Spell ransom notes with Flickr

Erik Kastner has created an online application that uses random Flickr images to spell ransom notes. While there are other services online to do such a thing the results from this are definitely the best so far.

Intended for developers (source code available) but you can still use it to create yourself some great images of [...]

Bittorrent: Now embedded in network and consumer electronics

Today Bittorrent announced that its popular file sharing software will be embedded into network routers and Internet devices.
BitTorrent enabled network devices will allow users to connect to the Internet, schedule and download files without the need to use a PC.
ASUS, Planex and QNAP are the first to announce plans to embed BitTorrent’s download manager [...]

Sudan: UN envoy ordered to leave country for blogging

Yesterday official SUNA news agency reported that the Sudanese foreign ministry has given Jan Pronk, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Sudan 72hours to leave the country.
Last week Professor Pronk wrote in his personal blog that the Sudanese army had lost two major battles in Darfur to rebel groups, one in [...]

Web Browsers: Firefox 2.0 release date 24-October-2006

After Microsoft having released his new Internet Explorer 7 web browser with some hickups this week, the Mozilla Foundation today announced that it will make the version 2 of its popular Firefox browser available for download on next Tuesday 24-October-2006.
PC World has created a review of the IE7 and Firefox 2 comparing the [...]

Adobe: New Flash Player 9 for Vista and Linux

A new release of Adobe Flash Player 9 has been made available for download today on the Adobe labs web site.
In addition to bug fixes and minor enhancements, the new release introduces support for full screen mode in the web player and support for Windows Vista.
A prerelease build of Flash Player 9 Update for [...]

China: Censors open some access to Wikipedia (Access chart)

After having blocked access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for almost a year completely, China has now started to open up some parts of it.
With the help of bloggers and Wikipedians across China Andrew Lih has created a chart of Wikipedia reachability from within China.
The English language version (en.wp) is now widely accessible while [...]

Reuters gets virtual Second Life

After companies like Major League Baseball, Harvard University, American Apparel Inc. and CNet.com today news giant Reuters announced that it has created a presence in the Second Life world.
From its Virtual News Bureau chief “Adam Reuters” who’s real name is Adam Pasick will report regularly. He has setup virtual office and his office [...]

Singapore plans free wireless Internet

From January next year, Singaporeans will get to enjoy free wireless Internet in public areas for two years. The government hopes this will grow the broadband market from the current 50,000 users to about 250,000 users in two years.
Three operators - iCELL network, QMax Communications and SingTel will participate in this government and [...]

Web Browsers: New IE and Firefox ante portas

Both Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation today announced new versions of their popular web browsers.
Both releases are primary targeted at web developers. The public release for Mozilla Firefox is due within November 2006 while Microsoft wants to roll out Internet Explorer 7 by the end of October to end users.
Developers are strongly advised [...]

DLink V-Click: Another WLAN - GSM twin hitting the streets

Another WLAN-WiFi enabled GSM phone will become available soon to consumers in Europe and the USA. D-Link is introducing a new unlocked Linux based phone that can be used with normal GSM cell phone networks as well as with wireless WiFi networks. HP, Nokia and Siemens (now BenQ) plus others have all recently introduced [...]