Category: Software

  • iPhone security fixed with OS 3.0.1

    When I connected my iPhone to my PC earlier this morning, I got a dialog to tell me that a new version of the phone’s operating system was available. Version 3.0.1 of the iPhone OS fixes a security issue concerning…

  • Augmented reality: overlay your world

    Is augmented reality the Next Big Thing, asks AdWeek. […] The biggest hope for the field moving into useful, mainstream applications is in the mobile arena. Acrossair created a mini sensation with the release of a video clip showing its…

  • Twitter marketing: genuine works

    It’s advertising du jour in the movie and television business to use banner ads and other eyeball-catching imagery on the web to promote your new movie or TV series. Websites, too, employing all the latest audio-visual and social media magic…

  • WordPress update addresses XSS threat

    An update to the WordPress platform, version 2.8.2, was issued earlier today that addresses a security issue known as XSS or cross-site scripting. It’s an unexpected update, given that version 2.8.1 was released less than two weeks ago. But good…

  • Making connections at WordCamp UK 2009

    It’s a bit blurry but there’s no mistaking the youthful Matt Mullenweg pictured at WordCamp UK in Cardiff yesterday. I took this pic of the WordPress founder on my Nokia N95 8GB at full zoom from my spot at the…