Global cell phone use at 50 percent – Yahoo! News Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion — equivalent to half the global population — on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said. But although mobile subscriptions have reached the equivalent of 50 percent of the population, this […]
hField Technologies, Inc. The Wi-Fire is a compact, range-extending USB device that enables you to access a wireless Internet connection from up to 1,000 feet away–three times the range of your internal wireless adapter. The Wi-Fire uses a powerful directional antenna, highly sensitive receiver and proprietary software to find and enhance normal Wi-Fi signals. With […]
AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi Access in Southern California: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance To help California residents affected by the fires stretching across Southern California, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T – News) today announced that AT&T Wi-Fi service will be offered free of charge at nearly 600 hot spot locations across Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Los […]
InformIT: Technical Advances Make Your Passwords Practically Worthless > Why Your Password is at Risk Passwords are supposed to be kept secret, but due to continuing advances in technology, they are becoming weaker every day. The threat has grown to the point where using a password as the sole form of authentication provides you with […]
Password-cracking chip causes security concerns – tech – 24 October 2007 – New Scientist Tech A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community. Elcomsoft, a software company based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. It takes advantage […]
Free My Phone | Mossblog | Walt Mossberg | AllThingsD Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it’s hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes. While power in other technology sectors […]
A Life Revealed @ nationalgeographic.com Names have power, so let us speak of hers. Her name is Sharbat Gula, and she is Pashtun, that most warlike of Afghan tribes. It is said of the Pashtun that they are only at peace when they are at war, and her eyes—then and now—burn with ferocity. She is […]
Internet preparing to go into outer space – Yahoo! News After expanding across Earth, the Internet is now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no network has gone before, one of its co-creators predicted Wednesday.ADVERTISEMENT Vinton Cerf said the proposed “interplanetary” Internet would allow people an ability “to access information and to […]
Britain launches digital TV switchover – Yahoo! News Britain prepared Tuesday to begin the switchover from analogue to digital television broadcasting, with a seaside town the first to make the move.ADVERTISEMENT The BBC2 channel’s analogue signal was to be switched off from around 2:00 am (0100 GMT) Wednesday in the northwest English resort of Whitehaven, […]
Wilhelm scream – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. Actor-singer Sheb Wooley is considered to be the most likely voice actor for the scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for the film. The Wilhelm scream has […]