Private browsing means browsing the web without leaving "tracks," such as cookies, history, cache data, etc., etc. This has been popularly called "porn mode." Only Safari currently supports this feature; it was pulled from Firefox 3 (there is, however, an add-on called Stealther some use).
Earlier this year, Yahoo! opened its Buzz social news service, and its been very successful, surpassing Digg in terms of unique U.S. visitors. One noteworthy difference between Buzz and other sites is that only approved publishers were able to submit stories. However, on Monday Yahoo! opened Buzz up to all publishers.
As I wrote earlier, the USPTO was on the verge of granting Dell a trademark for the term "cloud computing," when media focus on the issue made them think better of it, and they decide to re-review the application.
Sorry, Dell, looks like they came to their senses.
Ever wonder if choosing a webmail address such as honey.bunny77@hotmail.com says anything about your personality? Well, researchers at the University of Leipzig did, and they recently published a paper in the Journal of Research in Personality (.PDF), titled "How extraverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Inferring personality from e-mail addresses."
Downloaded some new tunes from the iTunes Store, but forgot to synch them to your iPhone or iPod Touch? Drat, right? For now, anyway. A new patent application filed by Apple seems to point to them working on a method for you to stream your music over the Internet to your device.
Ironic, isn't it? This report, from the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) wasn't supposed to be released until September. However, it was leaked earlier this week to --- where else? --- the Internet.
The guys at TheNextWeb.org show us how easy it is to hack your Feedburner subscriber count. Won't take more than a minute or so to add a few thousand subscribers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled an open source tool designed to detect the throttling of your Internet connection. This could come in very handy for Comcast customers who want to make sure Comcast follows the order recently given to it by the FCC, to halt P2P throttling.
