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Cell Phone Scam, thats actually kind of legit!
Have you received this email? “Thought this was good info from the Gov’t of Canada ….if you have a cell phone. REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month. REMINDER….. all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. …. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE [...]
Apple says iMessage and FaceTime down for some users.
iMessage and Facetime are both down for some users. According to Apple, the outage started just a little after 3 PM Eastern Time. There is not yet an ETA on when the issues will be resolved. For more information, check Apple’s system status page. Are Facetime and iMessage out for you?
How to stop your friends’ Facebook apps from accessing *your* private information
Many internet users are wary of sharing their personal information willy-nilly with the world, but did you know that sometimes it’s your friends who might be unwittingly passing your private details on?
Word Lens: The iPhone app that translates whatever you show it.
Only one word was uttered when we first saw the video (below) of the Word Lens app: wow. But we’re cynical and wizened enough not to be taken in by a flashy demo video. Does this app actually manage on-the-fly, augmented reality translation? It only blooming does. The first thing to note is while [...]
BlackBerry CEO wary of producing a PlayBook sequel
The BlackBerry PlayBook was not one of BlackBerry’s (BBRY) more successful products, which is why CEO Thorsten Heins is understandably wary about producing a sequel in the near future. Australia’s Herald Sun reports that while speaking at the BlackBerry Z10 launch in Australia this week, Heins said that he didn’t want to produce a followup [...]
USA is number one! (…for spam)
The recent majority of spam may not be ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ but it is getting pushed through American computers. According to the latest stats from SophosLabs, the USA is back on top as the world’s leading spam-relaying country. In the last three months, almost one fifth of all global spam has come from computers in [...]