Facebook Privacy

The new facebook privacy settings have been put up. you can make your profile private on a post to post bases. you can make certain pictures, videos, and status' private. You must change your privacy settings so you do not show up on an ad on someone else's profile. also friends of friends can see all of your information. and you could be "facebook stalked"...

2009 best of Apple

some of the best selling apps for the year of 2009 are the sims 3 and oregon trail. som of the best selling movies are Twilight and Star Trek. The top selling song was Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas. i think that it is very sad that it was the best selling song since there are so many other songs that have lyrics that actually mean something...

Driod Gets names "gadget of the year"

Verizon's Driod phone was recently named gadget of the year over at&t's iPhone. it was mainly because verizon has a much better network than at&t. it is also because the Droid has a physical keyboard and a touch screen, rather than the keyboard on the screen. Driod is the "best phone on verizon"

at&t's coverage sucks

at&t admis to having terrible coverage in San Fran and New York. they are planning to charge more money. They say that they are working on their network

Windows 7 complaints

In late october Windows came out with a new system called Windows 7. Like all other windows systems, there have already been many complaints about problems. 31% of the clients that bought it have reported problems about the new system. The complaints have mostly been about the installation or application of windows 7. Other users experience glitches even after they fully upload the system. Hopefully as they make more changes, the system will get better and more people will be happy with it.

CrunchPad renamed joojoo

the CrunchPad was not going to be released but the company renamed it and released it on their own. It has a 12.1 inch touch screen and goes directly to a web browser with internet access via WiFi. Right now the sale price of the device is $500. Fuse garage claims they never had a contract with Michael Arrington. but he says they broke a contract they had. The device goes on sale on friday so we will see how well it sells.

apple buys lala

Apple has recently bought the music streaming service, Lala.com. Lala makes streams available at a higher stream and lower cost then their competetors. Lala even has an iPhone app that lets you download the stream straight to your phone for as little as 10 cents a song. The app is not available to the public yet. who knows, it might be better than iTunes...

TechCrunch is dead

TechCrunch was a device that was names one of the 10 most amazing products of the year by popular mechanics. Apparently the product is now "dead" mostly because of greed, jealousy, and miscommunication. There was a falling out with there business parter and there might not be a future of the product.

"Pulp Fiction" writer tweets from jail?

Roger Avery started writing these tweets on September 26th, which is around the time he was sentenced to jail. His first post was "FADE IN," which is the beginning of a screenplay. Other posts have been about his jail life. "Night falls, and the only real activity is an endless recounting of the terrible and pointless events that brought us all to this sad place," was his November 2 post. No one can confirm that it has been Robert Avery writing these tweets but the account is linked to his personal website.

An executive from def jam records has been arrested

Apparently an executive from a record company was arrested for NOT tweeting. There was an event held for the singer Justin Bieber at the Rosevelt field mall and it turned into a riot. Crowds were too big and the police told Justin Biebers label to post a tweet telling people to exit the mall. The executive did not do what the police asked and he was charged with endangering the wellfare of a minor and obstructing government administration.

Ongoing war between Microsoft and Google

Microsoft is willing to pay large publishers to de-list themselves from google. They want "bing" to be the only server that would be able to look up things like "The Wall Street Journal" and "Myspace." Most people think it is to force google to pay for things they can look up. This does not concern Google very much though.

File sharing laws in the UK pay harsh penalties

File sharing is bringing very harsh penalties to anyone suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted materials. The new digital economy bill will fine people who are caught illegally downloading music and movies. The fine is about 50 thousand pounds, which is about 80 thousand dollars. There is also a three strikes rule which is if the user is still downloading illegal files after receiving 2 warnings, they could have their household internet suspended.

CYBERCROOKS

Since 2006, nearly 3,200 account hijacking cases have been reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. they can do it through updating status's or sending messages. All you have to do is click on the link and they can get personal information through fake websites, like all of those website that give you "free gifts" or other things. It is happening all over facebook, myspace, and twitter.

Free games for ZUNE, iPod is still better.

The new zune, version 4.3 has been released it has a touch screen and has many new games. The update doesn't include a twitter application, or a facebook application which is what everyone wants very much. The zune developers are hoping to have those apps in the near future. In my opinion iPods are better, and they do have twitter and facebook apps on the iTouch, so they win :]

Modern Warfare 2: game everyone loves

When the game came out it already sold 4.7 million copies. It was the fastest selling video game and had the largest entertainment launches ever. Analysts are predicting that the game will sell over 12 million copies before the end of the year, which is only one month away!

Obama does not have twitter?

Many people are following President Obama on twitter, what most did not know is that it is not him. At a conference he admitted that he has never used twitter. Kind of weird for the people that are following him right?

Russia Bans Videogame

Russia decided to ban one of the most popular videogames right now, call of duty:modern warfare 2. The game has a level where you are shooting a bunch of people in a RUSSIAN airport, which is what made them want to ban it. The game makers are going to take that level out and hopefully Russia will re-release it, but it is possible that it will always be banned in Russia.

AOL fires

AOL needs to fire 2,500 people. They are asking for volunteers to leave as part of the companies restructuring. the AOL downsizing isn't just affecting people. It has hired bankers to sell off its ICQ messaging service and is considering dumping MapQuest, among other assets.

Amazon Basics

Amazon basics is a low cost amazon branded line of products. They have assorted data cables and blank media. the prices are way lower than their name brand competitors. It could force all electronic prices down.

He-man "kicked to the curb"

Warner Bros recently decided not to make the He-man Masters of the Universe a motion picture. In 2007, the toy company Matell and Warner Bros got together to make this movie, but Warner Bros has now decided against it. I guess He-man's home town Eternia will not be brought to life.