How many people separate you from, well, me for example? Yahoo Research is testing whether the theory about six degrees of separation—that any two people can be shown to be connected through friends in six links or fewer—is true. And if you have a Facebook account, you can participate in the project, called the Small [...]

  Vision Mobile has published a new 45-page report titled "Measuring the true openness of open source projects from Android to WebKit" (PDF, via Ars Technica). In it, the company showcases eight mobile open source projects, and rates them on a scale of openness. The group set out to research and investigate for six months. The software [...]

A few days ago, a hacker group known as "LulzSec" claimed that they would launch a huge attack against Sony. It appears this group was true to their word as they have just released a large cache of data that was stolen from Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. In what they are calling "Sownage", LulzSec [...]

If you are reading this post, it’s extremely likely that you have an Android device. If you have an Android, it’s 100% certain that you want to pluck out your own eyeballs in rage every time you are forced to use the search feature in the Android Market. Even Market alternatives like AppBrain leave a [...]

It hardly seems fair to even call this news anymore, but the Facebook Privacy policy has changed yet again. Changes to Facebook's privacy settings have always been a point of contention, despite Facebook's reassurances. What is different this time, is that the actual terms of the policy have not changed, instead the policy page has [...]

A Motorola Xoom has been overclocked from 1GHZ to a blazing 1.504GHz. The result is an increase in Quadrant score from around 2,100 to 2,800 while Linpack sees a jump from 36MFLOPS to 47MFLOPS. "Watch the Xoom's already fast 1GHz dual core Tegra 2 processor get overclocked to 1.5GHz with my custom kernel," the video [...]

  The first things you will notice about this keyboard are its heft and thickness which can be directly attributed to it being a mechanical keyboard. The Blackwidow Ultimate weighs in at one and a half kilos and rises 30mm off the ground. Razer has played this unavoidable tendency of mechanical keyboard to its advantage.Use [...]

We’ve known for quite some time that a Symbian^3 update is officially in the pipeline, with certain interface elements, as well as native apps like the browser, due for a serious overhaul. We’ve been expecting an update since late October last year, but so far, there’s been nothing. All that might just be about to [...]