When Windows Mobile started sending SMS messages from the future the other day, it was a relatively harmless glitch. But as multiple news outlets are reporting, both the Bank of Queensland and Bankwest are suffering the same glitch, and it’s actually hurting businesses.
Following Google securing a place in mobile advertising with a $US750 million purchase of AdMob, there’s talk that Apple has purchased Quattro Wireless, an AdMob competitor, for $US275 million. What’s Apple getting into now? [All Things D]
Forget about any Olympics inauguration ceremonies or any New Year’s Eve celebrations: The Burj Dubai is the tallest building in the world, and it got the highest fireworks too for its opening ceremony. So colossal you’ll think they are destroying it.
After writing this morning about the Glare LA-9/P, a device that can blind people from 4km away, I got this video of a product called the Dazer Laser. It seems like a joke, but it’s real. I think?
Muppets doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Mario dancing to Don’t stop me now. It seems Queen is having a bit of an internet meme resurgence of late. And now some clever sod has gone and combined Queen and Battlestar Galactica to create a mashup of epic proportions, with a solid dose of hilarity thrown in.