Comment Re:More then three (Score 1) 72
How about Fantasy Halo? I'll take Johnson as my first pick any day.
Submission + - Vonage Down, Not Accepting PSTN Calls
MikeyTheK writes: From the In Case You Care department, Vonage's PSTN network connection is down. At around 14:00 EDT I noticed that my Vonage phone was not accepting inbound calls. After being on the phone with TS for about an hour, they notified me that (nearly) nationwide, Vonage is not connected to the PSTN, so calls from the Outside World are not coming though.
That also means that if you have a failover number with Vonage it won't do anything, either, because Vonage isn't able to route it at this time. They don't have an ETA to get everything back up yet.
That also means that if you have a failover number with Vonage it won't do anything, either, because Vonage isn't able to route it at this time. They don't have an ETA to get everything back up yet.
Submission + - New Jersey Teen Pwns iPhone
MikeyTheK writes: 17 year-old George Holtz of Glen Rock, NJ has pwn3d his iPhone, including switching it to the T-Mobile network. He details steps on his blog, and has sold one of the phones in eBay.
Submission + - Teen untethers iPhone from AT&T
9InchRails writes: "An article on CNN Gives some minor details about a kid who has managed to overcome not being able to use an iPhone on a network other than AT&T. The article is void on details, but this may well unlock the hot new PDA on the block."
Submission + - New Jersey teen cracks iPhone network lock (newgovernment.org)
Alex Horovitz writes: "A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones. Read the whole story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20424880/"
Submission + - Yahoo, MSN sign new Chinese gov't blogging pact (breitbart.com)
kaufmanmoore writes: AFP is reporting that Yahoo China and MSN have signed the new "self-discipline" pledge introduced this week and covered previously on slashdot. There are no more details at this point as to whether MSN or Yahoo will require detailed registration of personal information as encouraged by the Chinese government.
Submission + - FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable
MikeyTheK writes: PC Magazine Reports that Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC, supports ala carte cable.
In a letter to several minority groups on Wednesday, Martin said "While I believe all consumers would benefit from channels being sold in a more a la carte manner, minority consumers, especially those living in Spanish speaking homes, might benefit most of all,". He goes on to argue "Cable companies act as gatekeepers into the programming allowed by the expanded basic cable package, preventing independent content producers from reaching viewers,", citing the example of Black Family Television, which was forced to go online-only because cable operators refused to carry it, even after it reached 16 million homes.
In a letter to several minority groups on Wednesday, Martin said "While I believe all consumers would benefit from channels being sold in a more a la carte manner, minority consumers, especially those living in Spanish speaking homes, might benefit most of all,". He goes on to argue "Cable companies act as gatekeepers into the programming allowed by the expanded basic cable package, preventing independent content producers from reaching viewers,", citing the example of Black Family Television, which was forced to go online-only because cable operators refused to carry it, even after it reached 16 million homes.
Submission + - iPhone Development Tools Released
MikeyTheK writes: Ajaxian is reporting today that both Aptana and Morfik have updated their IDE's specifically for iPhone development. Aptana is providing a plugin for their IDE, while Morfik has built the functionality right into their product. Both development tools claim to make building iPhone applications quick and painless.
Submission + - First Third-Party Development Tool for iPhone
MikeyTheK writes: Ajax Magazine is reporting today that Morfik has released the first development tool for iPhone. In addition, the applications created with the tool will run even when you lose your cell signal.
Privatunes Anonymizes iTunes Plus 176
njondet writes "French-law.net
reports that Ratatium.com, a French website specialized in technology news and software downloads, has just launched
Privatunes, a free software that anonymizes DRM-free files bought on iTunes Plus. Last month's revelations that the DRM-free files sold by EMI on iTunes Plus came with user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them had raised serious privacy concerns. Ratatium.com
explains (in French) that Privatunes is aimed at guaranteeing the privacy of users but also their rights as consumers to freely share and trade the songs they have purchased. However, the claim that this software is perfectly legal will surely be tested."
Submission + - Brain-control interface lets the paralysed 'walk'
An anonymous reader writes: UK and German scientists are helping the paralysed walk — in a brain-controlled virtual world. Users just need to think about walking to navigate around the immersive environment — an experience they haven't had for many years. The videos of this are quite something.
Submission + - The Scoop on Nintendo's Downloadable Content (newsweek.com)
HaymarketRiot writes: "N'Gai Croal from Newsweek has given us a indirect confirmation and broad outline of Nintendo's plans for downloadable content. Unfortunately, we won't be seeing a finished product until 2008."
Submission + - Major Bug Found in Security Products
ancientribe writes: A stealthy and potentially dangerous bug has been discovered in security products from eight different vendors, including Check Point Software, according to an article in Dark Reading. The so-called cross-site request forgery (CSRF) lets an attacker access the user's network and even conduct transactions on behalf of the user. It could affect over a million installations, but so far, Check Point is the only security vendor to step up and patch it.
Even more scary is that this vulnerability is found in most everything with a Web-based interface, including printers, firewalls, DSL routers, and IP phones.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=127 731&WT.svl=news1_1
Even more scary is that this vulnerability is found in most everything with a Web-based interface, including printers, firewalls, DSL routers, and IP phones.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=12
Submission + - Cowpea viruses + quantum dots = memory (newscientisttech.com)
holy_calamity writes: Rewritable memory made from cowpea viruses and semi-conductor qunatum dots has been demonstrated by a group from University of California Irvine, New Scientist tells us. It is possible to pack huge amounts of the tiny nanostructures into a small space but they have never been used to make memory before. A touch of biology does the trick. Each dot/virus hybrid has high and low conducting states that can function as memory.
Submission + - First iPhone development tool form Morfik
piprog writes: Read/Write Web writes (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/morfik_build s_first_iphone_development_tool.php) about Morfik's announcement of a new version of their development tool targeting Apple's iPhone, being released Friday night. Morfik will include all Apple APIs for the iPhone when (and if) Apple makes them available.
