Week in Review January 29-February 4
This week we wrote a lot. Lots of big news, a couple of great opinion pieces, and a few great links.It saw the end of January and the beginning of a new month. Here’s this week’s roundup!
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NewsCredit cards become easy targets
RFID, or Radio frequency Identification, it’s already in use today. There are RFID enabled credit cards from both Visa and Mastercard.
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Weekly RoundupWeek in Review: January 22-28
This Week we had big news about RIM and Facebook, a great discussion on government control, and an appearance by Siri on one of TVs hottest shows. Check it out!
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Week In Review: January 14-21
Lots of stories this week. An Apple announcement, SOPA protests, SOPA and PIPA cancelled, and a lot more! Here’s what’s happened, this week on T3KD:
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NewsSOPA and PIPA Cancelled
YAY! We did it people. It was a group effort. Today both SOPA and PIPA were tabled by congress. Tiffinly Cheng writes for fightforthefuture.org:
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News100 year old technology predictions come true
Analysts have a hard enough time predicting what will happen in a year. Yet an engineer in 1900 made predictions that have become reality.
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NewsZappos Hacked: 24 Million Customers Exposed
Zappos confirmed on Sunday that hackers breached the company’s servers and accessed personal data belonging to 24 million customers. The hackers gained access to range of sensitive data including user names, encrypted passwords, customer names, email addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers. The company stated that full credit card numbers were not compromised. As a security measure, Zappos reset the passwords of all affected customers and sent out emails alerting them to the situation. The good news is that they are being transparent on what happened and on how they plan on fixing the issue. The full email Zappos sent to customers is below.
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Week in Review: January 8-14
A lot of posts this week regarding the gadget industry as it saw the coming and going of CES 2012. Overall though, we thought this CES was pretty slow. We also had an Apple announcement, though it isn’t what you want it to be. Let’s review:
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CES 2012Use your iPhone as a light switch!
Hardly a day seems to go by without someone, somewhere, thinking up a new way to put your iPhone to good use. Whatever happened [...]
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CES 2012 MobileAll future Verizon smartphones to feature 4G LTE
Verizon plans on going all in on LTE, having it become a “hard requirement” for all future devices. Whether it is smartphones, tablet, or mobile hotspots, all future devices will feature 4G LTE connectivity.
