I’m fully awake now, and doing some digging on who is behind the Driver Robot “driver phish.” The digging has introduced me to a whole level to the software scam industry. The company that sells it is Victoria, BC, Canada-based Blitware (“or Blitware Technology Inc., to be precise,” as its website urges us). Nothing gives… Read More »
It never rains but it pours for Apple. Its stuff seems to be selling well, but it still seems to run into trouble. Britain’s TV standards authority the Independent Television Commission has banned an ad for the the PowerMac G5 which claims it was “the world’s fastest, most powerful personal computer”. Viewers (well, eight of… Read More »
Windows & .NET Magazine report that Microsoft have given some details about their next Windows XP update, called Service Pack 2 (SP2), which is due in the first half of 2004. Some important changes: XP SP2 will ship with all XP security features enabled by default, meaning that the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) will be on,… Read More »
Novel approach to handphone keypads: Intel’s Fastap keypad fits 26 letters alongside the numbers on a handset, doing away with the need to press keys several times to scroll through the letters associated with each number. Here’s what it looks like, courtesy of the BBC:
Loose Wire: The Future’s in Your Handheld By Jeremy Wagstaff , 6 December 2001 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review, (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Okay, so my track record as tech visionary isn’t flawless, but bear with me. After all, I’m the guy who thought fold-out keyboards for personal digital… Read More »