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Some of the features added in Photoshop CS5 are Puppet Warp, 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé, smart radius feature, Content-Aware Fill to name a few.
Those of you looking for your 15 minutes of fame are in luck. YouTube announced Thursday that it has increased the maximum length of uploaded videos from 10 minutes to 15 minutes for all users.
From camera & multimedia to storage, take a look at the specs for the new Motorola Droid X and the latest iPhone 4.
Shoes for the fashion conscious geek......
When that fateful day comes where you find yourself suddenly unable to harp on your fantasy league because the Internet has been hijacked, fear not. There's a plan for that.
In the second quarter of 2010, Google posted revenues $5.1 billion with advertising accounting for 96% of its revenues, 66% of its total revenue. Not intending to rely on traditional search advertising, Google is said to be readying a huge push into mobile with the aim of securing revenues of $10 billion a year with the help of its Android OS
Check out 10 of the best Safari 5 extensions, and how to enable them in Apple’s latest release of Safari.
Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.
Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.
Never assume you're safe. Follow these tips before you cash out.
TechCrunch reader checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message.
As we worked on this years 15th Dream Machine, we couldn't help but think about how far we've come. From the original 200MHz, 8MB-of-RAM 1996 Dream Machine up to this years 12-core, 24-thread, 24-gigs-of-RAM version, the ultimate computer has grown exponentially more powerful. But that's not much of a shocker (we've all heard about Moore's Law).
The Internet has been around for a while now, and at this point we don't know what we'd do without it. Despite having ample time to adapt their sites to meet current trends and expectations, some people just don't get it. Here are 50 of the Web's most face-numbingly bad sites, all still active today.
Something weird is happening to mobile phones: After shrinking from enormous Zack Morris proportions in the '80s and '90s, they're getting bigger again. The Dell Streak, which is set to be released in the U.S. later this summer, is the biggest of the big-daddy phones so far, with a 5-inch screen.
I remember using it back in 1997 with my 20th Anniversary...
A timeline of Interwebz progress.
The internet is wrought with all kinds of dangers for your computer, as well as for your personal information. Here's a look at some of these dangers, from trojans and spyware to worms and hackers.
It didn't take long for adult entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services. In at least five cities, Craigslist ads seek models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. Many of the ads even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees.
