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Image via Wikipedia The war is well and truly on for the Numero Uno’ spot in location based gaming – Foursquare, Gowalla and MyTown being the contenders for the coveted title. While Foursquare and Gowalla have drawn huge media attention, it’s MyTown which looks to have taken the lead with a mammoth user base of nearly 500,000 users. MyTown traces its origin to another game, Booyah written [...]

Image via Wikipedia With Operation Aurora, professional hackers have taken the hack attacks to ‘never seen before’ ultra sophisticated levels. It’s phenomenal that an attacker can take on not one, not two but  nearly a dozen of highly acclaimed companies including the likes of Google and Adobe. Operation Aurora is probably the smartest combination of stealth programming, strong encryption [...]

If industry analysts are to be believed, Apple might launch the new version of the very popular iPhone series in June this year. Amongst the top of the chart features for the new iPhone would be a 5 Megapixel camera and perhaps a touch sensitive casing similar to Magic Mouse. Though Apple has declined either confirming or denying this speculation, there is no denial that the company is under severe [...]

Craig “Lazie” Lynch, aged 28 and the man who became nothing short of a cult figure due to his defiant status updates on Facebook, has finally been re-captured four months after his break-out. Lynch was living ever dangerously since he posted a profile picture of himself pointing his middle finger to the camera. While he was busy collecting popularity and adding friends on Facebook, efforts had [...]

Image via Wikipedia The Ministry of Justice has given its nod to levy fines up to £500K for data protection offences. Unless there are parliamentarian objections (which I doubt will be the case), these fines are all set to become a law with effect from 6th April, 2010. Christopher Graham, The Information Commissioner has made the message loud and clear – his office will be committed to working [...]

We all know God is a Geek [shameless plug] but is it high time that God learns to use (and bless) a smartphone? Well that’s what I’d believe if I were to follow the words of David Parrott, a London Clergyman who sought blessings for laptops and smartphones on the altar of 17th century St. Lawrence Jewry Church yesterday. Parrott is adamant to modernize the traditional Plough Monday church service [...]

Image via Wikipedia Are you enjoying high speed downloads on normal sites and then when it comes to downloading torrents you’re getting really slow downloads? This is probably due to your ISP throttling BitTorrent traffic. You can see a list of ISP’s that are blocking downloads here However, there is a way you can bypass the ISP’s checks by encrypting your torrents with RC4. Below are [...]

The verdict is out – google (mind the lower case), my personal choice for company of the decade has been named as ‘Word of the Decade’ by the American Dialect Society. The lower case implies that the word means an internet search and does not refer to the name of the company. Tweet received the ‘Word of the Year’ award for 2009 but was no match up to Google in the Word of the Decade category. [...]

Orange has a habit of eating up its own words and taking U-Turns on its own official statements. The latest being a sequence of a confirmation and then denial for a retail partnership for the about to be launched Apple Tablet with network connectivity, webcam and videophone features. In a recent interview with Europe 1, Stephane Richard, the Deputy CEO of France Telecom mentioned that “Orange customers [...]

The number of registered iPhone Developers is not even one tenth of the two million plus Adobe Flash Developer Base so it’s hardly surprising that Apple has a strong hatred for Flash. No Flash applications are allowed to run on Apple’s two of the most successful offerings – iPhone and iPod. While Adobe has tried every trick in the bag in order to persuade Apple to allow flash on iPhone and iPod, [...]