Tweet Got a Google TV? Time to download the update! On the heels of Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s big upgrade to its Android operating system, Google has also announced (via a post on the Google TV blog) some major updates to the Google TV software. The new software brings some cosmetic changes, as well as more
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Tweet If an unauthorised party has logged into your Facebook account, then you’re far from alone. New official statistics revealed by the social networking giant reveal that 0.06% of the more than billion logins that they have each day are compromised.
Tweet “Uncle John” McCarthy, the creator of the functional programming language LISP, died earlier this week in California at the age of 84. McCarthy will probably best be remembered for being decades ahead of his time, working out how to make LISP manage entirely automatically the memory needs of programs running inside it. Whilst explicitly
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Tweet According to local media reports, hackers were able to snoop upon emails and steal passwords from computers belonging to lawmakers at the Japanese parliament for over a month. A report in the Asahi Shimbun claims that PCs and servers were infected after a Trojan horse was emailed to a a Lower House member in July.
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Tweet Microsoft and Mozilla have teamed up to create a new browsing option: A version of the popular Firefox browser will be available for download with Bing as the integrated search engine. Mozilla announced the partnership in a blog post, describing the new browser as “a customized version of Firefox that sets Bing as the default
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Tweet Looking for a fun after party at this year’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles? Looking to have a drink, learn from a live blogger panel discussion and network in a relaxed, fun environment? Join us at the BlogWorld LA Party Thursday night and learn about INTENTclick, plus the launch of the LA Blog Club.
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Tweet How Apple got its name, why Steve Jobs wore black turtlenecks and the bizarre interview questions the Apple CEO would ask job candidates: these are just a few of the revelations presented in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. The 571-page book, out October 24, is based on more than a hundred interviews, including over forty
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