PeerIndexhas released a Firefox add-on for its growing influence tool that allows you to measure your social as well as the impact of the people in your social network. If you have a healthy competition with friends and co-workers on who brings the most heat of influence in the social media game, it is game on. Peerindex competes withKloutin the relevant influence analysis category of social media. PeerIndex claims to be a more accurate personal assessment of influence....

Israel-basedNSO Group’s Pegasus spywarecomes first to mind when you think about notorious ways to snoop on people’s phones. But there’s a new player in town: Cytrox. This lesser-known company wasfound enabling surveillance, ina joint investigationby Canada-based Citizen Lab, and Meta In this story, we’ll break down the company’s origins and tell you about its spyware. What is Cytrox? Cytrox started as a North Macedonian startup, but documents reviewed by Citizen Lab suggest it has a presence in Israel and Hungary....

Taiwan-based iPhone supplier Pegatron Technology has increased its shipment forecasts for the CMDA iPhone, raising its initial forecast of 10 million units up to 15 million units in 2011, as it seeks to reverse its poor computer sales performance. Chinese trade publicationDigitimesprovides the news, adding torecent reportssuggesting that the company would be handling iPhone shipments in Asia whilst Foxconn would fulfil orders in North America. Whilst Verizon is the only official CDMA carrier at this time, it is expected that the CDMA-capable iPhone devices will make their way to China, Japan and South Korea....

At today’sAT&T Foundry event, the Microsoft booth caught my wandering eye. Certainly the display ofWindows Phone 7devices were neat, as was theMicrosoft Kinectsetup, but no, there was something else which I gravitated to. That item? A tablet. More specifically, come to find out, a Windows 7 Slate PC prototype, thePegatron. Let me be clear, the Pegatron isn’t the official name of the tablet, but as the Microsoft representative indicated, that’s what it was known as around Redmond....

TheSex and the Cityreboot was always likely to grab headlines, but few expected an exercise bike to steal the spotlight. In the premiere ofAnd Just Like That, a Peloton cameo sent stocks in the fitness firm tumbling by 11%. SPOILER ALERT The scene shows Carrie’s husband, Mr. Big, dying from a heart attack after a Peloton class. Initially, Peloton responded ina statement, which blamed the death on Mr Big’s “extravagant lifestyle” of “cocktails, cigars, and big steaks....