If this were a column about religious affairs, I would undoubtedly focus this week on the shocking news that Beelzebub himself has joined a coalition opposing child abuse in the Catholic church.
In honour of Entertainment Weekly hosting the first-ever full motion video advert in its magazine, TechRadar has compiled a list of the seven best magazine covers that have blown us away whether through sheer ingenuity, tech prowess or all-out craziness.
It turns out there is more to the story behind the sudden demise of Tipjoy. The micro-payments service was trying to sell itself, according to a source with direct knowledge of the attempted transaction, and even got an all-stock offer from Facebook nominally worth around $5 million. The deal fell through when Facebook walked away.
Apple has responded to the FCC’s request for information around its rejection of various Google and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone.
Last month, we wrote about an iPhone app getting rejected because it featured artwork of President Obama. Specifically, it was Shepard Faireys famous HOPE image of Obama that Apple found inappropriate stating that it “ridicules public figures”. Of course that’s ridiculous, and the image is hanging in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian. And now Apple is acknowledging that the rejection was unjust.
How do you know if someone’s online profile is real? The question has plagued us for some time now, but is become increasingly problematic as vast swatches of the mainstream of society goes online and joins a social network, whether is be Twitter, Facebook, or whatever. The problem is of course rife on dating web sites.
