Apparently tens of thousands of Android users have downloaded applications capable of taking over their phones with malicious software.  The applications were designed to steal data or send expensive message. In response to the attacks, Google has removed 55 such applications from its official Android MarketPlace.  The apps in question mimicked legitmate programs and consisted of…
WordPress.com was hit today with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Â WordPress stated it was the largest in its history. Because of the attack, a number of blogs, including those which are part of its VIP service suffered connectivity issues. Matt Mullenweg said in an email to CNET, “the attack had affected three of the…
During yesterday’s unveiling of the new iPad 2, the question came up as to whether Steve Jobs’ statement, “when you add this together with over 65,000 app, we think 2011 is going to be the year of iPad 2″ meant no iPad 3 this year. However, when you look at the history of Apple and its fall releases…
The biggest tech news today has to be the live event where Apple showed the world the new iPad 2 and Steve Jobs made an appearance too.  I watched the event via the live blogs on both Engadget and Gizmodo. Below is a recap and summary of the new features and design of the new iPad 2. Apple iPad…
Today, Facebook pushed out its new commenting system.  The system is for blogs and other third-party sites.  While we have not implemented the system here and I don’t foresee us doing so anytime soon, some sites have. Facebook’s comment system doesn’t support twitter nor Google logins.  Two of the most widely used logins used currently.  In addition, and…
