Flickr redesign goes live 1TB of free storage for all
Well this is a surprise Yahoo has just announced that it’s highly popular photo storage and sharing site Flickr is being upgraded. As well as a redesign of the entire look and feel of the site they are also giving every users 1 terabyte of free storage. Which is considerable that’s 1000 GB of space to store all your photos at the highest resolution you can. If you want to upgrade to more storage (really more storage) that will cost you $499 for another 1TB of space. The cloud wars... Read More
The Facebook phone is coming…
It appears that Facebook and HTC are warming-up for the launch of a dedicated Facebook phone. Based on Android, the new Facebook device will offer deeper integration between the operating system and the world’s biggest social network. This isn’t the first time Facebook and HTC have teamed-up to work on a device, the ChaCha was the first and had a dedicated Facebook button to quick launch their app. This new project looks much more involved and may include a separate Home Launcher... Read More
How your charity non-profit can survive the largest DDOS attack in history
The largest DDOS attack in the history of the internet is well underway, and if you’ve noticed the internet is loading more slowly, that’s the reason. There’s now a possibility that it might affect online banking and email. We have been following this story since the first salvo was fired by Spamhaus, the non-profit spam prevention service, that blocked Dutch hosting company CyberBunker as a source of large amounts of spam hitting systems across the web. CyberBunker... Read More
Near Field Communication (NFC) and charities
NFC or Near Field Communication to give it its full title, is a way for devices to exchange information with each other without having to plug in or even physically touch each other. Soon it will be used to create “contactless” payments where you can simply place your credit, debit or even phone onto a pad and the retailer can charge you for your purchase in seconds. How does NFC work? NFC uses small chips, sometimes called tags that have no power of their own but when scanned by... Read More