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Firefox admits CPU heat problems

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:44:05 +0000

The Mozilla support pages are now admitting what many of us have known for some time: the popular Firefox browser has a tendency to over-utilize the CPU and cause heat build-upproblems, especially in ultra-portable laptops.

The support pages [...]

Facebook threatens USocial with legal action over paid friends

Dave Parrack — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:15:07 +0000

USocial has been offering Facebook friends for sale for a couple of months now. But it hasn’t taken long for Facebook to threaten legal action, sending a cease and [...]

Comcast hackers charged

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:45:38 +0000

Although it seems that few hackers are caught and brought to trial, the members of the Kryogeniks hacker “gang” have been charged with a Website hacking stunt that was costly to Comcast.

The Comcast exploit was not all that complicated, but it [...]

The death of the CD is nigh as Linn bows out

Dave Parrack — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:43:06 +0000

Physical media such as CD and DVD is very slowly but surely being replaced by digital formats. Whether it’s streaming or downloads, physical is the [...]

The whole of the U.K. could soon get free Wi-Fi

Dave Parrack — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:20:36 +0000

City-wide Wi-Fi networks which offer wireless Internet connectivity for free to all residents who want it have pretty much failed to succeed across the United States so [...]

Email could die within a decade thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Skype

Dave Parrack — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:48 +0000

Email is currently one of the key elements of the Internet. And sending and receiving email is usually one of the first things we learn [...]

Microsoft officially announces Internet Explorer 9

Sean P. Aune — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:05:57 +0000

Microsoft announced today that it has officially begun work on Internet Explorer 9.

In a completely unsurprising announcement, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, today announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that development began three weeks [...]

Stephen Fry talks Twitter – “human shaped, not business shaped”

Dave Parrack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But [...]

News Corp plans for news subscriptions begins to take shape

Sean P. Aune — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:21:07 +0000

At least one of the newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has begun to outline how it expects readers to begin paying for the news.

According to the Guardian, the News International owned newspaper [...]

Don’t become a victim of Facebook bullying

Dave Parrack — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:34:48 +0000

Bullying has been around for generations and will likely remain a problem for generations to come. The problem is it evolves over time, with playground bullying first moving to mobile phones and email [...]