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25 Nov. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Media

The death of Jocelyn Quivrin and the rise of the "new monsters"

French media refuses to publish pictures taken with a mobile ’phone shortly after the death of actor Jocelyn Quivrin in a car accident. The omnipresent mobile ’phone complete with camera capability can capture moments that many, and not just (...)

25 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

People

Old fools and the Internet

News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has proved, yet again, that he is a dinosaur who does not fit in with today’s world in the 21st century. Miffed by aggregators, like Google News, Murdoch has sworn to fight Google and other online aggregators (...)

13 nov. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Business

Latin America Turns Challenge into Opportunity

The Long Awaited NGT Summit in Panama unites world leaders to build Latin America infrastructure. Latin America is home to the "B" in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) quartet of leading emerging economies, but is still relatively (...)

12 Nov. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Media

Hollywood DRM plan : put a Soc in it

The Hollywood studios want the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to allow them to start using selectable output control (Soc) DRM consumer control technology. Soon-to-be-gone MPAA boss Dan Glickman says the anti-piracy effort is “the (...)

9 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

Doing the Wave Using a Site-Specific Browser

Over the last several days, we’ve started experimenting with using Wave to track project communications at Kynetx. We have three waves now with project information in it and have invited the folks who work on those projects to each. I’m not (...)

22 oct. 2009 | | Phil Windley

Science & Tech

Telecom Giants jump into action at first bell

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7 Oct. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

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We’re Becoming Digital Pack Rats !

A couple weeks ago, there was an interesting article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about the self-storage industry, which has now grown to a staggering 2.3 billion square feet in the U.S. The self-storage industry concedes there’s a lot of (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Mark Evans

Science & Tech

The Soda Can Hidden Video Camera Does Not Fizzle Out

We just did a test of The Soda Can Hidden Video Camera, and this is a pretty slick product that puts a 2 hour battery, camera, digital video recorder, and microphone all inside an innocent looking soda can. Soda Can Hidden Video Camera For you Coppers, (...)

23 Jul. 2009 | | Christopher Winkler

Comment

AT&T EPIC Fail in Hawaii

Up until several weeks ago I was a 12 year loyal T-Mobile customer. Never a service interruption never a issue not one and the best part the plan were reasonable. Since i picked up my iPhone 3GS a couple of weeks ago and made the switch I get disconnected (...)

22 jui. 2009 | | Geek News Central

Comment

Will technology provide the means to a renewal of participatory democracy ?

Forwarding on a press release that I got in my email today about an interesting presentation in virtual reality. I have been thinking a lot lately about the almost religious fervor people have for social media and their belief that it is going to change (...)

21 jui. 2009 | | Linda Rogers

International

BlackBerry update bursting with spyware

Via The Register: An update pushed out to BlackBerry users on the Etisalat network in the United Arab Emirates appears to contain remotely-triggered spyware that allows the interception of messages and emails, as well as crippling battery life. Sent (...)

16 Jul. 2009 | | J.D. LeaSure

Society

Punk Arrested For Peeping With A Hidden Camera

Ladies, a punk was picked up secretly recording video of at least 10 women while in public. Thank goodness a loss prevention officer from the store noticed the pervert acting strangely, and ended up finding a hidden camera in his briefcase. He would set (...)

10 Jul. 2009 | | Christopher Winkler

Comment

When good companies go bad ? How Nokia Seimens helped Iran monitor its citizens

Last week my friend Diederik wrote a blog titled “Twittering to End Dictatorship : Ensuring the Future of Web-based Social Movements” in which he expressed his concern that (Western) corporations might facilitate oppressive regimes in (...)

26 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | David Eaves

Science & Tech

A Review Of The Covert Key Chain Hidden Camera And Digital Video Recorder

The Key Chain DVR is the latest breakthrough in digital video technology. A tiny video camera that records video to micro SD cards for up to fifty minutes is now hidden inside something that looks like your car alarm activator. No matter if you are in (...)

15 Jun. 2009 | | Christopher Winkler

Science & Tech

Why Blu-Ray is still doomed !

I know there are some good things about Blu-Ray, and have been impressed by the quality I have seen on Blu-Ray movies on a friends PS3. Those of us skilled at pattern recognition will continue to avoid this doomed platform though. With the recent (...)

11 jui. 2009 | | Geek News Central

Media

A New Approach to Social Media Analytics

A few months ago just after launching ME Consulting, I went to visit Nick Koudas, a computer science professor at the University of Toronto, who had started a social media analytics company called Sysomos. I’d heard some buzz about Sysomos but (...)

5 jui. 2009 | | Mark Evans

Business

Securing a Cloud Infrastructure

George Reese (author of the new book Cloud Application Architectures : Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud) is talking at Gluecon about securing cloud infrastructures. Two recent surveys found “security” was the number one (...)

14 mai. 2009 | 2 comments | Phil Windley

Arts & Entertainment

Do stadium-fillings artists still really play live ?

Nobody can deny this, music today just doesn’t work the way it used to fifty years ago... With all the digital technologies, powerful softwares and racks studios are equipped with, it’s now possible to create perfect sounding tracks, and make (...)

7 May. 2009 | | Blue

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Zoombak and community corrections

The contractors who provide position-monitoring services to probation and parole departments, primarily to track the whereabouts of sex offenders, charge about $10 per day. For $100 plus $15 a month, the Zoombak provides roughly the same functionality, (...)

24 Apr. 2009 | | Mark Kleiman

Science & Tech

Australia to get Fibre to the Premesis

The Australian Government has announced that they have scrapped the tender process for a company to build an FTTN network, and will instead build its own new network that will put fibre out to 90% of all Australian homes. This is a FTTP which means that (...)

8 avr. 2009 | | Geek News Central

Science & Tech

Lost city of Atlantis found on Google Earth?

Street grids spotted by a British engineer off the coast of West Africa. Google officially denies the finding.

24 Feb. 2009 | | Chris Hugo

Politics

Cybersecurity and the New Administration

President Obama has tasked a member of former President Bush’s administration to continue her efforts to tighten military and governmental security. Melissa Hathaway has already spent two years in the trenches tightening up government cyber security (...)

18 fév. 2009 | | Geek News Central

Business

New opportunities for IT in recession

The current economic situation gives difficult time for businesses, but some industries continue to do well and pose significant opportunities. In IT also some technologies which helps industries to drive efficiencies and profitability like Unified (...)

9 Feb. 2009 | 2 comments | drupad

Science & Tech

Tech Predictions for 2009

It’s 2009 and that means it’s time for predictions for the new year. I’ve read articles here and there listing what’s "in" and what’s "out," what kind of changes we can expect, and what kind of technology (...)

7 jan. 2009 | | Geek News Central

Science & Tech

New Technologies on the Horizon

As we get to the end of 2008 the predictions for what will happen next year start coming out. In the PC space it looks generally like it will be a continuation of the same process we have seen recently. Die sizes for chips will get smaller, hard drives (...)

11 déc. 2008 | | Geek News Central

Society

Anonymous hacking to destroy for “fun” and harassment of Black music fans

Last week two very popular Hip-Hop musical websites were attacked by individuals calling themselves “Anonymous”. MTV News reported that: “Both companies’ sites were hacked, and instead of the usual hip-hop related news articles and (...)

7 Jul. 2008 | 2 comments | Louanne

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