"Control Your Info" - they hijack hundreds of Facebook groups

Facebook groups are under attack -- Facebook was hit on Tuesday by a well-meaning intruder called "Control your info" who took over hundreds of peoples groups as a way of sending a message: "Think about the safety in your social media life to the same extent you do in your real life."

According to Control Your Info, when an administrator steps down, anyone can take over a group, view members' personal information, and change group information to say whatever they want. So, in order to take control of a Facebook group, all you really have to do is [...]

Windows 7 dominates October OS sales

Ricardo Trejo Nov 10, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Microsoft

Let's be fair, Windows has had quite a leg up on the competition when it comes to market penetration. Its operating systems is the staple to all PC's around the globe. I like to think of Apple's products as the stylish higher-end stuff that isn't necessarily "better" per se, but classier to say the least. That said, Windows 7 dominated sales in October over both Apple's Snow Leopard and Linux combined. We can only imagine the margin to grow wider over the holiday season when millions of people will be getting PC's, laptops, and netbooks as gifts.

[DownloadSquad via ArsTechnica]

Making yourself "Future-Proof"

Ricardo Trejo Nov 10, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gadgets

Kokugamer has an interesting article about the rise of technology and how to not get caught offguard buying the shiny stuff at the wrong time.

One of the few guidelines mentioned is patience. As we saw with early adopters of the iPhone, they paid a substantially more amount of money than those who waited. Although, you could say the Original iPhone users did win out because their contracts were ending around the time the 3GS was released - giving them the chance to get it at a discounted price by upgrading and renewing their contracts.

Patience wins out when it comes to software and hardware. Kinks and bugs line the streets up once a product has gone to market, so giving yourself a set period of time to wait, about 6 months to a yearm can give you a wiser outlook on if the purchase would be worth the money and your time. I mean, if you went out and bought every so called "iPhone killer" you heard on an ad, then you'd have about 5 phones and a whole lot of moths in your wallet.

Read the whole article at Kokugamer

Jailbroken iPhones Get Rick Rolled

Nick Mahar Nov 10, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Applications, Design, Gadgets, Gaming, Hacks, How to, Humor, Industry News, Internet, Mobile, News, Videos, Websites, iPhone

It's about time that someone did this. A hacker by the name of "ikee" created what apparently is the first iPhone worm, though it only affects jailbroken phones currently in Australia. The way it is able to control you phone is that when you jail break the phone every default root password is changed to "alpine", which makes password protection null-in-void. The system changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and attempts to install itself on other jailbroken phones across the network. We highly recommend you change your root just to be safe. For more information check out www.tuaw.com


-NM

When is Nokia N900 coming? Very soon - It's shipping now!

Brandon Davenport Nov 10, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gadgets, Mobile, News

Finally, the N900 is headed to our pockets very soon. According to Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the eagerly awaited gadget is now en route to some lucky pre-order customers. The Maemo 5 device features a 3.5-inch 800x480 pixel (resistive) touchscreen, sliding QWERTY, 32GB of on-board storage expandable to 48GB via microSD, GPS/A-GPS, FM transmitter, TV-out, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi, 1320mAh battery, and 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash.

Nokia's official blog says to expect it to arrive in "Europe, the Middle-East, Russia and North America" very shortly. Also, it won't be compatible with the new 3G SIM cards from 3 in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Austria until a software update hits sometime later this year.

[via Engadget]

Dear Diary, Google Wave - Part 2

Dear Diary, Google Wave - Days 3, 4, 5:

Still no invites sadly, but I'm keeping my hope alive. 

So before I go a little in depth on Wave let me answer a few questions. Why is Google Wave such a big deal? What does it do? And why should it be important to you?

Google's definition of Wave is this: 

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Continued after the break [...]

Dear Diary, Google Wave - Part 1

Google Wave - Day 1

Finally got my Wave invite... it's cold and lonely...

Let me back up a bit to earlier this week, Monday I believe. I found a swell fellow who was willing to send out a Google Wave invite over Twitter. Dude was just shouting off on a soapbox and sending them to unknowns, which was awesome, and I was able to nab one. Well, earlier today I received an email alerting me that my invite was ready. A simple click on a link, then signed onto my Google account, and viola I was all set to 'Wave.  There was a sense of accomplishment of just getting into this exclusive party, but there was one problem: I was alone in the club. Yes, I was now taking part in a new "ground breaking" communications tool, but there was no one to communicate with. Continued after the break [...]