Links for 2006-06-29
- How to Photograph Fireworks Tips on how to take great photos of fireworks
- BBC NEWS | Business | Google launches payment service Dubbed Google Checkout, the system is designed to boost Google's main source of revenue - selling advertising.
- BBC NEWS | Health | NHS mobile devices 'not secure' The NHS is failing to use adequate security on portable data storage devices, according to a survey.
- BBC NEWS | Magazine | Manners on the move A survey has suggested two-thirds of us are regularly late when meeting people, with the mobile phone the main suspect.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Readers are digging the news online A technology website that is helping transform the way people consume news online has just released a new version designed to widen its appeal.
- Welcome to the 419 Eater - John Boko "Del Trotter" gets a hand carved commodore 64 computer from 419 scammer John Boko
- Mobile Entertainment: Yahoo! inks global deal with 3 It looks like Yahoo are to help 3 users break out of the walled garden.
- Regulator awards itself powers to ban SMS scammers | OUT-LAW.COM The premium rate phone regulator is overhauling its policies so that it can take more direct action against rule breaking content providers. Mobile phone content providers who break the ICSTIS rules could be banned from operating any premium rate services
- Coca Cola vending machine manual? This purports to be the manual for a high-tech Coke machine, the kind with the scrolling LED tickers. (via boing boing)
- Google goes mobile in Europe - TechSpot News Google Mobile has come to Europe! Already available in the US, the service allows users to access Google News and Gmail via their mobile phones, and is now being launched across the UK, France, Germany and Spain.
- What's happened to the wireless running bra? | The Register Let's hope the project hasn't gone titsup
- Nokia sues Chinese 'copycats' | The Register Nokia is suing two Chinese phone manufacturers and a number of distributors for copying its designs. Nokia also issued a cease and desist request in an attempt to stop the sale and distribution of the phones immediately.