By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you’re in China and looking to download your iTunes tracks then you’ve probably been having some problems in the past few days. That’s probably because Beijing doesn’t like a new Tibet-themed album that is now out on iTunes with the Dalai Lama giving a 15-minute talk. As well [...]
AJAX developers, get your game on. Firefox version 3.1 will deliver massive speed improvements for JavaScript, the language behind many of the cool interactive effects on today’s web pages. Andreas Gal and Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine invented a novel approach to Just-In-Time compilation called “tracing”. Put simply: rather than compiling complete, individual [...]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] The Register reported earlier today that Microsoft AdCenter was making available Excel files containing search keywords that no-one was bidding on. So this was your chance to peruse the list, find some keywords that you liked and grab them for a bargain. The files were here on the front [...]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Four years ago at the last party conventions, when they nominated George W Bush and John Kerry, YouTube didn’t even exist (imagine that – a world with no YouTube!). But now, with YouTube a dominant force on the internet, Google is determined to make its presence felt in Denver [...]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] For years I’ve been an off and on user of Pandora. The “on” times are because Pandora is a very impressive music delivery system that just about reads your mind. The “off” times are because I’m not really much for radio. All of this may be moot, though, as [...]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you would like the country of “Tibet” to be part of your new Hotmail email account name, then you are out of luck. The New York Times is reporting that anyone who tries to enter “Tibet” into a new email account application is told that they have entered [...]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A 16 year old girl has successfully managed to have her fine for file sharing reduced after she argued she was too young to understand that her music downloading was unlawful. Which raises the question – is ignorance a valid legal defense? Whitney Harper will now only have to [...]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] This will probably go down in journalism history as one of the classics and Google will never live this down. Plus you’ve probably still got the crazies in Georgia, USA hiding in the bushes with their shotguns waiting for the Russian tanks to come rumbling past muttering to themselves [...]
Liveplace.com has recently released a clip presenting their yet-to-be-launched online world, CitySpace. Check it out in the following video: What is really great about this online world is that the environment it features can be accessed via a conventional browser and is fully rendered server-side, allowing relatively weak devices such as phones and PDAs to [...]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you are a regular Twitter user, you might have noticed a surprising number of “hot babes” have started following you. On top of this, your new follower has only have three tweets in her profile and one of them is a link to a rather shady site. Yes, [...]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A Spanish office worker has been jailed for two years after he “hacked” into the computer of his ex-boss, retrieved hundreds of emails that the man had deleted and then sent them on to lots of other people. The emails were said to be “highly personal” and contained details [...]
By PatB Contributing Writer, [GAS] The Internet, and especially blogs, are quickly becoming recognized as a great source of debate and opinion on controversial topics. Stories that begin in the mainstream media often spill over to blogs for discussion, and more and more often now, people form their own opinions after reading both sides of [...]