GPS Passion

Yesterday’s keynote by Steve Jobs was very exciting. Somehow Apple always manages to bring the new you think they will, but features are always better than expected, and this time was no exception.
I don’t think we should see the release of the iPhone 3G as simply a successor for the original iPhone. If you have [...]

After in fact stopping support for PDA’s and smartphones it is very likely that TomTom will bring a iPhone version of its navigation software to sell to customers, Reuters tells us. The Dutch navigation device maker is not yet telling when it comes to the market, but it is expected that it will be on [...]

* Update *
The new iPhone 3G is now visible on the US apple site, and, most important for us, on the dutch apple site.
Apple’s keynote by Steve Jobs is going on right now. There’s a lot of talk about the developer stuff for the iPhone, there’s a sneak peak into Snow Leopard (the next Leopard), [...]

Tech Interest

A few technology related things that just happened are very important and require your attention. First of all, 1.5 million australian students have replaced their Outlook/Exchange with Gmail.
Techcrunch says:

The cost savings are substantial. The Outlook/Exchange platform involved a AU$33 million contract and took four years to go live, although it’s unclear why it took so [...]

As a freelance consultant in the Netherlands, I often stumble upon
great suggestions for online tools on blogs or websites, often to be
disappointed by the fact the app or tool is only usable for US citizens
for various reasons. Fortunately, I am a tech news junkie, and quite able
to find good stuff on the internet that is [...]

After all this time, I did not believe a deal with Google would come through, but I am relieved about it. Why? I am not a Yahoo fan. But a big portion of the US has used Yahoo for a lot of services and still does so. 
Microsoft is not the best candidate for a takeover [...]

HomeCinemaSecrets

Samsung used the LA-based Society for Information Display (SID) international symposium to debut an 82in LCD TV with Ultra Definition resolution.
The so-called UD panel features a pixel resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 (aka 4K2K), which is about 6,000,000 more pixels than a Full HD screen, and refreshes at a rate of 120Hz. RGB LED backlights [...]

The format war is over, Sony now wants to expand the presence of Blu-ray. The Sony boss says it’s time to start building Blu-ray  players in more product, including HDTVs. The story-between-the-lines is we’re probably about to see Blu-ray players at the bottom-end of the price spectrum.
Blu-ray players have already found their way into laptops, home computer [...]

On the German homecinema site www.areadvd.de I saw an interesting review of the new Beyerdynamic headphone, the Headzone Home. I say interesting because untill now the surround sound experience from most headphones is somewhat disappointing. But according to the guys of areadvd, the Beyerdynamic is capable of delivering surround sound comparable to the quality of [...]

Network & Security

A couple of students at the University of Amsterdam have developed a small piece of software that scans web based software for security leaks and vulnerabilities. The current version of the program, WAD (Web Application Detector) supports three of the most popular platforms on the internet today:

Wordpress
Joomla
phpBB

According to the report that was written by the [...]

As blogging has become popular, and wordpress has grown to be the most popular blogging software right now, that piece of software has also become a popular target for hackers. Why? Hackers may (ab)use the popularity of your blog to generate more traffic for other sites they run or manage. In short, they might add [...]

Apple takes security seriously. With the online publication of the security guide for Leopard, the company answers concerned customers. Although the heart of the operating system is BSD unix, one of the most stable and secure flavors of the unix operating system, certain people are still concerned, and with all the developments concerning hacking and [...]