Nov 21, 2010
You’ve seen those electronic roadside signs, of course. They’re used to warn of changing traffic conditions or upcoming hazards. In Arizona last week, near Tucson, one of these signs was hacked, with the message changed to warn drivers on the highway that there were zombies ahead on the roadway. Although obviously adept at programming these devices,...
Nov 21, 2010
New technology is set to change the way we use, as well as the look of, our credit cards. With an embedded battery that has an expected life of over four years, this new technology can allow the one card to provide access to multiple accounts, and it can be configured to suppress the display of the account number(s) until after a PIN has been entered.
Nov 21, 2010
How’s your Facebook access been during this past week? The accounts of female members (only) it seems have been affected by a bug in the Facebook code base over the last week, with access to the accounts for the users disabled. Users were requested to upload a form of photo ID, such as a drivers license. The Boy Genius Reports website quotes the following...
Nov 14, 2010
Apple have this week released a new update to OS X. It may be best to check your available bandwidth before starting the downloads, though, as well as providing lots of time to install it all. Fixing well over 50 security issues, I’ve heard that this update is apparently very big – in the order of 800+ MB. And that will take some time – and...
Nov 14, 2010
And if you don’t we’ll issue you a speeding ticket. And we’ll also check that you’re wearing your seat belt, make sure that your insurance and registration is up to date, check that you’re not tailgating that car in front of you, but we’ll ask you to smile while we’re doing this, as it’s all being done with a new...
Nov 14, 2010
Statistics brought out this pat week seemed to perhaps be foreshadowing the death of the feature phone. As you now, the iPhone has been walking out of Apple stores for the last three years, and this year has the release of so many Android phones, that we’ve simply lost count. Add to those the enhancements to the Blackberry OS, turning it into a true smart...