Mark Bowden on the Windows Conficker Worm
Fascinating story of a mysterious and ingenious strain of malware.
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BBC News: ‘Google Admits Wi-Fi Data Collection Blunder’
Sounds like an honest mistake, but it looks bad.
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NEWS: Win a couple of great speaker systems in our Creative competition
Music to your ears
Pocket-lint has teamed up with Creative to bring you the chance of winning a couple of fantastic Creative devices, which bring all the audio goodness you could possibly want into your home.
First up is the impressive Inspire S2 wireless speakers, with excellent audio and surround sound quality, their performance makes them a [...]
NEWS: Google to stop selling Nexus One
Says mobile phone operators do a better job
Google is to stop selling its Nexus One?android phone, admitting defeat in its attempts to take on the mobile phone operators by announcing that it plans to pull the nexus one from its own web store.
“We launched Nexus One in January with two goals in mind: to introduce [...]
Epic Flyers Game Seven Comeback to Complete Epic Series Comeback
Can’t say I’m a big hockey fan, but my hometown Flyers were down three games to none against the Boston Bruins, then fell behind 3-0 in game seven — and came back to win. The only downside to this wonderful sports story is, uh, wait, sorry there isn’t any downside.
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Night Stand
My thanks to Spoonjuice for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Night Stand, their excellent clock apps for ipad and iPhone/iPod Touch.
The latest version for iPhone includes new features like multiple alarms, per-alarm volume settings, and math puzzles to solve for inveterate snoozers. (I could have used that last feature when I was [...]
Google Abandons Direct Sales of Nexus One
It’s not entirely clear from this post by Andy Rubin, but I think what this means is that Google is giving up on direct sales, and that the Nexus One will soon no longer be available in an unlocked carrier-free form.
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