Technology
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Facebook photo policy 'leaked'22 February 2012, 5:38 pm
After months of controversy over Facebook's removal of certain pictures, the guidelines describing which ones should be taken down have been 'leaked'....
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In pictures: Hand-held consoles22 February 2012, 4:37 pm
A look back at some of the consoles to grace our palms over the past three decades...
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Million homes 'need TV filters'22 February 2012, 3:36 pm
Filters will need to be installed in almost a million UK homes to combat TV interference likely to occur from new 4G mobile services....
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EU court to rule on Acta legality22 February 2012, 1:03 pm
A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU's highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms....
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Pirate Bay vows to go underground22 February 2012, 1:02 pm
File-sharing site Pirate Bay vows to carry on after the High Court lays the foundations for its closure....
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VIDEO: Can HP return to its former glory?22 February 2012, 10:38 am
Can the once mighty technology giant Hewlett Packard return to its former glory?...
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VIDEO: Inside 'dirty lab' taking on hackers22 February 2012, 10:20 am
A part-government funded research unit allowing ethical hackers to simulate attacks on computer systems has been set up in Worcestershire....
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Nuclear space bomb 'quite likely'22 February 2012, 9:13 am
The government must take "more seriously" the threat of a nuclear weapon being exploded in space by a rogue state, MPs warn....
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VIDEO: New PlayStation Vita is tested22 February 2012, 7:58 am
Against increasingly strong competition, two Newsbeat listeners test Sony's new hand-held console, the PlayStation Vita to see if it's any good....
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US to expand broadband spectrum22 February 2012, 4:42 am
US Vice-President Joe Biden unveils a report that calls for nearly doubling the US wireless broadband spectrum over 10 years....
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I feel like I’ve just won the Internet23 November 2011, 11:33 pm
*ahem* Bing SERP today showed that my post was at the top 4 or so…
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Bing, Firefox, Winning, Internet...
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Firefox 8.0 User Agent7 November 2011, 1:57 am
Not yet pushed out the public, but now available if you know where to look, Firefox 8.0…
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox 8.0, User Agent...
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Kyocera User Agent25 September 2011, 8:41 pm
I’ve had an iPhone since forever and I apparently forgot that the second cell phone I ever owned was a Kyocera but that was back in 2003 or so and I had to procure a certain phone because I was living in Vermont which had a limited cell infrastructure…I do remember the 2003 era Kyocera [...]...
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Spoofed Googlebot User Agent19 September 2011, 4:57 pm
Well, this visitor caught my eye earlier as the originating IP address is from the technology company Oracle but with a Googlebot user agent. Another clue that this is a spoofed user agent is that they came in off of a Google Search Engine referrer, as Googlebot doesn’t usually do that. Also, their browser [...]...
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 User Agent16 September 2011, 12:34 pm
IP Address: 96.227.#.#
Operating System : Microsoft WinNT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)
Monitor :
Resolution : 1920 x 1080
Color Depth : 24 bits
It’s always sweet when a friend visits you to show off his new user agent (apparently this is why I’ve garnered Internet fame). Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 preview (MSIE 10) on [...]...
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BlackBerry User Agent25 July 2011, 1:35 am
I had no idea the user agent was…Safari based. Unless this is a BB user with a Safari browser? Can you use multiple browsers on a BB?
Host: 74.82.68.#
Operating System: Macintosh Unknown
Agent: Safari 1.3
Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9800; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.0.526 Mobile Safari/534.8
Monitor:
Resolution : 360 x 480
Color Depth : 24 bits
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Here’s an IP address you don’t see that often24 May 2011, 11:25 pm
in your Web site logs…an IP address from the range of 2.102.206.* Wow.
That’s an IP4 address starting with a 2. As someone fascinated with the history of the Internet, I find this pretty cool.
It’s a RIPE address (European) and assigned to the UK.
Technorati Tags: IP4, IP addresses, Internet history...
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RockMelt User Agent2 January 2011, 4:12 pm
RockMelt, the new browser which takes advantage of your social networks, has a user agent.
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/2011/01/01/easy-seo-update-your-copyright-notice/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jan 01 11:02:13 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 10150
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) RockMelt/0.8.36.128 Chrome/7.0.517.44 [...]...
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Easy SEO: Update your copyright notice1 January 2011, 6:32 pm
Here’s a quick and easy SEO trick for you.
We all know that Google indexes freshly updated content on your Web site. Since it’s the New Year, take a moment and check if your Web site copyright notices are updated. Not only do you get that piece of mind from an updated copyright notice, but [...]...
