Posted in The Net on Apr 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
A New Zealand teenager, allegedly at the centre of a cyber crime ring causing millions of dollars of damage, admitted six computer crime charges when he appeared in court today.
Owen Thor Walker, 18, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was accused by the FBI of being “Akill” - leading a group of international programmers that set up [...]
Posted in The Net on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »
IT DOES not just happen in the movies. Whatever becomes of Patrick Moberg and Australia’s Camille Hayton, they have vindicated hopeless romantics everywhere.
That at least appeared to be the blogger consensus after the pair appeared together on Good Morning America to discuss his internet quest to find the “girl of my dreams”. It was, bloggers [...]
Posted in Games, The Net on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The gloves are off in the games console wars as Microsoft hopes to reel in Christmas shoppers with new Xbox 360 bundles and free games.
Microsoft announced today it would phase out its trimmed-down Xbox 360 Core version in favour of a new bundle pitched at casual gamers, the Xbox 360 Arcade, which will go [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
It may have dropped the word computer from its name, but Apple is certainly selling plenty of Macs.
Driven in part by what analysts call a halo effect from the iPod and the iPhone, the market share of the company’s personal computers is surging.
“The Macintosh has a lot of momentum now,” said Steven Jobs, Apple’s [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Internet poker players are raising the stakes in Washington.
Threatened by a federal law that restricts online gambling, the Poker Players Alliance, a two-year-old lobbying group that says it represents 800,000 poker enthusiasts nationwide, plans on pressing Congress this week to consider several new bills that would exempt poker from the law or regulate the gaming [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
MySpaceTV, the video wing of the online community network, today unveiled its first original web series to give users a television-like experience with the interactive benefits of the internet.
The series, Roommates, will track the lives of four women in their 20s who have recently graduated from college and are living together in Los Angeles.
The web [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 20th, 2007 No Comments »
US internet search engines in China were being hijacked and directed to Chinese-owned Baidu, analysts said Wednesday, speculating that the move was in retaliation for Washington’s award to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
Analysts at Search Engine Roundtable, a website focusing on Internet search, said Chinese users trying to search on Google, Yahoo [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Top mobile phone maker Nokia is introducing an upgraded version of a wireless multimedia device without a phone, the company said on Wednesday, as it takes aim at Apple’s iPod touch.
The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is intended for heavy users of websites, such as Google, Skype, Facebook and Flickr. It connects to Wi-Fi hot spots [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Hazardous chemicals found in the Apple iPhone are not only toxic to the environment, they can also “interfere with sexual development in mammals”, scientists at Greenpeace say.
In the latest of a series of reports chastising Apple for its apparent disregard for the environment, the ardent environmental campaigner said its own tests of the iPhone [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Updated satellite imagery on Google Earth has revealed new evidence of China’s nuclear submarine capability.
The discovery of what appears to be a second and possibly a third Jin class nuclear-powered submarine at a naval shipyard in north-eastern China has set armchair admirals’ tongues wagging.
The find - the latest in a series of submersibles to [...]
