September 2008 - Posts

Windows Mobile 7.0 Delayed

Published 23 September 8 9:39 AM | William

At first glance, the announcement that Windows Mobile 7.0 will be delayed is pretty frustrating. MS has been in the mobile phone game for a while now and it's really hard to argue that Apple didn't get it right with the iPhone. So why can't...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology, Windows Mobile

Over 200 Apress Titles Now Available on Kindle; All by End of 2008

Published 16 September 8 1:2 PM | William

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stephanie Parker stephanie.parker@apress.com Over 200 Apress Titles Now Available on Kindle; All by End of 2008 Berkeley, CA—Tuesday 16th September 2008—Technology publisher Apress today announced that over 200 Apress books...

Filed under: Kindle

Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army

Published 6 September 8 1:7 PM | William

Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security, Privacy

Rescuing the Hubble

Published 4 September 8 11:54 AM | William

Kudos to the Boston Globe for providing such high quality and just kick a55 pics of the mission to repair the Hubble telescope.

Filed under: News, Misc Technology

Chrome's EULA

Published 4 September 8 11:32 AM | William

Yah, I'm probably like the 10 trillionth person to post about it, but until now I hadn't really had a chance to look at it. This morning Gizmodo had a piece on it which definitely makes you shake your head thinking WTF. However like most things...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Chrome