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Google Complains About China Copy Site Goojje
It’s not just Nike (Niike), iPod (iPd) and Guess (Guess?) that are suffering from knock-off products pretending to be the real thing, the art of fake bling has now moved to the world’s largest search engine, Google. Or Goojje.
Google’s problems with China started a few months ago when the tech giant threatened to pull out [...]
Google’s Tablet, the gPad: Google’s Answer to the Apple iPad
Just weeks after launching an iPhone competitor in the form of the Nexus One, Google looks set to tramp on Apple’s toes again with its own tablet computer to rival the iPad.
Google has released a user interface design of what its own tablet could look like on its open source Chromium Projects site.
Google’s conceptual images [...]
Cyber Attacks on Facebook and Twitter Triple
There has been an “alarming” rise in spammers and hackers taking advantage of online social network users over the last year, according to a report by computer security company Sophos.
Incidents of malware and spam attacks on Facebook and Twitter users rose by 70 per cent in 2009 according to Sophros’ “Social Security” report.
“Computer users are [...]
Twitter Goes Out of This World: First Tweet From Space
NASA may have thought it made history by sending the first man to the moon, but everyone is all a-flutter with its latest achievment of sending the first Tweet from space.
“One small step for man,” is now overshadowed by the 140 character limited:
“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — [...]
PS3 Hacked by iPhone Jailbreaker
If jailbreaking Apple’s iPhone wasn’t enough kudos for US hacker George Hotz (aka geohot), he now also has hacking the Sony PlayStation 3 to his name.
The hacked console means that players can now run pirated games, unrestricted versions of Linux or home made software.
The feat is noteworthy as the PS3 was previously the only games [...]
Twitter Cuts Widget Feature Due to Account Hijacking Fears
Twitter has disabled a widget based on Adobe’s Flash Player after a security analyst notified the micro-blogging site of a weakness that left account login details exposed to hackers.
The security scare follows Twitter banning the use of 370 passwords that were deemed too obvious for hackers to crack.
The Flash-based widget was widely used by people [...]
LinkedIn: Top 10 Tips to get Headhunted
New Year’s resolutions generally focus around losing weight or finding a new job. You may have already cut down on the Jaffa Cakes, but are now faced with the problem of a poor job market as companies still try to recover from the recession by keeping on skeleton staff.
Apart from sending your CV to recruiters, [...]
HTC Smart: A Bargain Basement Smartphone
In an intelligent move after the spending spree of Christmas, HTC has launched a budget handset expected to be available on £15 per month contracts or less.
The HTC Smart will be up against its big brother the HTC Tattoo, which hit the high street in September last year for £25 per month on Vodafone.
What’s interesting [...]
CES 2010: Panasonic Brings 3D HD TV to Life Avatar Style
It really is a new decade for technology with Lenovo and HP ditching ye olde laptop in favour of the tablet, now Panasonic have blasted us to the future promising 3D TV to replace the so 90s 2D.
In what may be the biggest revolution in the industry from TV moving from black-and-white to colour, 3D [...]
CES 2010: Steve Ballmer Unveils HP’s Windows 7 Slate Device
The rumours are questioned no more. As part of his opening keynote at CES 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed the HP slate, though “that’s not what it’s called.”
Ballmer clarified that that Microsoft has dubbed the device as a slate to differentiate it from the pen-and-screen tool that Bill Gates showed off back in [...]
