Thursday 05th August 2010
It’s that all too familiar language that signifies the de facto end of a project: Google is cancelling any further development of Wave, its platform that was supposed to revolutionise email, chat, wikis, collaboration and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Thursday 22nd July 2010
Presumably they asked Apple but it was rejected from the App Store. Thank you thank you, I’ll be here all week! From SBS News:
Raytheon, which makes the Patriot missile defense system, is developing software which could enable a soldier to find enemies in his or her surrounding terrain using a mobile phone running Google’s Android operating system.
I think Google Reader is punishing me for perennially having (1000+) unread items! I like that word, perennially. Not really appropriate for this discussion as blog feeds don’t grow. Or do they?
This morning the site reported I had unread items, even when I went through and read them all. This means I’m seeing the same stories being reported as new, despite having already read them!
Has anyone else been having this problem? Given this is Google I’m fairly confident it’d be fixed in a few hours, knowing me I’m just an anomaly in their database that’s wrecking havoc or something. I have that effect on people, you see.
Sunday 04th July 2010
A few people on Twitter this evening reported that YouTube had been [maliciously] hacked. I clicked the first featured video on the YouTube homepage and was given a blank page that abruptly ended after a few comments containing attempted script code. Seems like a code injection attack exploiting incorrectly sanitised comments.
I run NoScript, so perhaps that’s why I didn’t see anything. If that’s true, its for unexpected situations like this that I insist on running Firefox and with such an extension!
UPDATE: People are now saying it was /b/, the same mob that tried to send Justin Bieber to North Korea. They should have just left it at the latter; it was kinda funny.
Saturday 26th June 2010
While I’m ragging on Android and on my mobile soapbox thingy, why is it the media consistently gives the platform a free ride but criticises everything Apple does?
Friday 25th June 2010
Imagine the uproar on Slashdot if this story description was posted about an Apple product! But I digress.
According to Liliputing, Intel is bringing the sweet eye candy of Android to x86, which — if all goes well — means it will land on (more) netbooks and tablets soon.
Wednesday 26th May 2010
Today’s fun and utterly pointless observation is a Google Image Search for "Kuala Lumpur". The first result is a photo of… Singapore!
To lend some possibly needed perspective, that would be akin to having a photo of Melbourne appear if you typed "Sydney", or London if you typed "Dublin", or Sarah Palin if you entered "intelligence is sexy".
Friday 21st May 2010
Saturday 08th May 2010
Andreas Constantinou has written one of the most interesting blog posts about Android that I’ve read in a long while; he argues its claim to being open source is not only suspect, but that the platform’s relative success has very little to do with it. The following are my own thoughts.
