Archive for June, 2011
Google+ hands on: laboured stuff
What every startup works on is the user’s experience in the first few minutes – seconds even – that they are using their application. What do you see? How easy is it to join? Can you get your profile set up in less than a minute? Can you get your picture on your profile in [...]
Read moreMSI formally unveils 14-inch CX480 laptop, stops short of naming a price
MSI Debuts Dazzling CX480 Multimedia NB Just in time for summer MSI has introduced its new generation CX480 notebook computer with Intel 2nd generation Core i processor, nVidia GeForce GT 520M discrete graphics card, Time Stamp recovery software, hard drive shock protection, ALS, SRS PC Sound, and a battery that lasts up to 8.5 hours. [...]
Read moreOffice 365 goes to battle with Google Apps
Microsoft is hitting back at Google in the cloud with the release of its Office 365 offering – a cloud service which extends Office to the cloud. But not to be outdone, Google got its own punch in first on Monday night – with a blog post offering “365 reasons to consider Google Apps”. It’s [...]
Read moreDatabase of US military personnel is hacked
A magazine subscriptions database which held personal information of members of the US armed forces has been hacked into, according to an American media company. The Gannett Government Media Corporation holds information about subscribers to Defense News, one of the world’s most widely read publications on the military, and other publications aimed at serving US [...]
Read moreGoogle+ launched to take on Facebook
Google is challenging Facebook domination by unveiling a new project called Google+ that it says will try to make online sharing more like real life. More than a year in the works, Google+ lets users share things with smaller groups of people through ‘circles’. This means only university friends, workmates, or families – but not [...]
Read moreFilm studios want BT to block website
Colin Firth’s box office hit The King’s Speech is at the heart of a landmark court battle over online piracy between Hollywood film giants and Britain’s largest internet service provider, BT. Major film studios, including Paramount Pictures and Disney, asked the high court in London on Tuesday to force BT to block access to the [...]
Read moreLulzSec chatlogs: who talked to who, and when
A tangled web of hackery … LulzSec ties by association The LulzSec (RIP) chatlogs published by the Guardian last week gave us an fascinating glimpse inside the loosely-hierarchical hackers behind many recent profile attacks. But we didn’t get a graphic of the various LulzSec associations. Fortunately, the Nonynews blog has stepped in. The above graphic [...]
Read moreWill there be one or two iPhone 5s?
Call it the battle of the analysts, because only one group can be correct. At issue: will Apple unveil one new iPhone in September – or two? At issue may be the reputations of some of the finance industry’s biggest names. First, the predictions of two iPhones. Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank suggested in a [...]
Read moreJohn Naughton: Now anyone can ‘write’ a book
You know what they say: everyone has a novel inside them. Until recently, that claim was neither here nor there, because even if it was true, there was generally no way of getting said magnum opus published. So the dreams of millions of wannabe novelists remained sadly unfulfilled. But then along came Amazon with its [...]
Read moreFilm piracy battle heads to court
Hollywood film studios will take their battle against illicit downloading to the high court in London on Tuesday in an attempt to force Britain’s largest internet service provider, BT, to block access to a website that allegedly distributes pirated material. Backed by studios including Warner Bros, Fox, Disney and Paramount Pictures, the Motion Picture Association [...]
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