‘Technology’ Archives
Affair in “First Life” leads to virtual divorce
ALPHAVILLE, Linden, Thursday (NNGadget) — For its many devotees, First Life, the Massively Multiplayer Offline Reality Playing Game, is a place where the everyday constraints of online life drop away and vivid activities can be played out. But fact and fiction have collided in heartbreaking fashion for a British couple who are divorcing [...]
Windows 7’s biggest threat: journalists
ZDNET.MICROSOFT.COM, Blogosphere.NET, Wednesday (NNGadget) — As Microsoft continues to prepare for the 2009 2010 launch of Windows 7, it today issued a plea through its network of objective opinion-shapers: Don't let the journalists near it. "We understand that many journalists use Macs," said CNet marketing marketer Don Reisinger. "This [...]
Ask Jack
I'm thinking of buying a netbook as a second machine for net access and mobile broadband. Should I get one with XP or can I run Linux and not worry about what's "under the bonnet"?M Shuttleworth Linux-based netbooks have apparently friendly front ends, but are very demanding if you go any deeper. Linux is like the Mooncup: a nice idea, but messy [...]
Who is Barack Obama?
YOUR PHONE, America, Saturday — Greetings, fellow American. I am McCain campaign volunteer XQ-17-B-2, calling as a concerned Ferrous-American citizen to warn you of the terrible dangers of voting for Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Obama doesn’t like being called that. In fact he prefers that you just use his first initial and call him B. [...]
Teenage cyber-criminals run riot
YOUNG ADUWTS, Nozin' Around, Monday (NNGadget) — A new generation of "online hoodies" is wreaking havoc in cyberspace, Internet security touts are warning. The hackers, some as young as 12, begin by breaking into newspaper production systems and replacing news of substance with ridiculous headlines such as "Scientists discover breasts cause [...]
US Army: “RT @304thMIbattalion: Twitter terrorist weapon”
OMG, Onoez, Sunday (NNN) — A report by the US Army 304th Military Intelligence Battalion identifies Internet technologies such as Twitter as potential TERRORIST tools. Twitter users reported the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets, and TERRORISTS protesting at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to [...]
Microsoft calls Global Anti-Piracy Day
REDMOND, Indian Ocean, Tuesday — Microsoft has announced that today is "Global Anti-Piracy Day," with the aim to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation caused by robbery and murder on the high seas. "Robbery, rape and brutal murder at sea is just like people copying that floppy," sobbed billionaire Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. [...]
Children’s exposure to disturbing net pics curable by sending the NSPCC money
CYBERSPICE, Brass Eye, Monday (NNN) — The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, a leading charity promoting the cause of itself, has released a survey showing that nearly 75 percent of kids in UK have been disturbed by images they saw on the Internet. "Children are just a few clicks away from innocently stumbling [...]
Microsoft releases Silverlight 2.0, nobody cares
BOLGIAS 8 AND 9, Redmond, Sunday (NNGadget) — Microsoft today announced the release of version 2.0 of its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe's Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest to anyone who could be found. "We have a fabulous selection of content [...]
UK government adopts Digital Rights Management
THE NILOPTICON, Whitehall, Thursday (NNN) — The Home Office has moved to calm fears over its new plan to collect every email sent in or out of Britain. "We've been speaking with our PFI contractors," said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, "and they've been speaking with those nice people from Microsoft, and we think we can use something called [...]
