From The Australian: THE Dublin-based Independent News & Media says it has no plans to sell its $450 million investment in the Australian and New Zealand media sector. The news should dampen some of the speculation over the ownership of the locally listed APN News & Media. Independent News, which is listed on the London [...]
Archive for March, 2010
iPhone hacked in 20 secs
Looks like the iPhone has been hacked! And in under 20 seconds. All a user has to do is visit a vulnerable website which enables a hacker to hijack the phone’s entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted. Read more on ZDNet.
Three Levels of REST Maturity Mode
InfoQ: In his new article, Martin Fowler is using the 3-level model of restful maturity that was developed by Leonard Richardson to explain web-style systems. Throughout his explanation Fowler is using an example of a service for booking a doctors appointment. According to Fowler, the starting point for the maturity model is to use HTTP [...]
Aussie social media obsession danger
Don’t worry, this blog post will go to Twitter, Facebook, et al: An RMIT University lecturer has warned that Australians are revealing signs of ‘obsessive-compulsive behaviour’ in their use of social media. John Lenarcic believes that spending long periods online, frequently checking email and accessing the internet even when away from computers is symptomatic of [...]
Uncovered patent could see iPhone problems
In another “WTF? What a stupid patent!” case: John Paczkowski from All things Digital has found a patent which protects moving a mobile phone physically to enable “a user to intuitively control the state and/or displayed content of a computing device without the conventional need of pressing buttons”. This sounds like the motion control used [...]
Phew! Three Cups of Coffee a Day Good for Your Brain
Well almost… According to a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, coffee can stave off the affects of aging on the brain—specifically in women over the age of 65. “MRI brain scans revealed that women who drank three cups of coffee per day (or 6 cups of tea) had lost less brain tissue [...]
Mensa Names Lifehacker Among Top 50 Web Sites of 2010
I am a fan of Lifehacker, and I do have strong opinions on Mensa too (keeping those to myself for now): Smartypants organization Mensa named Lifehacker among their top 50 web sites of 2010, listing us among handfuls of other great sites like Gizmodo, BoingBoing, NPR, and Wikipedia. We may not agree with every choice, [...]
Tim Berners Lee to head up Britain’s Institute of Web Science
From smh.com.au: Britain’s prime minister says the scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web will lead a new Internet research institute. Tim Berners Lee, who developed a prototype Internet in 1990, will head up Britain’s Institute of Web Science. The institute _ which has been given 30 million pounds ($45 million) funding _ will [...]
Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove
From TechCrunch: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business. In this guest post, Ben [...]
GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 EA: Elastic Middleware, Data Querying and Spring 3.x
GigaSpaces XAP is a distributed application server with an in-memory data grid. GigaSpaces started off as a commercial, clustered JavaSpaces implementation, then expanded to include in memory data grid capabilities such as local caching, eviction and query support. Further down the line, GigaSpaces introduced Space based architecture as a broader solution for scalability and low [...]