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Bing Minus to “cut off Facebook’s air supply”
YESLER WAY, Seattle,, Saturday (MSBBC) — Microsoft today stealth-released its new social network, Bing Minus, automatically adding every person in the world still using Internet Explorer, such as your mother. The Bing Minus software was distributed Friday morning in an automatic urgent mandatory critical Windows security update. It will [...]
Authorities definitely closing in on LulzSec
DRAMATICA, Wackyleeks, Wednesday (textfiles.com) — The noose is tightening on LulzSec, oh yes it is, with a red-handed capture nearly almost imminent, said FBI Media Liaison today, and don't you worry about that. The drug-running terrorist paedophile probably-Chinese-government members of LulzSec have used their horrifying and "l33t" [...]
Bitcoin to revolutionise the economy
Bitcoin is a decentralised computer currency designed by self-righteous Ayn Rand-reading nerds who despise looters and parasites like, er, you. It is used to purchase Internet services, illegal drugs and pictures of naked women holding video cards. Bitcoin works by an emergent synergy of cryptography, peer-to-peer, anonymity, anarchism, [...]
Religions stimulate “Apple-like” reactions in brain
ONE INFINITE LOOP, Purgatory, Wednesday (NTN) — Neuroscientists have found that religious fervour lights up the same parts of the brain as waiting in line for your devotions at the Apple Store. The scientists were interviewed by a BBC programme exploring the fantastically lucrative and popular brands springing up around the supernatural. [...]
Microsoft opens crowdsourced legal site “CrockLaw”
O'GARA UFO FIELD, Armonk, Monday (NTN) — With the final humiliation of the SCO Group and the retirement of Pamela Jones from Groklaw, Microsoft has stepped in with sponsorship to fill "a much-needed gap." CrockLaw will be "a place where lawyers and geeks could explain things to each other and work together, so they'd understand each [...]
35 percent admit to bedroom mobile “apping”
HOT HOT HOT, Forever Alone, Thursday (NTN) — 35% of US smartphone users admit to using apps before even getting out of bed. Doctors advise the other 65% that it is "entirely natural" and "nothing to be ashamed of." The most popular in-bed activity admitted to is accessing "social networks," as respondents called it, doing air-quotes. The [...]
Skype relaunched as Windows Bing Voice™
BOLGIAS 8 AND 9, Seattle, Tuesday (NTN) — Microsoft remains on the bleeding edge of innovation with its completely new-from-the-ground-up Windows Bing Voice™ Internet phone platform, formerly known as Skype. Windows Bing Voice™ was developed entirely in-house at an acquisition cost of only $8.5 billion. "Our developer teams [...]
Google, Facebook: “Do Not Track” laws mean terrorists win
CASHIER'S DESK, California Senate, Saturday (NTN) — The associations listed on this letter are writing to strongly oppose California Senate Bill 761. It would create an unnecessary, unenforceable and unconstitutional regulatory burden, as our products could get uppity and want "privacy." The measure would negatively affect products who [...]
Sony: It was Anonymous, honest guv
GUTEN TAG, Wii Gehts, Wednesday (NTN) — Sony has revealed that the Playstation Network security breach, which compromised 24.6 million credit cards, was entirely the work of evil hackers from Anonymous, and nothing to do with their own incompetence, honest. "We discovered a file making a clear reference to 'Username unknown,'" the company [...]
Microsoft Office 365 sees you’re trying to write a letter
SCHESTOWITZ, Newham, Tuesday (NTN) — Office 365, Microsoft's pay-as-you-go answer to Google Docs, delivers the same delight you're used to from Office on your PC, only slower and clunkier and only working on Internet Explorer. Remember Internet Explorer? Of course you do! Microsoft Online Services have marketed Office 365 directly to your [...]
