Posted on January 9th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
It’s a scenario befitting a Hollywood thriller.
A sophisticated hacker in Seat 11A uses an on-board Internet system to infiltrate a plane’s computer, seizing control of its navigation systems, communications and flight controls.
Not terribly likely, the Federal Aviation Administration says. In fact, it may be impossible.
But just to make certain, the FAA and airplane manufacturers are [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
A spin-off from OLPC, Pixel Qi, is looking to create a $75 laptop and trying to advance low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops.
A laptop under US$100 could reach desks if a new venture formed by former chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child, Mary Lou Jepsen, can deliver on its promises.
A “spin-out” from OLPC, the [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
The Trojan specifically targets users that have modded their iPhone so they can install third-party applications.
While not a huge risk, the first Trojan for the iPhone has been discovered. The first reports came from iPhone enthusiast site Modmyifone.com and were later confirmed by security research company F-Secure.
The Trojan specifically targets users that have modded their [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Bill Gates and ex-Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi have donated a combined $30 million to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will feature the largest digital camera ever constructed. Scientists say it will provide a “color movie” of the universe.
The donation will go partly to the construction of LSST’s three giant mirrors, which will enable it [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Japan Inc. will put on the hard sell at the Consumer Electronics Show next week.
Panasonic is expected to unveil a 150-inch plasma television during a keynote speech Monday by Toshihiro Sakamoto, president of the Panasonic Audio Visual Networks Company. (Matsushita Electric goes by Panasonic in the U.S.) Sakamoto, a new speaker to the CES keynote [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, hitting hard in the days leading up to CES, announcied a hard drive for notebooks and other mobile devices that offers Godzilla-sized storage ” a half-terabyte, or 500GB — capable of holding 178 movies, 500 hours of digital video, 250 games or 125,000 four-minute songs.
The Travelstar 5K500, the 2.5-inch mobile hard [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
JPL astronomers from the NASA “Spaceguard” program recently increased the odds of asteroid 2007 WD5 hitting Mars on Jan 30th, 2008 from 1-in-75 to 1-in-25.
The asteroid was first noted due to its potential to hit Earth. Refinements of the trajectory showed that it had already missed Earth, but is in fact headed to within 30,000 [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Lagos Analysis Corp. is contending in Nigerian court that OLPC’s XO laptop violates a patent it says it holds on “multilingual keyboards.”
The One Laptop Per Child program has been sued by a Nigerian company that claims the program’s low-cost personal computer violates its patents.
Lagos Analysis Corp. (Lancor) is contending in Nigerian court that OLPC’s XO [...]
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