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Daily Tech Hotlinks for 04-Sept-07: Sweden, China, Kickstart, Sony batteries, GPS
– Citizens of Lund, Sweden, must choose between Vista and internet access due to a bug there (The Inquirer)
– Close to 100% of downloaded music in China is illegally obtained (Business Week)…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 09-Aug-07: Xbox 360, Carlos Slim, Freakonomics, Flickr, Nokia DRM
– Xbox 360 gets first official price cut (Daily Tech)
– The world’s new richest man, Carlos Slim, to donate 250,000 laptops to children by 2008 (Engadget)…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 10-Jul-07: Second Life, Simpsons video game, Yahoo's Mosh, Photobucket, iPhone
– Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Lumines and Rez, is developing a Virtual Tokyo for Second Life (1up)
– Matt Groening to be final boss in new Simpsons video game (Slashdot)…
Spammers crack open 'captcha' codes, report suggests
A report from security firm BitDefender suggests that spammers may have found a way to automatically break through certain types of graphical “captcha” code.
“Captchas” are used in an attempt to restrict certain online registrations and other interactions to real human beings, rather than automated robots. They’re a fairly controversial method that are supposed to reduce the amount of spam circulating the web, but are difficult or impossible for some humans to read, as well as adding another level of complexity to simple processes.
Yahoo launching UK beta version of Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0
Yahoo has announced that this Friday, it’ll be releasing the beta version of its Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 application, which provides access to mapping, personal organiser apps, news, photos and email (among other stuff).
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 20-June-2007: Google, eBay, Kutaragi, Toshiba, MySpace, Nintendo
– The tension between Google and eBay? It culminated in two men from Google gate-crashing eBay’s recent party, and being escorted off the premises, undoubtedly off to discuss sellers’ fees etc.
– Yesterday was a momentous day in history, as it marked Ken Kutaragi’s last day as CEO for Sony’s game division. Time to buy a PS3, then, in celebration?
– A London businessman’s Toshiba notebook and desk underneath…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 19-June-2007: Wi-Fi, Broadband, Yahoo, EA, Vodafone
– A Venezuelan tech-god puts the rest of us to shame by setting a new record for the longest Wi-Fi link, of 237 miles.
– John Howard, the embarassing Aussie Prime Minister has announced a US$1.68 billion initiative to bring broadband to 99% of the population by 2009. Now, to get at least 80% of the population to buy computers and actually start using electricity…
– Yahoo’s Terry Semel…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 07-May-2007: Wii, Div-X, Amnesty, Sony, PSP
– A clever sausage of a Spanish doctor has invented the term ‘wiiitis’, pronounced ‘wee-eye-tis’, a condition describing sore muscles after a healthy round of Wii Tennis.
– Could Div-X be working on hardware to connect the PC to TV, ensuring easy-to-transfer-and-watch downloaded films? No more cables and pesky programs to download, huzzah!
– Three of the big online giants, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft have unwisely…
Yahoo launch web version of Messenger
Yahoo have just launched an online version of their Messenger service, meaning that users can access their instant messenger without needing the software to be downloaded on their computer.
