Best Buy is taking a cool $75 off the price of the iPhone 5s with a 2 year contract, bringing the 16GB model down to $125. You can go into a real life Walmart and get the same phone for $189 – $75 Walmart credit, which is technically a slightly better deal, but this is online and a straight discount. All three carriers, and multiple colors and capacities eligible. [Best Buy]
     |
TORONTO (AP) — Former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Rick Vaive has asked that his name be removed from the concussions lawsuit against the NHL.
Vaive’s lawyer, Trevor Whiffen, said the former 50-goal scorer wasn’t provided with a copy of the claim beforehand and that he would not have agreed to the allegations made against the NHL had he been asked to review its contents.
“Mr. Vaive misunderstood the nature of the proceeding being brought, and believed this claim was similar to the worker’s compensation claim being advanced in California on behalf of several former NHL players,” Whiffen said in a statement Thursday.
Watch out if someone sends a flood of text messages to your Nexus phone — they may be trying to break in or otherwise cause havoc. IT administrator Bogdan Alecu has discovered an Android bug that triggers exploitable behavior in the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 whenever they’re hit by a large volume of Class 0 SMS messages, or texts that aren’t automatically stored on the phone. The denial of service attack usually forces the handset to reboot, but it can also disable the network connection (if temporarily) or crash the messaging app. Non-Nexus hardware appears to be safe, although Alecu notes that he hasn’t had a chance to test a wide variety of gadgets. Regardless of the problem’s scale, affected users will have to be cautious for a while; Google tells PCWorld that it’s looking into the exploit, but there’s no word on just when we can expect a patch.
Update: There’s already a firewall app in Google Play that protects against the exploit. Thanks, Chipsy4!
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Google
Source: DefCamp, Google Play
When you think about Space Exploration, Asian countries (except for Russia) might not be the first to pop into your mind. However, that is surely closer to change: India has recently taken a go into this field, launching a spacecraft to Mars. This mission was launched in the 5th of November, but it still has not started its journey to the "red planet". Find out more about the mission inside this article.
Rashida Jones and Carrie Underwood joined Jimmy Fallon on his show last night (Nov. 28) in a medley of pop-hits-turned-holiday-songs, for epic results.
The trio performed Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” Katy Perry’s “Roar,” Lorde’s “Royals,” Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” The Lumineers’ “Ho Hey,” and our favorite by far — Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball,” the AMA edition, digital Pilgrim cat included.
Dare we say Underwood was better than the original?
Read More…
More on Miley Cyrus
Long gone are the days when it was ok to sleep off a mountain of turkey and stuffing before heading out for some post-Thanksgiving deal hunting. Thanksgiving day is now just the pre-game show for Black Friday
| |
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — Former heavyweight champion Herbie Hide has been sentenced to 22 months in jail for agreeing to sell cocaine in an undercover operation by a British newspaper.
The 42-year-old Briton’s sentence was reduced at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday because of the entrapment tactics by the Sun on Sunday newspaper in meetings set up in January and February.
Hide has had previous convictions for criminal damage, battery, threatening behavior and carrying a knife.
Read More…
More on Sports Crime
Today on what very well may be one of the best days of the year to stay at home and play video games, Sony has disabled a collection of PlayStation Network abilities. This disabling of features for the PSN has to do with the network being a bit overloaded – imagine that, today of all […]
Lenovo has launched a new addition to its X-Series of laptops, the business-chic X240. This small laptop features a 12.5-inch display and some new perks in the lineup, among them being a very large trackpad, new cover paint, and some Windows 8-related keys. Despite its small size, the X240 makes some big claims, and we’ve […]
This article was written on August 14, 2008 by CyberNet.
One of the frustrations that many Google Reader users experience is with the sharing feature. Back in December, Google Reader and Google Talk became “Friends.” This meant that any time you went to share an item, all of your friends on your Google Talk list were able to see what you shared. There was no way to select who you wanted to be able to view a shared item.
To give you an example of why the current sharing system was frustrating, we’ll use Ryan and I as examples. We are consistently sending links back and forth to each other throughout the day via Google Talk of interesting news we find from our feed reader. The sharing feature in Google Reader would have been a great tool for us, instead of using a messenger service, if only we could specify who saw it.
Enough people complained about the lack of control over sharing in Google Reader and Google has responded. Users now have the choice, either you can continue sharing your items with all of your friends on Google Talk, or you can create a custom friends list where you hand-pick those who will receive the shared items. This custom friends list is completely separate from your chat list.
When you log-in to Google Reader, you’ll likely see a pop-up bubble that reminds you that you can now customize your friend list for sharing. Look for “sharing settings” if you’d like to customize your friend list and then you can add or remove people from there.
Source: ReadWriteWeb
Copyright © 2013 CyberNetNews.com
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
