Amazon’s US-East Region 1 data center is a popular choice for their ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) service because it’s cheap and typically is the first data center to get new services when Amazon rolls them out. It also tends to be a headache for US-East customers who rely on its CDN delivery network. On Christmas…
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Call for sharing of pictures of local school “sluts” on Instagram leads to full-scale riot in Sweden
An Instagram user asked for pictures and tips on “sluts” in the Gothenburg, Sweden area and promised anonymity to anyone sending in pictures of the local school “whores”. In response, the user received more than 200 pictures of girls and boys aged 13 to 14, many accompanied with names and explicit descriptions of their alleged…
And without further ado, here are the top Google searches for 2012
Bitcoin-Central licensed to operate just like a bank
Bitcoin-Central has reached an agreement with French payment processor Acoba and France’s Credit Mutuel bank to become a payment service provider. This will allow Bitcoin-Central to function much like a bank. it’s the first exchange of the digital currency to be licensed to operate as a bank and function within the framework of European regulations.…
White House to start pinning on Pinterest in 10 days – Snapchat account to follow?
The White House has announced that they have started a Pinterest account (WhiteHouse44 – Obama is the 44th President, get it?) and will begin pinning on December 17, 2012. No word on whether or not a Snapchat account will follow. According to the White House, pins will range from “inspiring images and quotes to infographics…
Wired South Korea plan to stem digital addiction – start training kids at 3-years-old
South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world with an estimated 98% of the population connected with broadband Internet and 2/3 of the population owning smartphone devices. But being ultra-wired does have its drawbacks. Officials estimate that 160,000 children between the ages of 5 and 9 are addicted to the Internet.…
Google Fiber hi-speed network rolls out in Kansas City – 700Mbps speeds reported by users
Real world tests of Google’s Fiber project, a high-speed ISP network installed in Kansas City, are beginning to arrive and the results are outstanding. Kansas City Google Fiber users can expect 700 Mbps down on hard-wired connections. One user reported that he BitTorrented Ubuntu in only 2 minutes. When will it arrive in your neighborhood?
New social networking service, Pheed, aims to be the new Twitter with richer interface and quality paid feed subscriptions from influencers
Pheed, launched on August 10, 2012 and operating out of a rented six-acre mansion on Mulholland Drive near Hollywood, has hit 350,000 unique subscribers in only a few months. Several celebrities have already signed up for the service and why not – with Pheed they are allowed to charge for their content feeds or sell…
Microsoft fails to build suspense by delaying IE 10 release for Win7 platform – decides to release it anyway
In the “yawn, nobody really cares” segment of our news, Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is still in the works. It’s been nearly a year and half since Microsoft released a test build of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 and during that time, MS has refused to acknowledge when,…
Reddit’s most loved/hated troll, Violentacrez, has been doxed – actual identify exposed by gawker
Violentacrez is the Internet’s greatest troll – you either love him or hate him. He starts controversial subreddits such as Creepshots (pictures of unsuspecting women), Jailbait (pictures of scantily clad underage girls, most picked off of Facebook), RapeBait. Still, many redditers champion him as their poster boy for free speech. Other redditers on the other…








