Saturday, July 18, 2009

18-Jul-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

An update pushed out on Arabic BackBerries is shown to be designed to CC all e-mails to the local authorities. Their server then crashed:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/14/blackberry_snooping/

TerreStar Offers the world's 1st quad-band GSM & tri-band WCDMA/HSPA smartphone. If it can't find that, it switches to satellite:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/mobile-phones/terrestar-offers-worlds-1st-quad-band-gsm-tri-band-wcdmahspa-smartphon.asp

MontaVista shows a dashboard application cold-booting on Linux in under one second on a Freescale chip:
http://www.mvista.com/press_release_detail.php?fid=news/2009/Ultra-fast-boot.html

The Pirate Bay discovers self-replicating 3D printers and likes them. How long until illicit 3D objects are downloaded like music?:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/25532/pirates-aim-at-3d-printers.phtml

And finally. NanoFET is not a Star Wars bounty hunter, but a "stick on" rocket engine machined from a silicon wafer:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2396


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