Topic: GOOGLE - on January 13, 2007 at 12:55:00 PM CET
Google Security Hole Allows Account Hijacking
It’s your worst nightmare – someone reads parts of your Google emails, views your docs, modifies your spreadsheets, checks out your reading habits on the Google personalized homepage or Google Reader, and goes through your search history. Yet, by making use of a new Google security hole, Tony Ruscoe was able to do all that with my Google account.
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Topic: WEB - on January 13, 2007 at 12:46:00 PM CET
Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users?
The power struggle between Yahoo and Google for your desktop just took an evil turn, with evidence that suggests Yahoo is covertly trying to switch Google search users without their explicit permission.
Over email, Jarrod Hunt of Text Link Brokers explained how a recent upgrade to Yahoo Messenger includes an innocuous “auto-update” option. When the user gives Yahoo permission to “update” – what they think is just Yahoo Messenger – the updater downloads IE 7 (which we already know to be buggy) and then proceeds to hijack many browser preferences – including search engine settings.
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Topic: WEB - on January 13, 2007 at 12:45:00 PM CET
Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla
The Venice Project is not just another online video start-up. The Luxembourg-based company is the latest co-production of the two-person hit factory of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The founders of Kazaa and Skype are hoping that The Venice Project will upend the television experience just as their earlier efforts turned the music and phone businesses on their respective heads.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 13, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CET
Wallpaper's design award results
It was a tough choice but here they are: the ultimate in global design, architecture and style, as selected by this year's elite panel of international judges, designer Naota Fukasawa, hotelier Ian Schrager, designer Ron Arad, fashion designers Viktor and Rolf, actress Jane Birkin, and MD of Charme Matteo do Montezemolo.
Best new hotel Best new public building Best new fashion collection Best new grooming product Best city ......
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Topic: ART - on January 13, 2007 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Free Banksy Art
In order to go against the countless bootleggers selling pirated prints of his work on eBay, artist Banksy has now released a selection of huge, high-res files of a dozen key images of his art for FREE on his website.
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Topic: Phone - on January 13, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year, experts say
An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based on publicly available information from the US Patent and Trademark office, as well as public reviews of Cisco products over the past year. The trademark was apparently abandoned in late 2005/early 2006 because Cisco was not using it.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 13, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CET
The Worst Band Names of '06: The Final List
Regular blog readers may remember my mid-year tally of the worst band names we’d encountered, a glimpse of the year-end’s definitive list of bad puns, clumsy imagery, and misappropriation of the word “funk.” There are so many bands out there, and so many of them have bad names—and not just run-of-the-mill mediocrity like Real Lunch. I mean truly awful, what-were-they-thinking kinda names. Poofinger, anyone?
Gnarls Barkley Morningwood Urban Funk Ordinance Guns N’Rosa Parks Super Fucking Judo Flip
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Topic: FUN - on January 13, 2007 at 11:29:00 AM CET
Another 39 hilarious Monty Python
sketches on YouTube
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 13, 2007 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Is it true that a woman's breasts can grow enormously overnight?
Gigantomastia is the condition in which a woman’s breasts grow dramatically very, very quickly. The condition happens during pregnancy. Drs. N. Agarwal and three colleagues from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi report a case of gigantomastia.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 13, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CET
Mexico leader in tortilla pledge
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has pledged to intervene to tackle the soaring price of tortillas, the flat corn bread which is a local staple.
The price of tortillas, the main source of calories for many of Mexico's poor, rose by more than 10% last year.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 13, 2007 at 10:34:00 AM CET
From iPhone to iGroan
A new mobile phone has been launched amid much fanfare and hype. But, as a survey reveals half of adults feel overwhelmed by technology, not everyone's jumping up and down.
Prancing around the stage at this year's Macworld conference, Apple boss Steve Jobs described his latest gizmo as "magical", history in the making and a "revolution". Some of those in the audience he was addressing had queued all night to witness the object of his superlatives. And it was... a phone.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 13, 2007 at 10:20:00 AM CET
German Makes Amends for 1970 Shoplifting
Thirty-six years of suffering a guilty conscience finally has proven too much for a German who shoplifted from a small store while on vacation in Norway in 1970.
Seeking to make amends, he sent a check for $375 to the small mountain town of Lom, and asked them to find the shopkeeper, Mayor Simen Bjoergen said on the town's Internet site on Thursday.
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