Darren McCarra, Author at McCarra.co

Wikipedia community has spoken, global anti-SOPA blackout protest begins Wednesday The Wikipedia community has spoken. A 24-hour anti-SOPA blackout protest will begin on Wednesday, January 18 at 5pm Western European Time (WET). During this 24-hour period, English language Wikipedia articles will be unavailable globally - a unprecedented move never before seen in the crowd-sourced encyclopedia's 11-year history. No responses 16th January 2012
Untethered iPhone 4S jailbreak only a matter of days away An untethered iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak has made substantial progress towards actuality as iOS hackers have posted a video clearly demonstrating a jailbroken iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1, suggesting that the hack will be made public very soon. No responses 16th January 2012
Hangout with David Beckham on Google+ Google are offering Google+ users a chance to hangout (live multi-user chat) with David Beckham, internationally renowned soccer player, later this month - if that's your sort of thing? 2 responses 15th January 2012
Cheezburger CEO: I can has Wikipedia support in SOPA blackout protest? Ben Huh, best known as CEO of Cheezburger, has publicly called for Wikipedia to join Cheezburger and Reddit in their 12-hour SOPA blackout protest next Wednesday. No responses 13th January 2012
Sony says no PS4 announcement at E3 2012 Sony will not be announcing the PlayStation 4 at this year's E3 gaming expo. Microsoft and Nintendo, however, are still expected to press ahead with their own forthcoming console announcements. No responses 12th January 2012
Facebook to reach one billion users by end of summer Facebook is set to reach one billion active users by August of this year, according to research from iCrossing. Facebook, comfortably the world's largest social network, currently has in excess of 800 million active users. No responses 11th January 2012
Google's latest social search update further integrates Google+ Google has today announced the biggest social update to Google Search in over two years, integrating public and privately shared Google+ posts and images into search results. No responses 10th January 2012
Sony shifts 3.9 million PS3 consoles over Christmas, 15 million annual sales target within sight Sony has announced that 3.9 million PlayStation 3 consoles were sold worldwide over the Christmas sales season, with the company well on track to reaching its 15 million unit annual sales target in the fiscal year ending this March. No responses 10th January 2012
Netflix officially launches in the UK and Ireland with one-month free trial Netflix, the film and TV episode streaming service, has officially launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland as of today, complete with one-month free trial. While some users reported early access to the service yesterday, both netflix.co.uk and netflix.ie are officially available from this morning. 6 responses 9th January 2012
iPad falls from space, and survives Ever since Apple introduced the original iPad in January 2010, the burning question on all of our minds was whether it could survive a fall from space (right?) - in this case 100,000 feet. The answer is yes, apparently. 17 responses 8th January 2012