Tag: Names
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Researcher Leaks 100M Passwords Online
Don’t worry, your password is safe, but yes, a researcher named Mark Burnett has leaked a huge collection of usernames and passwords onto the internet, with the main reason for doing so being a good one. Burnett’s leakage is designed to make it easier for other researchers to understand the trends behind the passwords people choose.…
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Apple originally considered calling the iPhone the ‘iPad’, ‘Mobi’ and other amusing names
Ex-Apple head of advertising reveals secrets of the past
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Apple Reveals Secret Codenames For iOS – And You Thought “Ice Cream Sandwich” Was Daft!
Apple developer Steve Troughton-Smith hopped onto social site Twitter this week to reveal some of the never-before-heard codenames for the tech giant’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch operating software, iOS. We all know Google goes gaga with its dessert-themed Android OS monikers such as Eclair, Gingerbread and most recently Ice Cream Sandwich which made its debut…
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Apple Names New Chairman and Director
With the sad passing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs there is sure to be plenty of changes happening at the Cupertino company and today Apple announced some of these changes with a new Chairman and Director. Since the passing of its legendary co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple is looking to avoid any concerns about a power-vacuum…
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Canadian contest outs names of future Samsung and Nokia Windows Phones
Microsoft may have dropped a clanger, by letting the names of some upcoming Window Phone 7.5 host names appear in a Canadian competition. Names such as Samsung Yukon, Samsung Wembley, Nokia Sabre and the previously exposed Nokia Sea-Ray pop up in the online contest rules and were spotted by scrutinising tech aficionados and recognised to…
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Nokia replaced lettered handset titles with simplified numbering scheme
Nokia are set to drop wordy titles from their mobiles, along with those lettered prefixes that always get us wondering “What does that stand for?” The Finnish communications co. will now instead be going with a simple numbering scheme for future mobile handsets. It’s pretty easy to follow.. Expect no more “N”, “X” or “C”…
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No real name = No Google+ account! Number of profiles removed after pseudonym cull
A number of Google+ users woke up this morning to find their much sought after accounts had been removed by the powers that be, this due to their use of pseudonyms on their new public profiles instead of their birth names. Google are pushing the fact that their social network brings back the personal touch…
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Lady Gaga website hacked – Names and e-mail addresses stolen
It would appear web-savvy songstress Lady Gaga is having a Bad Romance with her online presence lately, having already had her YouTube channel suspended (and thankfully restored) over a copyright row, now there are reports of her official website having been broken into with thousands of member details said to have been stolen. “Fortunately” no financial information…
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India become first country to ban .XXX domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (thankfully and creatively abbreviated as “ICANN”) recently approved the domain suffix of .XXX – to replace the commonplace .com, .co.uk, .org etc. – and you can imagine the type of publisher who would want use such a web domain. Some would obviously take offence, and a number…