Survey reveals hackers hunt for wireless networks whilst commuting
Posted on 28-Mar-2003 00:41 News, Security
A wireless ‘honeypot’ set up by KPMG LLP (UK) to monitor wireless hacking and so-called ‘war driving’ activity has revealed that the most popular time to try to access wireless networks is on the way to and from work.
Telstra launches consumer services over its network
Posted on 28-Mar-2003 00:33 News, Mobile
Vodafone Live! is soon to be launched in Australia and New Zealand. The competition already started to release products to match the offering. Telstra (Australia) now offers a series of multimedia and consumer services over its mobile network.
War Blogs
Posted on 27-Mar-2003 08:33 News, Computing
Combat personnel in the war front are now into more geek stuff: soldier blogs.
Need a cab? It'll find you...
Posted on 27-Mar-2003 08:22 News, Computing
Black cabs in London are using Location-based services (LBS) to bring taxis and passengers together across the capital.
An evaluation of Sprint "Vision" high speed service.
Posted on 27-Mar-2003 07:58 News, Computing
Marketing calls 3G some services available in U.S. It's actually not (have a look in your Glossary for a definition of 3G). Now I found a review of Sprint "Vision" service, where the author explains this.
Do you take advantage of mistakes in prices?
Posted on 25-Mar-2003 23:06 News, Computing
BBC UK has an article on what happened last week on Amazon UK: HP iPAQ H1910 were advertised for £7.93 instead of the normal £300. Hundreds of people bought the units, but will not receive them.
Intel announces new XSCALE processors
Posted on 25-Mar-2003 22:57 News, Computing
Intel Corporation announced three new processors for personal digital assistants (PDAs). The new processors incorporate the latest microprocessor packaging and stacking techniques, and deliver higher performance and longer battery life in less space than previous versions.
Slate article on rugged war laptop
Posted on 24-Mar-2003 22:57 News, Computing
The Itronix GoBook MAX was developed for and tested by military personnel, under full-on field conditions. Slate has an article on this laptop and how it performs under the severe conditions of the Iraq War.
Geekzone on microsoft.com
Posted on 24-Mar-2003 19:26 News, Site related
I was just looking through our logs, checking websites linking to us, and I found an article on microsoft.com's "Club Pocket PC" about our Pocket PC Browsers Review!
Via vodafone
Posted on 24-Mar-2003 18:50 News, Computing
From Ireland to Australia and from Spain to New Zealand - Via Vodafone creates the commercial environment to enable working with the Vodafone Group in all areas of Business and Consumer applications.
Data on the run
Posted on 24-Mar-2003 18:41 Software, Software
Did you ever wish you could have your Access database in your Pocket PC? check this out, then!