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RSS pop-upIT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News With less positions for job hunters to choose from it seems employers are having less difficulty filling the few vacancies that do pop up. The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech... [25 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up While ikee doesn't put your personal data at risk, it could certainly damage your street cred: it replaces infected iPhones' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley - the pop star whose 'Never Gonna Give You... [13 Nov 2009]
iPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News Some iPhones have come under attack from a worm that replaces the devices' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley - the pop star whose 'Never Gonna Give You Up' song is the subject of the... [09 Nov 2009]
Facebook turns on the Lite
News The input box is also gone, replaced by buttons (Write, Post Photos, Post Video) that pop down the actual input forms only when needed. Facebook is slimming down with the launch of a new Lite version. [11 Sep 2009]
Securing Your Computer Against Spyware / Adware / Malware
White Paper The most common symptoms of an infected machine are the presence of pop-up advertising when not actively browsing the internet, the appearance of new "helpful" search toolbars in the Internet Explorer... [11 Sep 2009]
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
News Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that the service will soon get a new feature in its API: the capability to optionally put geolocation data into tweets. Currently, geo-focused apps like Foursquare must hack location data... [21 Aug 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard: What to expect from the upcoming OS
News Some people are fans of waiting until the first update, the 0.1 release, which tends to correct any of the immediate issues that inevitably pop up when a new operating system is released to the public. [17 Aug 2009]
Better, Stronger, Faster: The Windows 7 Taskbar
White Paper It's where one receives an assortment of pop-up notifications. One knows what the Windows taskbar is, isn't it? It's that familiar horizontal strip at the bottom of the desktop where the open files and... [31 Jul 2009]
Spyware: A Morphing Campaign
White Paper Pop-up ads displaying pitches for companies such as Sprint, Volvo, MCI, and other top companies were commonplace. Spyware and other Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are a relatively new, albeit... [31 Jul 2009]
Web security warnings being ignored - even by the most tech-savvy
News The warnings appear when a browser detects a problem with a website's certificate and arrive as a pop-up with a message such as: 'There is a problem with this website's security certificate'. Digital... [28 Jul 2009]
Photos: What's new in Firefox 3.5?
Photo One new feature that's got some visual pop is the ability to rip tabs off into new windows or merge multiple windows into the tab bar. The big feature in Firefox 3.5 is deep support for CSS media tags, HTML5 and native... [06 Jul 2009]
Spyware: Know Your Enemy
White Paper The early pop-up ads are akin to the early forms of computer virus - and were for the most part nothing more than a benign annoyance. This White Paper profiles spyware and prescribes the various ways... [20 Jun 2009]
Photos: Broadcasting live holograms across the Atlantic
Photo Here, the hologram tech is used to turn the stage into a pop-up scene from an illustrated children's book. Performers in the UK took to the stage in the US yesterday as 3D holograms were beamed thousands... [18 Jun 2009]
The next big iPhone thing: Apps that pay
News And of the ones that are actually sold, the majority sell for 99 cents per pop. Apple's plan to allow developers to add in-app payments to applications sold through its iPhone App Store could be the next big step the... [08 Jun 2009]
Google gives SMEs a better slice of local search
News Google lets small businesses create a small web listing that appears next to queries such as "pizza San Francisco," which pop up in Google Maps with a link to a business' website and address information... [02 Jun 2009]
