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Wordpress blogs under attack from hack attack
Older versions of Wordpress are vulnerable to a subtle attack that hides itself while adding spam. Is this a turning point for the free product?Wordpress blogs, one of the most prevalent among custom install blogs (and used by…
September 5 2009, 9:25pm | Comments
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Apple's Snow Leopard reported to hit Golden Master
Snow Leopard, the next version of Apple's Mac OS X desktop operating system, has moved to Golden Master status, according to reports within the Mac blogosphere. That should mean it's a formality for it to be mass-produced and…
August 13 2009, 10:14am | Comments
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Twitter and Facebook attacks: why your computer might have been involved
Politically motivated hackers using a network of 'zombie' PCs have been blamed for outages at Twitter and FacebookAn internet attack that knocked micro-blogging service Twitter offline and disrupted Facebook, LiveJournal, Xbox Live and some Google services seemed random…
August 7 2009, 11:46am | Comments
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Read it and weep: Evan Williams of Twitter on Newsnight - the transcript
Newsnight got the "first British TV interview" with Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams. What did they ask him about? Demi Moore. Then it went downhill. (Updated: we found the original questions)Oh, Kirsty. And all of you…
August 6 2009, 1:39pm | Comments
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Spinvox shows its stuff, but leaves the big question unresolved
Spinvox has demonstrated to some journalists that its computers can't accurately convert run-of-the-mill voice messages to text, and by the way, it has a patent application that stresses the use of human operators instead. Has the world gone…
August 5 2009, 11:05pm | Comments
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Spinvox rebuts BBC claims over human listening for text message service
A hard-hitting response to the BBC's claims says that people don't listen to everything, and that Facebook messages were not from real callsAfter last week's accusations by the BBC that Spinvox - the speech-to-text system to turn mobile…
July 27 2009, 9:33pm | Comments
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Does the Spinvox service mostly use a computer to convert voice messages to text, or are most of them transcribed in call centres around the world? The company won't say, but BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones suspects it's the latter….In…
July 23 2009, 12:09pm | Comments
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Has Amazon just bought the biggest threat to its business?
In a surprise deal worth around $900m, Amazon has bought US web retailer Zappos - a move that heads off the threat from a fast-growing competitorWith its reach limited to selling shoes in the United States, Zappos.com is…
July 23 2009, 6:20am | Comments
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Twitter's Biz Stone: 'We still have a way to go before we're mainstream'
Last week I met up with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to discuss life at the company, and to find out what things are like inside the most talked-about startup in the world. This is an edited transcript of…
July 16 2009, 12:38am | Comments
