Google Street View engineer who intercepted WiFi data is identified
THE IDENTITY of a Google engineer who intercepted personal data from WiFi networks while driving Street View cars has been uncovered. A former state investigator has named the Google employee – previously known as Engineer Doe – as Marius Milner, a programmer with a background in telecommunications. The US Federal…
Windows 8 is both more and less popular than Windows 7
Last week Microsoft put out an encouraging statistic about the popularity of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system: it’s been downloaded twice as many times as Windows 7 had been at this point in its development. Happy news for proponents of the new touch-friendly platform, given the rousing reception Windows 7 received BACKGROUND:…
Pepsi partners with Twitter for online concerts
PepsiCo Inc. is tweeting to a new generation of music lovers. The No. 2 soda company said Monday that it’s partnering with Twitter to provide streaming videos of live music concerts to Pepsi’s followers on the social networking site. The deal is part of Pepsi’s new global ad campaign that The…
Slow Uptake of Windows 8 Preview Hints at Users’ Lack of Interest
Microsoft Windows 8 interfaceWindows users appear half as interested in trying out the new Windows 8 as they did three years ago when they jumped at the chance to test drive Windows 7, data shows. According to Web analytics company Net Applications, only 0.11% of the computers that went online last week ran And…
Eurocom Unveils Netbook-sized Ivybridge Workstation
Laptop specialist Eurocom has unveiled a laptop that looks like a netbook but packs enough punch to make it competitive with much bigger desktop replacement workstations. The Monster 1.0 weighs only 1.8Kg but comes with an Intel i7-3820QM processor, an Intel Mobile HM76 Express chipset, up to 16GB DDR3-1866 memory,…
Apple Drops Android Support From Chomp App Discovery Tool
After buying the mobile application discovery engine Chomp earlier this year, Apple has dropped its support for Google’s Android mobile operating system. Until now, Chomp offered app suggestions for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. AppleInsider is reporting, however, that its readers discovered that Chomp no longer works on Android phones….
Sol Computer netbook is one tough cookie
Netbooks are not in vogue, and have not been so for quite the longest time already, but apparently, this has not stopped Sol Computer from releasing their latest netbook that is based on the Intel Classmate PC design. Basically, that translates to the new Sol Computer netbook living up to…
The 2012 VEX Robotics World Championships
Last weekend, and the week preceding it, my daughter and I attended the 2012 VEX Robotics World Championships at the Anaheim Convention Center. This is my fourth and her second year working at the event and it was the most rewarding yet. I was very happy with the venue this This…
Foursquare v3.9 Adds NFC, Inbox Notifications, & More
Quite a few readers let us know that Foursquare has released a nice update to their BlackBerry app this weekend. The new update does improve the BlackBerry app experience with some nice tweaks along with improvements to make the app faster and improve GPS logic. My favorite is that they…
Will the next NOOK Tablet run Windows 8?
An offshoot of the investment by Microsoft into the new NOOK subsidiary of Barnes & Noble may be having Windows 8 instead of Android powering the next NOOK Tablet. That would boost Windows 8 and Windows Phone, and help Barnes & Noble with sorely needed development assets. Microsoft will be investing $300 Part…
