10th November 2007 Archive

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Mind the Gap Saturday: The mobile worlds of China and the West

Program accordingly

Mind the Gap Saturday is a feature every Saturday where Blognation China tells its readership the differences - the gap - in the tech, mobile and enterprise worlds between China and the Western World. Back in the early 1990s, the humble mobile phone was the exclusive realm of the rich few. Known as the dageda ("big brother big …

Mobile 10 Nov 00:02
Fedora 8 spins into action

For the Electronic Labs buff in you

The kind, gentle part of Red Hat did its thing this week with the release of Fedora 8. And, true to form, the new operating system comes packed with a host of fine features. For one, users can now have at some fresh "spins." These are variations on Fedora aimed at specific crowds. Each spin contains a unique set of applications …

Operating Systems 10 Nov 00:09
Remembering the Commodore PET 2001

This Old Box Don't trust anything over 1MHz

Bah. Kids today with their Nintendo Wiis, iMacs, 30-inch HDMI screens, PDAs and CD-Romses. Back in the Golden Years of electronics, personal computers required a Master's degree or a crippling social disorder to operate and it was better that way. And colors? You had two options: stunning beige or get the hell out. The …

PCs & Chips 10 Nov 01:25
IndiaTimes website 'attacks visitors'

Targets multiple vulns, some new

Visitors to the IndiaTimes website are being bombarded by malware, some of which appear to target previously unknown vulnerabilities in Windows, a security researcher warns. In all, the English-language Indian news site is directly or indirectly serving up at least 434 malicious files, many of which are not detected by …

Security 10 Nov 01:47
WiMAX woes as Sprint dumps Clearwire

Never mind the finishing line, where's the start?

The clouds continue to gather over Sprint's WiMAX network. In July, the American cellco agreed to combine its new-fangled wireless broadband play with a similar network from Clearwire Corp., but today, the two companies announced that the agreement has been ripped to shreds. If Sprint wants its network to reach a nationwide …

Wireless 10 Nov 02:23
Dwarfs threaten Kepler and Newton

Dark matters

It seems you don't need a disk to thumb your nose at celestial mechanics - if you're big enough to be a galaxy. Recent investigations of the velocities of stars in dwarf galaxies have reinforced the need for explanatory dark matter to account for their motion, according to Professor Mario Mateo and and Dr Matthew Walker of the …

Space 10 Nov 07:02
Never use an internet translator to hire a gorilla

Comments Butthash and flying cows inside

In a possible bid for Mum of the Year (or the intervention of social services, depending on your views on such things), a Nottinghamshire woman sent a stripper to her son's school for his 16th birthday. So stunned was the teacher that she allowed the show to continue, as the boy was whipped and led around on a leash, until the …

Letters 10 Nov 12:02