Facebook directory being shared in thepiratebay.org!

The torrent is attracting hundreds of downloads

Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant.

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Jailbreaking mobile devices is now LEGAL!

Jailbreaking your iPhone or other mobile device will no longer violate federal copyright law, the U.S. Copyright Office ruled Monday.

The decision, part of a process that takes place every three years, said that bypassing a manufacturer’s protection mechanisms to allow “handsets to execute software applications” is permissible.

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The iPhone 4 arriving at 17 more countries this Friday!

On July 30, the new phone will arrive at in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The iPhone 4 will be sold through Apple’s retail and online stores as well as authorized resellers.

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Facebook reached 500M Users!

Facebook, the social networking sites on the Internet, announced Wednesday that surpassed the 500 million active users, which had already been confirmed by several studies, and thanked our users to participate in its dissemination in the world.

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India created a touch computer that costs USD$35

The equipment costs just $ 35 and its developers plan to reduce the value to $ 10.

The Minister of Human Resource Development of India, Kapil Sibal, introduced this week the low-cost machine designed for students, and said his ministry began negotiations with global manufacturers to start mass production.

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Facebook sex addict slept with 50 men

Laura Michaels, 23, set up a group called “I Need Sex” on the site.  She invited guys and guys who send her pictures.  The pictures she liked she would contact that guy and meet up for sex.  Within 10 minutes the group had 35 members and soon attracted 100 men, 50 of whom she slept with. She told The Sun: “I know that it was risky behaviour but that was part if the thrill.”

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Blogetery Shut Down by Burst.NET after FBI Accusation

The internet is buzzing about the termination of open source blogging platform, Blogetery by its web hosting company. Blogetery was recently accused by the FBI of being used by members of Al-Qaeda to recruit and share information.

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Youtube redesigns the mobile site!

Youtube has modified it’s mobile website hoping that users will use the browser rather than native applications.

The company will unveil the new design at m.youtube.com this afternoon, said Andrey Doronichev, product manager for YouTube Mobile, during a briefing Wednesday morning at YouTube’s headquarters. The main idea is to replicate the desktop PC-based YouTube experience in the mobile browser, or to at least get as close as possible, he said.

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Google Buys ITA Software for $700,000,000.00

The software company, who had build an extremely advanced software for flights tracking, booking and management announce that they had signed the agreement recently.

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The .xxx domain was approved

The Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved formally introducing the Internet domain .”Xxx”, designed to facilitate the identification of web pages with pornographic content. ICANN, a private U.S. nonprofit that coordinates domains, IP addresses and internet protocols worldwide, today gave its approval to the new domain, which will now be negotiated with the promoter of this initiative, the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR).

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Finland, the first country to declare the access to internet a fundamental right

The new Act requires that ISPs provide a high quality connection at a reasonable price.

Thus, the new legislation includes access to broadband in the list of basic communication services must reach all corners of the country, with others such as telephone or postal mail. “From now on, broadband connection at a reasonable price is a fundamental right in Finland. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements of the Government in terms of regional policy, and I’m proud of it, ” said in a statement the Finnish Minister of Transport and Communications, Suvi Lindén.

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Arizona is a beast!! Immigration law + More!

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