Newsweek appointed Fake Steve Jobs as its new lead technology writer; the magazine had no early review of the iPhone, which Apple informed Newsweek it could line up to buy like everyone else - not that real Steve "President for Life" Jobs is a bitter or vindictive man.
Ubergeek Jerry Yang accused Microsoft and its CEO Steve Ballmer of working to destabilise Yahoo! and to help to overthrow him as CEO of the company he founded, proving it's sure hard to put one over on Jerry Yang. Yahoo! explained it was a strong company, and proved it by announcing it will soon offer advertisement-supported "free" games and new interfaces for social networking sites, and how much stronger could it get than adding a new interface to MySpace?
Four pet owners outbid the world for the right to be first to clone their dogs, for a total of $600,000, or 20 million baht in real money; BioArts of America gets the gelt on a claim it has already succeeded in cloning one dog, and can do it again ... and again, of course.
In the first sign of the iPocalypse, Apple learned the hard way that the true sign of success is not being able to serve so many happy customers that they suddenly become dissatisfied customers, screaming "Hey! This thing doesn't work"; the carefully crafted Y2K-like worldwide wave of iPhone sales fell over when so many people turned up and bought them, that Apple didn't have the server-power to (ahem) turn them on; sweet love turned to bitterness in the first recorded case of a self-inflicted Denial of Service attack by Apple.
VMware fired CEO Diane Green because of a fast-developing 2008 revenue shortfall; her departure brought the number of women running Silicon Valley tech companies to zero.
With the power of science, Iran made and fired a bunch of ballistic missiles; with the power of PhotoShop, Iran distributed altered photos lying that extra missiles were fired in the scary test; the fauxtography was abetted by the French news agency AFP, and then on the front and international pages of numerous newspapers worldwide, although not in the Bangkok Post.
Google announced that by October it will finally be starting to give you what you don't want, starting with commercials before and after their YouTube videos, a service they have been unable to monetise since buying the name for $830,000 trillion a few years ago; advertising and commerce chief Tim Armstrong launched Operation Spaghetti (really) to solve that problem; the result is that the irritating adverts are almost ready to roll.
Google opened Lively, a 3D chatroom experience because, you know, you can never have enough cybersex sites; weirdly, Google and its cult followers dubbed it a threat to Second Life, although Google presents thousands of individual chat rooms instead of one big chat world; you have to download a browser add-on (but only Windows IE and Firefox versions are available) and it's difficult to see how it can become successful; it's at http://www.lively.com.
Icann couldn't, yet again - and hijackers took over two of its main web sites; as a reminder, this is the main controller of the Internet, in charge of safeguarding all top level domain names including its own.
Geeks worldwide worked to patch Domain Name Servers after Dan Kaminsky of security firm IOActive stumbled across a new way that hackers can steer anyone to malicious web sites; the Internet Software Consortium's open-source Bind (stands for Berkeley Internet Name Domain) software runs on about 80 per cent of DNS servers, which makes the patching a little more reliable; but no one is immune, and the likes of Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Red Hat stumbling to fix their lovely Internet servers was touching. The ZoneAlarm firewall fell over when Microsoft fixed a security hole in its DNS service, leaving ZA users off the Net entirely until they could upgrade.
Sorry Obama haters, but Craig Shergold doesn't want get-well cards, Microsoft is not going to send you money for forwarding email and no, you did not read a column by Maureen Dowd of The New York Times saying any such thing; like most email you receive without asking for it, that column is a total, complete fake, and frankly, between you and me, you need to show up more regularly for your Gullibility Medicine.
Prev
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Next
