Daily Snippets for 28 July 2010!!!

Today the intarwebs bring us a new Social Network aimed at job seekers and advertisers, Google losing advertisers in China, interceping GSM phonecalls with open source software and a whole lot more.

Later tonight we will bring you a special digest of Apple related stories. Watch this space!!!

IT career site Dice launches network for tech recruiters and job hunters

Another day, another social network pops up. Dice is a social network site aimed specifically at recruiters and job seekers. I think if it is well implemented it could be quite popular. In fact, LinkedIn is a similar service…

Want to learn more? Businessweek has the whole story HERE

Serial killer caught using Facebook

This is bound to happen more and more. Facebook has an online community larger than the populations of some countries. If you are naughty and make world news, someone who is facebook friends with you, or a friend of a friend is bound to point you out to authorities.

This is exactly what happened in this case.

Read all about it at The Dailyexpress.co.uk

MOD splashes out on night vision

The UK Ministry of Defense has seen fit to supply all troops in Afghanistan with night vision goggles. They have also pressed their US supplier to make these devices available by 2011. 11,000 odd of these devices are to be supplied to troops, making sure they use the same equipment in training and in combat.

See the light at BBC.co.uk

Google, advertiser to part ways

Google is losing some important adverstisers in China. Well two advertisers. China is the worlds biggest internet market, and Google is the worlds biggest search engine, wonder what this means for Google then?

I am going to guess it wont inpact Google all that much.

Read more in a good writeup at News24.com

The open source kit that that could snoop on your mobile calls

You may not realize this, but hacking is a good thing. (Cracking is the bad brother of hacking.) Hackers actually make the world safer by pointing out flaws in the technologies we use.

Now a “Security Expert” – a fancy term for a hacker – has built himself a device that can intercept GSM phone calls at the fraction of the cost of commercial tools.

He plans to demonstrate it at a conference soon.

Read all about it at PCPRO.co.uk

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