Good morning, here’s a quick round-up of some of the interesting stuff that’s been going on overnight.
IE9: 27 downloads per second
Microsoft proudly declared the new browser, IE9, a success with the initial figures for downloads from its website. In the first 24 hours, there were 2.3 million of them, or 27 every second. More on
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Google has purchased Green Parrot, an Irish video technology company whose software can do amazing things with moving pictures.
Just take a look at the example video above to see what we mean. The shaky, juddering original footage is smoothed out into something much more pleasant to watch. And that’s just one of Green Parrot’s …
Be careful if you’re typing something on your Facebook wall today: the social network has made a tiny change to how things work.
As detailed by the Next Web, Facebook’s “Comment” button has disappeared. Now you just need to hit the Enter or Return key to post your comment. If you want a paragraph break in the comment, you have to
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Google upgrades YouTube with Irish video company purchase
Google has bought Irish video technology company Green Parrot, in the hope it can use their code to sharpen, straighten, and generally tidy up a lot of the video content that gets uploaded to YouTube. What you see is no longer what you got. Look out for more on this story later
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If you’ve never heard of “silicon art” before, prepare to be amazed.
In short, it is the practise of carving microscopic works of art on to the tiny circuit boards that sit inside the gadgets we use every day.
The people who design those boards have to work with the teeny and the tiny every day. And just like anyone else, they want
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Good morning! Want some tech headlines to chew on while you sip your coffee? You got it.
Have we reached peak animation?
Disney’s latest computer animated spectacular Mars Needs Moms has been spectacular in only one respect: the way it has flopped at the box office. Now, according to the New York Times, questions are being asked. …
Have you ever stopped to wonder what might happen to your digital stuff after you die?
The folk at Digital Beyond have, and they’ve been talking about it at the SXSW festival this week.
These days it’s easy to put stuff online thanks to dozens of free services offered by third party companies. Blogs, microblogs, social networks, …
Remember Blogger? Of course you do. But do you still use it, or did you start using WordPress or Tumblr years ago?
Blogger is one of the oldest names on the blogging block, but hasn’t had a lot of love from its owners for a long time. Aside from a gorgeous and easy-to-use template design tool launched last year, its user interface
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Tech companies are doing their bit to help people affected by the disaster in Japan.
AT&T today announced free international long distance calls from the US or Puerto Rico to Japan, from now until the end of the month. This offer is for wireless postpaid customers. All wireless numbers also get free text messages to Japan too.
If …
In the unlikely event that you wish to upset the delicate balance of your shiny new iPad 2, the news from over the weekend is that it can be jailbroken, and soon you’ll be able to do the same.
Twitter user @comex posted this photo showing a white iPad 2 with Jailbreak-only software Cydia running.
Jailbreaking, for the uninitiated, …
Today is pi day! So says piday.org, founded by Dan Hellerich back in 2001, for the simple reason that 3/14 is the closest anyone’s going to get to 3.14159265.
The point of pi day? To celebrate pi, of course. That means reading about pi-related mathematical strangenesses, buying pi-related merchandise, and of course, eating pie.
Japanese manufacturers of consumer electronics are closing down factories in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami, Bloomberg reports.
Sony has stopped operations at 10 factories, and announced donations of cash and emergency supplies.
Toyota’s 12 plants are all closed until Wednesday at the earliest, with further
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