Archive for August 6th, 2009

Apple: We didn’t censor that app…

August 6th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology


Daring Fireball seems to have been in contact with Apple’s Phil Schiller over a recent issue surrounding an app called Ninjawords. The app contained some phrases that were considered ‘offensive’ and there was a disagreement with the application developers and Apple, with others saying that it was just Apple censoring a dictionary.

Yesterday afternoon I received a thoughtful email from Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller” …

In the end, it was some bad timing and misunderstandings between everybody involved. It boils down to the simple fact that humans are human, and everybody makes mistakes.

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Twitter & Facebook down?

August 6th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

Reports are that Twitter and Facebook have been suffering a DDoS attack, causing both sites to fail intermittently.

Twitter seems to be back up, but Facebook is still spewing out errors on occasion.

No, the entire internet is not down. It’s just a few well known websites experiencing this problem.

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