Video: Hitler Is Not Pleased About Facebook’s Acquisition Of FriendFeed
Seriously, these never get old.
Daring Fireball: Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store
The small story is that of a clever $2 iPhone dictionary app, the developers of which removed “objectionable” words from its dictionary so as to get it published in the App Store. [...]
Byte Into It – 12 Aug 09
Byte Into It – 15 Jul 09
Better Gmail 2 Updated for Gmail’s Label Enhancements – Better Gmail – Lifehacker
Firefox only: Google’s recent improvements to Gmail’s labels broke one of Better Gmail 2’s most-loved features: Folders4Gmail. Grab the newest version 0.8.3 of Better Gmail 2 to get back Folders4Gmail functionality as well as Hide Spam Count. Until Mozilla Add-ons approves the newest [...]
Byte Into It – 24 Jun 09
China carries on with censorship plan, as Google capitulates | Technology | guardian.co.uk
China has said it will continue with its plans to force every computer in the country to run a controversial filtering program that will further restrict the activities of web surfers.
Officials at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said they would be [...]
Byte Into It – 17 Jun 09
Telstra split is needed: ACCC
THE AUSTRALIAN Competition and Consumer Commission has told the Federal Government the structural separation of Telstra is essential to its planned $43 billion national broadband network.
But Telstra in its submission to the Government’s review of telecommunications regulation argues that no further separation of its operations is necessary as the new network, [...]
Byte Into It – 20 May 09
Microsoft Trying To Kill Off The Golden Windows 7 Goose | NetworkWorld.com Community
It should be obvious but here are the reasons Microsoft shouldn’t even consider a price increase for Windows 7:Vista upgraders and purchasers would like the product they already paid for.This won’t help seduce XP users.Not going to help the battle against Linux.Remember [...]
Byte Into It – 22 Apr 09
Ubuntu Releasing A Cloudy ‘Jaunty Jackalope’ — Ubuntu Linux — InformationWeek
The release (announced Monday and available for download on Thursday, April 23) has added little surprises since the final beta test last week. Die-hard Linux fans and even curious looky-loos have been anticipating version 9.04 or “Jaunty Jackalope” for months. Available in desktop and server [...]
Byte Into It – 25 Mar 09
Google Voice takes on the telecoms giants – News – PC Authority
Google has upgraded its GrandCentral service to a new offering called Google Voice, in a direct attack against internet and traditional telephony services.
Google Voice takes the existing GrandCentral service, which consolidates landlines and mobile numbers into a single phone number with voicemail, and adds [...]
Byte Into It – 04 Feb 09
Belkin fake reviews case raises broad questions about peer ratings – Network World
Belkin’s admission that an employee has been offering to pay for favorable
Web-based peer reviews of its network gear raises the question of not
only how widespread such practices are but whether they undermine
community and trust in the connections and relationships that the Web
seems to [...]
Byte Into It – 17 Dec 08 – The Wrap Up Show!
Internet Explorer flaw bigger than expected – Network World
A day after its massive Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft last week warned of a new Internet Explorer vulnerability that could be used to steal user information. At the time, it was thought that only IE7 that was affected. Turns out all versions of IE are vulnerable and [...]
Byte Into It – 12 Nov 08
The International Digital Entertainment Festival (iDEF): http://www.idef.com.au/
Including the Digital Lifestyle Show: http://www.idef.com.au/dls_home.php
and the eGames Expo: http://www.idef.com.au/egames_home.php
Melbourne Exhibition Centre, November 14th-16th
VMware Brings Virtualization To Smartphones — Virtualization — InformationWeek
With the announcement of the Mobile Virtualization Platform on Monday, VMware is setting its sights on the mobile space.VMware’s MVP is a thin layer of software that will [...]
