http://www.skuggen.com The Missing Link... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:29:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.skuggen.com http://www.skuggen.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon.ico http://www.skuggen.com/2012/02/us-attacks-iran-and-saudi-arabia-malware-spreads-on-facebook/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/02/us-attacks-iran-and-saudi-arabia-malware-spreads-on-facebook/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:12:26 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21386 The security company Sophos warns of a malicious link that is now being spread quickly on Facebook. The link gives the impression to be be coming from CNN and will take you to a fake website claiming that the U.S. has invaded Iran and Saudi Arabia. The website also appears to have a video showing [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/02/us-attacks-iran-and-saudi-arabia-malware-spreads-on-facebook/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/02/the-pirate-bay-changes-domain-to-avoid-seizure/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/02/the-pirate-bay-changes-domain-to-avoid-seizure/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:39:14 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21379 Today it became clear that the verdict against The Pirate Bay is being upheld by the Swedish Supreme Court, the worlds largest torrent tracker now changes their domain.  But unlike Newzbin, who changed domain from .com to .es (Spain), The Pirate Bay chose to return home for now. The website is now redirecting the browser from .org [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/02/the-pirate-bay-changes-domain-to-avoid-seizure/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/angry-birds-coming-to-facebook-on-february-14/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/angry-birds-coming-to-facebook-on-february-14/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:33:32 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21367 Rovio, the company behind the very popular game Angry Birds, writes in a blog post that the game is now coming to Facebook. The launch date is set to Valentines Day, on February 14. This means that one of the most popular mobile game developers in the world now teams up with the largest social network [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/angry-birds-coming-to-facebook-on-february-14/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/facebook-timeline-worries-many-users/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/facebook-timeline-worries-many-users/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:49:38 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21362 Every time Facebook performs a modification on their website it is often met with criticism from users. Facebook’s new timeline that is currently being introduced among the users is no exception. According to a study by the security company Sophos, more than half of the users claim that they are worried about the new changes. [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/facebook-timeline-worries-many-users/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/google-lets-make-the-web-faster/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/google-lets-make-the-web-faster/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:23:32 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21352 Google are experimenting with several improvements to the Transmisson Control Protocol (TCP) to make a faster Internet. The people working with this goes by the name of “Make The Web Faster Team” and they are currently looking into four potential improvements to the existing protocol. 1. Increase TCP initial congestion window to 10 (IW10). The amount of [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/google-lets-make-the-web-faster/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/the-next-ubuntu-will-replace-traditional-menus-with-hud/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/the-next-ubuntu-will-replace-traditional-menus-with-hud/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:46:57 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21337 The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu has just unveiled its new focus: A way to navigate the menu choices, without actually using any menus. The menus have simply been replaced by a so-called HUD (Heads Up Display), which allows you to search for what you are trying to find, without the need for long menus and [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/the-next-ubuntu-will-replace-traditional-menus-with-hud/feed/ 2 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-host-political-talk-show/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-host-political-talk-show/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:25:32 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21330 Through the whistle-blower web site Wikileaks, Julian Assange has got a lot of enemies around the world by revealing top secret documents from various governments. Now, the founder of WikiLeaks has found a new media channel, he is in fact going to host a TV-series “of in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-host-political-talk-show/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/obama-to-host-live-video-chat-on-google-hangout/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/obama-to-host-live-video-chat-on-google-hangout/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:23:40 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21321 The White House plans an intensive week of social media in connection with the president’s annual State of the Union address. Among other things, Barack Obama will be hosting a video chat in Google+ Hangouts. Every year, the U.S. President holds a speech to Congress on the state of the country, the so-called State of [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/obama-to-host-live-video-chat-on-google-hangout/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/youtube-has-reached-4-billion-daily-video-views/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/youtube-has-reached-4-billion-daily-video-views/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:36:25 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21313 YouTube has experienced an incredible growth over the past year, according to the news agency Reuters. Every day a staggering 4 billion videos is streamed by users of the service, which is a growth of 25 percent compared to eight months ago. Every minute an average of 60 hours of video is uploaded to the service, [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/youtube-has-reached-4-billion-daily-video-views/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/wordfeud-finally-coming-to-windows-phone/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/wordfeud-finally-coming-to-windows-phone/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:51:05 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21302 The Norwegian developer Haakon Bertheussen has made a lot of money on the Scrabble-inspired game Wordfeud, with an expected turnover of $1,2 million (7 million NOK) in the first year of operation. The game has been a huge success on iPhone and Android, and now, Bertheussen is introducing a Windows Phone version of the game, [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/wordfeud-finally-coming-to-windows-phone/feed/ 0