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Occupy Wall Street Ads to Run on O’Reilly Factor TonightAn Occupy Wall Street commercial will air Wednesday night during the same show that routinely refers to the protesters as “far-left loons.” Advertising spots on The O’Reilly Factor were crowdfunded using a startup fundraising platform and purchased through Google TV Ads. O’... Apple: Siri Is Not Coming to Older iPhone VersionsApple’s voice assistant Siri will remain exclusive to the iPhone 4S, Apple has confirmed. In an answer to an inquiry from the developer Michael Steeber, asking about a possible special Siri-enabled iOS build for iPod touch and iPhone 4 owners, Apple responded with a resounding “no... Biscotti Is a Lifetime of HD Video Conferencing for $199Biscotti TV Phone on an HDTV Click here to view this gallery.Your next video conferencing solution could be Biscotti. No, not the crescent-shaped cookie, but a $199 device that’s shaped like a Biscotti and is officially called “Biscotti TV Phone.” It... Google+ Badges Make it Simple for Users to Connect With BrandsGoogle has unveiled Google+ Badges for brand pages, a widget that lets brands promote their presence on Google’s social network. Google+ Badges are similar in form and function to Facebook‘s Like Box social plugin. The easily embeddable widget lets users either +1 a webpage or add th... Did Change.org Petition Prompt Facebook Rape Fan Page Removals?Several Facebook fan Pages encouraging rape and violence against women have been taken down. While the removal of the pages are in accordance with the social network’s policies, many people are giving credit to a change.org petition that has more than 180,000 online signatures. Earlier this... Eddie Murphy Out as Oscar Host, Twitterverse ExplodesLegendary funny-man Eddie Murphy has quit as host for the the 2012 Oscars. Murphy left just one day after Brett Ratner, a producer for the awards show, resigned after using a derogatory slur in a press conference for his latest movie, Tower Heist, which also features Murphy. When asked during a ... Google+ Users Are Still Mostly MaleIf you were to throw a dart at Google+, it would be more than twice as likely to land on a man’s profile as a woman’s profile. Although the social network, according to recent estimates, has improved its gender ratio since it first launched, men still drastically outnumber women. Soci... Firefox Turns 7, Releases a Polished Firefox 8 [REVIEW]It’s a big week for Mozilla, as Firefox celebrates its seventh birthday and Firefox 8 hits the interwebs. In recent years, Firefox has lost ground to browsers such as Google Chrome. Yet Firefox remains a significant and important part of the browsing landscape. Firefox 8 is Mozilla’s ... Siri in the Kindle? Amazon Buys a Voice Recognition StartupSome CEOs like to shout their acquisitions from the rooftops. And then there’s Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who would prefer that you didn’t know his company just bought a startup called Yap. Here’s how cloak-and-dagger it got: Yap technically merged with a subsidiary called Dion... Google Adds +1 Button to Image SearchGoogle‘s proliferation of the +1 button continued Wednesday as the company added the feature to image searches. The button, which was introduced in March as an answer to Facebook’s “Like,” is equivalent to a stamp of approval from Google users. Over the past few months, +1... |