A lot of people love their cars. But would you friend yours?
Most of today’s cars are as much computer-on-wheels as they are transportation. Toyota and Salesforce.com have decided that if cars are going to be smart, they should be smart enough to talk to us.
Wait, though: not like KITT in Knight Rider. Not that sort of …
Twitter is coming to London, despite the super-injunction row it got pulled into last week.
The company’s deal-maker Tony Wang has already moved across the Atlantic with his family, and is starting work on building a new London-based team to look after Twitter’s business in the U.K. and Europe.
The injunction row, centered on a …
We all know how Apple likes to “Think Different”, but its latest thinking is more different than usual.
Over the weekend, the company rolled out something called Apple Store 2.0, which sounds like it’s going to be something special. Turns out it’s iPads. Everywhere.
Next time you stroll into your local Apple store, you’ll see …
Oh no. I hope it isn’t true.
“You hope what isn’t true?”
Someone’s saying that Google might try to kill the URL bar. I really hope not.
“Google might kill the what?”
You know, the URL bar. Or the Address Bar.
“The what?”
The thing at the top of your browser window that displays the URL, the address, of the website …
The U.K.’s first cell phone contactless payment system went live today.
The launch is the result of a co-operative effort by a lot of different companies.
The network operator is Orange, the banking is coming from Barclaycard‘s QuickTap, and the hardware is a cheap-and-cheerful Samsung Tocco Lite.
QuickTap purchases are limited …
Twitter’s just announced changes to the way third party clients have to connect users to the service, and has upset a few apple carts along the way.
In an official announcement headlined Mission: Permission, Twitter’s Jodi Olsen wrote:
“Beginning today, we’re giving you more control over what information you share with third-party
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Did I tell you about the time I got tomato pasta sauce all over some Angry Birds? Or the time I managed to rub a tiny dribble of sticky honey on to my Facebook wall? That took a lot of cleaning.
The great thing about the iPad is that it’s such a good kitchen computer. And the problem with the iPad is that kitchens are full of food, …
Teenagers of the world, unite in grief. Your chances of getting a part-time job in McDonald’s just got that little bit slimmer.
The European arm of the fast food chain has ordered 7,000 touchscreen kiosks that will take orders and money (electronic money, not that outdated cash variety).
It had to happen. Supermarkets have already …
The trouble with being the latest big thing on the internet is that everyone wants a piece of your success. Including scammers.
As we reported yesterday, scams are appearing on Facebook. And because Facebook is so huge, people are falling for them.
It isn’t entirely Facebook’s fault, either. There’s an old computer helpdesk …
What sound do cars make?
BRRRRRRM. Right?
Wrong. Not all of them do, not anymore. The latest electric cars are near-as-dammit silent when they’re doing under 20 miles per hour. Above that, and you might – might – hear a soft vvvvmmmmmmm.
This is more of a problem than you might think. As pedestrians, millions of us have ears …
Microsoft’s search site Bing just got a whole lot more social with the addition of a bunch of new Facebooky features so you can “bring the Friend Effect to search” (Bing’s phrase, not mine).
What’s the Friend Effect? According to Bing, it’s the way that “90 per cent of people seek advice from family and friends as part of the decision
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The UK government’s computers are subjected to thousands of attempted cyber-attacks every month, the country’s finance minister said today.
The total number averaged out at more than one per day, and that’s just the ones targeted against his department.
George Osborne, the UK’s current Chancellor of the Exchequer, was speaking at
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