Archive for February, 2010

Microsoft offers browser choices

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Microsoft is to ask millions of Europeans who use Windows if they want to switch to a rival web browser. Read more..

Inquiry sought into disappearance of e-mails in interrogations case

Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Senior Democratic lawmakers and watchdog groups demanded Friday that the Justice Department investigate the disappearance of e-mail messages written by Bush administration lawyers who drafted memos blessing harsh interrogation tactics, ... Read more..

White House announces resignation of social secretary Desirée Rogers

Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

White House social secretary Desirée Rogers, whose tenure was marred in November by a highly embarrassing gate-crashing of the administration's first state dinner, will leave her job to return to ... Read more..

Twitter permission for US troops

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

US forces are to be allowed to use social networking websites following a review by the defence department. Read more..

Tuned images from water mission

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

The first fully calibrated images from the European Space Agency's Smos satellite have now been released. Read more..

The new worldwide startup

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

I’ve been traveling around the world studying how startups get formed. Yesterday I visited Bootup Labs in Vancouver. Last week I was at Startup Riot in Atlanta and while at ... Read more..

BuddyPress for One (and All!)

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation ... Read more..

Palm?s small-screen bet doomed the Pre

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Some of you might not know, but if I like a mobile phone I buy it. I have purchased several iPhones for my family and I own a Droid as ... Read more..

Frauds website organiser jailed

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

A man who ran a website trading in stolen financial information linked millions of pounds in losses has been jailed. Read more..

Paper payments

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Can newspapers charge and survive? Read more..