<![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Internet]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ en 10 Thu, 31 May 2012 22:04:24 +0200 <![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Internet]]> http://m.bestofmedia.com/i/bestofmicro/design/groupe/logo_toms_guide_us.jpg http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ <![CDATA[Facebook Games Can Now Be Played Directly from News Feed]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-Games-Played-News-Feed,news-15381.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-Games-Played-News-Feed,news-15381.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Thu, 31 May 2012 06:00:00 CEST At last, you can try out a Facebook game before giving the permissions to your life away... ]]> <![CDATA[Amazon to Sell Pre-paid Wireless Data Cards in Japan]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Amazon-Wireless-Data-Mobile-Data-Pre-Paid-Cards,news-15401.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Amazon-Wireless-Data-Mobile-Data-Pre-Paid-Cards,news-15401.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 30 May 2012 19:40:00 CEST Amazon plans to start selling bundles of data in Japan.]]> <![CDATA[NYT Sources Say Facebook Phone Coming Next Year]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-phone-Smartphone-Facebook-Hardware-Revenue-Streas,news-15385.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-phone-Smartphone-Facebook-Hardware-Revenue-Streas,news-15385.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 30 May 2012 16:00:00 CEST Yet more talk of Facebook getting into the smartphone game.]]> <![CDATA[Facebook Shares Drop Below $30, $40B Eliminated ]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/facebook-stock-FB-nasdaq-IPO,news-15396.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/facebook-stock-FB-nasdaq-IPO,news-15396.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 30 May 2012 01:30:00 CEST Facebook's stock was slaughtered today at Nasdaq, suffering yet another significant drop. ]]> <![CDATA[Man Suing Google to Undo Google Trademark]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/David-Elliot-Suing-Google-Trademark,news-15382.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/David-Elliot-Suing-Google-Trademark,news-15382.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Tue, 29 May 2012 21:10:00 CEST David Elliot stands to gain a lot of money and domains if he somehow manages to persuade the courts to nullify the Google trademark. ]]> <![CDATA[Facebook Rumored to be Thinking of Buying Opera Software]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-Opera-Browser-Software-Acquisition,news-15364.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-Opera-Browser-Software-Acquisition,news-15364.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:00 CEST Is there a Facebook browser on the horizon?]]> <![CDATA[Stupid Thief Uploads Pictures of Self from Stolen iPhone]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-icloud-stolen-photo-upload,news-15352.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-icloud-stolen-photo-upload,news-15352.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Sat, 26 May 2012 04:00:00 CEST Katy McCaffrey wants her stolen iPhone back. I am betting the farm that she will get it.]]> <![CDATA[Google Gets Nearly 1.25M Take-Down Requests per Month]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-take-down-transparency-Fred-von-Lohmann-piracy,news-15360.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-take-down-transparency-Fred-von-Lohmann-piracy,news-15360.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Fri, 25 May 2012 05:00:00 CEST Google receives around 250,000 take-down requests on a weekly basis.]]> <![CDATA[Rickroll Video Removed Due to Copyright Claim from AVG]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Rickroll-AVG-Copyright-Removed-Original-Rick-Astley,news-15349.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Rickroll-AVG-Copyright-Removed-Original-Rick-Astley,news-15349.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Fri, 25 May 2012 02:00:00 CEST The end of an era...Almost.]]> <![CDATA[RIAA Claims LimeWire Owes $72 Trillion [UPDATED]]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/RIAA-Claims-LimeWire-Owes-Trillions,news-15345.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/RIAA-Claims-LimeWire-Owes-Trillions,news-15345.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Thu, 24 May 2012 21:00:00 CEST Considering that the world's wealth only totals $60 trillion, I've no idea how RIAA expects to be compensated. ]]> <![CDATA[Google's Schmidt: Google+ Unfairly Compared to Facebook]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Facebook-Big-Tent-Eric-Schmidt-London,news-15340.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Facebook-Big-Tent-Eric-Schmidt-London,news-15340.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Thu, 24 May 2012 12:30:00 CEST Facebook had 12 years to get to its current state. Google+ has only been open for twelve months at the most.]]> <![CDATA[MySpace Relaunching by End of 2012]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MySpace-Relaunch-Brand-Justin-Timberlake-Specific-Media,news-15336.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MySpace-Relaunch-Brand-Justin-Timberlake-Specific-Media,news-15336.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Thu, 24 May 2012 07:30:00 CEST Specific Media is currently talking with ad agencies about promoting the brand relaunch of MySpace later this year.]]> <![CDATA[Today's Google Doodle is a Working Moog Syntheisizer]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Doodle-Synthesizer-Robert-Moog-music,news-15322.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Doodle-Synthesizer-Robert-Moog-music,news-15322.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 23 May 2012 20:50:00 CEST Google celebrates the life of Robert Moog with a working synthesizer on its homepage.]]> <![CDATA[Google's Larry Page Says Facebook Holds Users Hostage]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-Google-Larry-Page-Charlie-Rose-Hostage,news-15319.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-Google-Larry-Page-Charlie-Rose-Hostage,news-15319.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 23 May 2012 05:00:00 CEST Google CEO Larry Page is still griping about Facebook's refusal to share data.]]> <![CDATA[Anonymous Just Dumped 1.7GB of Dept. of Justice Data]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Anonymous-BJS-Justice-Statistics-Guy-Fawkes-Pirate-Bay,news-15315.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Anonymous-BJS-Justice-Statistics-Guy-Fawkes-Pirate-Bay,news-15315.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 23 May 2012 02:00:00 CEST The latest Anonymous data dump hints to additional government attacks in the near future.]]