So it’s Saturday night and you’re out with friend. Are they the inconsiderate jerk who can’t stop checking their smartphone? Or is that you
Those of us who have been following the social gaming industry already know that Zynga makes up a big portion of Facebook’s revenues. But lots of public investors only seem to have gotten the memo on Wednesday evening, when Facebook’s S-1 filing revealed that the developer accounts for 12% of its total revenues , or $445 million. In the two days since, Zynga’s stock has gone up more than 26%, to close at $13.39 this evening.
I just donated $40 to Wikipedia, because I promised myself I would every time I poked fun at its holiday donation drive and then just never got around to it. Did you know that you could actually donate during the off-season (Via the covert “Donate to Wikipedia” link at the far left of each individual entry page)? I didn’t, before I asked Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales whether it was possible to donate in the off-season.
In interesting but ultimately not very shocking news, Google has signed on as a major sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference , which is more or less what it sounds like. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
A spam botnet brought down four months ago, which was once capable of pumping out almost four billion spam messages a day,?remains very much dead, two of the companies behind the takedown said. That determination, announced late Friday by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab representatives, contradicted published reports, including one from Ars , that claimed the network of infected computers had been resurrected. There’s no evidence that control of Kelihos, which also went by the name Hlux, has returned to the control of its creators, the companies said. Read the comments on this post
It’s a sad fact of life that over time, all of our computers get a little bit slower. Before you start shelling out for a new machine, take some time this weekend to perform some maintenance tasks, upgrade a single piece of hardware, or even overclock your machine for a little speed boost.
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Should you ever find yourself with a strike anywhere match but no suitable surface to light it, your pants zipper is a perfect an always-available backup plan. Just be careful not to catch your pants on fire. Thanks for the tip Bulljargon .
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It’s never easy to listen to something you don’t want to hear, which is exactly why you should outsource some of your important decisions to less-invested friends and confidants. In some cases, giving up a little control can even save your life. More??
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OS X Lion has been out for over a week now, and now that you’ve had a chance to try Lifehacker’s 10 favorite secret features of the new operating system, here’s five more to test out over the weekend. More??
The iPad isn’t just a hot new consumer device, it’s also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise. This week we take a look at a new document viewer, and an updated app for giving giving presentations on mobile devices. Sponsor DocStorm DocStorm is a new iPad document viewer for PDFs, txt files and ePubs
Has everyone recovered from their post-Lion-installation hangovers yet? Or have you been putting it off in hopes of avoiding new OS headaches? Either way, this week’s top Apple news at Ars was delightfully light on Lion, instead focusing on the Apple battery “hack,” updates to iOS reading apps, a hard drive recall, and the new MacBook Air’s innards. And that’s just the beginning! How a security researcher discovered the Apple battery “hack” : Security researcher Charlie Miller has found a way to hack the “smart” batteries in Apple’s laptops, which could result in a non-functioning—or worse, exploding—battery
Just under a month ago LinkedIn terminated API access to a handful of third-party services like Beknown and Branchout. If you haven’t noticed the trend here of late, let me break it down for you.
In May Google open-sourced a BigTable-inspired key-value database library called LevelDB under a BSD license. It was created by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat of the BigTable project at Google . It’s available for Unix based systems, Mac OS X, Windows, and Android.
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