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Recent investments have valued Mark Zuckerberg's college experiment at $50 billion: good luck finding out if it's a fair price. NIALL KITSON ponders the irony of a social network struggling to maintain its privacy.

Do you have any idea of your personal worth? Facebook, or rather some new investors in it, seem to have an idea: about $100.
This figure comes off the back of recently announced investment of $500m by investment bank Goldman Sachs ...

Sweden’s Svea Court of Appeal gives three of the four co-founders varying lengths of prison time, and requires them to jointly compensate copyright holders 46 million kronor ($6.57 million) in damages for the BitTorrent tracker site’s alleged facilitation of copyright infringement.


Sweden’s Svea Court of Appeal has reaffirmed copyright infringement charges against three of the four co-founders of BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay.
“The Appeals Court, like the district court, finds that The ...

Hey, I want to get a good external hard drive to store films and tv programmes etc!!
Know where I could get a good one in town? Want big enough storage...
Thanks in advance :P

Christmas has come early to Google employees: In an intriguing move, the search giant promised its 23,000 workers an extra $1,000 tax-free holiday cash bonus and an across-the-board 10 percent raise, starting in January. What's more, in response to staff surveys, Google also announced plans to roll a portion of workers' year-end target bonuses into their regular paychecks moving forward. (Watch a Fox Business report about Google's generosity.) What's behind Google's beneficence? Here, four theories: ...

I've never drunkenly posted on facebook, so I dont see the point in this.... :? 8-)

But anyway:

Social networkers have a new tool to prevent them from posting drunken late-night messages on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The Social Media Sobriety Test from US-based Webroot Software requires users to perform a series of online co-ordination tests before ...

Well put, and that's what we want

Across New York, there are USB drives embedded in walls, buildings and curbs. The idea is to create an anonymous, offline file-sharing network in public space. The drives are completely public and anyone can plug in to drop and download files.

Seriously, you can plug the USB drive into your laptop. Like this guy.

It’s part of an art project called “Dead Drops” by Aram Bartholl and I have to say, it’s pretty awesomely creative. ...

Microsoft Security at its best

Since I'll be starting to make iPhone apps very soon, I decided to look at what else is out there.

Theres plenty of stuff on Google Android, but it seems Microsoft are coming out with their version, the Windows 7 SmartPhone.

Heres a video preview of the phone anyway.


No sign of support for additional apps just yet, but these phones are only at the prototype stage yet. I'd expect them to make some ...