Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 Australia, Australian, government, IEEE, Intel, Internet, Microsoft, nbn, networking, Patents, radioastronomy, Research, wireless, WLAN
Well done to CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization which patented a solution commonly used in wireless networking (specifically WLAN 802.11a, 802.11g and 802.11n). This Australian Government organization has agreed with various corporate users of its technology to a $200 million payout in licensing revenue. These users include Toshiba, Netgear, Buffalo, D-Link, Belkin, [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 american airlines, hotel websites, Las Vegas, rss reader, travel sites, vegas tourism
See that RSS feed to the right. Please click and subscribe. If you don’t already use RSS then subscribing to my feed will be the start of a whole new information experience! RSS is all about information which you enjoy being delivered to you. I love RSS as I merely subscribe to my favourite Website [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 blackberry, fring, iphone, mobile phones, nokia, skype, social networks, sony ericsson, VOIP, voip service
Fring is awesome. Skype is splendid. The mix of the two is a match made in heaven. So why this article? Well, there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what it costs to make calls with Fring. This post therefore attempts to make it more clear as to what costs are incurred [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 scams, security, SMS, social engineering, spam
This scam has been around for years however a huge number of people are caught out each day; you receive an SMS (text message) on your mobile/cell phone for someone else (and there is usually a call-to-action such as ‘please confirm by SMS’). The problem is that if you respond to this scam you’ll be [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 anti-virus, blacklisted sites, domain names, free url, google, internet security software, malware, spammers, top level domains, twitter
The 140 character limit in Twitter combined with its incredible success has been welcomed by phishers, spammers, Trojan and virus developers and other malicious content providers (we’ll call them ‘malware’ in this article). As most Twitter users know, URLs are typically shortened using URL shorteners such as Bit.ly (which also powers j.mp) and Tr.im (which [...]
