Developer Howard Harte has offered a $1000 reward to the first person who can show him how to root a Google TV device, allowing him to install third-party apps.
The only other catch is that the hack must be available before Google officially adds third-party support.
With the ability to root, Harte will port his Better Terminal Emulator Pro Android app to the Google TV.
Result for: first person
In May, UK citizen Paul Chambers was convicted of sending a ‘menacing’ tweet via Twitter, with the British Court fining him £2500 and slapping him with a criminal record.
In early January, the airport in South Yorkshire was closed due to excessive snow and Chambers was so mad that he wrote: “Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your s*** together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!”
Airport security officials saw the tweet and then passed on the complaint to the local authorities.
Chambers lost his job after being arrested, and was the first person to ever be convicted of a crime just for tweeting.
This week, a judge has refused to overturn the conviction, effectively ending Chamber’s appeal.
The judge then yelled at the courtroom as a number of those sitting in the crowd were tweeting updates as the case progressed.
Thousands of Chamber’s supporters took to Twitter after the decision, using the “trending topic” #IAmSpartacus to post menacing messages, with some threatening to blow up the White House, Downing Street, “everyone” and all other types of nouns.
Result for: first person
Popular singer Lady Gaga has overtaken Britney Spears as the “queen” of Twitter, becoming the most followed person on the micro-blogging site.
Gaga passed Britney and now has 5.74 million followers.
The eclectic artist just became the first person to have 10 million fans on Facebook, the social networking giant.
Lady Gaga moved to the title after adding 700,000 new followers in the last month alone.
Spears surpassed Ashton Kutcher in May, lasting just three months at the top.
Famecount, a social media-tracking site, says Lady Gaga may stay at the top for long, as teen sensation Justin Bieber is adding 800,000 new followers every month.
