Blog entries tagged Technology

Telus to offer iPhone beginning Nov 5th

Administrator — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:12:07 +0100

Telus Mobility has announced it will begin selling the Apple iPhone on Thursday, November 5th along with a range of 3G data plans.

The move will coincide with the launch of its HSPA+ high speed wireless network developed in conjunction with Bell Mobility.

Telus will be offering three versions: the Apple 8GB 3G iPhone, along with the 16GB and 32GB 3GS version in black or white.

Pricing for the 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models will be $600, $700 and $800 respectivelyRead More...

Googles New Search Engine ( Code named Caffiene )

Administrator — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:14:43 +0100

In the face of increasing innovation and competition in the search market, Google is upping the ante by developing new technology which will speed up indexing search results and create a larger index.

Web developers have been invited by Google engineers to test the new search engine and give their feedback. The front end of the engine looks no different. It is the back end technology which Google developers hope will noticeably index new content faster and reduce the time between new cRead More...

Gamer robs virtual bank to get real-world cash

Administrator — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

An Australian video gamer has stolen thousands of dollars from a bank inside an online game and converted them into real-world money.

The bank heist happened in Eve Online, where players mine in-game resources to build colonies and space ships in a futuristic space-themed online world. The game has hundreds of thousands of players who pay for access to the world. An in-game economy, complete with its own currency known as interstellar kredits, has emerged to enable trading transactions Read More...

Outlook 2010 to Set New Standard in Irritation

Administrator — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Creating HTML Email is a tough gig.

By the time you add up all the relevant desktop clients and common webmail providers, you are talking about between 15-30 platforms you need to test for. Even if all those mail clients were friendly, modern and predictable net citizens, that would still be a big task.

They're not.

A few years ago - joy of joys - things got significantly harder when Microsoft chose to cripple the rendering-capabilities of their flagship mail product by replRead More...

Phone Lines Expected To Be Busy for Mother's Day

Administrator — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Thinking of calling mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day today? Network congestion is always a problem as it's one of the busiest calling days of the year.

SaskTel's Andy Tate explains, "Mother's Day is one of the busiest calling days of the year, every year. It's busier then Father's Day, busier then Christmas Day and we do expect a high volume of long distance calls, in fact this is the tenth year in a row we project that we will have over one million call attempts Read More...

NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution

Administrator — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage/

Business model for P2P firm at last?

By Lewis Page

Posted in Government, 12th February 2009 11:32 GMT

Counter Terror Expo News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering "billions" to any Read More...

Three undersea cables cut - Middle East and South Asia Affected

Administrator — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

December 19, 2008, 2:01 PM

Internet and voice traffic to much of the Middle East and south Asia has been disrupted by the overnight loss of three major cables spanning the Mediterranean.

According to a notice from France Telecom, the three provisioning cables linking Sicily to Egypt were lost within about 40 minutes of one another Friday morning (local time). A France Telecom-owned maintenance ship will be dispatched to inspect the site within a few hours. Until then, it's not known whatRead More...

Using your magicjack with standalone voip devices by recovering your sip

Administrator — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

1) Download pmdump but don't run it but just place that .exe file on your desktop.
2) Unplug your magicjack
3) Open up a shell prompt ( start - run - cmd )
4) cd to your desktop
5) plug your magic jack back in
6) type pmdump.exe -list and find your pid for magicjack.exe
7) type pmdump.exe magicjackdump.txt

( Note: I realized that my screenshot I posted I had already created a magicjack.txt so I had to name mine magicjack1.txt)