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The hallowed Texas Instruments BA II Plus financial calculator, selling for $US30 at Walmart, is now a reasonably identical iPhone app, selling for AU$18. But TI says that fears of cheating will keep standalone calcs selling for years to come.
Gary McKinnon hacked into 97 military computers searching for UFO secrets and now he’s liable for $US700,000 in security checks that were done afterward. As some say, why should he pay for a lock if the door was open?
NETGEAR, purveryors of quality Network Attached Storage devices, has announced NETGEAR Stora for the Australian market. Setting it apart from other NAS products is it has been designed to not only make home media sharing a snap but to send your fun stuff over the web, too. But you’ll have to wait a few weeks to get your paws on it.
There can be few greater delights in life for the mobile operator than taking their laptop out for a coffee. It’s like: “Hey, get me. I’m editing Oz Gizmodo from a Hudsons! Cool!”
As an obsessive compulsive gum-chewer, I never thought to make art of my annoying habit like Nik Ramage. He built a mechanical copy of his hand, which drums its fingers without cessation. Anyone imagining a use for this thing?
Playing with Intel’s monster four-screened concept laptop, you use gestures to select media (online or local) and fiddle with widgets developed for it with an SDK (calculator, IM). This will either be really great or totally horrible for productivity.