July 2010
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So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New... →
“In Google we trust.” That may very well be the motto of today’s young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the “digital natives” due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a…
Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant in The... →
Earlier today we published an analysis of the top traffic drivers in social media, based on data from Web analytics company Woopra. The biggest traffic driver was StumbleUpon (51%), followed…
Prevent Cross Site Scripting/HTML injection... →
The intention of this article is to speak about the new <%: (Known as Code Nugget syntax) introduced in ASP.Net 4. As mentioned in the title, this will help developers to avoid cross site scripting…
Another Major University Enrolls in Microsoft's... →
As part of its annual Financial Analyst Meeting today, Microsoft is touting its cloud momentum and announcing several new high-profile customers who’ve selected the company’s cloud computing…
A Must-See Video of Microsoft's Street Slide,... →
Microsoft Research demonstrated a new street-level image viewing option that knocks the socks off of Google Maps Street View this week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. Called Street…
Google Places API Could Do For Check-ins What... →
Google has begun opening up access to a new Application Programming Interface (API) called the Places API. Developers building apps that include a “check in at this place” feature can use the…
Freemake Video Converter: stylish, user friendly... →
This is the kind of video conversion program that feels like it belongs in an Apple store; slick, clean-looking, with a lot of white space and colorful buttons in it’s…
University Website →
Forget Technical Terms - Whoever Gets the Most... →
In a recent survey by Evans Data, Google gets accolades for its public cloud. IBM gets top marks from developers for its private cloud. But what do developers want the most? They want the…
Nokia's Crowdsourced Design Competition Shows Fans... →
When Nokia started crowdsourcing ideas for a new potential phone, I very much doubt they expected one of the key criteria named by partakers would be an “open source operating…
Apple Purges Erotic Stories From Book Store... →
Yesterday, this was the number one book at the bestseller list of Apple’s book store: Blonde and Wet, The Complete Story, followed by Big Sis, both erotic short stories written by…
Seven People Have Been Entrusted With The Keys To... →
These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web “in the event of a catastrophic event.” …
Anna Fermanova Is America's New Sexy Russian Spy... →
Mere weeks after America banished sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman, another has surfaced: 24-year-old Anna Fermanova is accused of smuggling military technology to Moscow. She…
What Planet Did This Tank Came From? [Retromodo] →
There are no details of this tank, which could be from the Soviet Era. The picture finder says that some people suggested is a fog/smoke generator but, for its looks, it could be an…
Facebook Instant Account Destruction, at Last... →
If you’re convinced by the top 10 reasons you should quit Facebook (and then some more), here are some good news for you and every privacy defender in the planet: Facebook is…
Beirut Terraces: Landmark luxury apartment... →
‘Beirut Terraces’ is a landmark designed by Swiss architects Herzog and De Meuron represents a self confident and optimistic Beirut unfazed by its tumultuous past and present. The building has…
100 Million Facebook Profile Pages Leaked to... →
A 2.8GB torrent is floating around out there containing data from 100 million Facebook profiles. But don’t freak out: all the data was already available publicly. More »
CRAB robot to revolutionize policing in London →
Designed for Dalton/Stanley, a fictional weapons and armaments company, the CRAB (Cybernetic Autonomous Remote Barricade) by designer by Jamie Martin is a futuristic robot to revolutionize…
Foxconn (Accidentally) Poisons 250 Workers... →
The Foxconn stories keep dragging on. Over at their India factory, 250 workers were poisoned by pesticide spray, resulting in them ending up in hospital due to “sensations of…
Wave Your Immature Android Fanboy Flag on Your... →
I do think that this Android t-shirt is better than the one shown above, but if you really must, then it’s $35 / 27€ to you. Just don’t blame me when you get your nose punched…
Apple's Last Ditch Effort: iPhone Jailbreaking... →
Yesterday, new exemptions were added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and much of the Web and the blogosphere went a bit wild over the new legality of jailbreaking the…
Amazon Now Connects to Facebook, Suggests Gifts... →
The experience of shopping and buying items has always been a social one, but online we largely browse and purchase items by ourselves while parked at of our computer monitors. The online…
Frogger →
U.S. government makes jailbreaking, unlocking and... →
The U.S. Government Library of Congress Copyright Office announced today new policy changes that let owners of electronic devices break security protections within the device to allow non-authorized…
Ask.com Gets Back to Its Roots: Launches Q&A... →
Ask.com launched in 1996 and even though the site went through a number of changes through the years (remember Jeeves?), it is still one of the first services many Internet users think of…
Fact: Literally No One Would Pay To Use Twitter... →
There may be plenty of ways for Twitter to make money, but it doesn’t look like charging membership fees will be one of them: a recent survey showed that zero percent of users would…
Fair Use Legalized, Says EFF →
New exemptions have been added to the the Digital Millenimum Copyright Act (DMCA), a U.S. copyright law that criminalized attempts to bypass copyright, access control technologies or digital…
A Walk Through the Ancient World →
When the first immersive 3D games came out, I asked a programmer if he knew of anyone who had used that technology to create a Virtual Ancient Rome or Virtual Ancient Athens. I loved the idea…
Give us 15 seconds, we'll show you the new Hotmail... →
Finally on Hotmail Wave 4 !!!!
