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  • Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Launches $100M Startup

    Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a blog post confirming his commitment to Newark’s public school system with $100 million foundation called Startup: Education. Saying that, “Education has always been important to me and my family,” Zuckerberg then goes into length about his views on education and the, “many different challenges all facing education…

  • Here come “Super Wi-Fi”

    The Federal Communications Commission just cleared a path for a new generation of “Super Wi-Fi” technologies. What is Super Wi-Fi? Its not an entirely new concept. Its a new Wi-Fi transmission on entirely new spectrum. Many of you know that present Wi-Fi activity takes place on 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz frequencies, for the first time FCC…

  • “Seabird”–Android Based Concept Phone from Mozilla

    Last week, people were buzzing over Facebook Phone, now its time to give some to Mozilla. Earlier today, Mozilla labs unveiled Seabird – an Android based concept phone. You may have seen a lot of mobile phone concepts, but the one you are going to see below will blow you away, seriously this is one…

  • Facebook Down, Huge Outage

    Facebook servers presently are not able to handle the load of their 500+ million users and have been out for a while now.     Facebook’s Status page gives few more details –   Latency issues resolved Sep 22, 2010 5:08pm The API latency issues we were experiencing this morning have been resolved. Sorry for…

  • McAf.ee Creates Secure Short URLs

    Antivirus Software company McAfee (which recently acquired by Intel) started new safe secure short URL service Mcaf.ee.   For cosmoGeek, I got the following short URL – http://mcaf.ee/c1487 If you click on it and carefully observe it, you can see how the sites are reviewed and the top frame shows the result.   So why…

  • Twitter ‘onmouseover’ security flaw widely exploited

    Twitter which recently gave complete new design to its users (still in rolling phase), got hit by latest XSS bug. Upon mouse hovering a link in a tweet – it doesn’t even ask you to click – you might redirect to any website (spammers are currently using this to redirect to pornographic and gaming websites)!…

  • Hate CAPTCHAs? Here comes ‘Solve Media’

    Hate dealing with crummy captchas – the squiggly, indecipherable text strings web sites often force you to read and regurgitate for security reasons? Here comes a new innovative Solve Media way of doing this. The New York start-up isn’t getting rid of captchas, but it does promise to make them more tolerable: It says it…

  • Facebook: “We Are Not Building A Phone”

    Facebook has responded to the rumors on Facebook Phone with a classic non-denial denial. Facebook representative Jaime Schopflin in a statement to Mashable said “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Facebook is not building a phone.” Here’s Schopflin’s entire statement, via Mashable: “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Facebook…

  • 6 Simple Reasons To Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPod Touch?

    When you first hear about the ability to Jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch – you are probably thinking – Why should I do this? The two main reasons are to allow programs to run that Apple doesn’t approve of and to customize the look of your device. The following are some of the top…

  • What is Jailbreaking?

      What is Jailbreaking? If you just heard of the iPhone or iPod Touch, chances are you never heard about Jailbreaking or unlocking your device. Technical Definition of Jailbreak: The iPhone, iPod touch & iPad hack that allow users to gain access to the entire Unix filesystem. In Unix terms, this refers to changing the…

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