Stories by: Paul McNamara

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    Google apologizes for Gmail bug that shook 150,000 users 02/03/2011 03:45:00

    Google says it is "very sorry" for a Gmail software bug that reset some 150,000 accounts and left their owners contemplating the prospect of having lost years worth of data. The outage affected only a fraction of one per cent of Gmail users, but its severity was particularly noteworthy.
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    Did Apple's iPad debut put a choke-hold on the Internet? 28/01/2010 07:40:00

    If our experience here and the chatter on Twitter is any indication, then the answer is that it sure looks as though the Internet gagged on an iPad.
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    Sun's Scott McNealy: 'Thanks for a great 28 years' 28/01/2010 01:45:00

    Sun founder Scott McNealy yesterday holstered the snark and poured his heart out in a farewell letter to company employees and stakeholders.
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    Facebook blocks 'Web 2.0 Suicide Machine' 05/01/2010 08:57:00

    Operators of Web site dedicated to those who seek social-media death with dignity say that Facebook is taking a more Hippocratic approach to the idea of killing one's online identities with a few keystrokes. They say the social-networking giant has killed off their access to Facebook.
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    Social networks all over the map on reliability 24/02/2009 08:53:00

    That Twitter had more downtime last year (84 hours) than any of 15 social network sites measured by an uptime monitoring service should surprise no one: The site's "fail whale" is so famous it was just featured in the New York Times.
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    Twitter limits searches on site ... why? 17/01/2009 04:50:00

    Two Twitter questions have been nagging at me: Why on Earth would Twitter limit the number of searches a user may conduct -- a typical, relatively new user, such as me, not some piggy third-party app or bot?
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    Google has gone and redefined 'beta' 30/09/2008 10:56:00

    The question of why so many Google products are classified "beta" -- and classified thusly for so long -- has knocked around the tech press for some time. However, no one really seemed to know the answer, at least no one outside of Google.
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    Worst of the online retail lot for two years running 20/05/2008 09:25:15

    That's the uncomfortable verdict for PCMall and PCConnection rendered last week by the "ForeSee Results Top 100 Online Retail Satisfaction Index." Not only did those two outlets bring up the rear among computer and electronics sites, they brought up the rear, period.
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    Why is this called 'virtual kidnapping'? 05/05/2008 13:17:46

    The crime itself is horrific -- beyond comprehension in its cruelty -- so there's some hesitancy to complain about semantics. But this is a technology column and the underlying issue -- society's tendency to blame modern-day bad deeds on technology instead of the bad-deed doers -- is an important one.
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    This year's 25 geekiest 25th anniversaries 02/04/2008 10:01:58

    Woz, Word and War Games
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    Confessions of a caller-ID spoofer 15/02/2008 12:37:34

    He spoofed the HR director's work phone number, then the number of that guy's boss, before moving up to a vice president, and finally, the CEO. Says he had no choice, and that "this thing that I did is bad and should be outlawed."
 
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