In 2006, a U.K. investigation revealed that employees at Rupert Murdoch’s ‘News of the World’ tabloid had successfully hacked into the cell phones of three aides to the royal family. A few months later, Scotland Yard discovered that reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had also gained access to the cell phones and voicemails of several celebrities, government officials and professional athletes — all in the hopes of snagging a juicy headline for their gossip section. Only now, however, are all the gory details of the operation finally coming to the surface
Filed under: Windows Mobile , Microsoft It was pretty clear from the get-go that Windows Phone 7 would integrate tightly with Microsoft’s Live services, and today we’ve got another glimpse at one way that integration will work. WMPoweruser has shared an image captured from what appears to be a Samsung employee’s Windows Live account.
Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse : Microsoft has officially announced the $70 the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale now, starts shipping in December, and officially goes on sale in January. New malware detects browser, shows fake malware warning page : There’s a clever new piece of malware that goes to extreme lengths to pass itself off as genuine software
For the second week in a row, Digg topped our most-read-stories list. Also this week we launched a brand new channel – ReadWriteHack – and continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how to use the Internet of Things to hack Nike+ to do automatic Foursquare check-ins; augmented reality helped tennis fans “see through walls”; and Google Docs got real-time collaborative highlighting.
If you’re scratching your head over the new vertical orientation of iTunes 10’s close/minimize/maximize ‘traffic light’ buttons — which diverts from years of Apple design history — there’s a quick fix on the Mac (sorry, Windows users). Boot up the Terminal app (in your Applications folder), and paste in the following single line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1 and press Return. Restart iTunes and you’ll see glorious horizontal buttons again.
LG’s 31-inch 3D OLED TV might help establishing the OLED TVs in the mainstream. It’s for the first time that an OLED has gotten so much slim that now it could strongly contend against the already ultra-slim LCD TVs. The 2.9 cm thick TV with 31-inch 3D OLED display has been billed as the world’s slimmest OLED TV yet. Featuring 3D viewing glasses, full HD resolution (1920 x 1080) and “infinite contrast ratio” it’s all set to give you the ultimate, never-seen-before viewing experience
Puran Defrag is a disk defragmenter for the Windows operating system. Defragmention occurs over time when programs and files cannot be saved in one block on the hard drive. This can lead to slower access times and performance decreases
Most search engines that offer realtime search results use basic filters to display results to their visitors. This can be a time based filter or one that uses popularity to select the results that are displayed in the search engine. Factery Labs uses a different approach
Announced back in May last year, the new models of Sharp Aquos S Series will finally see the light of day on February 15. The new line-up features bleeding edge LCD panels that use photo-alignment technology called UV2A(1) for ultra-high precision flash control. Besides, the LED backlit LCD TVs provide highly efficient and energy saving performance. The TVs can automatically switches to power saving mode and then when there’s no person in front of the TV, it switches off automatically.
Reviving the retro boombox music sensation is this LEGO Brick Boombox. It isn’t a mere toy, but is a fully working digital boombox with stereo speakers embedded into a giant LEGO brick. Designed by Digital blue, it uses little pegs to work as volume and tuning controls, and can store up to 2 GB of mp3 songs.
Geeks would love this wired scent-bottle in pink with a heart in hand , and which seems to be targeting the Valentine’s Day. It will fire the fragrance straight onto you like a gun firing a bullet, so you don’t spray it on you but get shot by it. The little robots are made of glass by an Oregon glass-blower, Eric Bailey. Besides the pink LoveBot there are other two versions as well, the Raygun Robot(Red) and the Propeller Head (Blue).
Executive leadership at Apple has arranged for a company-wide meeting—town hall style—in which the topic of discussion is expected to address the recent release of the iPad tablet ,?Ars has learned from multiple sources. The meeting, which will take place Thursday (January 28, 2010), echoes a similar internal meeting that took place a days before the launch of the iPhone in 2007. In that meeting, Steve Jobs explained to the company that he felt the device would change the mobile phone industry and took questions from employees. During that meeting, an employee asked a question?as prescient as ever after Wednesday’s announcement: Someone from the audience asked whether Apple was concerned about cannibalization of business from the iPod with the introduction of the iPhone, and Steve answered that if there’s going to be cannibalization of Apple, they want it to be by Apple.
After a decade of waiting, the Apple tablet is finally here, and reactions across the Internet are mixed, to say the least. Sure, there’s always a bit of widespread deflation after a launch with so much hype behind it; nonetheless, the range of attitudes towards the iPad goes from “it’s a great tablet, but I’ll have to wait and see about the ‘revolution’ part,” to “I’m so disappointed that it’s just a giant iPod touch.” Missing is the near-universal “Apple has changed the game” sentiment that followed the launch of the iPhone. None of this is to say that the iPad won’t fundamentally change the game
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