Via the feature: Taking a page from the still popular redialer scam on PCs - where a secretive trojan tries to disconnect your modem (assuming you're using dialup) and reconnect you secretly to a premium rate phone number in some distant country - the WAPjacking scam basically does the same thing. ...
[Tech] BluePod! Share the music you have on your PDA
Via the register: Simeda, based in Bucharest, has ported Rendezvous to the Pocket PC platform and bundled it with a web server. The software automatically discovers other devices on a WiFi network and allows people to stream or share music with just a couple of clicks. Simeda's CTO Razvan Dragomire...
[Prospective] After the search engine, Amazon goes to weblogs
Amazon is still enlarging (this is no spam), after A9, it now goes to weblogs! It is called plog and is a bit different: The Plog™ Service is a personalized blog. A blog is a straightforward and now widely adopted method of posting a reverse chronological diary on the Internet.(...) Your Amazon.co...
[Research] Location awareness, handheld and US army
Thanks outils froids for pointing on this interesting fact: The soldier is the "smartest" sensor on the battlefield, observed Lt. Col. Steve Iwicki (USA), deputy director of the U.S. Army's Task Force Actionable Intelligence. His task force is looking at "how do we connect the soldier to the networ...
(Weird) Odd Connection between JD Salinger and Ghost in the Shell
Sometimes, weird connections emerge. Especially when it occurs between two cultural things I find interesting. But I am not that surprised, today is full of interesting cross over. Tonight's connections is between JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (which is one of my favorite book) and Mamoru Oshii'...
[Weird] Old Branding
I am very keen on old brand names. First you have family names like Schneider, Peugeot, Ford, MacDonald. Second, you have general something: General Electric, Société Générale, Alimentation Générale, General Motors. And then you have acronyms like FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino), FNAC...
[TheWorld] Reality Hacking Definition
According to wikipedia, A reality hacker is an urban spelunker. "Building hacker" is a better term than "reality hacker" for participants in urban exploration activity. Using the definition of hacker that the mainstream media uses, a reality hacker is like a computer hacker but instead of hacking i...
[Research] Thumbs up/down rating for location tagging/recommendation
Nice things for you Mauro!, I have found it here: Location-Aware Thumb Ratings People have predicted very complex "augmented-reality" systems that might arise in the near future, when many folks will carry around location-aware devices. But how about a simple thumbs-up/thumbs-down rating system? ...
[Research] Strategy when you're lost: gather!
Read in a comment of the feature: Thinking of experiences of Norwegian teens, who said in an interview that really huge groups due to spread sms messages were gathering together when two teenagers had some trouble or fight with each other, I do not really want to think into what this is developing ...
[Research] Intel's Jabberwocky Interface
Snapshot of Jabberwocky, the Intel project ("familial strangers"). the interface is quite simple, though interesting and usable. ...