From Who owns your friends, an interesting article by Erica Naone of MIT Technology Review:
Technology blogger Robert Scoble wanted help moving contact information for his 5,000 Facebook friends into his Microsoft Outlook address book. He turned to Joseph Smarr, chief platform architect at Plaxo… Smarr gave Scoble a short program to test out, which [...]
If you own a printer, you’ll know how expensive it is to buy new print cartridges. There are refilling centres which will refill cartridges for you but they sometimes use inferior quality ink and can either ruin the cartridge or worse the printer.
Enter Cartridge World, an international franchisee chain that specialises in the printing [...]
In anticipation of Earth Day (April 22nd), DeviceVM, a company that makes a fast-booting operating system called Splashtop, is aiming to:
raise awareness about how much energy is wasted by computers and other consumer electronics that are left on or in standby mode.
Would you believe leaving your computer on at night generates 51 lbs of CO2 [...]
Ray Kurzweil, who’s like a really smart guy, writes in a piece (in the Washington Post) titled Making the World A Billion Times Better:
MIT was so advanced in 1965 (the year I entered as a freshman) that it actually had a computer. Housed in its own building, it cost $11 million (in today’s dollars) and [...]
Ari Melber’s article Facebook: The New Look of Surveillance is a fascinating look at the privacy issues with the social networking site Facebook. Excerpt:
Like guests at the Hotel California, people who check out of Facebook have a hard time leaving. Profiles of former members are preserved in case people want to reactivate their accounts. And [...]
Tata Motors unveiled its people’s car, dubbed the Nano, yesterday and the news outlets are going ga-ga over the car. The Times of India had a lot of coverage in today’s paper and the TV channels are also abuzz. You can read Ratan Tata’s interview here.
My first thought on hearing the name was, Nano? [...]
If you have even a miniscule interest in security go and read Bruce Schneier answer questions for the Freakonomics blog. The questions are interesting and the answers informative and fun to read. An excerpt:
Q: All ethics aside, do you think you could make more money obtaining sensitive information about high net worth individuals and [...]
Dr. Ben Goldacre, who writes a Bad Science column for the Guardian, writes in Make your own ID:
Tsutomu Matsumoto is a Japanese mathematician, a cryptographer who works on security, and he decided to see if he could fool the machines which identify you by your fingerprint. This home science project costs about £20. Take a [...]
I came across this story on the Mid-Day through Schneier on Security:
In fact, it is a well-known fact that terrorists all over the world do not use paper and pen or the phone to communicate. Everywhere, all over the world, it’s the net.
Vijay Mukhi, President of the Foundation for Information Security and Technology says, [...]
My Mom called this evening to let me know that Nokia has issued a product advisory for its BL-5C batteries:
Dear Nokia Customer,
This is a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. This product advisory does not apply to any [...]
