Thursday, November 13, 2008

13-Nov-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

US Web hosting firm McColo Corp. is taken down, stopping 75% of global junk e-mail. For a little while, anyway:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_online_scams_a.html

Vodafone to instigate US$1 billon of cutbacks and sell-offs to try and boost their profits:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4758986a13.html

LG, Sharp and Chunghwa get a US$585 million fine for running a cartel that fixes the price of LCD displays:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/12/lcd_price_fixing_guilty_pleas/

How to build your own RFID tags:
http://hackaday.com/2008/11/11/scratch-built-rfid-tags/

And finally. Air New Zealand is getting ready to test a 50/50 blend of jatropha oil and jet fuel on a domestic flight:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10542745

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