Author: ShinyJess
Twitter predicts winning stocks, study shows
Create a buzz and stocks rise – literally. Investors following tweets about the stock market would have seen an average return rate of 15%, a study from the Technical University of Munich suggested. Researcher Timm Sprenger said there was…
iPad is for "the normal people of the world", says Apple co-founder Wozniak
iPad for the people, was the message when Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, spoke at the Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, California. "The tablet is not necessarily for people in this room. It's for the…
Internet as human right and the evolution of technology
The internet should be seen as a basic human right, according to to Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web. Speaking at the 20th International World Wide Web Conference in India, Berners-Lee emphasised the importance of…
Larry Page takes reigns of Google today
The first impression when seeing a picture of Larry Page, Google's new chief executive officer, is "whoa he's a bit young". If Wikipedia is to be believed, Page is 38 – older than he looks but still young for…
Fancy iPad moon app guides you through life's lunar phases
It's tempting to bring out the inner hippie for this Deluxe Moon HD app – it's very nice to look at. It's available from iTunes, priced at $4.99. There's heaps of information about the moon – its phases, Zodiac…
Teacher is sacked after whinging about students on Facebook
It's Darwinian, really: put a trap in place that only the most stupid will fall into. Complaining about the children you are teaching on Facebook probably falls into this category. A teacher at the Paterson School in the US…
10 apps for Mother's Day that mum will actually like (gallery)
Yesterday's excellent Mother's Day feature from TechDigest editor Gerald is a tough act to follow, but here we go anyway: Ten small tokens of affection for mum this Sunday. And these are things she may actually like too -…
Google vamps up Blogger (and there's a high-pep video too)
Be warned – this video below, showing how Google has changed its blogging platform 'Blogger', is really energetic. But it looks like Google has introduced some good alterations to Blogger, or Blogspot as it's also called. After all, it…
Google denies planning face recognition app
It was CNN which first sparked the speculations that Google is working on its very own face recognition app – as in, take a picture of someone on your phone, and have their Google profile pulled up. Whoa stalker-ish!…
Non-brittle glue invented. Now we can glue things in space!
Awesome news from Kansas State University and their, eh, glue department – an adhesive that doesn't go brittle when it dries. Usually, glue loses its stickiness when it loses moisture, but not anymore! This will make it so much…
