‘Technology’ Archives
Skinbook: the only genuine nudist social network
The rules for Skinbook are clear: No pornographic images or headless torso shots. Don't leave sleazy comments under people's photos. Boot out any "creeps and voyeurs," as site executives call them, who manage to make it past the vetting process for new members. Skinbook.ning.com is a U.K.-based website that proudly touts itself as the Net's [...]
Windows Phone 7 has been sent out to manufacturers and mobile phone networks
This process, known as release to manufacturing (RTM), means that Microsoft's partners will be able to apply their own tweaks and settings to the Windows Phone 7 operating system in preparation for its launch later this year. Terry Myerson, corporate vice president of Windows Phone engineering at Microsoft, published a post on the Windows [...]
Craigslist.com blocks access to adult services ads
(Reuters) - Craigslist.com has dropped its "adult services" listings, which have become the target of U.S. state attorneys general who say the much-visited online classified ad site is not doing enough to quash prostitution. Last year, Craigslist replaced its "erotic services" ads with a new "adult" category it said would be closely [...]
Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas
(Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter. Google's Andy Rubin, the brains behind Google's Android mobile operating system, [...]
Look out iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab unveiled at IFA
Samsung's latest addition to its Galaxy series, the Galaxy Tab Android tablet made its very first appearance today at IFA in Berlin. The Tab will initially launch in Europe in mid-September and makes its way to the U.S. and Asia in coming months. There have been a number of Android-based e-readers and tablets to debut over the last year, like [...]
Japanese resort welcomes virtual girlfriends
ATAMI, Japan — Long a favourite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age by drawing young men and their virtual girlfriends. One recent sweltering summer's day, a tour bus from Tokyo pulled up at a sun-kissed beach at Atami, a Pacific coast resort southwest of the [...]
Ubisoft releases Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood video walkthrough (FULL VIDEO)
The video takes us through Rome as the narrator explains the details of this amazing game including weapons and assassin management. The game is set to be released into stores on November 18, 2010, for PS3, Xbox and PC.
The world’s top 300,000 websites visualised by favicon
Favicons are small icons which websites use to represent their brand and usually appear next bookmarks and website URLs. In total, 288,945 favicons were collected as a result of a scan of the top one million web sites based on each site's "reach" as listed on Alexa.com. On the full graphic -- which weighs in at just over 1.4 gigapixels [...]
Facebook sues Teachbook over name similarity
Facebook is understood to have filed the complaint in a Californian district court last Wednesday. The social network, which signed up its 500 millionth member last month, has also accused Teachbook of trademark infringement, trademark dilution and unfair competition. Teachbook, an American-based web company, which is set to fully launch later [...]
Archaeologists hail unique find in Albania
APOLLONIA: Archaeologists unearthed a Roman bust from the 2nd century AD hailed as the most important archaeological find of the last 50 years in Albania, experts said Friday. “It is an exceptional discovery, the most important in the last 50 years in Albania because the bust is still intact,” French professor Jean-Luc Lamboley, who led [...]
