A True Story

Posted by Jane CoplandIf you take any interest in Sphinn and the debates that rage therein, you properly noticed last week’s uproar over linkbait specialist Lyndon Antcliff’s fake story that ended up being mentioned on Fox News. We’ve dabbled in a fair few linkbait projects over the years and since the Sphinn discussion was still […]

Microsoft: No Motion Controller….Maybe

Wired interviewed Shane Kim, Microsoft Vice President, and asked him about the rumour that Microsoft were developing a motion sensing game controller similar to the Nintendo Wii’s. Shane was sure they weren’t, then wasn’t so sure anymore. Judge for yourself.Now, do you think that when Microsoft releases its own motion-sensing controller, that that’s going to […]

iTunes Phishing Scam

Macworld are reporting that iTunes users are the targets of a new phishing scam.Phishers have targeted users of Apple’s iTunes music store with sophisticated identity theft attacks for the first time, a security company said Tuesday.People began receiving spammed messages Monday telling them that they must correct a problem with their iTunes account, said Andrew […]

BECTA and OOXML

var uri = ‘http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp?type(iframe)g(16615616)a(1481657)’ + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);document.write(”);A week or so ago BECTA referred it’s interoperability complaint against Microsoft to the EU Commission. The EU is taking the this referral and adding it to the evidence pile against Microsoft. I do wonder though how much the Interoperability complaint is actually Microsoft’s problem. If […]