The bombing that killed 35 people at an airport in Moscow, Russia, on Monday shocked the world.
But another mass tragedy was averted on New Year’s Eve, thanks to a spam message sent to a female terrorist who reportedly intended to detonate a suicide belt in a packed Red Square — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More and more European Union member states are delegating online policing to private companies and Internet service providers, according to a report released Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Research In Motion is reportedly pondering a scheme where BlackBerry and PlayBook devices would run Android apps — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Global software giant CA Technologies yesterday revealed it had acquired a Sydney start-up, Torokina Networks, which specialises in providing fault, several level and performance management technologies and services to support the implementation of next-generation mobile networks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s spam rate has fallen by more than 15 per cent since July 2010, and it’s now 1.3 percentage point below the average 78.6 per cent registered globally, according to a report published today by Symantec’s MessageLabs division — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One hundred altruistic pirates are responsible for two-thirds of BitTorrents that infringe copyright, according to research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you’re looking to jazz up your design and get away from using the standard Lorem ipsum dummy text, Fillerati generates blocks of filler text from classic novels.
At Fillerati you can pick from a set of authors pulled from Project Gutenberg to populate a block of text in the size and design you specify. You can have it in paragraph form, various header sizes, lists, or as raw text. Certainly you could just visit Project Gutenberg and do your own cut and paste job for the raw text, but Fillerati does it quickly and with a variety of formatting options.
Facebook, which faces potential fines for violating privacy laws in Germany, has agreed to let users there better shield their email contacts from unwanted advertisements and solicitations — via The Sydney Morning Herald
At Google one of our key philosophies is to take risks and to experiment. To that end, in July 2009 we announced the ability to find property for sale or rent directly on Google Maps. This is one of the search options
next to the search box on Google Maps, and is currently available in the US, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Japan.
In part due to low usage, the proliferation of excellent property-search tools on real estate websites, and the infrastructure challenge posed by the impending retirement of the Google Base API (used by listing providers to submit listings), we’ve decided to discontinue the real estate feature within Google Maps on 10 February 2011 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Accidentally hit that delete button? Having a hard drive failure? Help is here. Let us take you through the steps to get that data back in your hands — via Gizmodo
Motorbikes could soon be sporting collision detection and other safety features more usually found on cars — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hopefully we’ll all in agreement that you should have a presence on Facebook – it’s the most popular social network in Australia, and is the second most visited website in Australia (behind Google.com.au).
Buyers and sellers of property are on Facebook – they’re discussing and researching property, and you should be there too — via rpdata.com
Network demand will explode, fueled by unexpected growth in ambient video, like puppy cams and surveillance video, according to reports from the 33rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference held last week in Hawaii — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Another blow has been delivered to the mass BitTorrent lawsuits that were introduced in the United States last year. The German-based copyright profiteers DigiProtect sued hundreds of alleged BitTorrent users a month ago, but now more than half of the cases have been orally dismissed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you haven’t seen the announcements, the big news is that BBC Online is having to cut its budget by 25% and is being reorganised. Part of this reorganisation will see the BBC moving away from stand alone communities and message boards. Last year some message boards were closed, more will close this year. The BBC’s other big community 606 is scheduled for closure. (You can read about why we’re moving in this direction on this blog post from Ian Hunter.)
The review is part of the BBC’s Putting Quality First strategy which you can read about here. BBC Online will be reorganised into five portfolios of “products”. All parts of BBC Online have to fit with these. Over the past year all areas of the site have been reviewed to see where, and if, they fit. Sadly the conclusion myself and my colleagues have come to is that H2G2 does not fit in the new shape of BBC Online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A single universal
memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers.
The new memory technology, which uses a double floating-gate field-effect-transistor (FET), should enable computers to power down memories not currently being accessed, drastically cutting the energy consumed by computers of all types, from mobile and desktop computers to server farms and data centers, the researchers say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cheaper and lighter compared to its more expensive, cumbersome silicon cousin, plastic photovoltaics (PV) could herald a revolution in the solar power market, according to a UK solar panel expert — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Oh dear. Last week I appear to have scared a lot of people 🙁 I guess a modicum of scaring is a good thing as it makes people aware of the dangers and traps that it is easy to fall into. I was perhaps a little bit hyperbolic when I said anywhere else
. I should have said Why you should never search for free WordPress Themes in Google or Any Other Search Engine
— via WPMU.org
A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words free WordPress themes
, builtBackwards‘ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh‘s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for Free WordPress Themes
are — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I had bad blocks on my iPod classic 120gb. I was told to trash it and by a certified technician but I wouldn’t give up. I tried reformating at least 50 times. My iPod would restore and show up in iTunes no problem but I couldn’t copy more than 2gb of data before iTunes would hang.
I also tried reformating the iPod with Disk Utility. I was able to format but not with zero out data
selected (recommended for fixing bad blocks). I even tried changing the partition map through terminal but was unsuccessful — via Mac OS X Hints
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