Monthly Archives: August 2004

There’s a really interesting article on securityfocus.com about a service about to be offered by a company called Star38.com (starting Sept 1st) which will allow people to make calls spoofing their caller ID! Star38.com’s service will offer subscribers a simple … Continue reading →

Reuters is running a story on what they claim will be the ‘next big thing’ – navigation systems built into your phone! These systems are on offer now from navigation software maker Route 66 for 299 Euro including a GPS … Continue reading →

I had to do a Windows XP SP2 upgrade on a PC today so I looked around before doing it to try to find a single downloadable file containing the SP2 upgrade – it wasn’t easy to find. Most sites … Continue reading →

I had problems logging in to Blogger over the weekend. Firefox is my default browser and on clicking the “Sign In” button nothing happened. Also, in other browsers, (Camino, Mozilla, and Safari) I was getting an authentication error message on … Continue reading →

Southern are “a different kind of train company” they tell us – they are a rail company in the south of England who have found a novel way to keep their customers. According to their website they are “introducing modern … Continue reading →

An article posted yesterday in BusinessWeek postulated that flying cars – once the stuff of science fiction (a la George Jetson) – are soon to be made a reality! Apparently Honda and Toyota are both working on flying cars with … Continue reading →