Oh Dear: The Most Exciting Thing About the New BlackBerry Is a Dedicated BBM Button
RIM’s latest update of its Curve BlackBerry series has all of the usual buttons we’ve come to expect from the QWERTY classic range, only now there’s a specific hotkey for instant access to the company’s BBM messaging service. Amazing. RIM’s selling this new model BB in two tech spec varieties, with the 9220 and 9320…
Google and Oracle Enter Round Two of Heavyweight Legal Fight
After the jury returned a partial verdict in the copyright phase of the Google-Oracle trial – unable to decide whether Google’s recreation of the Java platform constituted “fair use” of Oracle’s copyright – the trial has now entered the patent phase, where the same jury will seek to decide whether Google infringed on Oracle’s patents.…
It’s Okay to Look Through These Hacked Passwords
If you’ve ever wanted a Twitter account that has around 10 followers, a randomly generated username, and is following thousands of random people, today is your lucky day. Earlier today, an anonymous hacker dumped 55000 usernames and passwords onto Pastebin. Normally, this would be a real inconvenience—and a worrisome breach—but all the affected appear to…