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‘Vote!!! the Game’ lets you beat up presidential candidates

, Aug 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Infinity Blade developer Chair Entertainment has a new game it would like you to check out, but this one is quite a bit different than the games we're used to seeing from Chair. Dubbed Vote!!! the Game, this new iOS title allows players to assume the role of their preferred presidential candidate and the proceed to beat the tar out of their opponent. The presidency apparently won't be determined by who is the better orator, but rather by who is more skilled with an ice cream cone or a rubber chicken. Read The Full Story

‘Super PAC App’ for iPhone dishes details on political ads

, Aug 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

We're just a few short months away from the General Election, and unsurprisingly, political ads are everywhere. Super PACs are everywhere too, funneling millions of dollars in funding into campaigns on both sides. It seems like there's a new Super PAC every day, and with names like American Crossroads, Americans for Freedom, and yes, even American Sunrise, it can be difficult to keep them all straight. What's a politics junkie to do? Read The Full Story

Department of Justice, FBI seize three Android pirate sites

, Aug 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

The federal government has continued its crack down on piracy, with the Department of Justice announcing that three different sites which market pirated Android apps have been shut down. The websites in question - applanet.net, appbucket.net and snappzmarket.com - are now all under the government's control, and all three display the same copyright notice that has graced Megaupload for the better part of the year. The DoJ says that this is the first time any websites relating to pirated mobile apps have been shut down. Read The Full Story

Google Patents search engine update nabs Prior Art Finder

, Aug 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

A brand new update has been released for Google Patents, a search engine specifically for users hoping to license their creations with the government without overlap. Users will now be able to utilize not only the archives included in Google Patents previous to today, but the European Patent Office has been integrated as well. This update also includes a brand new Prior Art Finder for those of you making it easy to find multiple sources for related content that existed at the time the patent you're looking at was filed. Read The Full Story

T-Mobile ordered to pay whistleblower $345k, company will appeal

, Aug 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

T-Mobile has been ordered by the US Department of Labor to not only immediately reinstate a whistleblower who voiced concerns over possibly fraudulent roaming charges, but also pay him a whopping $345,000 in back pay, lawyer fees, and damages. This order comes after the employee in question alleged that T-Mobile violated the protection the federal government gives whistleblowers, so it seems that the Department of Labor agrees. However, T-Mobile does not, saying that it will appeal and calling the DOL's order "incorrect." Read The Full Story

International community may soon outlaw cyber-attacks

, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

In a move that's certainly set to have some long-lasting consequences on the world's stage, as security experts at Kaspersy Lab speak with the United Nations on how acts of digital espionage - hacking, that is - should be outlawed. Though it's true that hacking is not an act that's technically legal in most places around the world - noone wants to have their computer busted into - it's not yet been agreed upon between the world's nations whether or not they should agree to outlaw digital attacks the way they did chemical warfare. It's more of a gentlemen's agreement not to be a jerk than it is a hard and fast set of rules. Read The Full Story

Demonoid taken down by Ukrainian authorities

, Aug 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Chalk another one up for the governments waging this anti-piracy war we keep hearing so much about, as Ukrainian authorities have taken down Demonoid. The raid on Demonoid's servers comes after the torrent tracking giant suffered a large-scale DDoS attack a few days before, and it seems that the US may have been involved in some way. Reports say that Anti-Cyber ​​Research Affairs of Kiev conducted the raid on Demonoid host ColoCall, copying all of the information on Demonoid's servers before shutting them down. Read The Full Story

Former NSA official blows whistle on agency’s data collection program

, Jul 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

With privacy being one of those hot-button issues now that we're living in a post-9/11 world, it can be hard to know who to trust when it comes to whether or not the government is collecting data on you. Take this weekend's development from the DefCon hacker conference, for instance: on the one hand, we have NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander telling attendees that the agency doesn't maintain files on American citizens, while on the other hand, we have former NSA official William Binney claiming during a panel discussion that the NSA does. Who do we trust in this case? We're not positive, but it sure does raise a few questions. Read The Full Story

Vint Cerf sounds off on who really created the Internet

, Jul 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

It's been a rather bizarre few days. On Sunday, Gordon Crovitz published an opinion article at The Wall Street Journal, claiming that the US government's involvement in the creation and launch of the Internet was quite a bit more modest than we've been led to believe. "It's an urban legend that the government launched the Internet," Crovitz wrote, sparking a debate that spans numerous blogs and news sites. Now Vinton Cerf, whose work helped developed TCP/IP networking protocols, has attempted to set the record straight in an interview with CNET, saying that the government was indeed very involved in the creation of the Internet. Read The Full Story

Pentagon plans fiber optic link to Guantanamo Bay

, Jul 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Speaking this week on the future of the detention center and naval station set in Guantanamo, Cuba, Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale mentioned this week that a $40 million dollar fiber optic link is in the works for 2013. This link, said Breasseale, would offer up greater telecom access for those living at the US military base. The link would not, however, as Breasseale assures, be any sort of indication that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility would be open for any longer than it would have had the link not been built. Read The Full Story

Chinese government to launch Netflix rival

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Although Hollywood doesn't exactly have a chummy relationship with China, the nation is hoping it can start changing that by promising revenue deals for studios that opt to be a part of a new government-run streaming movie service. The idea sounds like something most Americans could never even imagine, but it could be a huge thing for those in China. Read The Full Story

Chirpify takes political donations to Twitter

, Jun 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

We hear expressions like "if everyone just gave a few dollars..." all the time for things like charitable donations, reducing the poverty level, etc. But in reality the one place where that mindset probably makes the most profound difference is in political elections. There's been a paradigm shift in fundraising such that candidates now truly care about those $10 or $20 donations made by average voters. And the less friction there is, the better. Read The Full Story
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