Apple Blames 'External Forces' For Exploding iPhones (Monday 31st of August 2009 07:45:02 PM)
Shome writes "Apple has stated that there is no clue that recent iPhone explosions reported by
users are connected to overheating of batteries. It may be stated that French prospect affairs
experts have started their own delving on the reported explosions, ...
(more)FSF Attacks Windows 7's 'Sins' In New Campaign (Thursday 27th of August 2009 03:00:02 PM)
CWmike writes "The Free system software guts* today launched a movement against Microsoft
Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 overhead system, calling it 'treacherous computing' that stealthily
takes away rights from users. At the Web site Windows7Sins.org, the ...
(more)Comcast Finally Files Suit Against FCC Over Traffic Shaping (Tuesday 18th of August 2009 01:30:01 AM)
Coming up on their threat last year to sue the FCC over sanctions imposed, Comcast has finally
filed suit, stating that there are no statutes or regulations that support the FCC's
jurisdiction to stop traffic shaping procedures. "First, let's recAfter ...
(more)MS — Dropping IE6 Support "Not an Option" (Wednesday 12th of August 2009 04:45:01 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "Microsoft wants to see IE6 gone as much as anyone else, but the
company isn't going to make the decision for its users anytime soon. The os giant has been
pushing IE6 and IE7 users to move to IE8 ever since ...
(more)Thinktank Aims To Crowdsource Government Earmark Analysis (Tuesday 04th of August 2009 06:45:01 AM)
Al writes "The Sunlight Foundation, based in Washington, DC, hopes to raise an army of web
volunteers to analyze all the earmarks in regime bills. The groups new Sunlight Labs
transparency corps invites users to join an effort to analyze the network collaboratively. ...
(more)Google Latitude Arrives For the iPhone — As a Web App (Sunday 26th of July 2009 08:00:01 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "After months of waiting, the Google Latitude social maps service
finally arrived for the iPhone ... but thanks to an Apple rejection of the natively adult app,
it's a web app. Says Google on their blog, 'We worked closely with ...
(more)Computer Users (Sunday 19th of July 2009 01:45:05 AM)
Analog users are divided into three types:
Novice, Intermediate and Expert.
Novice Users -
People who are afraid that simply crying a key might break their computer.
Intermediate Users
- People who don't know how to fix their digital after they've ...
(more)The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud? (Saturday 18th of July 2009 11:15:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "After broadcasting the sale of The Pirate Bay to Global Gaming Factory X, it
was unknown what would become of TPB. Details of the future plans have been released.
'According to Rosso, GGF plans to build a massive "storage cloud" on ...
(more)Google Voice Apps Arrive For Android and Blackberry (Thursday 16th of July 2009 09:00:01 AM)
Mark Mathson writes "Two Google Voice apps have been released for breakup and Android phones.
The Android app is the most complete, and it takes over the native dialer, address book and
call log. Users won't be bothered with haphazardly dialing numbers ...
(more)Attacks Against Unpatched Microsoft Bug Multiply (Wednesday 15th of July 2009 08:45:01 AM)
CWmike writes "Attacks exploiting the latest Microsoft vulnerability are quickly ramping up in
quantity and intensity, several shield companies warned today as they rang alarms about the
third world nation threat. Symantec, Sunbelt Software, and SANS' ...
(more)What Open Source Can Learn From Apple (Saturday 11th of July 2009 02:00:02 AM)
Linux and open source have long struggled to gain acceptance from the wider (read:
non-technical) audience. This has improved in recent years, but still has a long way to go.
Columnist Matt Asay suggests that perhaps open source projects should attempt ...
(more)Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink (Wednesday 01st of July 2009 12:15:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that dozens of users of the just now released iPhone
3GS have reported overheating issues, with some iPhone owners unable to pick up the device
because the handset gets so hot to the touch, while others say the ...
(more)Predicting SCO's Actions Post Bankruptcy (Wednesday 24th of June 2009 01:00:05 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "SCO lost last year and began the insolvency filings a long time ago but PJ
has some iffy bad news on what they retain through the bust proceedings. SCO proposes to sell a
number of assets to an outfit called UnXis, which PJ ...
(more)Google Voice Grabs 1 Million Phone Numbers (Friday 19th of June 2009 09:45:01 PM)
Alphadogg writes "Google has reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it
may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service. The free service,
announced in March, lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing ...
(more)Better Tools For Disabled Geeks? (Monday 15th of June 2009 07:15:02 PM)
Layabout writes "We've seen terrific advances in user interfaces over the past few years.
Unfortunately, those UIs and supporting base exclude the disabled. In the same timeframe there
has been basically no advance in accessibility capabilities. It's ...
