Dick Brass, an ex-reporter who once led the charge to build tablet PCs and e-books at Microsoft, published a fairly devastating critique of his former company in The New York Times. In an op-ed, Brass portrayed the software giant as a company where visionary thinking goes to wilt and die
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Microsoft Declares Itself Still Innovative, Not Clumsy
We’ve been showered in tablet talk in the wake of the Apple iPad announcement, and while we have our problems with it (and so did you), we’re still left wondering: Are you interested in some form of tablet computing?
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Are You Interested in Tablet Computing?
If you’re like us, you have an attic, closet, or garage stuffed with unused, outdated tech junk. Oh, you think you’ll recycle it — but you don’t, do you? Wouldn’t you like to do something useful with them?
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How to make new stuff from your piles of obsolete tech
The Automatic Computing Engine or Ace was designed by Alan Turing and brought together a team who would go on to design the technology that underpins the internet.
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Alan Turing and the Ace computer
Users personal information is revealed through photos, status updates and conversations that are being well documented online. Last week, the Serious Fraud Office of London (SFO) warned that Facebook and Twitter are being used to harvest users’ personal financial details by fraudsters in order to operate “boiler rooms” offshore.
Want to know what your local MP is doing? There’s an app for that. Labour MP Derek Wyatt has become the world’s first serving politician to launch an iPhone app which he said makes him more accountable to constituents.The free MyMP app shows users what their MP is doing, where they are and lets the public send messages to them directly!
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New iPhone App keeps track of MP
Adobe’s comment is what you’d expect any company to say publicly; realistically, what else could they say? It’s just very unfortunate for them that someone was able to prove the inaccuracy of this statement in a very compelling way.
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Adobe Claims They Don’t Ship Flash With Known Crash Bugs
Canon this morning launched a slew of camera updates headlined by the Rebel T2i. The successor to Canon’s entry DSLR shoots at the same 18 megapixels as the EOS 7D and also inherits its video recording features: it now shoots at a full 30 frames per second at 1080p.
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Canon bows Rebel T2i with 18-megapixel sensor, 1080p30 video
The majority of the images uploaded to Imgur are stolen from elsewhere. There is zero policing and all uploads are anonymous, which means that great pictures from across the web are scraped and uploaded as ‘genuine’ content all the time.
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Imgur: Stolen Content and Social Media’s Double Standard