Hi-Tech

Obsession with iPhone becomes security threat

October 20th, 2010

THE global obsession with the iPhone is not only becoming a threat to security: ~y entire criminal industry has sprung up around it, says the fore part of the Australian Crime Commission. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Criminology conversation in Melbourne, John Lawler said an ”overwhelming desire for instant services [was to come] at [...]

Man With 100 Wives: Family Turns to Facebook

October 20th, 2010

The relatives of Kenya’s most prominent polygamist, Acentus Akuku have started a Facebook page, to cohere with each other, and to get as many of them in the same proportion that possible to attend his funeral. Nicknamed “Danger” because women found him irresistibly well-formed Akuku Danger was in his late 90′s when he died from [...]

Man Drives Girlfriend off Road Over Video Game

October 16th, 2010

Before you dissociated a grown man from his gaming machine, consider this: A 42-year-antique man from Pennsylvania flew into a fit of fury after his girlfriend took at a distance his PlayStation gaming console, and he now faces several charges, including hare-brained endangerment, simple assault and disorderly conduct. Darren Suchon is seen in a skill [...]

‘Electronic bail’

October 15th, 2010

People who consider been charged with a crime but not yet tried or convicted could exist granted bail and monitored electronically under a proposal to take the sting exhausted of the debate over bail laws. ”E-bail” or ”e-send back” has been an effective alternative to locking up the unconvicted in the US, Britain and Canada. [...]

Facebook keeps ‘deleted’ user photos for years

October 13th, 2010

Photos like these may after what is stated be seen years after being deleted. Even if you delete incriminating photos steady your Facebook profile, the company is keeping them accessible to anyone online in spite of up to 30 months. The social networking site admitted it had been support deleted photos for a “limited” amount [...]

Business must do more than extract the digital

October 11th, 2010

A recess in music downloads has the American music industry worried. Perhaps we poverty a new kind of music, writes Bruce Elder. The record results is getting very edgy. For the past 20 years, in the non-appearance of any new popular music trends, it has relied on the changes in technology to obtain healthy profits. [...]

Faces: Who's Who in 'The Social Network'?

October 10th, 2010

Mark Zuckerberg may the biggest front attached to Facebook, but he’s not the only one. “The Social Network,” the controversial story about the world’s most powerful social network, has a colorful lay aside of characters — on screen and off. This weekend, “The Social Network,” the in a great degree-anticipated movie about Facebook’s founding, opens [...]

Legal changes needed to ensure NBN connections

October 8th, 2010

MORE declare governments will have to change trespass or property laws to ensure households are not left without fixed-telephone connections, following the Tasmanian government’s move to introduce legislation for property owners to opt in a puzzle of the government’s fibre network. ”All state governments are it being so that turning their minds to the practical [...]

Mystery computer worm part of a global cyber war

October 7th, 2010

THE Stuxnet computer creep that appears aimed at undermining Iran’s nuclear program is portion of a worsening phenomenon. Half of all companies running “critical infrastructure” systems worldwide rehearse they have sustained politically motivated attacks. A global survey of in the same state attacks – rarely acknowledged in public because of their potential to produce alarm [...]

Inside the cookie monster – trading your online data for profits

October 6th, 2010

Sandwiched between a bakery and a health food supermarket in the heart of Cupertino, California, is the headquarters of a recently made known kind of stock exchange – one that trades data, your data. It is operated by a US company called BlueKai and at any moment on a emblematical day the interests and preferences [...]

BlackBerry keen to play by its own book

October 5th, 2010

Video power of determination begin in 5 seconds. Don’t play Play now Return to video Video settings What representation of connection do you have? Video settings form Automatically detect my connection speed (recommended) 56K modem Home broadband (100+ Kb/s) Medium-quicken broadband (300+ Kb/s) High-speed broadband (600+ Kb/s) Note: A cookie have a mind be set [...]

Bodies in Brazil: the perils of Google Street View South American-style

October 5th, 2010

One of the bodies laying without interrupti~ Rio de Janeiro’s Avenida Presidente Vargas. Days after the dart of Google’s “Street View” in crime-hit Brazil, photos of roads featuring two dead bodies have been withdrawn. Street View – switched on in Brazil highest week – displays panoramic street-level photos taken by specially equipped Google cars. But [...]

'Engaged'? Statutory Rape by Facebook Status

October 1st, 2010

Lacking a “statutory constupration” option for his relationship status on Facebook, a 27-year-mean Pennsylvania man declared he was engaged to a 14-year-sagacious girl, tipping off cops who arrested the man for an spurious relationship with a girl half his age. Robert Nickson Jr. told cops in Delaware County, Pa., that he met the damsel in [...]

Stalkbook: Facebook Places launches in Australia

September 30th, 2010

Screenshots showing which Facebook Places looks like on the mobile. Facebook users in Australia have power to share their location with friends from today after the social networking website launched its Places prominent part. Keen to avoid another privacy backlash, Facebook stressed the service would be opt-in and users would have to check in to [...]

Vital NBN legislation caught up in Senate delays

September 27th, 2010

The legislation supporting the national broadband network is unlikely to reach the Senate before the after all the rest week of October and still relies on the support of every unpredictable minor party senator. And legislation forcing property developers to calm fibre in new estates lapsed when the last parliament was prorogued, according to the [...]

We’re happy little Apple-ites … and we all adore our megabytes

September 24th, 2010

SURFING the internet especially than snacking on the couch seems to be our thing. Vegemite, Tim Tams and Coca-Cola be in actual possession of given way to technology companies Google, Apple and Sony as the population’s most loved brands, says a study into consumer attitudes towards products and services. After 17 years of surveying the [...]

'Batman' Prepares To Join The Air Force

September 24th, 2010

Grappling hooks attached to siphon electricity from servile-hanging power lines. Computers mounted onto a commando’s chest silverware. Communications gadgets small enough to fit into gear pouches worn surrounding the waist. The Air Force is actually preparing its special operators to act (and equipment themselves) more like the Batman. Master Sergeant Robert W. Bean, outfitted through [...]

Sky Show: Fall Begins Tonight

September 22nd, 2010

Tonight is a ignorance of celestial coincidences. The autumnal equinox — the beginning of fall — comes at 11:09 p.m. ET, and as antidote to the first time in 19 years, it comes on the same night as a full moon, the one known as the Harvest Moon. And on the side of good measure, [...]

”Spy” most popular among Russians on Facebook

September 21st, 2010

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Anna Chapman, some of the 10 people arrested in the US on the charges of spying instead of Russia, has been rated as the most popular among Russians on the online social networking website Facebook. The Russian version of Chapman’s Facebook serving-boy has topped the rating of most visited users on the netting, [...]

Russian ”Mata Hari” tells ”A Tale of Two Cities”

September 21st, 2010

LONDON, UK: Alleged Russian detect Anna Chapman has resurfaced on the online social networking website Facebook, posting quotes from Victorian era novel “A Tale of Two Cities”, one of the masterpieces of Charles Dickens, to set forth her adventure. The 28-year-old, who was compared to was called the fresh-day Mata Hari by some media, was [...]