Will the next wireless infrastructure be humans wearing radios?

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2 November 2010
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A team of Irish researchers are studying how humans can become the next wireless infrastructure, by wearing sensors, radios and gateways linked together in body-to-body networks.

With redesigned antennas, low-power radios, and new network protocols, potentially huge, constantly shifting body networks could create an ultra-high-bandwidth mobile infrastructure. Such networks could offload even large file transfers from cellular networks, by making use of parallel transmission and routing through a mesh of body nodes. The body node can link to fixed access points, gateways, or cellular networks when needed. — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Vecebot botnet strikes Vietnamese anti-communist blogs

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2 November 2010
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A botnet has been systematically attacking Web sites that post blogs or forums containing content critical of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The botnet, thought to include about 15,000 bots, is launching massive denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to make the content unavailable, according to security firm SecureWorks — via redwolf.newsvine.com

News Ltd-affiliated realestate.com.au becomes biggest yet to ditch autorefresh

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2 November 2010
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The anti autorefresh momentum has continued to build for Australia’s digital industry with Realestate.com.au becoming the first mass reach News Ltd controlled website to sign up for the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s digital audit.

A condition of receiving an ABA audit is that sites cannot use autorefresh – where whole pages are automatically updated every few minutes – with advertisers potentially paying several times for the same set of eyeballs plus the associated ad serving costs — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Ducati Diavel

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2 November 2010
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Ducati Diavel

In 1964, Ducati dipped a toe into the large cruiser market with the mighty Apollo, a 1,256cc vee-four heavyweight designed to take on Harley-Davidson in the police market. The Apollo never made it into production, but 46 years later, its spiritual successor has appeared — via Bike EXIF

ABC to open News bureau in Kabul

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1 November 2010
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The ABC will open a News bureau in Afghanistan in 2011.

The decision to establish a presence in Kabul follows a comprehensive review of the ABC’s international bureaux, and a reorganisation of bureau resources. The bureau will operate for at least 12 months as a base for coverage of news in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region.

It also follows the Federal Government recently saying Australia would be involved in the war in Afghanistan for at least the next decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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