| Weekly Wrap-up: Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Account Hacked, iPad 2 Specs, Light Painting Wi-Fi, and More... Ashton Kutcher, star of TV and Twitter, was at TED this last week when a surprising tweet popped up in his stream: "Ashton, you've been Punk'd. This account is not secure. Dude, where's my SSL?" Laugh all you want - when was the last time you double checked to see if you were using https://twitter.com, Twitter's secure URL? After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - mobile, location, app stores - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
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Look Out Farmville: Angry Birds is Coming to Facebook For you 30-something geeks out there, Angry Birds may feel like a simple, dumbed down version of DOS-based video game classic Scorched Earth. For the rest of you, it's simply one of the the most popular games on the planet. If an Angry Birds movie and versions for nearly every smartphone on the market isn't enough, it looks like it has the world's largest social network in its sights. You guessed it, Angry Birds is coming to Facebook.
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5 Tech Companies That Raised Funding Today - Which Interests Your the Most? (Poll) Today we're talking about $15.6m invested in a diverse set of 5 different tech companies. We've got fun educational apps for kids, a program to help small businesses understand the how-tos of social media and a few other companies worth noting. As we do briefly each day - let us know which of these companies fresh from the battle of fundraising looks most interesting to you.
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Zambia Turns to Facebook for Policy Communication Dora Siliya, the Minister of Education for the African country of Zambia, and the spokesperson for the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy, has turned to her Facebook page to make national policy announcements. This isn't the first time an African leader has used Facebook to reach out to his or her citizens. Nigeria's interim president, Goodluck Jonathan, used the social networking service to announce his run for the presidency.
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Are We Entering the Dark Ages of Mobile Apps? Between LAUNCH and DEMO, this last week has seen more than its fair share of startups. Among these companies, we've seen a number of DIY mobile app creation tools throw their hat into the ring and promise a world where getting your company into someone's hands is as simple as dragging and dropping a couple of buttons. With all of these democratizing, empowering tools hitting the market, there's just one question - are we about to relive the era of <blink> tag text and marquee side-scrolling banner ads?
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Total Shutdown of Internet in Libya - Again On February 18 the Libyan Internet appeared shut down across the whole of the country. That state of affairs did not last long and since then, the Internet has been intermittent as pro- and anti-government forces fight it out. Today, however, Rensys confirmed a report we mentioned from journalist Lisa Goldman that the Internet is 100% down for the North African country. The shutdown, even in the areas controlled by opponents of the current government, seems complete.
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Even Microsoft Wishes Internet Explorer 6 Would Just Die Already Web developers, designers and users rejoice: Internet Explorer 6 use is quickly on the decline. Even Microsoft, the company that released Internet Explorer 6 more than a decade ago, has joined in on the celebration. "Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we're in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it's time to say goodbye," writes the company on a website it launched today to track the browser's demise.
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How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone for Free (Smartphone Tip) No one ever plans on losing their phone, but when it inevitably happens, panic quickly sets in. As someone whose iPhone sat on the bottom of a pond for over half an hour, believe me, I know the feeling. But now I'm on Android (and yes, the pond incident had something to do with that), so Apple's useful and free "Find my iPhone" tool, which tracks down lost phones via GPS, is no longer at my disposal. What to do? Luckily, there's a free app for that on Android, too. And, frankly, it's even better than the iPhone's version.
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Bing Partners with Travel Search Site Kayak Microsoft has today announced that its Bing search engine has added a new partner, the popular travel search site Kayak. Going forward, Kayak will provide its flight search and pricing data to Microsoft which will be then integrated into Bing's search results. What that means for Bing users is that they will now have access to flight search data for more cities, more airports and more airlines, in more locations around the world thanks to Kayak, says Microsoft. This is the second travel-focused update to Bing in less than two weeks, and is notable in light of Google's attempted acquisition of ITA Software, the system powering travel pricing for dozens of airlines and flight tracking sites. If that deal went through, it would strike a direct blow to Microsoft's attempt to innovate within the travel search vertical.
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Clicker.com, a Giant Waste of Time, Acquired by CBS I just watched a few minutes of Zach Galifianakis mock-interviewing Tila Tequila and Jennifer Anniston on a faux TV interview show online. Now I'm that many minutes closer to my inevitable death. Clicker.com, the website that brought me this experience, worthless but for the 15 second pre-roll commercial now buried somewhere in the part of my brain that might buy things, has been acquired by CBS this morning and its leader will now run the Interactive division (the future) of one of the biggest media companies in the world.
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