It’sno easy taskbeing in the shoes ofLast.fmright now. The service has been around as a relatively free source for curated music for quite some time, and recently shifted to a paywall format for its mobile radio product.While the move has causedsome to wonderexactly what Last.fm is up to, a recent interview that I had with the VP of Product for the service cleared up a lot of questions. I’m spending some time this week with the updatedAndroidandiOSplayers for Last....

The success of gaming on Apple’s iOS devices shows how keen the company is in that genre, to a point that even standalone handheld gaming consoles are actually considering the iPod Touch and the iPhone as competition. Now it seems as though Apple is ready to take on home consoles as well with the latest hunches about the Apple TV’s future in gaming. A report fromEngadgetclaims that a new code found in the latest iOS 4....

Free password management program LastPass, a browser extension that manages passwords and automates form filling, has been subjected to an external attack which could see user email addresses, their server salt and salted password hashes stolen by attackers. Posting on the company blog, the LastPass team explains that evidence of an attack was first noticed on Tuesday after the server logs were checked and anomalies identified and processed. Network traffic, over a period of a few minutes, spiked on one of the non-critical LastPass machines....

A new study has found that people who eat after 8pm have higher BMIs (body mass indexes) than those who don’t. It might sound obvious that those who snack at night put on more weight because it indicates that they simply eat more, but the study says that people who eat the same number of calories earlier in the day have significantly lower BMIs. The phenomenon may be linked to previous studies, that linked the timing of meals, sleep and light exposure to metabolism and BMI....

Twitter spamis something you may have noticed since you started using the service, or something you may have noticed less of lately, since the company may have removed over 100,000 spam accounts. Twitter spam looks like a regular old tweet, mostly a reply to one of yours, especially if you mention the word “iPhone” or “iPad”. DeveloperAndre Torrezhas decided to fight back withLaterSpam.org. LaterSpam lets you log into Twitter, and you are shown your last replies....