Jun 5, 2011
According to Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook believes that the tablet market will outpace the PC market over the next few years. It’s a given that Apple are seeing increased demand for the iPad, while the Blackberry Playbook and several Android tablets are all being very well recieved, and tablet...
Jun 5, 2011
According to security firm Sophos, Scammers are posting fake links on FaceBook accounts that, when you visit the linked site, installs the MacDefender malware onto your computer. MacDefender is a fake security program: while promising to clean your computer of malware, it actually is malware itself, and can cause all manner of problems for you. The supposed...
May 22, 2011
A couple of interesting stories around hacking turned up this week, neither of which made the hackers look particularly smart. In the first, we have the hacking demonstration that occurred at this week’s AusCERT security conference on Australia’s Gold Coast. In a nutshell, one security person decided to demonstrate that privacy settings on Facebook...
May 22, 2011
In the US, a former Bank Of America computer programmer has been jailed for programming some embedded malware into the banks ATM software. Rodney Reed Caverly was working on a project that involved the bank’s ATMs, and whilst engaged on that project, he wrote some code that permitted cash to be siphoned off from the machines, but without it affecting any...
Apr 17, 2011
Well, maybe that title’s a bit over the top, but as passengers, and expecially on longer haul flights, the technology that we take with us, and the tech that the airlines provides to us for our in-flight enjoyment, does assume a high level of importance. Last week the Australian Business Traveler website, AusBT.com.au, carried a story of some technology...
Apr 17, 2011
Let’s understand the reasons why somebody would want to buy a MacBook Air. While it certainly employs some cool technology, it’s not exactly the technological leader of the pack. Rather, I expect it’s because the MacBook Air is so light, so thin, and so portable. It’s basically like an iPad with a built in keyboard. Which leads me to...