Steven Hodson

“Cruelty-Free” Label Misunderstood By Consumers

Normally when we buy products we don’t check to see if any of them have caused cruelty to animals during the testing and manufacturing of the items but it seems according to a new study that consumers misunderstand what the term “cruelty-free” means anyway. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri and […]

12y ago

money

Mobile Carriers Lose $58B From Problematic Billing Systems In 2011

Mobile companies are making lots of money, as anyone with ridiculous cellphone bills will rant about, but not much is said about how, even with all those profits, those same companies are also losing money. According to a new study courtesy of Juniper Research these losses are no small amounts either, but in fact can […]

12y ago

The Top 10 Cars That Are A Favorite With The Ladies

Personally I had never thought that cars with the exception of the muscle cars of the 70’s and 80’s (there were a few) was ever broken down to a male female demographic. Sure there is the old married and single demographic but apparently the female car buying demographic is a real thing that is closely […]

12y ago

The Unreal Game Engine Being Used By The FBI In Training Software

Anyone who has played Gears of War or Mass Effects will probably recognize the name Unreal Game Engine as that is the powerhouse gaming engine that powers two of gaming’s biggest titles, and it seems that it will be now powering software to be used by FBI trainees. In a deal with Virtual Heroes, a […]

12y ago

Twitter

School Principal Admits To Tracking Student Tweets After Expelling Student For Profane Tweets

Here’s some news that should send terror into the hearts of every student who uses Twitter without considering what they are posting to the service for all the world, oh and their friends. It seems that Austin Carroll at Garrett High School in Garrett Indiana was minding his own business and talking with friends on […]

12y ago

microsoft

Microsoft And US Marshals Take Down Botnet [Video]

Botnet’s are a curse on the web as they are used to spam us with emails and to help spread malware. In the last couple of years Microsoft has taken some interesting steps to try and get the bigger botnets taken out of action. Using the court and laws that already exist on the books […]

12y ago

FBI|supreme court

FBI Claims That The Recent Supreme Court GPS Ruling Is Too Hard On Them

Back at the end of February I passed along the news that after the Supreme Court had given the FBI a little bit of a smack down with it came to warrantless GPS tracking that the FBI claimed that they would have to shut off some 3,000 GPS tracking units already in play. Now we […]

12y ago

India

Call Center Workers Caught Selling Private Consumer Information For Pennies

There is no getting around – we hate call centers, especially those that are run by companies in foreign countries; but now it seems that we might also have good reason to lower our trust level even further when it comes to dealing with them. Reporters for The Sunday Times went undercover in India recently […]

12y ago

money|stock market|Twitter

Study Says Twitter Able To Predict The Stock Market

According to researchers at the University of California, who teamed up with researchers at Yahoo! in Spain, Twitter enables us to read patterns within Twitter streams that might be able to let us predict trends in stock prices. Where most other studies that have looked at this question by measure the correlation between Twitter and […]

12y ago

Landmark Ruling Says BitTorrent Downloads Are Protected Anonymous Speech

Some days it seems like there are tidal shifts in technology and how it is used when it comes to the law and today was one of those days when we see a huge shift in the law because of one judge’s rulings. One of the things that has always been in contention when it […]

12y ago

Those Pirate Bay Flying Drones As Servers – It’s Already Being Done [Video]

The other day I wrote about how the Pirate Bay was seriously investigating the use of GPS controlled flying drones to act as file servers for the Pirate Bay site. Well, it seems that this has already been done, and quite successfully it would seem. After reading about what the Pirate Bay was planning Liam […]

12y ago

Apple|china|ipad

Over 200,000 New iPads Reportedly Already Smuggled Into China

Beside being a great country that can infringe on copyrighted material quicker than you can change your pants China is also well known for its love of anything technology based but especially for its love of apple and its products, when they are making copies of those products that is. Which means with the release […]

12y ago

google

Hotfile, And Indirectly Megaupload, Get Some Surprise Help From Google In Court

Okay, things just got interesting. For those of you not keeping up with the whole Megaupload and Hotfile court cases suffice it to say that while Kit Dotcom gets a reprieve of sorts in New Zealand, Hotfile was taken to court by the usual entertainment industry trade group. Well it seems that Hotfile, and indirectly […]

12y ago

The Pirate Bay’s Next Servers Could Be GPS Controlled Drones

If there is a poster child for the fight against piracy it would have to be the constant attacks against The Pirate Bay by the entertainment industry and their trade group flacks around the world. They have tried everything from arranging to have the groups servers seized to trying every trick in the book to […]

12y ago

Hollywood

The Hollywood Bunker Built For Hitler – Just In Case

While most everyone will know a little something about World War II not many people, especially the younger generations, will remember that there was an actual Nazi Party in the United States during the lead up to war and during it; although they weren’t that vocal during the war. It also turns out that the […]

12y ago

FAA Reported To Be Revisiting List Of Allowed Personal Electronics On Flights

I never understood how on one hand airplane pilots could now be using Apple iPads as their log books and other flight information but passengers couldn’t use one during taxing, take-off, and landings. It seems that the FAA might finally be wondering the same thing as word is popping up on the web that the […]

12y ago

Five Whole Minutes Of Awesome Action From Space Prison Movie Lockout [Video]

I am a sucker for good action movies. They give you some time to basically unblock your brain, chill out, and enjoy all kinds of mindless mayhem. While I’m personally waiting for the next installment of Riddick (oh be quiet you haters) the upcoming release on April 13 of the space prison movie Lockout is […]

12y ago

Apple|Facebook|instagram|Twitter|yelp

Class-Action Lawsuit Launched Against Path, Apple, Facebook Over Privacy

Path made the news big, and not how they would have liked, when it was found out that they were upload users mobile address books from their smartphones to Path servers without asking permission. While Path worked quickly to rectify the situation, and Apple stepping in to further clarify what Apps could and couldn’t do […]

12y ago

mac

A New Mac OS X Malware Discovered

Now before all you Mac fans start beating your chests and repeating the pointless mantra of Mac’s don’t get viruses or trojan let me calm you down by letting you know that this new malware, while being targeted directly at Macs has not been seen out in the wild. The warning comes from security firm […]

12y ago

British Video Game Award Winners Announced

Just as we have the “so-called” video game awards courtesy of Spike TV so do the British courtesy of their British Academy Video Games Awards (BAFTA), sort of the exact opposite in quality to the silliness we are subjected to every year on this side of the big pond. Yesterday BAFTA announced their choices for […]

12y ago