Pwn2Own … IE8, Firefox and Safari (x2) … Hacked on day one.

Written by geekE Management | Published on March 25, 2010
Hackers exploited the 3 major browsers on day one of Pwn2Own.  As expected,  IE8, FireFox and Safari were all penetrated within minutes of the competition starting. Most impressively, Peter Vreugdenhil, was able to exploit a vulnerability in IE8 on Windows 7 allowing him to bypass  the operating systems DEP (Data Execution System) security mechinism designed to [...]
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WordPress.com Outage / 10.2 million blogs down

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 19, 2010
Yesterday, about 10.2 MILLION blogs fell off the face of the planet for just Under 2 hours when WordPress.com experienced it’s first major outage in four years.  In all, about 5.5 million pageviews lost in those 110 minutes of downtime. According to Matt Mullenweg, the downtime was caused by an unscheduled “core router” change at [...]
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 coming to AT&T

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 16, 2010
BGR has it on good authority that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will definitely be showing up at AT&T “Pretty Soon”.  Expected to sell at $199 with a two year contract. Size: 119 x 63 x 13 mm Weight: 135 grams Phone memory: Up to 1 GB Memory card support: microSD™ Memory card included: 8 [...]
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WordPress 2.9.2 Security Upgrade

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 15, 2010
This one seems rather minor, but could be an issue for some sites.  WordPress 2.9.2 fixes a problem with registered users being able to “peek” into your trash.  Nothing I’ll be getting my panties bunched up over, but since the upgrade process is like 2 clicks and a password, just do it!
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iPad Beta

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 2, 2010
Centercode, the guys behind OnlineBeta.com, have just announced a new community: iPadBeta.com. We’re pleased to announce iPadBeta.com, a new unique user community being offered by Centercode.  Unlike other communities we’ve announced in the past which use our software, iPadBeta.com is owned by Centercode and will act as a sister community to OnlineBeta.com, but focused specifically [...]
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iPad Pics, dimensions and first impressions

Written by geekE Management | Published on January 26, 2010
Well, it finally happened…  Way back in July, many speculated about a tablet coming from Apple, and now we get to see how close everyone came with their guesses. Am I disappointed?  Well … yes and no.  It’s cool, it’s really f-ing cool.  It’s almost exactly what I expected from Apple,  but it’s not exactly [...]
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WordPress 2.9.1 released – Bunch of bug fixes!

Written by geekE Management | Published on January 4, 2010
Hey all — New version of WordPress has been released.  Just about three weeks after the release of WordPress 2.9, version 2.9.1 hits the street with several bug fixes. Many believed that the release of 2.9 was a bit premature after tons of users reported issues related to CURL (curl_setopt() to be specific) and several [...]
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WordPress 2.9 Released

Written by geekE Management | Published on December 19, 2009
WordPress 2.9 has been in the works for a while now, and in beta for a couple months.  I’m happy to announce that it has been officially released! Some notable new features: Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., [...]
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