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Emproon iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility

This is one side of the story. I'm not going to form an opinion, and then criticize the US government, weev, or AT&T, without seeing the other side.

Emproon Windows 8 Sales Disappoint in Shaky PC Market

Better than all of them.

Emproon Security Vulnerability in popular mobile app, what do?

Hey I can try to help you out with this. Contact emil-at-thenextweb.com

Emproon Microsoft: Tell us your Android malware horror story and get a free phone

I thought they had finally figured shit out after that brilliant IE ad. Guess not.

Emproon No, Facebook's Not Buying WhatsApp (But Keep an Eye on It)

You mean TechCrunch was wrong? What a surprise.

Emproon The product lens

36 points and not a single comment? Well, I'd summarize it all by just saying: focus on your customers more than your investors.

Emproon UK ISPs block The Promo Bay

Well this just sucks. I wouldn't want to be living in the UK.

Emproon Notch trying jsFiddle

Interesting, and pretty damn cool!

Emproon Norway is building thorium reactor

Awesome.

Emproon Windows XP drops below 40% market share while Windows 8 passes 1%

So far, but by this time next year that ratio will be very different.

Emproon Google shuts down dedicated Motorola Mobility sites

Neither, but it definitely is making cuts.

Emproon Hacking my Vagina

I'm amused this is the top story.

Emproon Researchers find Megaupload shutdown hurt box office revenues

The story's title is different, but I guess it doesn't fit on HN?

Emproon Malware Uses Google Docs as a Proxy Server

Yep, better title on Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/18/0619247/new-malware-...

Emproon Skype security hole allows anyone to hijack your account using email address

Previous to that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4781642

Emproon Facebook is down by Anonymous

This again? Ridiculous.

Emproon Microsoft Accidentally Asks Google to Censor News Sites, US Government

The Bing example linked inside is even funnier.

Emproon Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Others Launch Web Platform Docs

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4627106

Emproon BarackObama.com Source Code

Back in July: http://www.logodesignlove.com/obama-source-code-logo The HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4322002

Emproon Google announces YouTube now has more than 1,000 educational channels

Interesting; I didn't know that. I also thought it was an answer to YouTube, but YouTube just grew faster.

Emproon Dennis Ritchie passes away at 70 (2011)

Just in case you're confused, this article was published on October 13, 2011.

Emproon Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes

Actually it goes up by two, but Facebook claims that's the bug, not the fact that it goes up at all.

Emproon Google making fun of iOS6 maps

Nope, it's a fake account. Notice that use of an "i" instead of an "l" - I fell for it too at first ;)

Emproon IE8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users

"Firefox 3.6 has vanished. Which it hasn't. It clearly has ~ 4.26% or a bit less."

It clearly doesn't. Firefox 1 to Firefox 11 have a combined 4.26 percent market share.

Emproon Just realized -- you can create a giant phone number database using Facebook

You can do this for anything on Facebook, or any other other service where people post private information they probably shouldn't post.

Emproon IE8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users

There are other, older Firefox versions that add up to the remainder. The same goes for the other browsers.

Emproon IE8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users

Yep, China is a huge driver for IE6. Microsoft has the data you want: http://www.ie6countdown.com/

Emproon Amazon AWS console down?

http://status.aws.amazon.com/ "9:37 AM PDT We are investigating elevated login error rates with the AWS Management Console."

Emproon The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken

When it comes to Apple, I seriously doubt it.