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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
