Month: July 2011
Nokia on the rocks: Sales slip behind iPhone and Samsung for first time ever
From being the world's biggest phone manufacturer last year - and every year for the past 15 years - Nokia have now slipped to third place, behind Apple and Samsung. Quarter 2 figures for Nokia from 2011 show that sales have slumped leaving the inventors of the smartphone (9000 Communicator, 1996) trailing two of its…
Rebecca Black works out where to sit down: New Song displays Personal Growth
Say the song is boring, that it's a weird teen ego-trip, that it's really cringey and makes you want to sign up to Youtube just so you can dislike it. But Rebecca Black's new single 'My Moment' has one thing going for it at least: it shows she has learned how to chose a seat…
INTERNET GOLD: Rebekah Brooks sings Rebecca Black
Thank you internet. This is a masterpiece. We like the lines: "Got to resign on Friday" and "Got to see my friends / Dave is in the front seat / Gordon is in the back seat". Forget Newsnight, this is a genius summation of the whole thing.
Middle-aged Woman arrested for LulzSec Hacks: They're not all Teenage Boys
Hackers are always characterised as teenage boys, but two of the hackers arrested for Anonymous/LulzSec crimes in the States are women. One of them is a middle-aged woman, 42 year-old Tracy Ann Valenzuela. The other is 20 year old Mercedes Renee Haefer. Both of them have Hispanic-sounding names and are from California. Can anyone confirm…
16 Year-Old Teen in South London arrested for LulzSec Hacks
A 16 year old in South London has been picked up by the police for hacking crimes with the LulzSec group. It's the second time a British teenager has been arrested by the police for hacking offences - 19 year old Ryan Cleary from Essex was arrested and charged last month. The FBI have been…
Google + iPhone app just about to go live!
Get it! It makes Google + much more exciting. It's been on Android since launch but has taken a while to get through the approval processes at Apple. Looks like it's finally there - there's a preview up in the iTunes store, see the screengrab. It does have the automatic picture upload feature that the…
LulzSec & Jonnie Marbles vs NewsCorp: Put the pies and hacks away
I feel the same way about LulzSec hacking the Sun as I do about that pie terrorist Jonnie Marbles putting some cream in Rupert Murdoch's face in front of the Parliamentary Committee this afternoon. Stop it and leave it to Parliament now. Look - the ill-doing has been masterfully exposed (by the Guardian) and we're…
Hacking the hackers: LulzSec hit News International with fake Murdoch death story
LulzSec, the computer hacking collective thought to have disbanded after hitting a string of high profile targets including Sony, have returned to strike at News International in protest at the recent phone hacking scandal. Targetting The Sun newspaper's website, the group redirected the tabloid's homepage to a fake story reporting the death of News International…
YouTube hit Rebecca Black is back with My Moment, but can she ever produce another Friday?
Youtube superstar - Rebecca Black is releasing a new music video today that will chart the 14 year old's "rocky rise to fame". It's going to be called My Moment and is going live on Youtube and on her website at 8pm. It's the follow up to her viral hit Friday - which was loved,…
A Hackers Facebook: Forget Google+ Anonymous are starting a social network
Screw the Google plus invites. The hot new social network could be AnonPlus -a social network for hackers which anyone is welcome to join. Spurred on by Google pulling the Anonymous G+ page and Gmails, Anonymous have decided they're going to have to make their own social network if they want to communicate and organise…
