Developer accuses Canadian, Peruvian users of creating, selling map hacks and cheats for multiplayer real-time strategy game.
Archive for 2010/10/18
How often does a device get better after you buy it? A couple of days ago, tons of LG Blu-ray players across the U.S. had a free firmware update that gave them access to DivX TV. This means that current (and future) owners of supported LG Blu-ray players now have access to the best Internet shows from a wide variety of genres. Out of the box, DivX TV lets you use your remote to explore shows from all over the web with the ease of flipping channels, without the need for a PC.
http://blog.divx.com/content/and-there-was-much-rejoicing-divx-tv-here
Fibre optic cables’ data capacity may soon be reached
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionTechnology may stretch the capacity of the fibre optic cables used to carry data sooner than has long been thought, according to a report in Science.
Real Life ‘Pre-Crime’ Technology
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionDARPA is working on algorithms that can be used to predict when someone is getting ready to commit a crime.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/real-life-8216pre-crime-8217-technology/249
Angry Birds tops 2 million Android downloads
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsAngry Birds has hit 2 million downloads on Android-based devices in just two days of availability, the game’s developer announced on its Twitter account today.
UK Get Online Week 2010 Encourages People to Use the Internet
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / AwarenessToday is officially the first day of UK Get Online Week (formerly ‘Get Online Day‘), which represents a national campaign that aims, unsurprisingly, to encourage at least some of the estimated 10 million Britons who have never used the internet to give it a try.
Broadband Satellite Operator Avanti UK Reveals HYLAS1 Launch Date
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionUK Satellite ISP Avanti Communications has revealed that the first of its next generation broadband satellites (HYLAS 1), which will offer download speeds of up to 8Mbps to everybody in the country from around £25 per month (details), will officially launch in to Earth orbit (space) on 25th November 2010.
Global broadband quality improves by 24% in one year
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionThird annual study from Saïd Business School, Oxford University, looks at broadband quality in 72 countries and 239 cities
Informa Telecoms & Media: Music streaming partnerships a 1.1 bn opportunity for European operators in 2011
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reportsLarge mobile operators could add millions of euros to their bottom line by partnering with a music streaming service, according to the findings of a research project between Informa Telecoms & Media and Spotify.
Netflix Streaming on Wii Doesn’t Require a Disc Anymore
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsMicrosoft Massively Expands Program To Freely License Software To Nonprofits In Countries With Authoritarian Regimes
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public PolicyWhile it is a bit late, kudos to Microsoft for at least stepping up now that the company is more aware of how “copyright infringement” is being used to suppress free speech and government criticism.
Fox not just pulling its network from Cablevision, but somehow getting Hulu to block access to Fox shows to anyone accessing the site from Cablevision. Apparently, after people started asking questions, Fox/News Corp. changed its mind and let Cablevision subscribers view Fox content on Hulu again.
”I blew it,” founder Jim Griffin now admits
Brussels wants standardised e-procurement
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyEU spending, together with that of national and local governments and administrations, is of course one of the biggest gravy trains on the planet. The prospect of electronic procurement is the equivalent of moving from boring old paper boarding passes to mobile phone based passes for businesses looking to clamber aboard.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/10/18/eu_eprocurement_plan/
Latest on DOS attacks and other cybercrime activity
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessAnonymous Takes Out UK Intellectual Property Office Website
http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-takes-out-uks-intellectual-property-office-website-101017/
Major Torrent Sites Go Down After Attack on Hosting Provider
http://torrentfreak.com/major-torrent-sites-go-down-after-attack-on-hosting-provider-101017/
Movie Rental Outfit Hacked, Emails Leaked, Redirected to The Pirate Bay
http://torrentfreak.com/movie-rental-outfit-hacked-emails-leaked-redirected-to-the-pirate-bay-101018/
Facebook gets poked in latest privacy gaffe
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, Online advertising, Privacy / Data ProtectionFacebook’s privacy rules aren’t as watertight as the company would have its users believe, after the Wall Street Journal uncovered that some of the social network’s most popular apps have siphoned off personal information to ad firms and internet tracking outfits.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/18/facebook_apps_privacy_breach/
ID fraud costs UK £2.7bn a year
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsIdentity fraud affects 1.8 million Britons every year, costing £2.7bn in the process, researcher claimed today.
A study by the National Fraud Authority – published on Monday at the start of identity fraud prevention week – found that fraudsters gain by more than £1,000 from every stolen identity. Stolen credentials are used to pay for goods and obtain lines of credit. Fraudulent benefit applications under false names have also become a way to make a dishonest living.
Ultimately the general public pays for the crime in the form of higher fees to banks as well as higher taxes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/18/nfa_id_fraud_survey/
Free conference calls and porn! The case for traffic pumping
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public PolicyWhat drives AT&T crazy about these schemes is that, as a common carrier, it has to deliver those calls, but services like Google Voice don’t, and can actually refuse to connect to some traffic pumped zones (AT&T complained about this around the time that the FCC was investigating Apple’s refusal to allow a GVoice application on the iPhone, a decision with which the carrier denied involvement).
Google Search Appliance gains support for cloud services
Posted: 2010/10/18 in Education / Awareness, Google, Tech EvolutionGoogle Search Appliance customers are getting an update that brings the product into the cloud: now, normal results are combined with results from other Google Apps services, as well as relevant contact info for people from within your company.
