Mozilla has officially entered the world of Web application. Web Apps are applications that run on any device, and can be distributed through any store or directly by the developer. Here is a video showing what is to come. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “”, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e…
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. 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…
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…
Hardly a week goes by without a news story, where an outage impacts key online services. Twitter has had a series of well-documented resilience issues and more recently, errors have impacted Skype’s services too. Typically, when a tech issue hits a large tech company, they are up and running again pretty swiftly. However, when a…
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…
