By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Is there such a thing as ‘ethical computer hacking’? Abertay University in Scotland seems to think so because they are now offering a course to postgraduate students in the subject. They are already teaching undergraduates a course in ‘Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures’. But now they are going further with […]
Edit (03/09/2008): We’ve just published a full review of Google Chrome. The article includes installation steps, features, and some speed benchmarks. Check it out! The rumors that Google has been secretly working on an industry-changing browser have been circulating for years – I made similar comments about this on this very blog just a month […]
By Shéa Bennett Contributing Writer, [GAS] Yeah, I can’t wait either. Penned by Aaron Sorkin, who created The West Wing and wrote the Tom Hank’s vehicle Charlie Wilson’s War, the as of yet untitled Facebook movie will focus on Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, the founders of the popular social networking site. Sorkin’s […]
By PatB Contributing Writer, [GAS] After a stinging rebuke from the FCC over Comcast’s efforts in bandwidth shaping to preserve bandwidth for all their customers, Comcast is planning to retreat behind a stingy Acceptable Usage Policy. Instead of shaping bandwidth, they are just going to give the finger and pull the plug on P2P users. […]
By Shéa Bennett Contributing Writer, [GAS] Microsoft, which released a feature-complete beta of Internet Explorer 8.0 on its website yesterday, has revealed that two of the main design goals of the product were backwards compatibility and total compliance with web standards. “The core web rendering engine in IE8 is compliant with web standards, but we […]
Starting today, Google will be gradually rolling out Google Suggest from their test labs to various google home pages around the world. As I’m sure you can guess, the new feature will suggest search words in real time as you’re typing. But why should you get excited by this new feature? Steve over at [H] […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you’re in China and looking to download your iTunes tracks then you’ve probably been having some problems in the past few days. That’s probably because Beijing doesn’t like a new Tibet-themed album that is now out on iTunes with the Dalai Lama giving a 15-minute talk. As well […]
AJAX developers, get your game on. Firefox version 3.1 will deliver massive speed improvements for JavaScript, the language behind many of the cool interactive effects on today’s web pages. Andreas Gal and Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine invented a novel approach to Just-In-Time compilation called “tracing”. Put simply: rather than compiling complete, individual […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] The Register reported earlier today that Microsoft AdCenter was making available Excel files containing search keywords that no-one was bidding on. So this was your chance to peruse the list, find some keywords that you liked and grab them for a bargain. The files were here on the front […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Four years ago at the last party conventions, when they nominated George W Bush and John Kerry, YouTube didn’t even exist (imagine that – a world with no YouTube!). But now, with YouTube a dominant force on the internet, Google is determined to make its presence felt in Denver […]