Brennon Slattery - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Brennon Slattery

Article | 22/09/2009 'Gaydar': Does Facebook Know if You're Gay?

Two MIT graduates created a software program -- entitled Project "Gaydar" -- that scans Facebook friends lists and supposedly determines, based on ass...

Article | 4/09/2009 Lonely? Why not buy some Facebook friends

Are you totally reprehensible and feeling lonely? Or maybe you're just a struggling business looking for some instant online companionship? The firm <...

Article | 1/09/2009 Snow Leopard users' 4 biggest gripes

Apple Genius Bars will likely be standing-room only this week as numerous user complaints about Snow Leopard spread across the Web.

Article | 27/08/2009 Wikipedia changes editing policy

The innovative online encyclopedia Wikipedia is growing up, and with its growth comes a massive change to how it operates. Back in its early days, Wik...

Article | 14/08/2009 New law keeps sex offenders off MySpace, Facebook

The governor of Illinois signed into law yesterday a bill that banishes sex offenders from social networking sites. The law, designed to protect child...

Article | 8/08/2009 Sex offender locator app pulled

Apple booted another popular app today from its iPhone App Store and it appears it did the right thing.

Article | 1/08/2009 iPhone virus: What you need to know

The iPhone's security flaws were laid bare at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas yesterday, and now the smartphone-clutching public has boiled itse...

Article | 22/07/2009 iPod cameras: coming soon?

Rumors have swirled that Apple plans to add a camera to the iPod Touch. And, once the iPhone appeared with a camera capable of taking decent pictures ...

Article | 10/07/2009 Anyone want to buy Twitter?

Despite Twitter's popularity and ballooning public image, the micro-blogging site may never be able to turn a profit. That was the prevailing attitude...

Article | 9/07/2009 The Internet survives Michael Jackson's memorial service

When news of Michael Jackson's death hit the wire on June 25, the Web crumbled beneath its weight. AOL went down in flames. News sites were overload...

Article | 7/07/2009 Rumor: Next-gen iPods to sport video cameras

What could possibly knock the super-popular Flip Mino off its pedestal? Why, an Apple-made video camera, of course. According to rumors trickling in...

Article | 3/07/2009 More pornography sneaks onto the iPhone

Less than a week after the iPhone app developer behind Hottest Girls was busted for distributing pornographic material on the iPhone, another perpetra...

Article | 12/06/2009 Doom Comes to the iPhone

Fans of the classic "Doom" series may want to preorder the new iPhone 3G S immediately, because the venerable first-person shooter game is coming to t...

Article | 2/06/2009 Report: Sony Ericsson bails on Memory Stick Micro

After three years tethered to the ball and chain of Sony's Memory Stick Micro, Sony Ericsson has made the tough but needed decision to break up with t...

Article | 30/05/2009 Live TV coming to the Xbox 360

Microsoft's Xbox 360 is suiting up to become an all-encompassing entertainment center. British broadcaster Sky has announced a deal between Sky and Mi...