Monthly Archives: January 2009

Google malware detector broke

Earlier today, if you used Google to search for anything, you will have noticed that Google malware detector was reporting that every site on the web was potentially hosting MALWARE!
Google malware broke
The problem lasted for around 20 minutes and seems to have hit everything; other than YouTube, which of course is owned by Google! Users [...]

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Windows 7 & Leo Laporte

I was just reading Leo Laporte’s blog and noticed something that I wanted to share with you.
I recently posted about how the pro Apple bloggers / podcatsers / journalists would have a challenge in 2009; dissing Windows 7 – when the general geek population seems (mainly) to think that even the beta version is actually [...]

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Is Twitter killing trade shows?

Twitter has made live blogging a reality. You can now get a series of Twitter feeds live from any tech trade show on the planet, from people with different agendas; delivering a pretty well rounded overall view of the show direct to your browser.  When you combine this with the fact that most of the [...]

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Arrington gets spat on – Now considering his future!

In a shock announcement, techcrunch founder Michael Arrington is to consider his future; after someone spat in his face at the DLD conference in Germany!
Techcrunch, death threats and assaults
In this post from techcrunch, Arrington also reveals that there was a death threat made against him and his family last summer.  He claims the threat was [...]

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Monster cock-up for 4.5 million job seekers

Online recruitment site Monster.com has suffered a massive security breach; with the personal details of four and a half million of its users stolen in yet another successful hacking attack.
Monster.com’s shaky security history
In 2007, monster’s security was compromised, when the details of over a million users were downloaded onto servers in Eastern Europe.  This latest [...]

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FriendFeed grows tenfold in just 6 months!

FriendFeed; the content / social aggregation site, has grown tenfold in just 6 months, reports techcrunch.  The brainchild of a group of former Google employees, the service was launched to the public less than a year ago (February 25th 2008.)  In December 2008, the site attracted an impressive 1 million visitors!
Is Twitter helping FriendFeed?
Twitter usage [...]

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Scoble’s not digging Rose’s twitter tips

I was reading my Friendfeed this morning, when I saw something that made me laugh so hard I ended up spraying coffee out my nose!
Kevin Rose is missing something
Kevin Rose did a guest post on techcrunch, in which he gives us his “10 tips for increasing your twitter followers.“  The list has received a ton [...]

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Twitter follower problem

Twitter has many well documented reliability issues – but we still love it!  The company has seen its service grow at an ever increasing rate, and has often struggled to keep up.
Fortunately, the current ‘follower problem’ seems to be hitting a relatively small number of users.
Unfortunately, one of them is ME!
The Twitter follower problem
The person [...]

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Windows 7 media challenge

Someone asked me earlier, how good I thought Microsoft Windows 7 was. I replied that I think it’s good enough, to ‘maybe’ cause CNET, TWiT and other anti Microsoft networks, an unexpected problem:
How do you dump on something that the public ALREADY likes and even competitors say is great?
Windows 7 & Win7Love
There’s no doubt – [...]

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Gary McKinnon wins court review

Remember Gary MacKinnon? He’s the British hacker that hacked into almost 100 United States Government computers, but then got caught downloading a picture because he used his own email address in the process!  It is claimed that MacKinnon caused $800,000 worth of damage during his exploits; though he maintains he was simply looking for pictures [...]

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The Apple Macintosh is 25 tomorrow

The Apple Macintosh computer is 25 years old tomorrow.  Although I was using a Sinclair Spectrum computer at the time, I remember the first time I actually saw the original Apple Macintosh running and was amazed. The machine was just a few months old and it was the first time I had ever seen or [...]

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Apple break revenue & earnings record

Today, Apple announced the best quarterly revenue and earnings figures in their history!
Despite the credit crunch, the daily reports of doom and gloom (and lay-offs across the IT sector), Apple are growing like never before.
Apple record profits
Apple.com reported some amazing results pretty-much across the board, though iPhone sales where below many experts expectations. Here’s a [...]

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Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization

Microsoft are working to resolve Windows Vista  incompatibility issues; with the launch of the public beta of a program suite; designed to help businesses run ‘legacy’ software on versions of the Windows Vista OS.
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
Catchy name eh? Anyhow, here’s what you can expect from the public beta of Microsoft MED V
Incompatibility of [...]

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Belkin pay for fake reviews

Belkin have been found offering people money, to post positive comments about their products on Amazon.com! To get the money (less than a dollar per post), the fake reviewer was told to pretend they owned the product and also to mark any negative comments about Belkin’s products as “unhelpful.”
The blame for this pathetic episode, has [...]

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First Revision3 – Now TWiT?

Three months after his friend Kevin Rose had to lay-off a number of senior staff at Revision3, is Leo Laporte in trouble over at the TWiT network?
Are TWiT’s numbers cause for concern?
Leo Laporte has been showing up as a guest all over the place recently, plugging the excellent twit.tv network.  Leo suggested at the end [...]

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