The tech news industry can be frustrating to watch sometimes, BUT the past week has been like an epiphany for me. Until very recently, if you asked me what I thought about biased reporters, I would have said that you can’t trust them. They’re biased. The clue is in the word! I was wrong. Very…
WordPress.org has just released WordPress version 3.0.4, which it is referring to as a critical security update.
The update was created, after XSS vulnerabilities were pointed out by WordPress users.
Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has refiled his lawsuit against a number of Internet giants, including; Apple, Facebook, Google and AOL etc.
The original lawsuit was rejected, when it was determined that Allen’s action was too vague. It is based around a number of what Allen believes are infringements relating to…
Apple are about to release 3 new versions of their insanely popular iPad, as soon as next month, according to a rumour that’s being widely reported by a number of respected news sources.
Originally reported in digitimes.com, the Apple iPad 2, as some have taken to calling it, will apparently come with a choice of 3 variations of Wi-Fi, CDMA and UMTS.
Microsoft has issued a warning, regarding a serious security vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
The browser is currently wide open to attacks from web pages exploiting the code, which will allow attackers to take control of their machines.
Paul Adams, the Google UX (User Experience) researcher, who pointed out some flaws on Facebook this year, has now left Google to join Facebook. Whilst Adams is clearly a very bright guy, I believe this move is potentially an indicator of a MUCH bigger story, regarding the balance of power with these 2 Internet giants….
So, Yahoo’s saviour Carol Bartz has has hit the headlines again this week.
Following some poorly handled announcements, it seems that Yahoo Buzz and delicious.com are being axed, scaled back or sold (depending on which announcement you heard.)
For the larger part of 2008/2009, tech news sites were buzzing with stories of doom and gloom regarding the health of Steve Jobs. No matter what Apple were launching or what news was coming out of Cupertino, most coverage ALSO contained some kind of comment on how unwell / thin Jobs was. Fast forward to…
Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 last week and the tech media response was, perhaps, the best example to date of how biased some tech news outlets are regarding certain brands. Almost everyone who has been hands-on with a Windows Phone 7 device has been impressed to a lesser or greater degree. However, many established technology…
Yesterday, when Twitter’s Ev Williams, announced he was moving from the role of Twitter CEO to focus on product development, hundreds of almost duplicate posts were written across all the major tech news blogs. They basically all wrote the same post: They listed the announcement, quoted from Williams’ post and that’s pretty-much it! That’s because…
