Major Fashion Retailer Withdraws T-shirts After Online Backlash

In the words of Heidi Klum: “In fashion, one day you’re in and the next you’re out.”, well these days fashion and style bloggers are IN: in fashion weeks, in the first row list, in all fashion parties and openings VIP lists and in business with the biggest fashion houses and magazines. Although at first magazine editors seemed unwilling to share their authorityand front row seatswith them, soon they decided to make up and unite their styling superpowers with some air kissing and fabulousphotoshoots....

6 min · 1249 words · Nicole Rich

Major League Baseball: Which team has the most Facebook fans?

Remember our post,What brands do college kids Like on Facebook? Well, our awesome friends atiStrategyLabshave done it again, this time extracting a massive amount of social data surrounding Major League Baseball to understand which team has the biggest fan base on Facebook. No surprise here, the Yankees and Red Sox are in the lead, with the Marlins, Angels, and Giants maintaining impressive followings. If this really pisses you off and you can’t stand Derek Jeter, check outthis neat Chrome app, which allows you to remove the Yankees’ star batter completely from the Internet....

1 min · 199 words · Sharon Perez

Major new study aims to map Europe’s broadband speeds

With a broadband connection fast becoming an essential part of modern life, the speed we can access the Internet at is an important metric. A new study launched today aims to find out just how fast (or slow) Europeans’ connections really are. The European Commission and broadband testing firmSamKnowsare looking for 10,000 volunteers across 30 countries in Europe to help get a true measure of broadband speeds. Under the scheme, SamKnows will be sent a small device called a ‘Whitebox’ to connect to their home internet connection....

2 min · 264 words · Ricky Williamson

Major scientific breakthrough: Electronic skin tattoos that are so, so cool

The latest development in ultrathin electronics has been making the rounds today on the science blogs, and described in greatest detailhere at Science Mag. The new technology is known as “epidermal electronics” and can be applied to your skin just likea temporary tattoo. This is a huge breakthrough. It makes me jealous to be living now and not 20 years from now. To have electronics as flexible as human skin will augment robotics, biometrics and health care....

2 min · 329 words · Felicia Hendricks

Major South Korean websites targeted in DDoS cyber-attack

Just a few days after popular blogging platform WordPressexperiencedits largest DDoS attack, a fresh wave of cyber-attacks have hit major South Korean Web sites, including that of the presidential office and the National Intelligence Agency. Businessweekreports that, according to South Korean antivirus developer AhnLab, about 40 web sites were targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kookmin Bank, the defense ministry and US military in Seoul were all targets of the attack....

2 min · 226 words · Kevin Joyce
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