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Droid User Agent19 December 2010, 7:58 pm
I noticed that some (unhip) person with a Motorola built Droid based phone on Verizon visited cleverhack the other day. I’m too lazy to pull my official logs, so here’s the sitemeter report. I am surprised to notice that the Droid runs a version of mobile Safari according to the User Agent string.
Operating System: Linux [...]...
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EU will refer ACTA to highest European court22 February 2012, 1:37 pm
The European Union says it will refer the controversial ACTA anti-piracy trade agreement to the institution's highest court, the European Court of Justice, to check whether it complies with the EU's fundamental rights.
EU trade chief Karel De Gucht is leading the process. He said: "We are planning to ask Europe's highest court to assess ACTA's compatibility with the EU's fundamental rights and freedoms, such as freedom of expression and information or that of protection… Let me be very clear:...
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TechCrunch @ Barcelona – Panels, Startups, Lunch & Networking during MWC22 February 2012, 9:21 am
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year we're teaming up with the creators of an awesome new event which runs alongside MWC, called Heroes of the Mobile Fringe Festival. Consider this the "Off Broadway" or Fringe Festival of MWC, where you get to actually talk about the real issues in the mobile startup ecosystem in a lively debate format.
This interactive event will feature some of the most innovative and interesting startups and investors on the scene. Sponsored by Oracle, GetTaxi, Te...
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Housebites cooks up a storm as the new Airbnb-for-takeout20 February 2012, 3:42 pm
I must admit I was sceptical when Housebites first launched last year. It seemed a quaint little business attacking a hugely established market but in a way which looked, as least from the outside, to be unscalable. The premise of Housebites is this: the average person likes the convenience of take-out food (in the UK it's called takeaway) but the food itself is usually unhealthy and processed. So why not capture all those wanna-be chefs, connect them with customers via location and, voila, you...
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Speedinvest Makes Four Investments In Four Months20 February 2012, 10:00 am
Vienna and San Francisco based Super angel fund Speedinvest, launched just over 6 months ago, has announced it's made four investments to date. According to Founder and CEO Oliver Holle, the fund has invested more than €1 million in those four startups and doubled that sum through co-investors.
The investments made are rather diverse, ranging from VoiP to an already well-known social sharing app. Sipwise, a VoiP vendor based on an open source framework catering to small regional ISPs and cab...
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Ammado raises €7m to solve global giving problem20 February 2012, 9:39 am
Following the trend towards global platforms for raising money, such as Kickstarter, Ammado, which connects charities with donors, has raised €7m, and signed up several multinational partners. The investment round was led by Belgiun-based Saffelburg Investments, which put in €5.5m and John Ryan, founder of Rovi, who put in about €1.5m. Set up in 2005 by Anna Kupka and Peter Conlon, the latter has put in €8.7m to date. which means Ammado has raised a total of €15.7m so far.
Ammado aims...
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Tribe of Noise partners with Getty Images to bypass the record labels18 February 2012, 10:27 am
Tribe of Noise is an online music community connecting musicians with business professionals who want music. Artists can share a few songs for free in return for exposure, new revenue streams and new business opportunities with partners.
Now the startup is partnering with Getty Images. The lathers global sales force is 's going out there to sell music licenses to Getty's customers (tv broadcasters, filmmakers, multimedia pro's etc). Yes, this time stock images they are selling or stock music, ...
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Runa Capital and Parallels plan to accelerate cloud startups17 February 2012, 11:43 am
The trend in the startup acceleration industry is specialization. There are accelerators focused on health (Rock Health, Healthbox, Blueprint Health and SXSW Health) or B2B accelerators (such as Tech Wildcatters). There is even one which specializes on women-led startups in the mobile space, named predictably WomenInnovateMobile. Yes, I know...
But today’s news is about a cloud software accelerator funded by Runa Capital and Parallels. Both companies have been founded by Serguei Beloussov, th...
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Syrian government blocks Bambuser’s live video of crisis17 February 2012, 11:20 am
Bambuser, a live mobile video streaming startup along the lines of Qik, has become something of an underground hit in the last couple of years because of its ability to stream video over poor mobile connections. That's made it a favourite of emerging markets, in part because it supports over 200 different mobile devices, from cheap Nokias to the latest iPhone. During the Arab Spring last year it was used by protesters to document various uprisings across the region. The platform has lately been...
