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Daily Tech Hotlinks for 31-May-07: Tiscali, Firefox, Wi-Fi, iTunes
– Tiscali has admitted it will take at least 10 days to restore their customers’ email addresses to full functionality, after being blacklisted as spam by various ISPs. At least we’ve got Big Brother now to distract us…
– Web browser junkies will be jonesing for the fifth alpha release of Firefox 3 from Mozilla set for release tomorrow, sadly syringes aren’t included.
– Apparently Londoners aren’t interested in free internet and the plethora of potential Bittorrents possible, as only 6,000 people have registered to use the free City of London…
Guess what smartphone Paris Hilton is holding and win a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 Bluetooth headset
She may be a Powerbook-toting jailbird, but at least Paris Hilton knows the way to earn big bucks – product placement all the way, baaaaby. That’s hot, as she’d slur.
What I want to know from you eagle-eyed readers is what smartphone she’s got clenched in those manky claws of hers. Whoever gives me the correct answer first will win a a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 Bluetooth Headset worth over £70. Read on below for how to enter…
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in joint-interview at All Things D conference
Yesterday at the All Things D conference, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs went head to head for the first time since 2005, when they were last seen together. People have been speculating for weeks now in both online and print media about how the two would interact with one another in their joint-interview, and just what the two powerful computing geniuses would shed light on, if anything.
For those spoiling for a blood-bath, you’ll be disappointed. Instead what viewers were treated to was a 90-minute long chat about the past 30 years they’ve worked as rivals, complete with plenty of reminiscing and laughter at their early ideas. The interview was hosted by Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg and technology reporter Kara Swisher, read on below for all the deets…
Fuelvapour 'Ale' runs on 'fumes' but makes 75% less of them
The Fuelvapour ‘Ale’ is a sporty three-wheeler that consumes 2.6 liters per hundred kilometers, accelerates to 100km in 5 seconds, and generates 75% less emissions because it runs on a gasoline gas instead of liquid, courtesy of increasing the gas:air ratio from 14.7: to 20:1, with cleaner burning results. It is classified legally as a motorcycle, and seats two in tandem. Future versions of the Ale will likely replace the vehicle’s fibreglass body on a tubular steel frame with one built from carbon fibre. Video after the jump. [GT]
Manitoba natives demand compensation for mobiles using 'airspace'
Saying using ‘airspace’ is just like using water or land, Manitoba first nations chiefs want compensation from mobile providers for every cellphone signal that passes through First Nations land. “When it comes to using airspace, it’s like using our water and simply because there’s no precedent doesn’t mean that it’s not the right thing to do,” said Chief Ovide Mercredi of the Grand Rapids First Nation. [GT]
Manitoba chiefs want cellphone revenue
Google Maps Street View: helpful feature or voyeur's paradise?
BoingBoing reader Mary Kalin-Casey reports that the Google Maps closeup of her house is so detailed, that you can see that her cat, sleeping in the window, is a tabby. Further comments note that a nearby crosswalk has a recognizable woman walking across it, a man spots his neighbor taking out the trash, and one can very clearly see a tollbooth operator at Golden Gate Bridge. Or, if you’re bored, you can watch a strip club entrance until you gather blackmail material. (Unless they have submitted their location as infringing privacy and asked it be blocked.) CNet and Wired are both gathering more detailed reports of experiences with Street View or “inadvertant, urban snapshots”. [GT]
Google Maps is spying on my cat, says freaked out BB reader
Today on Tech Digest: Microsoft Surface, Apple iTunes Plus, Last.fm and more
THE BIG THREE Our guide to Microsoft's Surface Apple launches iTunes Plus DRM-free music downloads CBS buys Last.fm for $280 million THE NEXT FIFTEEN Video review: HTC S710 smartphone Sharp's awesome-looking Aquos 912SH mobile phone Homersapien finally arrives in the…
Shiny Video Review: HTC S710 smartphone with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 software
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Alex and I test drive the HTC S710 using the brand new MS Windows Mobile 6 software – a first for the UK market…
Microsoft's Surface: what it does, who it's for, and why we should lust after one
When several of us Tech Digest writers were present at Bill Gates’s keynotes speech at CES in Las Vegas and saw a brief display of what we now know is Surface, which Dave announced earlier this morning, none of us realised it would be released this year. Heck, we thought we were looking at the sort of space-age technology that comes hand-in-hand with flying cars and bite-sized pills for every meal.
Instead, Surface will be released into the wild (well, commercial wild, anyway) this Winter, where T-Mobile, Starwood Hotels, Harrah’s casinos and gambling-company IGN will have first access to this exciting new way of computing…
