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Yesterday Mozilla took the unprecedented step of pulling down a version of Firefox and warning those who had already installed it to stop using the browser. The move came after a rather bad security flaw was found in the software that would allow a malicious site to potentially be able to determine which websites users had visited and obtain access to
Rovio Entertainment is getting ready to release Angry Birds Star Wars. It is going to be available on November 8, 2012. I'm beginning to think that Star Wars is the “bacon” of geekdom. Everything tastes better with bacon. Adding just a little bit of Star Wars, to just about anything, can only enhance it. If you like Angry Birds, then
Us Brits are pretty good at inventing stuff. Telephone and TV; radar and jet engine; antibiotics and vaccination; pneumatic tyres and hovercraft; these are all great British inventions or discoveries. And don't forget that new-fangled worldwide web thingy from Sir Tim Berners-Lee. We might be a nation of shopkeepers but we're also a nation of cracking inventors. Consequently, I'm delighted to
App.net is a Twitter replacement which is based on a subscription. I joined 5 days ago. The cost is $36.00 which is a drop of about 25 percent from the originally $50.00 for the subscription. There is also a $5.00 monthly subscription available. Under App.net you own all your content If you decide to cancel your service you have 60
As the last analogue TV signals are turned off tonight in the UK to make way for 4G and digital TV, thousands of TVs, videos and hard-disk recorders will become obsolete literally overnight. While an external decoder may prolong their life, the sheer inconvenience of multiple settings and synchronised recordings will consign many of these perfectly functional devices to the
Last week I told you that Lookout, the popular security app for Android, was teasing a big announcement for this week. Today their new update began rolling out to users and it came with several new features, but the one getting the most attention is called "Signal Flare", which allows users to locate lost phones, even when the battery has
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Early this morning YouTube announced the addition of almost 100 new original channels, this time including non-U.S. locations such as France, Germany, and the UK. The roll out included two new BBC channels for science and nature, as well as many others, including local cuisine, health and wellness, parenting, sports, music, comedy, animation and news. Aside from the BBC, there are quite
Zynga recently released a “preliminary financial results” report that isn't a happy one. In short, the company said it is expecting to earn quite a bit less this quarter than it did last quarter. That's never good news for a company, and is the opposite of what investors want to hear. I'm not actually surprised by this news, though, because
Storing data in the cloud for access anywhere is certainly popular, but there are times when it's better to have the your own data in your own sticky paws. Buffalo's new 500GB MiniStation Air gives the best of both worlds, with wireless 11n access from smartphones and tablets in a pocketable form-factor; it's only 84 x 23 x 130 mm. The
I have told segments of this story many times on my show. On June 1st 2004 I severely injured my spine in a swimming pool accident in Bahrain, that injury laid me up in the hospital their for 13 days. I was very lucky less than 3% of the people that suffered the type of burst compression fracture of their
Nest has been the darling of the tech industry in recent months, with their innovative thermostat solution, but Honeywell, a long-established manufacturer in this market is taking them on with a new WiFi enabled thermostat of their own. It brings along most of the features of the Nest, but in a slightly larger format. The new model from Honeywell features
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