Just how secure is your Android device? Not as secure as you might think. Most people these days give no thought whatsoever to their informational safety when it comes to their phone or mobile device. It is simply a by-product of the long standing separation between “telephones” and “computers.” Those lines, however, are blurred more [...]
A newly discovered flaw in the widely used timthumb image resizing utility has opened up millions of WordPress blogs to attack. Because the utility comes already installed on numerous popular WordPress themes, most users wont even know that their blog is vulnerable to attack. Although the library is used predominantly on WordPress sites, the security [...]
You are seeing QR codes more and more everywhere you go. Originally created by a subsidiary of Toyota in 1994 to track parts, the Quick Response Code (QR Code) has become one of the easiest ways for a company to transmit targeted information and capture a customer on the go. The most commonly used QR [...]
If your business has a Facebook page, things just got very good. Most Facebook users are by now familiar with the upgraded personal pages. Similar changes have been made to “fan” pages. But the changes go far beyond cosmetics. From a business marketing perspective, one of the most significant differences is the ability to “Use” [...]
Feeling a little bit bored with your Facebook experience? Now you can change it up a bit and invoke the spirit of Blackbeard at the same time! For a long time, Facebook has allowed you to customize your home page view by changing the language you use to interact with Facebook. Most people don’t realize [...]
If you have been browsing the net this morning, you may have run across one of Gap’s new interactive, location-based display ads. The ads feature “Add to Foursquare” buttons which, when clicked, add a Foursquare to-do item for a Gap store near the user’s specified location. Adding to Foursquare also unlocks a 30% discount off [...]
Over the past couple of years, Digg has emerged as one of the most influential of the social news and bookmarking sites. Digg was founded in late 2004 by Kevin Rose, co-host of Tech TV’s The Screen Savers. Within one year Digg had raised $2.8 million in venture capital. Over the next few years, Digg [...]
