Google Reader shares private data, ruins Christmas
Update 2007-12-25: Got posted to /. homepage. The discussion continues there. — Update 2007-12-26: Reactions from Scoble, Mashable, ParisLemon, more. — As each day Google hoards more of your data...
Worker runs up £27k mobile bill
EXCLUSIVE: Factory worker runs up £27,000 mobile bill in a month — It's good to talk... unless you fail to read the smallprint on your new mobile phone contract and end up with a bill for £27,322. ...
Storm-Bot stripshow analysis
Merry Christmas from the RBN. Now on a PC near you, a stripshow from Santa's helpers. Or not. — The ISC reported the expected Storm surge Christmas eve at 0000 GMT. — hxxp://merrychristmas.com/s...
Consumers Who Watch TV Online More Engaged Than TV-Set Watchers, Simmons Finds
CONSUMERS ARE 47% MORE ENGAGED in ads that run with television programs that they view online than those watched on a TV set, according to new research findings. — A cross-media study by Simmons …
Send email attachments up to 5GB with AOL's Xdrive
While most web-based email services have file attachment size limits, there are plenty of ways around those limitations. MailBigFile, YouSendIt, Driveway, and other services all let you “park” large ...
Apple and Google, telecom's new stars
It was Apple and Google—not the traditional phone companies AT&T and Verizon Communications—that took center stage in the telephony market in 2007. — In January, Apple announced the iPhone and named...
Facebook is so last year - welcome to the hit websites of 2008
Virtual pets, video diaries and travellers' logs could be the next stars of cyberspace — For many in the dotcom world, 2007 was dominated by one story: the rise of Facebook. The success of the soci...
HoHoHo: Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank
Spanish tech site Techtear is reporting that Digg may have acquired Spanish social voting site Menéame and possibly coRank as well. — A sort of translation of what Techtear is saying
Quiet year for tech on Capitol Hill
Democrats in 2007 controlled both chambers of Congress for the first time in a dozen years—and with the power shift came a scattershot year for technology policy. — Sweeping initiatives like elevati...