HTC Swapping AMOLED For Super LCD [Smartphones] →
HTC has today confirmed rumours of a planned switch away from the supply constrained AMOLED screen tech it sticks in its Desire and Nexus One phones, with new/old and more…
Afghanistan War Illustrated In Depressing Visual... →
The big news in the grown-up media today is the latest WikiLeaks disclosure, which has seen 90,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan released to the press. The Guardian has…
Researchers discover WPA2 vulnerability →
Researchers at wireless security company AirTight Networks have uncovered a vulnerability in the widely used WPA2 security protocol, part of the 802.11 standard. The vulnerability, termed “Hole 196”,…
Sharp Creates First 100GB Blu-ray Disc [BluRay] →
Thanks to nifty lasers, Sharp has created the first 100GB Blu-ray disc. The new Blu-ray format, called VR-100BR1, uses a new triple-layer standard that allows storage space of up…
Dell's Sordid Intel Past [Dell] →
“We are going to have to get off their drug…” is how former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins describes Dell’s dependence on payments from Intel to meet their financial targets in messages to…
Cartoon: Wi No Fi? →
OSCON has wrapped in sunny Portland, and with it the most ambitious conference wireless networking I’ve ever seen. Yet even here I heard attendees complaining about sluggish Wi-Fi… and…
How To Be an Android Power User [Android] →
From its auspicious start as the brainchild of Internet giant Google, Android has matured into a well-rounded, extremely capable smartphone operating system. Here’s everything you…
July 25, 2010 →
Sorry, no votey! I forgot to draw one before I left. But, I’ll put one up when I get home.
Comic for July 24, 2010 →
Microsoft Uses Forensic Tech To Catch Software... →
Microsoft takes fighting software counterfeiting so seriously that it’s looking at crime-scene forensic technology for inspiration. Apparently the software maker is using custom…
Apple Wins Software Insecurity World Cup... →
According to security company Secunia, Apple is now the company with more security vulnerabilities, taking over Oracle, which falls to the second position. On the third position is…
Facebook's Tornado Unleashes Version 1.0 on The... →
Want to turn your website into a storm of real-time user activity? Another way to do so has just arrived. The real-time web framework called Tornado, which Facebook open sourced last Fall,…
3D Printing Inches Toward Affordability for Small... →
High-resolution 3D printing crept further into reach for small businesses this morning when Z Corporation announced two new models of its ZPrinter line of 3D printers. The ZPrinter 150 and…
Microsoft Devours Earnings With Record $16 Billion... →
Microsoft just announced a monster quarter and fiscal year, with record revenue thanks largely to everybody gobbling up Windows 7—to the tune of 175 million licenses sold since it…
Apple's Software for Windows Ranked # 1 in Total... →
A report from Secunia shows that Apple has passed Oracle in the total number of self-reported software security vulnerabilities in its Windows XP and Vista products, such as iTunes and…
Developers and End-Users Driving Google's... →
A new report from Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond makes the case that Google’s support for open-source is endearing the company to developers, who will in tern use Google’s development…
Drupal Gardens Offers Drupal-as-a-Service →
Drupal software, support, and hosting company Acquia announced that its Drupal Gardens leaves private beta today. Drupal Gardens is a content management & social publishing system, offering…
Tim O'Reilly Says You Should Give Up Some Privacy... →
Tim O’Reilly was recently at the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), talking about the kinds of things that could be done “if we could use medicare data like Google uses…
“Be What's Next”, Microsoft's new motto →
Today at the annual Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) in Atlanta, a showcase event for the company’s own employees and a few select people from outside of the company, Microsoft touted its new motto….