28th December 2010 Archive

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• LG uncloaks six-foot 3D TV

  183cm of droolworthy meaninglessness

  At next week's Consumer Electronics Show, LG Electronics will unveil its biggest, bestest, baddest (the street definition of "bad", that is) 3D TV: the 72-inch LZ9700. 3D TV not catching on? How about a really, really big 3D TV, then? Although 3D TV has not become the must-have tech that its champions promised when those …

  Media 28 Dec 2010, 01:11

• Mozilla exposes 44,000 passwords

  'Old, inactive, and harmless'

  Mozilla inadvertently exposed the passwords of 44,000 inactive addons.mozilla.org accounts, but says there's nothing to worry about. "On December 17th, Mozilla was notified by a security researcher that a partial database of addons.mozilla.org user accounts was mistakenly left on a Mozilla public server," Mozilla's director of …

  Security 28 Dec 2010, 19:04

• Apple slapped with iOS privacy lawsuit

  'We respect your privacy' promise in dispute

  Apple has been named in a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company allows iOS applications to provide advertisers with sensitive – and supposedly private – user information, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, which broke the story on Tuesday. "Apple claims to review each application before offering it to users, …

  Security 28 Dec 2010, 20:11

• Ubuntu tablet rumored for early 2011 launch

  Another OS to enter fondleslab fray?

  What with Apple's iOS leading the tablet pack and a herd of Android-based fondleslabs poised to enter the market, it's enticing to read of an Ubuntu-based tablet that's rumored to hit the market in early 2011. "A new Linux powered tablet is on it's way!" writes Andrew Sykes, publisher of the China-based gadget site Gizchina, …

  Tablets 28 Dec 2010, 22:09