Month: June 2011
19 year old Brit arrested for hacking – Ryan Cleary – has been in hacker feuds before
The 19 year old Essex boy who has been arrested by the British police on the request of the FBI has been embroiled in hacker feuds before. Ryan Cleary of Wickford Essex has been taken into a London police station for questioning about cyber crime. The police will want to talk about the huge hack…
A pretty great video of Steve Jobs saying "boom" at Apple keynotes
It's one for a niche audience this. But you'll enjoy it if you've ever had the pleasure of watching a Jobs keynote. As the vid creator says "Steve likes to say boom to insist on how fast his software can react." And he sure does say boom a lot.
The Future is here: More time spent on Mobile apps than on Web Browsing
The milestone has been passed: the future is officially mobile. Americans now officially spend more time looking at apps on their mobile devices than they do looking at the web on laptops or desktop computers. After closely tailing the amount of time spent on the normal internet, mobile analytics firm Flurry's new report showed that…
Turn left at the Temple: How SatNavs work in places without street names
Interesting point from an employee of NavTeq, the satnav makers, at mobile location conference MoMoLo last night. He was explaining how navigation companies make maps and directions in countries where streets don't have names. The answer? They do just what humans do - use landmarks. Of course this is an early science, but it's something…
Poll: 3D TV declared a novelty – will you ever get one?
After a rapid uptake in 2010, it seems that sales of 3D TVs have slowed right down. It's no longer a key selling point for consumers buying a TV - who prefer stuff like internet connectivity. But will people continue to shell out for the magic of 3D football, 3D games or uh 3D internet…
PICTURES: Nokia release N9 phone on Meego
Nokia unveiled the N9 last night in Singapore as the successor to the N8. The new design strips all buttons from the face of the device, replacing the home button a universal 'swipe' gesture that takes users back to the main screen. It has an 8 megapixel camera and is reportedly only a shave thicker…
Future of Wifi: How a new breed of Wifi Hotspots will feed our data addiction
Bummed out by wifi networks that demand you type in fiddly passwords? or worse have badly laid-out log-in pages that bar your browser. Chances are you also get frustrated waiting ages for 3G to load a webpage. Public wifi could solve both these problems and give us the fast mobile internet we're all crying out…
Did Dating Site BeautifulPeople.com hoax us about an invasion of ugly people?
Yes it looks like they did. And they took in almost all mainstream British blogs while they were at it. Dating site BeautifulPeople.com will only allow members in if they are more beautiful than average, but they claim in stories on the BBC and Guardian that a recent virus let in 10,000 ugly people. Unfortunately,…
Snuggle your iPhone up in a FASHION SOCK
Putting your iPhone in one of your actual socks could be a kind of social suicide, but putting it in a catwalk-inspired tote sock looks like fun to me. Trendz make socks for gadgets. Mostly iPhones but also laptops, iPods and MP3-players. They've just released some new ones for iPhone 4. These cases are also…
Apple vs Tinie Tempah: Is the brand starting to lose its cool?
When Apple took out a patent on software which would stop people using their iPhones to film at gigs, it got Brit singer Tinie Tempah all riled up. He said it was wrong for Apple to stop people doing what they wanted with their phones. The new technology would allow venues with an infra-red signaller…
