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Citing a study claiming “67 per cent of women regularly check their boyfriends’ phones,” Norwegian digibros Jorgnsn made it so your most… privileged information remains safe. And for only 99 cents.

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In response to a “serious security flaw” that led to the hacking of several e-mail accounts, the French government has issued a nationwide recommendation to stop using Internet Explorer, and switch to either Firefox or Google Chrome for a more secure web browsing experience.

Microsoft has issued a response, stating that the Germans — the country responsible for the initial recommendation to stop using their popular web browser — had “over-reacted about the threat posed by the vulnerability, and that general users were not at risk.”

However, while the French and German responses certainly don’t fare well for Microsoft’s increasingly dwindling share of the web browsing market, Graham Cluley, a senior security advisor at Sophos, says: “Every browser has its security issues, so switching may remove this current risk but could expose you to another.”

For more information on this topic, check out Telegraph.

Hip-hop heads and Denisonians alike have something to look forward to on Friday, January 22^nd, as Hiptics.com Presents: Wiz Khalifa x EbGb x D. Julien, live at The Roost.

The show is FREE and starts @ 8PM. For more information, check Hiptics or WBUB.

Kirk Combe, Denison’s resident master of satire, just released his first science-fiction novel, entitled 2084.

Reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World, 2084 serves as the author’s critique of unrestrained free market capitalism, investigating “a corporate-controlled America and its culture’s mindset in a year deep into the 21st century.”

2084 is a world run and employed by a single mega corporation, whose reach extends into the very brains of the population, tapping into their fantasies and their base drives at the expense of everyone and everything around them. This technically controlled society is opposed only by the shrinking members of a free-thinking humanity.

While Combe, a Professor of English, has authored several books and articles, including A Martyr for Sin: Rochester’s Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society, Theorizing Satire: Essays on Literary Criticism, his latest literary creation embodies his “lifelong interest in the power and place of satire in literature.”

For more on 2084, check out Evelyn Frolking’s article on Newark Advocate, or buy it online at Amazon.

Upon tweeting this message to his 1.4 million followers, Wyclef Jean  ignited the largest text-based fundraising effort in history just hours after news of Haitian devastation  hit the US:

“Please text ‘Yéle’ to 501501 to donate $5 to Yéle Haiti. Your money will help with relief efforts. They need our help.”

But Yéle Haiti and American Red Cross are just two of the thousands who are harnessing the power of social networking to lend aid to the victims rocked by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti just days ago.

For more on how social networking websites and applications have been essential in raising awareness, and information on how you can get in on the action, check out Anita Hamilton’s article in Time Magazine.

Opinions on Google are decidedly split. While one party hails the engine as the end-all-be-all in search superiority and advertising awesomeness, the other deems it the algorithmic Antichrist — an inherent invader of privacy, and the exploiter of unknown millions.

Regardless, Google has undoubtedly changed the world. And in their latest debacle with the Chinese, the bandwidth behemoth is making a convincing argument that they’ve brought us together for better, and not for worse.

When Google decided to enter the Chinese market a few years ago, they complied with controversial censorship rules and moved into murky waters. While Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are respected for letting their creation simply “do its thing,” the decision to allow mass censorship suddenly brought their pious, arms-length stance into question. Suddenly, Google’s omniscience became overtly political, entering an ethical gray area.

Now, with a 15-20% share in the Chinese search market, perhaps the largest emerging market in the world, Google has made what could be one of the digital era’s most profound moves — by challenging China’s strict censorship policies and threatening to leave the country entirely.

So while the entire world stood more or less powerless in the face of Chinese censorship, Google comes along and challenges the world’s biggest nation. And with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton weighing in on the issue, could Google’s ultimatum be bringing us one step closer digital warfare?

AdAges’s Henry Blodget reminds us that Google isn’t playing a game of Socio-Political Chinese Checkers — it’s just good business:

Google has played the overall China situation maturely and brilliantly. It has not been evil. It has balanced the interests of its shareholders, employees, and, importantly, Chinese people. It has also done the most it can to address an appalling and ridiculous injustice in the world’s most populous country.

For more on this story, check out AdAge.