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Archive | February, 2013
Pinterest Contacting Users Potentially Affected By ZenDesk Breach
Pinterest has been contacting users of the social network who may have been affected by the ZenDesk security breach. The security breach affected 3 of Zendesk’s clients and Pinterest was one of them. The other two were Twitter and Tumblr. Text below: We recently learned that the vendor we use to answer support requests and […]
Podcast: Christian Dawson of i2Coalition
Christian Dawson is COO of ServInt, a hosting company based in Washington DC. He’s also chairman of i2Coalition, the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, an advocacy group formed just 10 months ago. From their website: “The Internet Infrastructure Coalition supports those who build the nuts and bolts of the Internet, and we treat it like the noble […]
O2 To Offer Blackberry Z10 From March 1
Remember the Blackberry? Their latest release, the Blackberry Z10 is the first smartphone from the manufacturer that uses their new Blackberry 10 platform. From the release: The BlackBerry Z10 is the first smartphone powered by the new BlackBerry® 10 platform, and is HSPA+ and LTE-enabled. It is elegant and distinctive, and the fastest, most advanced […]
Mailbox App – put email in it’s place
A new look at email from Mailbox app. Their tag line is “Put email in it’s place”, and with the first look that really seems to be the case. Email is broken, and this app may be the solution to fix it. Side note : It’s not an app that you can use straight away, […]
Irish ISPs Receive “Reply” On Copyright Concerns
The Irish ISP association (hotline.ie) wrote to Mr Richard Bruton, Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation last month about the newspaper copyright debacle. They finally got a “reply” but it doesn’t really address their concerns- if anything it just punts the issue to the copyright review. You can download the hotline.ie’s original letter here and the […]
Dublin Students? Attend RIPE For Free!
RIPE 66 is being held in Dublin in May, which is pretty cool if you’re a geek! What’s even cooler, however, is that RIPE are giving students based in Dublin the chance to attend the meeting for free. Six lucky students could get their attendance sponsored under the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI). If you […]
Buffalo Launch Super Thin Storage Device
Buffalo have launched a new storage device which they’ve aptly named the MiniStation Slim. It’s incredibly slim – only 8.8mm thick, 11.5cm long and 7.9cm wide: it’s also very very light, weighing in at a mere 140 grams and can store 500 GB of digital content. It comes with USB 3.0 support, so file transfer […]
Podcast: Kevin Murphy of Domain Incite
This week we’ve got an interview with Kevin Murphy, editor of DomainIncite. Kevin has been writing about the domain name industry for several years and has been covering the newTLDs and ICANN on his site. Kevin and Michele discuss the domain industry, ICANN, DNSSEC, and the prospect of new top level domains coming on stream […]
Burger King’s Twitter Account Hacked
Hacking Twitter accounts happens all the time. Normally, however, the hacker does something overtly malicious. This time round, however, it’s just plain odd. The Burger King Twitter account was hacked and is currently spewing out content promoting McDonalds! But what makes it even more bizarre is that the account appears to be verified. Screenshot below: […]