Category Archives: Internet news

AOL releases 6 months worth of search data

Posted by Tim Malone on Wednesday 9th August, 2006 2 comments

Seems like AOL recently released tons of data (657k users worth) from their search engine. I haven’t had a chance to read much about it yet, or read into the data, but it’s 1) bad for those users – privacy …

Open source movies

Posted by Tim Malone on Monday 5th June, 2006 No comments

Making its way around the Internet recently – you may have seen it – is apparently the world’s first open source movie. It is available on DVD, but is of course free to download, and all the source files are …

Microsoft shares down 11%…

Posted by Tim Malone on Sunday 30th April, 2006 No comments

Microsoft’s shares fell by 11% on Friday, and according to Stan Beer from IT Wire, it indicates that Microsoft no longer has confidence in itself. Every day we’re coming closer and closer to the reality of a big change at …

15 year old pretends to be hired by Google

Posted by Tim Malone on Monday 13th March, 2006 2 comments

Pretty funny thing happened this afternoon – Tom Vendetta, a 15 year old kid from New Jersey in the US, pretented that he got employed by Google. Easy to do, but it went a bit of a distance and fooled …

Google planning to offer online storage

Posted by Tim Malone on Wednesday 8th March, 2006 1 comment

Google is at it again, with a leaked document specifying some details of “GDrive” – an unlimited online storage facility. Notes accidentally made public on Google’s website said “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web …