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Wednesday, 20th October 2010

Facebook Disconnect Wipes Out All Evidence of Facebook

Remember the days before Facebook's ever-present "like" button, its off-site commenting system and its login showing up on every page? If you long for those days, an extension for Google Chrome can help wipe out any evidence of Facebook. Facebook Disconnect is a quickly-developed plugin by Google engineer Brian Kennish that blocks all traffic from…

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Do iPhone or Android Users Watch More Video? (And Other Video Trends)

Mobile video optimization firm Bytemobile has just released its most recent "Mobile Minute Metrics" report, a look at wireless users' video consumption trends and behavior based on metrics from a cross-section of nearly 2 billion Bytemobile customers in 58 countries around the world. According to the new report, which focuses on Q3 2010 mobile…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

U.S. Leads With Attack Traffic, Not Broadband Speed

Every quarter, content delivery network Akamai delivers a State of the Internet report looking at the Internet in terms of traffic, speed and connectivity. The latest report shows that the rest of the world is continuing to outpace the U.S. in terms of speed, while the U.S. becomes the leading source of "attack traffic" worldwide.

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YellowBird Brings 360-Degree Video to YouTube

YellowBird, a Netherlands-based video technology startup, just had its interactive, 360-degree video player approved by YouTube for integration into YouTube's channels. With the new player, you can now not only watch immersive, 360-degree YouTube videos, you can also navigate the video by dragging your mouse. As TechCrunch rightly described it last…

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Tuesday, 19th October 2010

Square Hits Another Hurdle: It Doesn't Work With iPhone 4 [Update]

It's been nearly a year since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced the launch of mobile payment system Square. In that time, the company has run into, hardware, software and security issues to keep it from taking off. According to an article in today's Financial Times, the service has one more gigantic hurdle to clear in its efforts to get…

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