> <![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg Also Got Married This Past Weekend]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Mark-Zuckerberg-Priscilla-Chan-Wedding-Married-IPO,news-15275.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Mark-Zuckerberg-Priscilla-Chan-Wedding-Married-IPO,news-15275.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Mon, 21 May 2012 21:06:00 CEST As if celebrating, your 28th birthday and taking your multi-billion dollar company public didn't make for a big enough week, Mark Zuckerberg capped the week off with another huge milestone: He got married.]]> <![CDATA[Facebook Shares Taking Dive in Early Morning Trading]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/IPO-Stock-Nasdaq-Zuckerberg-Wall-Street,news-15283.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/IPO-Stock-Nasdaq-Zuckerberg-Wall-Street,news-15283.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Mon, 21 May 2012 20:06:00 CEST Facebook shares have dropped around 12-percent since the IPO went live on Friday.]]> <![CDATA[Zynga Stock Tanks with Facebook IPO]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Zynga-Stocks-Drop-Facebook-IPO,news-15270.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Zynga-Stocks-Drop-Facebook-IPO,news-15270.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Mon, 21 May 2012 03:32:00 CEST Facebook's lukewarm IPO has caused numerous social media sites to experiences losses, including social game giant Zynga. ]]> <![CDATA[Facebook Faces $15 Billion Class-Action Suit Over Privacy]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-FB-15-Billion-Class-Action-lawsuit,news-15269.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-FB-15-Billion-Class-Action-lawsuit,news-15269.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Sun, 20 May 2012 10:00:00 CEST A Facebook user is suing Facebook for violation of privacy issues. As a class-action suit, the amount the complainant believes Facebook should owe is $15 billion.]]> <![CDATA['Six Strikes' Anti-Piracy Scheme Delayed, Says CCI]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Six-Strikes-Copyright-Alert-System-CCI-BitTorrent-Piracy,news-15266.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Six-Strikes-Copyright-Alert-System-CCI-BitTorrent-Piracy,news-15266.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Sun, 20 May 2012 06:00:00 CEST ISPs will not have the new "six strikes" anti-piracy plan in place by July 2012.]]> <![CDATA[Sony Introduces Pre-order Feature for PSN]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Sony-Pre-order-PSN-Digital-Download-Reserve,news-15264.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Sony-Pre-order-PSN-Digital-Download-Reserve,news-15264.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Sat, 19 May 2012 01:30:00 CEST First title to get the digital pre-order treatment is Sorcery, which is due out next week.]]> <![CDATA[Oops! Bug Accidentally Exposes 70,000 Kickstarter Drafts]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Kickstarter-bug-accident-exposed-projects,news-15209.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Kickstarter-bug-accident-exposed-projects,news-15209.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Fri, 18 May 2012 18:00:00 CEST A Kickstarter homepage issue recently caused 70,000 unpublished projects to be exposed. Whoops.]]> <![CDATA[Facebook Finally Announces Pricing of IPO]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-IPO-Stock-Shares-Class-A,news-15258.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-IPO-Stock-Shares-Class-A,news-15258.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 CEST Facebook shares will cost $38 apiece. How long will it take before they're all sold?]]> <![CDATA[Lone Anon Hater Takes Credit for Pirate Bay DDoS]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/DDoS-Pirate-Bay-AnonNyre-Hactivist-Anonymous,news-15249.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/DDoS-Pirate-Bay-AnonNyre-Hactivist-Anonymous,news-15249.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Thu, 17 May 2012 22:00:00 CEST "AnonNyre" claims he's the one who took down The Pirate Bay for over 24 hours.]]> <![CDATA[This is What Happens After You Hit 'Send' On a Gmail Email]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Email-Gmail-Story-Send-How-Email-Works,news-15236.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Email-Gmail-Story-Send-How-Email-Works,news-15236.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:00 CEST The majority of us don't think twice before or after hitting send on an email. We trust our email provider, whichever company that might be, to deliver our messages in a timely fashion. But how, exactly, do they do it?]]> <![CDATA[The Pirate Bay Hit By Major DDoS Attack]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/DDoS-Pirate-Bay-Facebook-Virgin-Media-United-Kingdom,news-15241.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/DDoS-Pirate-Bay-Facebook-Virgin-Media-United-Kingdom,news-15241.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Thu, 17 May 2012 01:00:00 CEST A major DDoS attack on The Pirate Bay has knocked the site offline for over 24 hours.]]> <![CDATA[Judge: IP Address Can't Even Identify a State]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/BitTorrent-State-IP-Address-California-geolocation,news-15227.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/BitTorrent-State-IP-Address-California-geolocation,news-15227.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:20:00 CEST Not only can an IP address NOT identify an individual, it can't even properly identify an American state.]]> <![CDATA[Half of Americans Predict That Facebook is Just a Fad]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/facebook-poll-ipo,news-15219.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/facebook-poll-ipo,news-15219.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:00 CEST Fad: A practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal.]]> <![CDATA[Finnish Court: Open WiFi Owner Not Liable for File-sharing]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Finland-Court-Open-WiFi-File-Sharing-on-Open-WiFi-Ruling,news-15214.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Finland-Court-Open-WiFi-File-Sharing-on-Open-WiFi-Ruling,news-15214.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:00 CEST Finnish courts have ruled that the owner of an open WiFi network cannot be held liable for file-sharing copyright infringement that happens on the network.]]> <![CDATA[Wikipedia Warns of Malware Injecting Ads on Pages]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Wikipedia-Malware-Injection-Sophos-I-Want-This,news-15226.html#xtor=RSS-2114 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Wikipedia-Malware-Injection-Sophos-I-Want-This,news-15226.html#xtor=RSS-2114 Wed, 16 May 2012 05:00:00 CEST There's a new malware in town that likes to inject advertisements on Wikipedia.]]>