Posts Tagged ‘UK’

Banning from the web, is just ridiculous

February 13th, 2008 Information Technology 3 Comments
Next week United Kingdom legislators are proposing a new law under which surfers who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the Internet. This proposed Green Paper, which the Government is due to disclose, sometime next week, will require ISP’s to take action against the estimated six million users a year who access pirated material. The law is expected to propose a ‘three-strike’ system, similar to that already in place in the US and France. Users suspected of illegally downloading films or music (Shouldn’t this be All copyrighted material) will receive a warning e-mail for the first offence, a suspension for the second infringement and the termination of their Internet contract if caught a third time. So the picture we can draw from here is—“Suspected illegal music and video content sharing” will be penalized. Question is who will decide whether the suspect is in fact did commit the crime? I am sure the legislators are not suggesting handing down badges to ISP’s to become cyber police. On the other hand in order to ISPs to know that you are downloading illegal files to your computer would require them to have access to personnel information on your computer,…
Read more →

Ticketing goes mobile

January 9th, 2008 Information Technology No Comments
Acquired in a management buyout in 1987, Go North East is the founding company of the Go-Ahead Group. Go North East is now the largest bus operator in the North East of England. Now bus passengers using Go North East are now able to order and receive tickets by mobile phone, very fancy right? Well North East bus giant claims its scheme of selling bus tickets by mobile phone is first in UK. Launched this week following a trial late last year, the service, dubbed txt2go, enables passenger to text 60060 to receive their digital ticket in a matter of minutes. In order to travel, they simply need to show it to the driver when boarding, reducing the amount of money being kept in the vehicle at any one time. Each ticket contains coded information and is locked to the handset it was ordered from to reduce forgery attempts and increase security. Well in here in Philippines travelers with domestic Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific (CEB) can pay for their airline tickets via the 1,700 Megalink automated teller machines (ATMs) around the country after making their booking through CEB’s call centre or by text message (SMS). Manila’s Metro Rail Transit System,…
Read more →

Waterproof mobile, not far away!

January 2nd, 2008 Gadgets No Comments
My apologies for long blogging holidays, well not that it’s a big matter J-but still. Let’s start the year with some steered but not shaken news. In this fast paced technology era, we have seen innovation of durability side by side with sophistication. But one major industry, i.e. Mobile manufacturers seems to be missing that durability part all along. A high number of mobile phones are ruined when a careless owner drops it down the toilet, spills drink on it or simply take a bit shower in the rain with his/her mobile phone-hack I ruined two of my phone same way. Fortunately, some scientists in United Kingdom seem to be aware of this very common yet forgotten issue and have come up with a solution. Originally designed for the military, well not all the coolest gadget originally developed for those soldier boys. The new technology is called Ion-Mask, and by being bonded to the surface of mobile phones, can allow electronic devices to resist water, keeping the sophisticated internal circuitry safe and sound. The Ion-Mask was developed at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down, Wiltshire. Its intended use was not for mobile devices, and was actually developed…
Read more →