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5 reasons people hate Comcast

Luke McKinney — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:47:14 +0000

Comcast is well on its way to becoming the least popular company since "We come round your house and corrupt your savegames Incorporated". This recently came to a head with the story of geek Phil Shapiro, who’s moving out of his apartment because they’re [...]

Mobile jammer provides portable peace and quiet

Luke McKinney — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:10:35 +0000

Mobile phones are the modern cockroach – there are millions of them, you can’t keep them out no matter how hard you try, and if you hear one in the cinema you’re going to be pretty upset. A portable new device that jams [...]

University grade hackers face twenty year sentence

Luke McKinney — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:43:03 +0000

Two California State University students face up to twenty years in jail for hacking the academic record keeping software to raise their grades. It might be a cute plan in an eighties movie (WarGames, anyone?) but in the real world that’s called [...]

Schizophrenic Sony Schedules Slim PS2

Luke McKinney — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:12:23 +0000

In a move which proves that their different departments don’t even have each others phone numbers, Sony has announced plans to release a compact cut-price PS2 in 2008.

The new model, reported by MCV, will boast an integrated power supply and a twenty percent [...]

Blockbuster to quit bothering Netflix

Luke McKinney — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:00:53 +0000

Blockbuster have announced that they’re going to stop bothering online competitor Netflix, and instead concentrate on trying to rent people movies. This decision was brought on by the fact that they haven’t been making very much money doing either while they tried to do [...]

Target to present holographic models

Luke McKinney — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:08:31 +0000

Chain stores like Target are famous for reducing prices and cutting costs wherever possible, but running a fashion show without any models might be a bit extreme. That’s exactly what Target will do next week though, using holographic technology to take their place.

The show, [...]

Robots versus pirates. For real.

Luke McKinney — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:42:05 +0000

In a move straight out of an internet cliche, the US Navy are deploying robot boats which could be used to hunt pirates. Life used to imitate art – now it’s imitating web cliches, leaving us with no option but to destroy all [...]

Skeletons dance up a storm (botnet)

Luke McKinney — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:14:36 +0000

The infamous Storm worm has seen a surge of activity this Halloween, spread by spam promising the "most amazing dancing skeleton", but delivering a trojan which puts the computer under the control of the storm botnet.

Skeletons and zombie computers – it sounds like [...]

Zucker blames Apple for NBC Universal failings

Luke McKinney — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:43:34 +0000

Jeff Zucker, chief of NBC Universal, took the stage at Syracuse University for questioning. While there he made the position of NBC Universal quite clear: they’re not making enough money, and it’s everyone else’s fault.

Reading the highlights of the public interview on [...]

AT&T offer free wireless to fire victims

Luke McKinney — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:53:53 +0000

Southern California may be doing a credible impression of Hell, with over half a million acres of blazing inferno, but it’s set to become a wireless haven as AT&T promises to offer three weeks of free wireless connection in hundreds of hotspots [...]