The best way to predict the future is to implement it.
We’re coming up to the Easter break when many people are likely to travel abroad, however, if you are travelling anywhere in Europe, or further afield, be careful about using your SmartPhone or you may find yourself with a massive bill warns the consumer organisation ‘Which’.
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We use Facebook for many things, for contacting our friends, for keeping up with the local gossip, for playing games, even for touting for work, and recently they have added the ability to share cash, so why not stop smoking on Facebook too?
Check this out. The Japanese have developed a mobile phone that can be used as a sort of tracking device for employees.
The BBC reports that the technology comes from the phone company KDDI Corp, who have developed a way to track employee movements using accelerometers and analysis software, and then send the info directly back to the boss.
Not content with wiring garbage bins to monitor how much waste British families produce, now officials in the U.K. want have another plan that has privacy advocates’ knickers in a twist: They want to force dog owners to microchip their pets and buy insurance in an effort to crack down on canine aggression.
Read more on Britain wants to mandate microchips for man’s best friend…
Social Networking site Facebook is now offering its users the opportunity to share cash with each other, real cash that is.
You can send and receive small payments via a Facebook application called Buxter and the company behind Buxter that will process the transactions is online payments company ClickandBuy.
Read more on Facebook launches payments between friends service…
For all you PS3 gamers out there you will no doubt be delighted now that Sony has apparently “fixed” the bug that was plaguing some of the older PlayStation consoles.
It has been ten years since the original Y2K problem. Most will remember that back then there was significant fear and panic that the technological world would go into meltdown as soon as the clock struck midnight on December 31st 1999.