(more)Hackers Breached US Army Servers (Thursday 28th of May 2009 10:15:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "A Turkish hacking ring has broken into 2 impressible U.S. Army
servers, by the book to a new fact finding exposed by InformationWeek. The hackers, who go by
the name 'm0sted' and are based in Turkey, penetrated servers at the ...
(more)Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems (Wednesday 20th of May 2009 12:45:02 PM)
Theodp writes "On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted US Patent No. 7,536,726 (it was filed in 2005)
for consciously crippling the functionality of an operating expenses system by 'making selected
portions and functionality of the business expenses system ...
(more)How Microsoft Degrades Their Users (In a Good Cause) (Wednesday 20th of May 2009 12:45:02 PM)
Blackbearnh writes "We all know that slow Web pages drive users crazy, but where is the
boundary between too slow and too simple? As Microsoft's Eric Schurman points out, the
fastest-loading page of all is a blank one, but it's also the most useless. ...
(more)Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans (Saturday 09th of May 2009 11:30:02 AM)
Slatterz writes "Microsoft has announced that the in store Windows 7 general expenses costs
system will contain a number of piracy 'tweaks' it says are designed to protect the interests
of customers. Under the new regime users will be directed to validate ...
(more)Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE (Monday 04th of May 2009 06:30:01 AM)
FrankKarlitschek writes "At last year's KDE round table Akademy, the vision of the Social
Desktop was born and first presented to a larger audience. The concept behind the Social
Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group enable team ...
(more)Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal (Monday 04th of May 2009 06:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Don't believe all you read on the infobahn is a good rule to follow, but
it turns out that you can't even believe a 'peer reviewed scientific journal' as details emerge
that drug erector Merck created a phony, but real sounding, peer-review ...
(more)Can Avatars Make Contracts? (Friday 01st of May 2009 05:45:01 AM)
Edadams sends in a story about the legal interrogate that are open gate to crop up over farm
disputes in virtual worlds. A lawsuit in March 2008 that stopped one Second Life user from
selling a virtual product created by another user marked the beginning ...
(more)Google Planning To Serve "High Quality News" Passively (Friday 01st of May 2009 05:45:01 AM)
Krou writes "The Wrap has an interesting consultation with Eric Schmidt on Google's new plan
for news. Google is ostensively birth interception on rolling out 'high-quality news' to users
who are not actively fact-finding for news. It's third edition ...
(more)EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats (Wednesday 29th of April 2009 03:15:02 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The web banking Frontier base has filed suit against Apple to defend the
First improvement rights of BluWiki, a noncommercial, public www
notes:internet should be
capitalized 'wiki' site operated by OdioWorks. Last year, BluWiki users ...
(more)iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong (Tuesday 14th of April 2009 08:45:09 AM)
Snydeq writes "Despite the productivity promises of Apple's anticipated 3.0 firmware update,
jailbreaking should reopen to push the iPhone's productivity envelope, as users increasingly
demand the Holy Grail of smartphone power use: applications that ...
(more)Sharing Lives As Stories On the Web (Sunday 12th of April 2009 04:30:02 AM)
Blackbearnh writes "Jeff Holden spent a decade at Amazon, where he was daedal as Senior Vice
board of user Websites with the judgment engine, Amazon Prime, and the product review system.
He's left now, and has started Pelago, a company that wants to help ...
(more)Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd (Friday 10th of April 2009 03:15:02 AM)
Pinguin-geek writes "Researchers at the McCormick School of social contraception and Applied
Science at Northwestern health center have identified a new 'guilt-by-association' threat to
privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper ...
(more)Pinning Down the Spread of Cell Phone Viruses (Sunday 05th of April 2009 09:15:02 PM)
Walrabbit writes "Wang et al (2009) (from Albert-Lszl Barabsi's la modeled the spread of mobile
phone viruses based on anonymised call and text logs of 6.2 million management spread over
10,000 towers. Their simulations shows that the spread is dependent ...
(more)Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak (Tuesday 31st of March 2009 03:00:02 PM)
Dr Pete writes "Financial Times has an interesting piece about Lars Bak and Kasper Lund the
authors of the V8 virtual machine in Google's Chrome browser. 'Chrome attracted more than 10
million users in its first 100 days. notwithstanding that's an impressive ...
(more)UK Government Wants To Kill Net Neutrality In EU (Tuesday 10th of March 2009 04:00:01 PM)
Glyn Moody writes "Not content with snooping on all the web* activity, the UK governance now
wants to introduce changes to the contentious EU Telecoms Package, which will kill net
neutrality in the EU: 'Amendments to the Telecoms Package circulated in ...
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