May 22, 2011

The Carstache website describes these as “glorious”. I think I can come up with a few other words for these, but if it floats your boat, then why not? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have just what you need: a moustache for your car. Why, one might ask. I did. And I’ve yet to come up with an answer. I think I could probably get a feather duster...

May 22, 2011

A couple of interesting stories around hacking turned up this week, neither of which made the hackers look particularly smart. In the first, we have the hacking demonstration that occurred at this week’s AusCERT security conference on Australia’s Gold Coast. In a nutshell, one security person decided to demonstrate that privacy settings on Facebook...

May 22, 2011

In the US, a former Bank Of America computer programmer has been jailed for programming some embedded malware into the banks ATM software. Rodney Reed Caverly was working on a project that involved the bank’s ATMs, and whilst engaged on that project, he wrote some code that permitted cash to be siphoned off from the machines, but without it affecting any...

Apr 17, 2011

Samsung last week previewed their upcoming range of TVs and accessories, displaying some very interesting and unique features. For instance, in their TVs they’re including apps that permit you watch movies from Big Pond movies, in high definition. The fact that the actual viewing of these movies can start from within just a few seconds of you ordering them...

Apr 17, 2011

Well, maybe that title’s a bit over the top, but as passengers, and expecially on longer haul flights, the technology that we take with us, and the tech that the airlines provides to us for our in-flight enjoyment, does assume a high level of importance. Last week the Australian Business Traveler website, AusBT.com.au, carried a story of some technology...