Archive for the ‘Technology News’ Category

Attempted rape attack leads to iTunes hit

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
ANGRY TV news interview about would-be rapist turned into a web phenomenon and popular song.

Battle of the snitches: Gawker v Wikileaks

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
BITCHY blog tries to turn tables
on whistleblower site by calling
for leaks about Wikileaks.

Google beefs up its ‘Facebook rival’ cred

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
GOOGLE buys social games start-up in latest of series of acquisitions aimed at helping it compete with Facebook.

NASA’s robot astronaut is the talkative type

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
NASA'S new star recruit is a chatty character. It's also made of nuts and bolts.

MySpace sends users’ posts to Facebook

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
MYSPACE, which recently revamped itself to look more like Facebook, is now allowing users to sync their posts to Facebook.

Star Trek fans bombard NASA’s song vote

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
IF you were asleep deep in outer space, what song would you want to wake up to? NASA thinks it's time to let the geeks decide...

Will Diaspora be your next social network?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
FOUR students from New York are just weeks away from taking on the world's biggest online social network.

Are Facebook addicts online narcissists?

Monday, August 30th, 2010
CONSTANT status updates and pouty profile photos could make
you a Facebook narcissist.

Foursquare gains two million users, $20m

Monday, August 30th, 2010
FOURSQUARE rises to the Facebook Places challenge, adding two million extra users in just over three months.

Scientists baffled by ‘bootprint on Mars’

Monday, August 30th, 2010
MARS orbiter returns sharp new images of 385km long scar, but nobody knows how it got there.