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23

The 11 Best Free iPad Video Apps

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The ever-popular Apple iPad, with its wide, high-resolution screen, is a great device for watching video (better than the tiny iPhone, anyway); and yet the options for video discovery are surprisingly limited, given how tailor-made the iPad seems to be for media consumption of all kinds.

Sure, you’ve got YouTube for your standard viral video-viewing pleasure, iTunes for individual purchases and rentals, and Netflix and Hulu Plus for those with subscriptions. But what about for us freeloaders?

Here are eleven zero-dollar apps we found that can be quite useful both for finding new videos online and for watching them full-screen on your iPad, or hooked up to your wide-screen television at home. Just be sure you plan ahead: you’ll need an Internet connection to stream the clips, as the free apps don’t allow for downloads.

Red Arrow crashes during air show – a cold-hearted Facebook clickjacking scam

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Air show, Bournemouth Air Festival, Clickjacking, Confidence trick, facebook, Flight Lieutenant, Getty Images, Jon Egging, NoScript, Red Arrows, Royal Air Force, Spam, Survey Scam, youtube Leave a Comment

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Scammers on Facebook have once again proven themselves to be cold-hearted opportunists, unafraid to take advantage of personal tragedies for their own financial ends.

In the latest scam seen surfacing on the social network, innocent users are being tricked into believing that they will see a video of a crash at an air show which resulted in the death of a British pilot.

Flt Lt Jon Egging was killed during an RAF Red Arrows display at the Bournemouth Air Festival this weekend.

The news of the death touched many people who are fans of the world famous Red Arrows, and over 170,000 people have joined a Facebook group in Jon Egging’s memory.

Google+ Public Posts Appear In Google Social Search Results

Category: Social, Technology Tags: comScore, google, Google Account, google plus, Google Plus Social Network, Google Search, Google Social Network, Google Social Search, Google+ Posts, Predict The News, Prediction, Search Engine Land, Social Search, twitter, Web search engine, youtube 1 Comment

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Google announced on Friday that Google+ users will soon begin to see Google+ posts in their Google Search results.

This feature is activated only when you’re signed in to your Google Account, according Product Manager Sagar Kamdar, who posted the announcement on the Google Search Blog.

When you’re searching Google for, say, a restaurant, you might see that some results include content shared publicly by members of your Google+ Circles.

Google’s 5 Most Expensive Acquisitions To Date

Category: Social, Technology Tags: AdMob, Android, Antitrust, Biggest Google Acquisitions, David Lawee, DoubleClick, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, google, Google Acquisition, ITA Software, Larry Page, Mergers And Acquisitions, Most Expensive Google Acquisitions, Motorola, Motorola Mobility, Reuters, youtube Leave a Comment

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Google announced on its blog Monday that it plans to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. If the deal is approved by antitrust regulators, then it will go down in the books as Google’s largest acquisition to-date.

Google’s VP of Corporate Development David Lawee told Reuters in 2010 that the tech giant’s agressive M&A strategy is “paying off huge.” Big bets on young companies like Android and YouTube might have raised doubts when the deals were going down, but now most will agree that those have, thus far, turned out to be success stories

Facebook ‘Girls Must Be Watch Out Of Her mind’ photo-tagging scam – the lessons to learn

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Confidence trick, Courts of Kentucky, facebook, Facebook features, facial recognition, Part-of-speech tagging, photo tagging, Photograph, porn, Question, Scam, Tags, youtube 1 Comment

Naked Security readers have asked us once again to warn of a rapidly-spreading photo-tagging scam on Facebook, this time with the grammatically curious title This Girls Must Be Watch Out Of Her mind After Making This Video.

Here’s one wise Facebook user’s advice:

Facebook killer video scam spreads between social networkers

Category: Social, Technology Tags: City of Salisbury, CNN, Confidence trick, facebook, Hyperlink, News program, Osama BinLaden, Spam, United States, youtube 1 Comment

A new scam has spread quickly across Facebook this weekend, pretending to be a link to a TV news report about an alleged Facebook killer.

Here’s a typical message that has been seen spreading between social networking users:

(BREAKING NEWS) Facebook-Killer
[LINK]
07-29-2011 - News ?epo?ts of a ma? they are calling the 'Facebook Killer' have ?one ram?ant, he has claimed 9 lives in the United States so far that we ?now

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