Recently we have seen several high profile accounts compromised on Twitter, for example Fox News, a verified Twitter account tweeted that president Obama was dead on American independence day. People had no reason to believe this was a fake tweet and there was no sign of the account being hacked. The account was ‘verified’ meaning [...]
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Skype automatically adds contacts from Facebook after activating video chat without permission.
So today’s big announcement was the relaunch of Facebook chat and its video call integration provided by Skype however there seems to be a catch to the service which hasn’t been announced and quite frankly has annoyed me greatly. It turns out that if your Facebook friends have their Skype details on their profile, and [...]
READ MORE »PayPal’s Twitter is hacked, accounts suspected of being comprised.
PayPal UK’s twitter has been hacked which can clearly been seen from this tweet (https://twitter.com/#!/PayPalUK/status/88326927563243520) and as a result has caused suspicions that PayPal accounts may also have been compromised. While this is all suspicion in the latest tweet from PayPalUK in which they say “All your paypal accounts are now frozen while we clean [...]
READ MORE »Say hello to Tom.
Today we welcome a new blogger to our team, Tom Barron and I hope you will all welcome him too. Tom is a big gamer and takes pride in the fact that he can name the planets in the Halo universe. He has finished his A2 studies and after taking a gap year will be [...]
READ MORE »Google adds +1 to search
It seems to be a select roll out at the moment but Google seemed to have added their +1 button to search results allowing you to plus the results for all your friends to see, if any of your friends use +1 which I doubt. The only time you ever see this is if you [...]
READ MORE »Google set to release new photo sharing service “Photovine”?
Google have recently applied for a trademark in the US for “Photovine”. I think it’s safe to say that this will be some sort of service involving pictures and has been officially identified as “Communication services, namely, transmission of visual images and data by telecommunications networks, wireless communication networks, the Internet, information services networks and [...]
READ MORE »Kinect SDK leaked – Download now.
Our friends over at Winrumors have managed to get their hands on the Kinect SDK – go download it now and have a play with the tool – Get it here (32 Bit) (64 Bit)
READ MORE »Kinect SDK for Windows to be released this week?
A countdown has appeared on Channel 9 live set to finish at 1800 BST on Thursday is believed to be counting down the release of the announcement of the Kinect SDK due to be released in spring of which the end is quickly approaching. A twitter account @KinectSDKTeam has also be created with only a [...]
READ MORE »Lewis’ picks from the Interwebs #2
Welcome back to week 2 of my picks from the Interwebs, and I would like to start off with an application which has really helped me recently and was suggested by @linkyboy321. It’s called F.lux and it changes the colour of your laptop screen based on the time of day, while this may seem useful [...]
READ MORE »New weekly section : Lewis’ picks from the Interwebs #1
I’m constantly browsing the wonderful world of the Internet and finding cool, interesting, amazing or just plain stupid things. However I only really share these things with a few people so I thought why not start a new section where I can share all of these with you and so this new weekly section was [...]
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