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Facebook has announced it has crossed 500m active users – six years after it was first launched.
YouTube has announced it is to invest in original indie content for the site, splashing out a cool $5 million in distribution for a number of independent films. This is a massive change in the way YouTube has worked in the past
Folks who are on a tight budget but were looking forward to enjoying some motion-sensing gaming via the Microsoft Kinect are in for a spot of bad news.
Publisher acquires city-building franchise, readies new version for release next fall. Cities XL French developer Monte Cristo recently shut its doors , but not before selling the rights to its city-building franchise to an unspecified partner.
Hacked ROMs are welcomed with cheers by many folks who want different features on their mobile phones, but it seems that HTC isn’t too happy about some sites distributing its ROMs, and has sent a Cease and Desist letter to ROM website http://shipped-roms.com/ . The letter states that HTC’s intellectual property is being violated with all the usual legal mumbo jumbo followed behind it. Do you think that HTC will be successful in getting the ROMs removed from public consumption, or manage to shut the site down?
There’s a saying I love: “a camel is a horse designed by committee.” A variation is “a volvo is a porsche designed by committee.” Some of the best product advice I’ve ever heard goes something like “damn what the users want, charge towards your dream.” All of these statements are, of course, saying the same thing.
Stop me if this sounds familiar. Last night, we reported on a security exploit discovered by web security consultant George Deglin that would allow a malicious site to quietly harvest a user’s Facebook friend list, email address, and other data
Look who has decided the anti Google campaign. It is none other than one of the top ranked site, Yahoo .
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Google’s YouTube will drop support for Microsoft’s nearly 9-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in just over two weeks, the popular video site has announced. “Support stops on March 13,” said YouTube in an updated Q&A on a page dedicated to older browser support , which was first noticed by Ars Technica . “Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.” IE6 isn’t the only aged browser that YouTube has put on its hit list: It will also stop supporting 2005′s Safari 2.x, 2006′s Firefox 2.x and 2009′s Chrome 3.x.