Archive for September, 2009

“The Truth about Facebook”

Do you have a Facebook? Do you use it regularly? Do you think what happins in Facebook stays in Facebook? Watch this..

App Store success could change software-buying habits

More than 2 billion applications have been downloaded from Apple Inc.’s App Store, with more than 85,000 apps available to 50 million-plus iPhone and iPod Touch owners worldwide. The numbers announced by Apple are staggering to even normally reserved analysts, who noted that after a somewhat slower summer buying rate, App Store downloads globally have [...]

Report: Google accused of violating Italian law

An Italian prosecutor has accused Google of violating Italian and European regulations in the way it handles its e-mail communications, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported Monday. The criticism was contained in a letter sent to fellow prosecutors in Milan by public prosecutor Corrado Carnevali. The letter claimed Google’s practices “were not in conformity with [...]

Java developers get .Net data link

Java developers can more easily link Microsoft .Net-based data through an interoperability bridge offered by France-based Noelios, Microsoft and Noelios said on Monday. The bridge is known as the Restlet Extension for ADO.Net Services and is featured as part of Noelios’s Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework. The bridge leverages Microsoft’s ADO.Net Data Services, for building and [...]

Social networking sites leaking personal information to third parties, study warns

Many major social networking sites are leaking information that allows third party advertising and tracking companies to associate the Web browsing habits of users with a specific person, researchers warn. That’s the conclusion of a study on the leakage of personally identifiable information on social networks done at AT&T Labs and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. [...]

Review: Halo 3: ODST

Halo 3: ODST is a comic book size story set in the pulp universe left by the Halo trilogy.  It is exactly what the designers were aiming for, a much more intimate single player experience, obviously intended to be an expansion pack.  That is until the marketing department got wind of the project. “We wanted [...]

Free Advanced Hard Drive Cloning Software From Clonezilla

Imaging hard drives is the process of taking a hard drive and copying it bit by bit to create an exact replica, in a way an “image” just like a photograph of a person is a snapshot of them at any moment in time. The cloning part is the process of taking that “image” of [...]

Website rates best and worst cellphones by radiation output levels — how does yours stack up?

You’re surely aware that your cellphone bleeds radiation into your face the whole time you’re on the phone with your mom, best friend or lover, right? Yes, it’s a fact we try not to think about most of the time, but now there’s a tool out there on the internets for the more reality-facing folks [...]

Ballmer says Microsoft ‘screwed up’ with Windows Mobile

It’s becoming obvious that Microsoft Corp. [1] officials, including CEO Steve Ballmer, wish Windows Mobile were a better mobile operating system. Bloggers attending Microsoft’s Venture Capital Summit reported today that Ballmer said Microsoft “screwed up with Windows Mobile” and changed the Windows Mobile team recently to try to recoup losses. Journalists were not attending, and [...]

Intel’s new Moblin 2.1 OS available for download

Intel has made available for download its latest Linux-based operating system, Moblin 2.1, just a few days after announcing the new software. Moblin 2.1 is meant to be a preview version for developers and carries numerous user-interface and software improvements, according to the Linux Foundation, which manages development of the OS. The OS is available [...]