The Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil is supposed to be the world’s first revolving apartment building. It has eleven 3,000 square foot units, each of which occupies a whole floor. The owner of an apartment can rotate the apartment as well as control the speed and direction of the rotation and a 360 degree rotation [...]
Iraq wants to administer and control the internet domain name .’iq’. The domain name is technically under the control of a Texas-based company called InfoCom, whose owner is a Palestinian, Bayan Elashi. Bayan Elashi is currently on trial in a US federal court for funding the hardline Palestinian movement, Hamas. This could one of the [...]
Viruses for the new Windows version, Vista, have already begun to surface. The security firm, Fsecure, has reported that an Austrian virus writer has published five viruses to illustrate vulnerabilities in Vista. This can be seen as a really good thing. Lets get the operating system shaken and tested before the final version is released. [...]
A flaw on the eBay site has allowed hackers to redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site. This means that you could log in from a genuine eBay webpage and then be redirected to fake site which would ask for your information to confirm that you are the genuine account holder or whatever. This [...]
All these years, Mac users had to press the ‘Control’ key and then click the mouse to access the alternative menu because the mouse is just one BIG button. After 10 years of being different, Apple is releasing a multi button mouse called the ‘Mighty Mouse’. Is anyone else noticing a trend here? Apple first [...]
A vulnerability in many hotel T.V. infrared systems can allow a hacker to obtain names and room numbers of guests from the hotel billing system. The hacker could read the e-mail of guests who use web mail through the TV, putting the users at risk. Adam Laurie, technical director of the London security and networking [...]
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