An Israeli hacker responding to a message board challenge has cracked the DRM protections on Kindle for PC, allowing users to convert books to a more portable Mobi format.
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A whole bunch of tech sites were down for a time today when Rackspace had a server issue at their Dallas Fort Worth data center.
In addition to the Inquisitr, Mashable, TechCrunch and Threadless were among the potential ...
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An Alabama TV station learned the hard way that live feeds from Twitter on your billboard, particularly when juxtaposed with an image of your news team, may not be such a fantastic idea when left unchecked.
Mashable confirmed ...
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In other news, AOL is still around.
AOL announced rebranding plans sunday, losing the all-caps "AOL" and changing the brand's name to the much catchier and sensical "Aol." (Owl? Awl?) Along with the new pronunciation being rolled out ...
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Who gets better toys, the naughty list or the nice list?
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A week ago I, Kyle the Invincible!, was hit by an injection attack on the majority of my own sites, and it took a large handful of hours to even figure out what was wrong. Once I ...
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Hyperlocal news startup Fwix is one of the smart new breed of hyperlocal players finally making a go in a fabled yet long unprofitable space, and yet apparently story telling now extends to their latest payment idea.
According ...
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No seriously, we totally can.
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Former cheerleader Desiree Jennings made headlines in October when she told the media that she had been afflicted with the neurological movement disorder Dystonia following a flu shot.
As we noted at the time, the disorder apparently left ...
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Even spam bots might be put off by that one...
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Rackspace's increasingly popular Rackspace Cloud product suffered a major outage Monday night, taking down a range of popular sites and services.
Sites reported to be down included Posterous (and by extension Robert Scoble), Tr.im, a range of smaller ...
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What happens when a VW Tuareg, Tesla and Toyota Prius meet in the one spot? Well according to a story out of Denmark in October, the above happens.
A translation at What's Up With That says that the ...
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Free Nachos, apparently now an authentic Irish experience to be sure to be sure.
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You'd think as a runner you might expect runners to be running on tracks, had you spent much time running on tracks in your running tenure...
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...or demand stimulation win?
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And in not many people are getting the joke.
Ostensibly to mock the hundreds of Facebook groups that spring up in the presence of any change at all in the Facebook GUI, someone's gone and created an (all-caps) ...
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C'mon guys- lose them on stuff like this and you're going to have a really hard time with the whole virgin conception/walking on water/water into wine thing.
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Fail Cake: the only way to celebrate your misery.
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Microsoft has announced that most if not all of the data lost last week in the Sidekick debacle is being recovered.
While the news comes as a relief to panicky customers, some who filed lawsuits after the data ...
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And I have to tell you about the guy I have who is fantastic at drilling tight holes! And the local chess store, they're always flogging their bishops!
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Sayeth T-Mobile: DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power if you haven't already.
I had Sidekick II back in the day and it was so cash. I saw one for the first ...
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There's homophobia, and then there's homophobia on Halo 3. A sad reflection on America.
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