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FoundersCard is poised to hit Europe – But are the deals worth it?16 February 2012, 8:20 pm
Top executives often get perks just because of who they are, like freebies and travel upgrades. The American Express’ Centurion Card for instance is also known as “the black card” for this reason. Eric Kuhn started FoundersCard in 2009, deciding to bring the same rewards specifically to entrepreneurs and founders who put their neck on the line to take ricks and create value.
FoundersCard is now a membership community that boasts over 5,000 members who pay up to $495 annually to get discou...
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eSellerPro raises another £1 million from Notion Capital16 February 2012, 5:35 pm
E-commerce platform eSellerPro, an eCommerce software provider for multi-channel sellers, has secured a follow-on investment of £1m from Notion Capital, following the £1.8 million Notion put in 2010. The money will go towards the product and entry into new markets....
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Site Progress5 January 2012, 6:42 pm
Still haven’t finished importing the missing posts, but I did upgrade to 3.3.1. Hopefully I can get them imported in the next couple days. I’ve also noticed some weird issues with axodys.com not loading properly, but that was prior to … Continue reading →...
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Site Migration26 December 2011, 10:43 am
I’m in the process of finishing up a reimport of the old blog back into a fresh WordPress 3.3 install. Unfortunately something seems to be going awry with the last couple year’s worth of posts. Rather than banging my head … Continue reading →...
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Twitter: Took my front …2 September 2010, 8:26 pm
Took my front wheel off during lunch and confirmed that my front brake pads are shot. Time to save my wheel and pick up some new ones....
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Twitter: Chrome didn’t pull …1 September 2010, 5:07 pm
Chrome didn’t pull up the Apple Keynote so I switched to Safari and it just worked. The quality is unbelievable....
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Twitter: The new mac …15 June 2010, 10:22 am
The new mac minis look like they may have some of that carved from a solid aluminum block unibody action going on. http://apple.com/macmini/...
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Twitter: Watched the first …15 June 2010, 6:32 am
Watched the first third of High Fidelity tonight while getting in my workout ride. Love that movie. Saving the rest for tomorrow....
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Twitter: Weird server error …14 June 2010, 11:34 pm
Weird server error just caused me to double tweet. Corrected now hopefully....
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Twitter: Watched the first …14 June 2010, 11:32 pm
Watched the first third of High Fidelity tonight while getting in my workout ride. Love that movie. Saving the rest for tomorrow....
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Lego Monster Chess13 June 2010, 6:24 am
No spoilers other than things get crazy at about the 2:40 mark! Awesome work by the team that constructed this. Very, very impressive and one of the coolest Lego projects I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGtbBz1sQo...
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Alien Action Figure11 June 2010, 4:35 pm
I wasn’t even aware of the Alien movie when it came out in 1979 (being 5 or 6 years old at the time), but I distinctly remember seeing this action figure in a store in Moses Lake, WA (the mid-sized … Continue reading →...
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A quote from Brian Goetz19 August 2011, 12:20 pm
There is plenty of evidence in the ecosystem to support the hypothesis that, if given the tools to do so easily, object-oriented programmers are ready to embrace functional techniques (such as immutability) and work them into an object-oriented view of the world, and will write better, less error-prone code as a result. Simply put, we believe the best thing we can do for Java developers is to give them a gentle push towards a more functional style of programming. - Brian Goetz
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How we use Redis at Bump16 July 2011, 4:37 pm
How we use Redis at Bump. A couple of neat tricks I hadn’t seen before: using Redis to aggregate log files from multiple servers (they all push in to a Redis queue, then one process pulls from the queue and writes to disk), and using Redis blocking queues for RPC by specifying a different temporary queue to return the result.
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A quote from Dan Manges, Braintree30 June 2011, 9:27 pm
We can deploy new versions of our software, make database schema changes, or even rotate our primary database server, all without failing to respond to a single request. We can accomplish this because we gave ourselves the ability suspend our traffic, which gives us a window of a few seconds to make some changes before letting the requests through. To make this happen, we built a custom HTTP server and application dispatching infrastructure around Python’s Tornado and Redis. - Dan Manges, Brai...
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The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts29 June 2011, 5:26 pm
The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts. I really like Adam’s description of Software Erosion—I’ve seen that happen to my projects a bunch of times, and it really is an important problem to solve.
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Visualizing WebKit's hardware acceleration27 June 2011, 10:31 am
Visualizing WebKit’s hardware acceleration. Command line flags for launching Safari (and the iOS simulator) in a way that highlights areas of the screen that are being hardware accelerated—particularly useful if you are using the “-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0)” trick.
