AFP - The simple act of using a computer for email or the Internet can mobilise armies of hidden agents and criminals out to subvert the system and business, the OECD says in a study on cyber crime.
Reuters - Bangladesh’s mobile telephone operators
must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards
from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night,
telecoms watchdog officials said.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
A retailer taking pre-orders for phones that haven’t even been announced is considered business as usual, but there’s something just a little out of the ordinary with Horizon Wireless’ listing for the alleged touchscreen superphone outta Waterloo, the BlackBerry 9500 “Thunder” — it’s accompanied by a somewhat believable picture of the thing. Extreme blur always adds a healthy dose of credibility (we kid), but more importantly, the picture shows no telltale signs of being a render and looks essentially like what everyone’s expecting it to look like. BlackBerry addicts who’ve been desperately fighting the urge to go to the dark side, consider this your shot of willpower for the day.
[Thanks, Yasim M.]
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Potentially throwing a wrench into future ocean fertilization trials, which are intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by storing carbon deep underwater, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity called for a moratorium yesterday on the practice of adding nutrients to the oceans.
While it may not carry any legal weight, the “de facto moratorium” could prove […]
Earlier today, John Gruber of DaringFireball.net suggested that Me.com might be the name for Apple’s .Mac rename. There was no real evidence, however, except that Me.com was registered under MarkMonitor’s domain service. MarkMonitor is a domain ma…
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
While we of course rock oh-so-very-hard on Rock Band’s drums, the pedal just never felt right under our weakling calves. The problem is naturally exacerbated for folks in wheelchairs, since there’s no way to avoid the kick drum or re-route it to another button — at least out of the box. Some folks at Kinetic Communications modded up a doorbell to work as the kick drum button and screwed it to a drum stick. Not the prettiest mod in the world, but it got their wheelchair-bound buddy drumming for about $20, and it shouldn’t be hard to replicate their instructions.
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
While we of course rock oh-so-very-hard on Rock Band’s drums, the pedal just never felt right under our weakling calves. The problem is naturally exacerbated for folks in wheelchairs, since there’s no way to avoid the kick drum or re-route it to another button — at least out of the box. Some folks at Kinetic Communications modded up a doorbell to work as the kick drum button and screwed it to a drum stick. Not the prettiest mod in the world, but it got their wheelchair-bound buddy drumming for about $20, and it shouldn’t be hard to replicate their instructions.
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Jim Gray, a legendary computer scientist at Microsoft and I.B.M. who disappeared at sea in January 2007, was remembered by hundreds of friends and colleagues Saturday at a day-long tribute at UC Berkeley. An endowed professorship in computer science is being established in his honor.
A recent report found that even though overall holiday sales were sluggish in 2007, online sales remained strong.
The sound quality of phone calls carried digitally by phone companies through their “triple play” bundles is now excellent but downtime still occurs.