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Destructive Koobface virus turns up on Facebook

05Dec08

Facebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed “Koobface” that uses the social network’s messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers. It is the latest attack by hackers increasingly looking to prey on users of social networking sites. “A few other viruses have [...]

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Tags: Adobe Systems, Beta Releases, Credit Card, facebook, google, Koobface, McAfee, myspace, New York, Pc, Schmugar, Social network, Social network service, Theft, Virus

When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled

24Nov08

About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. While rumors of Facebook’s interest were brought up in an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Web 2.0 Summit a [...]

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Tags: microsoft, phone, google, twitter, SMS, Amazon, Bezos Expeditions, Bijan Sabet, BoomTown, Charles River Ventures, Chris Sacca, Dan Rose, Dick Costolo, Digital Garage, Epinions, Evan Williams, facebook, FeedBurner, Internet, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Kara Swisher, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Naval Ravikant, Odeo, Pyra Labs, Ron Conway, San Francisco, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, Verizon, Web 2.0 Summit, Yahoo, acquisition, blogger, cell, digital, microblogging, mobile, revenue, social networking, status update, stock

Tech News Countdown – November 14

17Nov08

Alison Haislip is back and is bringing you the top 5 tech stories of the week including the death of the Mars Rover and an update on the Craigslist inner-tube heist. Subscribe to me will you?

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Tags: Alison Haislip, AOTS, Blair Herter, Countdown, G4, G4TV, News, tech, Videos

Gmail Video Chat: The Empire Grows

16Nov08

Gmail’s already free, has a great archiving system, allows gigs of storage, and has built-in IM chat, direct SMS to cell phones, and voice communication. What more can a cheap techie bastard want? This new video chat plug-in should complete their world domination. More reliable than flash-based videophone software (Skype), the simple-to-use extra runs on [...]

Filed under: Cool, geeky, google, tech | 1 Comment
Tags: Chat, Gmail, google, Hotmail, IM, Mobile phone, MSN, Sergey Brin, Skype, SMS, Video Chat

Barack is Mac

12Nov08

Apparently, America’s president-elect is a Mac user, and a fan of sticking stickers on one’s laptop. I dig the pac-man eating the Apple logo. Commenters: let the Apple/Obama fanboy flamewars fly! Incidentally, if I’m looking at these photos right, it looks like he uses a Crackberry, not an iPhone. And Biden is also evidently a [...]

Filed under: apple, Cool, election, funny, geeky, phones, tech | 1 Comment
Tags: Al Gore, apple, BlackBerry, election, iphone, Mac, MacBook, Macintosh, Pacman, Steve Jobs, Technology, United Nations, United States

TwitterRank is Fake

12Nov08

Something called “Twitterank” has been #1 on Twitter’s trending topics for much of the afternoon, and a flurry of tweets have been coming across along the lines of “my twitterank is 30.35!” with a link to an individual page for each user on a crudely designed website. While the site doesn’t give any real details [...]

Filed under: Bizzare, not cool, tech, twitter, WTF?!?! | 4 Comments
Tags: Hacking, Password, Phishing, Scam, Security, twitter, Twitterank, User, Usernames, Vulnerability, Website, ZDNet

Aots Stickam Blair’s Nerdgasim

27Oct08

Aots stickam chat with Comic book super cool nerd, blair butler. Talks to people about games/commics.

Filed under: Attack of The Show, Babes, Cool, funny, geeky, hot women, Olivia Munn, tech | 3 Comments
Tags: AOTS, Blair Butler, comic books, Comics, Fable 2, G4, G4TV, Gears of War, Olivia Munn, Stickam, The Punisher

Olivia Munn’s G4 Anniversary or: Munniversary

27Oct08

Olivia Munn’s 2 year anniversary at G4…. oh the memories

Filed under: Attack of The Show, Babes, Cool, funny, hot women, Olivia Munn, tech | 2 Comments
Tags: Anniversary, AOTS, G4, G4TV, Kevin, Kevin Pereira, Munn, Olivia, Olivia Munn, Pereira, Pie

Shiny New Apple Laptops, Just in Time for the Recession!

16Oct08

What economic collapse? C’mon, buy yourself a fancy MacBook and feel a little better. Steve Jobs’ latest keynote sensation announces the release of redesigned Apple laptops across the line, featuring fancy LED-backlit displays, all-glass clickable trackpads, and NVIDIA graphics horsepower that’s very gaming-friendly. Teeny drawback: the MacBooks run at least $1299, and the MacBook Pros [...]

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Tags: apple, Holiday Season, iphone, Laptop, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacbookPro, New, Nvidia, Steve Jobs

Gmail Labs’ ‘Mail Goggles’ Save Your Drunken Ass

09Oct08

It’s just a little too easy to let rip a caustic email to coworkers or an ill-advised booty-plea to your ex after decompressing with a fistful of whiskey shots on a Friday night. Gmail’s newest “Labs” functionality, “Mail Goggles,” can make it just a little bit harder, by forcing you to complete a math problem [...]