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On HTTP Load Testing18 May 2011, 10:17 am
On HTTP Load Testing. Mark Nottingham explains that running good HTTP benchmarks means understanding available network bandwidth, using dedicated physical hardware, testing at progressively higher loads and a whole lot more.
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We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities22 April 2011, 10:00 am
We Need to Stop Google’s Exploitation of Open Communities. Mikel Maron from OpenStreetMap is justifiably angry about Google MapMaker, which copies OpenStreetMap’s model of crowdsourcing geographic data (even copying the OSM idea of Mapping Parties) but keeps the data under a much more restrictive license, and uses the Google brand to market itself to African governments.
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Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters9 April 2011, 7:54 am
Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters. Jon Stokes speculates that Facebook plan to use open source hardware to compete with Google at datacenter efficiency . This isn’t a new pattern. Years ago when I worked at Yahoo! I was furiously jealous of the secret sauce technologies that allowed Google to build big applications faster than anyone else, such as BigTable and map/reduce. Today, the open source world has created better, free alternatives—sponsored in part by Facebook, Yahoo! and othe...
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Qwery - The Tiny Selector Engine2 April 2011, 8:27 am
Qwery—The Tiny Selector Engine. A quarter of the size of Sizzle (1K gzipped and minified) due to only supporting ID, class and attribute selectors. Could be useful for things like embeddable widgets and badges, where depending on a larger library is impolite.
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Product design at GitHub2 April 2011, 7:51 am
Product design at GitHub. At GitHub, every employee is a product designer.
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Epson prepping budget GPS sports watch22 February 2012, 4:58 pm
The name Epson may conjure images of flashy projectors and all-in-one printer scanners, but the company look set to be expanding into a fairly unexpected avenue: sports watches. To be precise, Epson are looking to take on the Nike+ SportWatch......
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Samsung Galaxy S III to launch in July?22 February 2012, 3:30 pm
It was disappointing to hear that Samsung would be giving Mobile World Congress the cold shoulder when it came to the launch of their highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, but at least now we've got an indication of when......
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Samsung Series 9 notebook UK release date set for this month22 February 2012, 11:59 am
Samsung have finally revealed the release date of their Samsung Series 9 laptop, with the super-slim machine hitting the UK by the end of February. Revealed back at CES, the Series 9 is the world's slimmest laptop, measuring just 12.9mm,......
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Next Qualcomm Snapdragon chips will integrate LTE for better battery life22 February 2012, 11:37 am
Qualcomm are prepping their next generation of Snapdrgron mobile system-on-a-chip tech at next week's Mobile World Congress show, and look set to include some innovative new ideas. The new chip (the MSM8960, or Snapdragon S4) remains only a dual-core affair,......
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Hundreds queue for PS Vita UK GAME launch22 February 2012, 11:23 am
Sony's PS Vita handheld games console has now gone on sale in the UK, with GAME stores up and down the country hosting midnight opening events to meet demand. The flagship Oxford Street branch saw the most activity, with hundreds......
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Sexy photos and vids on 26% of Brit smartphones22 February 2012, 10:59 am
Brits like " a bit of blue" when it comes to filling up their smartphones with pictures and videos, a new survey has revealed. According to findings from UK retailer GoodMobilePhones.co.uk, 26% of mobile or smartphone owning Brits replied "yes"......
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Onkyo 2012 entry level AV receiver range packs in 7.2 and Spotify22 February 2012, 10:11 am
Onkyo have revealed their 2012 entry-level AV receiver range, packed full of enough bells and networked whistles to rival other brands higher-end gear, such as Spotify streaming. Kicking off with the cheapest model, you've got the £299.99 5.1 Onkyo TX-NR313.......
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LG focus on mobile 3D once more with Optimus 3D Max at MWC 201222 February 2012, 9:54 am
More pre-show smartphone news from LG this morning, who've just revealed that the LG Optimus 3D Max is headed to Mobile World Congress 2012 next week. The successor to the LG Optimus 3D, first launched last year, it features a......
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PREVIEW: A-Men (PS Vita)21 February 2012, 5:36 pm
Sony may be touting the PS Vita almost solely on its handheld power, but Polish developers Bloober are harking back to gaming's puzzle roots with their Vita launch title, A-Men. One part Lemmings, one part The Lost Vikings and......
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Minority Report-style charity ad will show different info to men and women21 February 2012, 4:00 pm
A new, £30,000 street advert is set to hit a bustop along Oxford Street in London this week, packed full of unique facial recognition tech that will be able to tell whether a man or a woman is looking at......
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