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Smartr Contacts: A Better Address Book for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry

Jon Kaykin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:34:11 +0000

Smartr Contacts, is a comprehensive contact book that automatically integrates with your social networks and other communication tools, turning your contacts into organized profiles. I have always disliked my iPhone contact book. It is really outdated and doesn’t do anything special other than, well, store contacts. I have wanted something different for a while, something new, something that would let me know more and would have a better user interface. I have tried other apps but they didn’t do much for me, they didn’t provide the functionality that I wanted. Thankfully I discovered an app that provides more than just contacts, it provides profiles. Meet Smartr Contacts.

Fight Back: Speak Out Against ACTA, Sign the Petition

Jon Kaykin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:21:46 +0000

Learn more about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and sign the petition against it. If you don’t know what the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is please see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoW26CwhcR8 ACTA can be more dangerous than SOPA and PIPA and can potentially create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, meaning that Internet distribution and information technology would be highly monitored and constantly reported to law enforcement agencies. We must not let this bill pass, we must continue to preserve the freedoms granted to us by the Constitution. Please sign the below petitions and speak out against this bill, stand up and protest while we still have that freedom. Learn how to act against ACTA. Petitions - U.S.

Operation Black March: An Anonymous Movement

Jon Kaykin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:19:34 +0000

Hacktivist group Anonymous has called for Operation Black March, a movement against the media industry. Unfortunately, it might not be as successful as others think. As you may know, SOPA and PIPA have been postponed and have lost much support but the fight isn’t over. Thankfully, many groups are still fighting against the music, film and media industry, the most important group being; Anonymous. Anonymous has been very vocal in letting the public know their plans for what they will do next and meanwhile, they have been diligently working; taking down many sites and issuing statements on Youtube (see this and this).

Discover Great Apps With Appsfire

Jon Kaykin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:43:53 +0000

Appsfire provides many tools for you to discover and share the greatest apps out there. With 500,000 apps in the app store and 300,000 in the Android Market , it can get kind of crowded. Everyday new apps are released but it’s impossible for anyone to keep up. So how do you discover and share the best apps? Say hello to Appsfire, a community driven app discovery network. Appsfire provides tools and streams for users to be able to discover those gems. On their website they feature VIP’s; these are people, as they call them, who are “the most influential and expert iPhone users around.

Really?! The FBI May Soon Monitor Social Networks

Jon Kaykin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:20:34 +0000

The FBI has submitted a request for the creation of software that will search through “publicly available” information on social networks in order to discover emerging threats. After shutting down Megaupload, it seems as if the FBI isn’t quite satisfied, they want more control over information. So what’s their next plan? A social media application. You heard right; the FBI has posted a Request For Information (RFI) regarding the development of a social media application that can monitor online activity. ”The application must have the ability to rapidly assemble critical open source information and intelligence that will allow the SIOC to quickly vet, identify, and geo-locate breaking events, incidents, and emerging threats.

RIAA’s VP of Strategic Data Analysis Issues Statement On Megaupload Shutdown

Jon Kaykin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:46:19 +0000

RIAA’s VP of Strategic Data Analysis believes that the shutdown of Megaupload and other P2P file sharing sites is mandatory and will decrease file sharing. Truthfully, it will upset many. Megaupload’s shutdown by the Justice Department has caused a lot of controversy regarding piracy and whether file sharing sites like Megaupload should exist. One of the major supporters of the shutdown was the Recording Industry Association of America, naturally because they handle copyrighted music and want to make sure that no “unauthorized content including music, movies, and other copyrighted works” is shared. The shutdown led the RIAA’s Vice President, of Strategic Data Analysis, Josh P.