O3B Networks has been quietly preparing itself over the last 12 months for the moment last week when it announced that it was going to be offering cheap, low latency satellite bandwidth that can cover any part of Africa by 2010. It has put in place early finance with Google, Liberty Global and HSBC
Blind-rights activists had noticed that blind people couldn’t independently access iTunes or the iTunes U service. Jim Denham, the assistive technology coordinator at the Perkins School for the Blind, is looking forward to spending this rainy weekend, at home, on his computer. Thanks to a technological advance, Denham, who is blind, can sit at home by himself and browse among the thousands of audio books, podcasts and albums digitally stored on Apple’s iTunes
Oscar-winning film legend Paul Newman has died of cancer at the age of 83. The star of movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid died in his Connecticut home on Friday, surrounded by family and close friends. A statement from Newman’s family said: His death was as private and discreet as the way he had lived his life
Crimtrac’s planned automatic number plate recognition system could become a mass surveillance system, taking as many as 70 million photos of cars and drivers every day across a vast network of roadside cameras. State and federal police forces want full-frontal images of vehicles, including the driver and front passenger, that are clear enough for identification purposes and usable as evidence in court
KDDI will launch a fibre-optic communications service with upload and download speeds each of up to one gigabit per secondon 1 October. The new service will target people living in single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings. The traffic speeds will be the fastest in eastern Japan, up drastically from the current 100 megabits per second
And we finally get to the point, he’s written a screenplay:
Having been an X Files watcher for many
revolutionsof Series 1(ONE)-9(NINE) and whereasthirteen productionshasLEFT THE SCENEI would like to serve as a catalyst oroffer my own screenplay following the Birth of Baby William! How could I?
I don’t know how far unsolicited fan screenplays get in a television production office, but I’m betting it’s a short trip from the mail room to the shredder.
In the past, I have attempted to explain to Bill the error of spamming people with unsolicited crap, but it appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
From this take, I can only assume that Bill’s decided that Chris Carter has abandoned his characters to the public domain and he is now free to run off and make his own version of the X-Files. Bill may need to have a little chat with a copyright lawyer over that one.
Google are putting forward a $10 million fund to help develop ideas from members of the public that will help to make the world a better place. This week, as part of their tenth birthday celebrations, Google have announce the launch of project 10^100 (ten to the 100th), an innovative scheme designed to inspire and fund the development of ideas that will help to change the world
To infinity and beyond. But first, Kent. Daredevil Swiss pilot Yves Rossy soared into the record books yesterday by making the first solo flight across the English Channel — using a single, homemade rocket-powered wing strapped to his back
Due to reasons yet to be determined, the web site of the World Wide Web Consortium, w3.org/w3c.org, is being filtered as child pornography by the Finnish ISP, DNA Internet
Google Translate added 11 new languages: Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Google’s machine translation service now supports 35 languages and you can use it to translate text between any combination of languages
For many blind or partially sighted people, implants that stimulate healthy nerve cells connected to their retinas could help restore some normal vision. Researchers have been working on such implants since the 1980s but with only limited success. A major hurdle is making an implant that can stay in the eye for years without declining in performance or causing inflammation. Now researchers with the Boston Retinal Implant Project, which was spun out of MIT, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1988, have developed hardware they say overcomes such issues. The implants have been tested in animals, and the group plans to start human trials by 2010
The Pirate Bay has successfully appealed the decision of an Italian judge who had ordered ISPs to block access to the popular BitTorrent tracker last month. The Court of Bergamo decided that this block was unlawful, and that Italian users should regain access to the site
Australian news aggregator Plugger.com.au will re-brand as Wotnews.com.au following a licensing and investment deal with high-profile Wotif.com founder and local multi-millionaire Graeme Wood
Dozens of phone calls and emails today made one thing clear: none of Australia’s telcos or handset manufacturers has briefed their staff on when mobile phones running Google’s Android will be made available locally, if they are at all
It will soon be easier to switch your business to another bank, with the Australian Payments Clearing Association confirming financial institutions will be able to supply customers’ direct debit and credit arrangements by 1 November. The listing and switching
service is part of a Labor Government reform package aimed at promoting competition announced in February
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be shut off until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure. The incident on 19 September caused a tonne of liquid helium to leak out into the experiment’s 27km-long tunnel. Officials said the time required to fully investigate the problem precluded a re-start before the lab’s winter maintenance period
Oracle, the world’s No 3 software maker is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard to sell powerful, specialised computers that companies use to analyse data on their business activities. The move, which Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison announced yesterday, will expand Oracle’s footprint in the hardware business and put pressure on smaller players Teradata and Netezza, which specialise in selling those devices, known as data warehouse appliances
The first mobile phone powered by Google has launched, ready to do battle with Apple’s iPhone for the top spot on tech addicts’ Christmas gift lists. It goes on sale in the US next month, and is expected to arrive in British stores by early November. The arrival of Android signals the opening round of a battle between Google and rivals including Apple, Microsoft and Nokia to create the software that powers the next generation of internet-enabled mobile phones
SecureWorks published the locations of the computers, from which the greatest number of cyber attacks were attempted against its clients in 2008. The United States topped the list with 20.6 million attempted attacks originating from computers within the country and China ran second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from computers within its borders. This was followed by Brazil with over 166,987 attempted attacks, South Korea with 162,289, Poland with 153,205, Japan with 142,346, Russia with 130,572, Taiwan with 124,997, Germany with 110,493, and Canada with 107,483
The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet’s backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage’s service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage’s business practices — via Slashdot
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