After years of complaints, scams, and careless screening tactics, Apple's App Store is finally starting to figure itself out. The latest update should stop developers from using misleading screenshots by locking them into place once the app gets approved. Read More >>
The scene: your girlfriend and/or boyfriend (hey, nothing wrong with polyamory) got you tickets to The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. You've been waiting your whole life to see those goats up close, so naturally, you want to post pictures of your beloved gift on Facebook, rubbing it in all your friends' rodeo-less faces. Here's a tip: don't. Because someone will steal it. Read More >>
Summer usually means sticky sweaty skin and mosquitos who love to bite that sticky sweaty skin. How do you prevent mosquitos from biting you? Certainly not with sonic bug repellants and definitely not with sonic bug repellant smartphone apps. They don't work. They never did. They never will. Read More >>
We all get them: scam emails that claim to be able to make us millionaires overnight. But why are they so terribly unconvincing? And why do they even admit to being based in places like Nigeria? A Microsoft researchers claims to have the answer. Read More >>
Featured comment by elliottpp:
""All of which makes me want to reply to some of these emails, just to annoy the scammers".
Allow me to introduce you to: http://www.419eater.com/
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Would you pay £805 to access some porn on your telephone? 211 Japanese men did, netting the creators of a mobile porn app some £161,000 -- and seeing them arrested for scamming their users. Read More >>
Featured comment by Alex Schot:
"Although they clearly took advantage of knowing people wouldn't read the message other than that I don't see it as a definite scam attempt and those p..." More »
Those fake apps that pop up really do work for their makers, it seems, with one enterprising Latvian scammer raking in around £28,000 thanks to releasing fake versions of Angry Birds, Assassin's Creed and Cut the Rope on Google's Play Store. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"That wouldn't be that hard to do, kind of like the superuser app (for those of you with rooted phones). Since allowing root access can be dangerous (g..." More »
Adscend Media is the jerk ad agency responsible for many of the "OMG LOL THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD JUSTIN BEIBER" links on Facebook that, when clicked, spam the same crap link to your friends. It has just been fined £62,000 by a Washington court for spamming and scamming Facebook users. Read More >>
At least two scams targeting users of file-sharing services have emerged over the last few days. So far the reports all come from overseas, but if it's happening in Germany then similar scams in the UK are very likely. Watch out. Read More >>
So you switched over to Facebook's new Timeline design and you don't like it, huh? That's too bad because you've entered into a covenant from which there is no escape. But for the less tech savvy, scammers have people believing there's a way back to what you once knew. Read More >>
Featured comment by rustybullet:
"Awww, poor Microsoft just celebrated dumping IE6 - now the work around for Facebook is to trick it in to thinking you're using IE6
Microsoft are go..." More »
What looks like the card slot from an American bank ATM is actually a sophisticated card skimmer removed from a branch of Chase Bank in West Hills, California. And police believe a 3D printer may have been used to create it. Read More >>
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