Foxconn has more to worry about. As well as struggling to deal with allegations of exploitative working conditions in its factories, it’s now had the bad fortune of being hacked, having login and password information spread across the web. More »
Scientists have mapped the entire energy use of New York City, building by building. The interactive map, created by Bianca Howard, a PhD student in mechanical engineering at Columbia University, uses publicly available data to work out which buildings are using the most energy and how they are using it. More »
Since the feds shut down Megaupload, there’s been concern about what would happen to the user data stored using the service. Turns out that it may just be deleted, as early as this Thursday. More »
This video shows the navigation path of Costa Concordia, the ship that ran aground in Italy. Lots of things went wrong after it hit the first rock, but her path reveals that they may have been a steering system failure before that. More »
Every app I download seems to want more and more access rights — to either my SD card, my Internet connection, and even my address book. And with every app, my phone gets a little less secure. The new SE Android OS aims to lock down my phone against any and all exploits. More »
Hidden inside a Norwegian mountain, next to a cold fjord which supplies cooling water, Green Mountain is the world’s most environmentally-friendly data centre. It also sounds like it was built by hobbits. More »
Gus over at Lifehacker brings us word that analyst firm Telsyte is predicting Australia will have over 35 million active SIM cards by 2015. It’s a good time to hold shares in a mobile telco, apparently. More »
Telstra’s been aggressive of late with its data pricing, and for Christmas, it’s cutting the prices of its mobile broadband hardware as well. Gus at Lifehacker has the full details of the cuts to the Elite WiFi Hotspot and Elite USB Modems. [Lifehacker]
Telstra’s made some wholesale changes to its broadband plans (both fixed and wireless) for customers today. Still no sign of NBN pricing, but it’s added data to wireless broadband and jumped from offering a maximum of 200GB to a maximum of 500GB on a plan. More »
Amaysim’s existing 1GB data bundles for $9.90 are already pretty good value for mobile broadband, but you can go through 1GB quickly if you’re tethering or downloading a lot of content. Amaysim has added three new data bundles to its range: 2.5GB for $19.90, 4GB for $29.90 or 10GB for $99.90. More »
