Drive and talk on your phone at the same time and guess what ....you could get jailed. And if that sounds bad, listen to this....you won't be spending prison time for a day or two but for two whole years. Yes TWO years! Your mobile phone would probably be outdated by then! In most countries driving and talking would be accompanied by a fine or a warning. Well in the U.K the authorities have gone one step further. Talk or text while you drive and you could well be on your way to the prison house. If motorists or drivers are caught with rash driving they could very well face upto 2 years behind bars with unlimited fines. If this was the same case in India(where I live) the first person who would have to be jailed would be the traffic policeman himself who doesn't even bother to where a helmet let alone talk while driving.
Source InformationWeek
Friday, December 21, 2007
Driving And Talking-> Next stop Prison House
Buy Pirated Software - Get $500 Free
Buy pirated software, Get $500 free!. Sounds too good to be true?. Well better believe it. The SIIA(Software and Information Industry Association) has brought out a plan whereby anyone who accidentally buys pirated software online can receive upto $500 if reported. Though there are no restrictions on what the prize money should be spent on, the SIIA says they hope that it will be used to buy legitimate software. As Ebay and other auctioneers are not doing much to prevent counterfeiting the SIIA say they were forced to adopt this program to place more control. The program is on till January 30th 2007.
Source InformationWeek
Internet Explorer 8 Due This Summer
Internet Explorer users can expect to have the latest version(Internet Explorer 8) sometime around March next year. After the release of IE 7 in late 2006 the blog of Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's General Manager for IE was pretty much dead with no news at all of future updates and releases . Only a post published this month declared that the next version of IE would be called Internet Explorer 8. Infact this is what Chairman Bill Gates had to say when asked about the company's silence over IE.
"I'll have to ask Dean what the hell is going on," he's quoted as saying. "There's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE."
The company also says that the browser has already passed the Acid2 test which ensures that the browser works with current webstandards. This would save developers the trouble of writing one version of their websites for Internet Explorer and another version for browsers like Firefox, Opera.
Source InformationWeek
AT & T's 10 Most Popular Ringtones
AT & T on thursday revealed its most 10 most popular ringtones out of the 40,000 ringtones it offers.
Here They Are:
My personal favourite though would be "Smooth" by "Santana And Rob Thomas"
Source InformationWeek
Email Services On Air France
After Jetblue, It's now Air France which is offering E-mail and messaging services on its aircrafts. However unlike Jetblue which uses a Wifi network, the services on Air France are provided on a cellular network. Travellers on certain Air France Planes en route to Europe can send and receive messages as well as E-mails(phone has to support Internet though). Onboard messages are transmitted to a small Cellular base station within the aircraft, which is then channeled over Satellite and finally to telephone networks on the ground. Air France also plans to introduce voice services in about three months and will consider implementing the same in all its airlines in six months time.
Source Infoworld
Google Backed Nanosolar Rolls Out Its Panels
Google Backed company Nanosolar has begun rolling out a new breed of panels which it says will make solar energy cheaper than coal. Nanosolar founder Martin Roscheisen says that they are capable of profitably selling the panels at as little as $.99/watt and claims that the panels deliver five times the current of any other thin-film panel on the market today. The panels are currently available for sale on Ebay with the highest bid at around $11,000.
Source Infoworld
Nokia N96 Leaked Pictures
These are supposedly leaked pictures of Nokia's new N96. Doesn't look very impressive does it?
More details on it at Infoworld
