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12 Nov 2010
England flanker Tom Croft believes Saturday’s opponents Australia are international rugby’s most sought-after scalp after their 26-24 win over New Zealand.
12 Nov 2010
vanstinator writes “Due to heavy competition from the iPad and a less-than-stellar entrance into the market, Fusion Garage today released a statement saying that the JooJoo tablet is no more.” Company founder Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan says that the company will move forward, but hasn’t provided much information about future products. According to Geek.com, “The JooJoo has had a short life and will be remembered more for the fighting it caused between Read the rest of this entry »
11 Nov 2010
Blackpool manager Ian Holloway reiterates his threat to resign if his club are fined for fielding a weakened side in the 3-2 defeat by Aston Villa.
10 Nov 2010
dkd903 writes “A kind of war has been going on recently between Facebook and Google over a contact export issue. First, Google blocked Facebook access to the Gmail contacts API. To this, Facebook responded back with a new method to get Gmail contacts of a user (the download contacts option). And now Google has slapped back again at Facebook and asks users indirectly to file a data protectionism complaint against Facebook. When a Facebook user clicks Read the rest of this entry »
10 Nov 2010
Referee Michael Jones is to look at a video replay of the incident where Joey Barton appeared to punch Morten Gamst Pedersen – with Barton facing a possible ban.
9 Nov 2010
Third seed Andy Murray says he is looking forward to playing on the quick-looking surface of the Paris Masters when he takes on David Nalbandian in round two on Wednesday.
9 Nov 2010
Lucas123 writes “Toshiba has made the solid state drive used in the new MacBook Air generally available for use by equipment manufacturers. At just 2.2mm thick, the company said the drive represents a new form factor that is about one-third the thickness of a thin hard disk drive and that is 42% smaller than even a mini-SATA SSD module. The new Blade X-gale SSD series has a maximum throughput of 220MB/sec. and can store up to 256GB of data.”
8 Nov 2010
An anonymous reader writes “In this article, security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani shows how iOS insecurely launches third-party apps via registered URL handlers. Malicious websites can abuse this to launch arbitrary applications, such as getting the Skype.app to make arbitrary phone calls without asking the user. Dhanjani ‘contacted Apple’s security team to discuss this behavior, and their stance is that the onus is on the third-party applications Read the rest of this entry »
8 Nov 2010
England coach Andy Flower plays down concerns over opening batsman Alastair Cook’s lack of form ahead of the Ashes series.
7 Nov 2010
Breakthru writes “In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin. The discovery, published in the prestigious science journal Nature today, could mean that in the foreseeable future people needing blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin to provide transfusions. Read the rest of this entry »