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Pigeon, Faster Than Broadband
By Kristjan at 12 September, 2009, 2:47 pm
A South-African IT company armed a pigeon with a 4GB memory stick and let it travel for 60 miles. Meanwhile they tried to transfer 4GB through the Telkom ADSL network. When the pigeon reached it’s destination the ADSL had only sent 4% of the data. BBC Pigeon ‘faster than broadband’
Read More >>Bill Gates Donates $13.5 Million To Get The Third World Mobile Banking
By stormy at 17 February, 2009, 8:43 pm
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GSMA have teamed up to help people in developing countries to carry out mobile banking from their non-smartphones.
The foundation has already donated $12.5 million with a goal to supply 20 milli0n unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012.
The danger of being unbanked is that your home could get robbed anytime and all your family’s life savings lost forever.
Read More >>Google’s New Favicon
By stormy at 11 January, 2009, 4:01 pm
As you might already have noticed, Google has changed their favorites icon (favicon) again. Some people still haven’t got used to the previous one, created in June 2008. The new one is a white “g”, very similar to the previous one, but on a wavy red-green-yellow blue background.
Read More >>MacRumours Hacked While Broadcasting Apple Keynote From Macworld
By stormy at 6 January, 2009, 7:45 pm
MacRumours was publishing a live feed of Phil Schillers Apple Keynote At Macworld when they got hacked by a group that identifies themselves as “hackers on steroids from ebaumsworld.”
The group’s previous targets have been highly popular sites like Myspace and Fox News so it’s no wonder they managed to get their hands onto Mac Rumours’ [...]
5 Reasons Why Speed Cameras Are Inaccurate
By stormy at 23 December, 2008, 10:09 am
In most cases, speed camera results are correct and dependable, but there are quite many situations in which the camera can get an inaccurate reading. Here are some of them.
Read More >>RIAA’s New Piracy Plan Cuts Off People Without A Fair Trial
By stormy at 20 December, 2008, 11:19 am
After the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) revealed its new scheme for punishing suspected music sharers, several problems have surfaced about the plan.
The RIAA’s new scheme involves forcing ISP’s to cut off piracy suspects from the internet, instead of tracking them down using suspicious methods and then suing them.
The new plan circumvents the law, and puts the power directly into RIAA’s hands, which means that more innocent people than ever will get harassed by the RIAA.
Read More >>“Image Hyperlinking” Patent Owner Threatens To Sue Every Website On The Internet
By stormy at 19 December, 2008, 2:35 pm
A Russian businessman trademarked the emoticons. Now it turns out a company has patented hyperlinking images, the foundation of Web 2.0.
VueStar Technologies, a Singapore-based subsidiary, owned by Australian parent Goldspirit Investments Pty Ltd. has patented the technology of linking images to web pages in the US, Singapore and Australia, although the Australian patent has expired [...]
The Navy’s New Toy - X-47B UCAS
By Alexander at 19 December, 2008, 12:00 pm
In December 16, 2008, Northrop Grumman introduced the new version of X47-X47B UCAS(Unmanned Combat Air System), which is part of DARPA’s JUCAS program, and is now part of the United States Navy’s UCAS-D program for building unmanned aircraft.
The new air vehicle, which will be launched in 2011, is long ranged, survivable and capable for [...]
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