SimpleGeo Launching ‘Storage’: A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data

SimpleGeo Launching ‘Storage’: A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data: "The story of SimpleGeo is a familiar one: two founders — Matt Galligan and Joe Stump — set off to create location-based games, only to find that the tools they wanted to use to build their apps didn’t exist yet. So they switched gears and decided to build what they wished they had: a suite of tools optimized for the creation of location-based services (which was probably a good call given the explosion of location-aware mobile devices)."

Did Microsoft leave Hotmail open for Dictators? | ZDNet

Did Microsoft leave Hotmail open for Dictators? | ZDNet: "“always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, had been turned off.” This meant anyone using Hotmail in these countries could have their e-mail read by their government-controlled ISPs."

Don’t steal computers belonging to people who know how to use computers.

"When 18-year-old entrepreneur Mark Bao had his MacBook Air stolen from a college dorm lounge in February, he assumed it was gone for good and bought a new one. But a month later, he got the chance to recover his laptop and publicly shame the guy who stole it — by posting a video of the thief’s dance moves to YouTube. How’d he do it?"

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Is Facebook a massive online surveillance program run by the CIA?

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Facebook: Massive online surveillance program run by the CIA?

Operation Farmville: Pacified as many as 85 million people after unemployment rates rose dramatically?

Twitter: 400 billion Tweets, and not one useful bit of data?

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India card Rupay to replace Visa, MasterCard

"National Payments Corporation has at last finalised the proposed unique India Card which once commercially launched would be an domestic alternative to the global real-time payment processing firms like Visa and MasterCard."

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