Tonight Apple will produce its first-ever live event streamed to the iPhone: a concert by the electronica band Underworld. Apple has apparently kept the event quiet as it doesn’t want to overwhelm the AT&T network, but if you have an iPhone you can queue it up yourself at iphone.akamai.com orunderworldlive.com. The show starts at 9 p.m. PT and the stream is free.
Read the full details over at NewTeeVee ?
Scottsdale and Mission Viejo work begins
Microsoft has started building its first retail stores in the US Scottsdale Arizona and Mission Viejo, California.
The two Microsoft retail stores will be the first of a promised many as the company tries to emulate Apple’s success with the Apple Store.
Although the picture from the company’s official twitter account doesn’t give any information as to what the stores will be like on the inside, it does show that the company will be pushing its brands.
Logos show Windows 7, bing, Office, Xbox 360 and Zune decorating the hording suggesting the inside could have zones areas to showcase Microsoft products.
Last month a senior Microsoft executive has revealed that, in a somewhat confrontational move, those shops will be near existing Apple Stores, with the first premises to open in the States in autumn.
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Microsoft starts work on Windows retail stores originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:44:21 +0100
COMMENT: Why, what who where?
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TechVi is a daily US technology show talking to the experts that matter on the hot topic of the day hosted by Randall Bennett. Today we were on with Cnet’s Tom Merrit talking Twitter downtime and the buzz word du jour – DDoS.
Was it a conspiracy theory? What did you do while you could tell people what you were eating? Do you care?
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VIDEO: Twitter goes down we talk with TechVi originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:05:32 +0100
Cyxymu not in someone’s good books
More details are starting to emerge as to who was behind the DDoS attacks against Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google on Thursday.
According to reports, the DDoS attacks were aimed at silencing a pro-Georgian blogger who had been critical of Russia’s activity in the country since last year.
“Yesterday’s attack appears to be directed at an individual who has a presence on a number of sites, rather than the sites themselves,” Facebook said in a written statement.
“Specifically, the person is an activist blogger and a botnet was directed to request his pages at such a rate that it impacted service for other users.”
“The major DDoS campaign which brought Twitter to its knees yesterday (and mildly impacted the likes of Facebook, LiveJournal, Google’s Blogger and possibly YouTube service) may have actually set out to silence only one person – an anti-Russian blogger called Cyxymu from Tbilisi.” Reported security company Sophos.
On Friday Twitter, the worst affected of the sites, Twitter, confirmed that it was still working to resolve the problem.
“In the past 24 hours, we’ve been contending with a variety of attacks that continue to change in nature and intensity. We’re working to restore access to apps built on the Twitter platform that were affected by defensive measures—there was some overcompensation on our part as we tune our system to deal with this scale of attack,” said Twitter’s Biz Stone on the company blog.
Although not wanting to get into the political elements of what had happened, the founder said that the site will continue to “improve system response to these assaults such that they don’t interfere with our normal, everyday Twittering.”
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Twitter, Facebook and LiveJounal DDoS attacks targeted single user originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:37:09 +0100
Get ready to start eating
Like pancakes? Fancy eating 200 of them in an hour? Thought you did. Well that’s what the ChefStack promises pancake fans unable to make it to their local diner or ihop.
Called the ChefStack, the machine, which is the size of a microwave oven and is easily operated without supervision, promises to cook “hot, fresh pancakes in a matter of seconds,” reads the blurb on the company’s website before going on to say that: “97% fat free pancakes emerge at a rate of up to 200 per hour.” Yikes.
The $3500 automated commercial pancake cooker isn’t probably designed for your home kitchen (man vs food anyone?), but it does, once loaded with pre-filled bags of batter, get to work to create a production line even Mr Ford would be proud of.
The best bit? That neat pile at the end ready to serve your hunger.
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ChefStack lets you say yes to 200 pancakes an hour originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:20:20 +0100
