Can Twitter predict the stock market? So one PhD student believes. The BBC reports that Timm Sprenger of the Technical University of Munich found that buying and selling in response to an analysis of 250,000 tweets over six months would have produced a 15% return. Sprenger looked at comments that had been marked with the […]
A Canadian internet provider appears to have caused World of Warcraft players to fall victim to its attempts to target peer-to-peer filesharing. Rogers Communications says the effect was unintentional and has offered a workaround. The case is a classic example of mixing up the medium and the message: while there’s little dispute that most p2p […]
Don’t you just hate it when this kind of crap appears on people’s Facebook profile? [Source: Shoeboxblog]
On Tuesday I wrote about a problem with Google Chrome not (consistently) displaying Flash content since an upgrade to version 10. We don’t have a confirmed diagnosis or a cure, but we do have something of a workaround. Thanks to everyone who replied — there are certainly plenty of us experiencing the same problem — […]
Google’s attempts to settle its legal dispute with authors and publishers — and in the process, claim the rights to millions of out-of-print titles — have been dismissed by a federal judge. Judge Denny Chin said the proposed settlement would go too far in granting rights to Google and even said that if approved, it […]
Google has introduced a feature from Apple’s portable device range to the latest edition of the Chrome browser. Unfortunately, that feature is Flash not working… or at least, not working too well. Ever since the update to the 10th edition of the browser I — and it appears a lot of other people — have […]
Stop everything you’re doing and go upgrade right now! :) Here’s a short video explaning everything there is to know about the new browser. [Download Firefox 4]
If you haven’t discovered Twaggies.com, it’s high time you ventured over. They take tweets and turn them into comics. Here are some of our latest favorites:
The US government is considering legislation to protect a basic level of online privacy in a move that’s been dubbed a “privacy bill of rights.” Speaking to the Senate committee that oversees Internet issues, Commerce department official Lawrence Strickling said the White House would support legislation if Congress introduced it. The idea would be to […]
[Via MUO]