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TechCrunch IT
Michael Arrington announced yesterday the launching of a new blog, TechCrunchIT. The blog will be edited by Steve Gillmor and Nik Cubrilovic.
The site is focused on the enterprise tech space - all the software, technologies, standards, platforms, etc. that help companies do their thing, and form the building blocks of the products we feature on [...]
Firefox 3 Download Day
June 17, 2008
Mozilla Launches New Sync Project
Mozilla (the makers of Firefox) have introduced a new project they’re working on called Weave. Weave allows a user running Firefox 3, which is currently still in beta, to sync their user data with Mozilla’s servers. This is great because it allows you to keep your data synced across multiple computers and phones wherever you [...]
TechCrunch to Endorse Presidential Candidate
TechCrunch has opened a poll for readers to vote on which candidate they would like TechCrunch to endorse. What makes this poll a bit different is TechCrunch will be endorsing two presidential candidates, one from each party. You can vote once a day.
TechCrunch has also been interviewing each candidate on technology issues which you can [...]
Facebook Apologizes for Beacon
The New York Times has an article on their Bits blog about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook apologizing for their Beacon program and now allowing users to opt-out completely instead of having to opt-out on a per site basis. This is a nice gesture, but I feel that Beacon should have been an opt-in program from [...]
Facebook Beacon Alert
Aaron Brazell has released a Firefox extension that alerts a user when they are visiting a site that participates in the Facebook Beacon program to better judge if they want to continue using the site and have their information shared with Facebook.
EFF confirms Bittorrent Interfence by Comcast
Ars Technica reported yesterday about a study published by the EFF that confirms Comcast is interfering with bittorrent traffic regardless if its being used legally to share things that are public domain. I’ve noticed this myself when using bittorrent to download Ubuntu ISO’s. This study confirms what was reported in October by the Associated Press.
“Comcast [...]
Gmail now offers Free IMAP.
As reported earlier on TechCrunch, Google has begun offering free IMAP support for all gmail accounts. This is excellent because it now keeps all email clients in sync which is especially useful on mobile phones and pda’s that don’t support the gmail java app. My free gmail account has the settings for turning on IMAP, [...]
