In the wake of law enforcement’s shutdown of file sharing site Megaupload, the competing service FileSonic decides to shut off public file sharing completely. Users can only download their own files at this time. Additionally, their rewards program was discontinued hours before the file sharing was disabled, leaving many users wondering if they’ll be compensated […]
The hacker collective known as Anonymous claims “the largest attack ever” on ten government and music industry websites yesterday, in retaliation for the U.S. Justice Department’s shutdown of Megaupload. A second wave of attacks continue today, with Anonymous claiming responsibility for taking down MGM Studio’s online store and the New Zealand police’s website. Reportedly, the […]
The U.S. Justice Department shut down commercial file hosting service Megaupload today, accusing them of copyright infringement in excess of one billion dollars. Founder of Megaupload, Kim Schmitz (known as “Kim Dot Com”), was taken into custody along with co-founder and CTO Mathias Ortmann, chief marketing officer Finn Batato, and programmer Bram van der Kolk. […]
The internet’s back on. Everybody okay? No lost limbs? Good. A lot has happened in the last 24 hours since Wikipedia, Reddit, and many other powerful websites went dark to protest SOPA and PIPA. Let’s take a look at the developments, but first a new short video released by New Left Media explaining why PIPA […]
We at Techcitement stand with Wikipedia, Google, Craigslist, MoveOn, WordPress, BoingBoing, Cheezburger, and many other influential websites in protesting the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills currently before the U.S. Congress. (Leaders of The House say they’re dropping SOPA, but it’s not dead yet.) Many of these sites have gone dark today to demonstrate the danger […]
The U.S. House of Representatives put a freeze on SOPA legislation today, as Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia (R) announces he’ll take no further action on the bill. Although a somewhat unexpected move, perhaps it’s unsurprising considering the amount of negative press the controversial legislation has received and the fact that the White House stated […]
Google is my brain, let’s get that out there. Gmail, Google Tasks, Calendar, Gmail Contacts, Picasa Web Albums, Reader, you name it, I’m probably using that Google service. The first thing I did when I got my Palm Pre was set it to not use my Palm profile for anything and instead sync everything it could […]
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is probably not the place you go to find the new piece of consumer tech that is going to make you stand up, have your head spin around, and go “Wow, I really, really, really need to have that.” That doesn’t mean the show has been boring or that there […]
I have this friend Erez. Erez is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Visiting Faculty at Google, and has presented his ngram reader for Google Books at TEDxBoston. Erez is a diverse sort — he’s also worked on genome sequencing, an insole to help seniors keep their balance, and published a ground-breaking paper […]
Day one of CES 2012 sure kicked off to a great start, especially with a bevy of new smartphones announced. Many of the major original equipment manufacturers, even Nokia, have come out with big announcements, though some of them seem a bit odd. Nevertheless, here is a breakdown of some of the more important announcements […]
