Mark Zuckerberg Is The Voice Behind The “Poke” Notification Sound And Wrote Code For The App
Mark Zuckerberg invented Poking, one of Facebook's earliest features, so it's fitting he was part of the small team that built the new Poke app over the last 12 days.
Your Facebook Pokes Are Stored For Two Days, Then Their Encryption Keys Are Deleted
Facebook Poke messages self-destruct after a few seconds, but is Facebook saving these potentially embarrassing photos and videos? No. It's deleting them. Pokes are encrypted, and Facebook deletes …
Google finds its design voice on iOS
From the beginning, Google's design sensibilities on the web and Android have been unique. Whether you were a fan of the spare, utilitarian feel of products like Search or not, you knew when you were...
Hacker, Verizon duel over customer record claims
Verizon spokesperson Alberto Canal told ZDNet in an emailed statement: “We have examined the posted data and we have confirmed that it is not Verizon Wireless customer data. Our systems have not been...
Instagram Reversal Doesn't Appease Everyone
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook may have quelled a full-scale rebellion by quickly dumping the contentious new terms of use for Instagram, its photo-sharing service. But even as the social network furiously...
The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed
The New York Times instituted a paywall on its website last year, a controversial move that has yielded great results. — Ever since the New York Times rolled out its so-called paywall in March 2011,...
Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption
Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fa...
Google Chrome 25 will disable silent extension installation, kill all such extensions retroactively
Google on Friday announced that it is changing its stance for silently installing extensions in its browser. As of Chrome 25, external extension deployment options on Windows will be disabled …
iOS 6 bug reenables JavaScript in Safari without user consent
The Safari browser in Apple's iOS 6 platform has a potentially serious JavaScript bug that could have major security and privacy implications. — The new “Smart App Banner” feature in iOS 6 is design...
Flickr offers three months of free Pro access to new and existing users
Flickr, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Yahoo, has given an early Christmas present to all users, offering three months of its Pro service for free. Pro accounts generally cost $24.95 per ...
Mozilla backpedals on Firefox 64-bit for Windows, will keep nightly builds coming after all
Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would never see the light of day. After what he referred to as …
Amazon Instant Video app finally available for LG Google TV, more devices ‘soon’
Google TV users have today been given another option for streaming movies and TV shows in the form of an official Amazon Instant Video app. Amazon's video service joins Netflix, HBO Go …