Archive for the ‘Technology news’ Category

Car driving itself in Traffic Jam.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

What a great invention! Have you ever think to have a car that can drive itself in traffic jam? What if you got a chance to have one because Volvo the car giant will launch a model with a groundbreaking system that regulates the vehicle’s speed to keep it the same distance from the car in front. Without touching the brake this car can even stop and start again itself.

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World Most Expensive iPhone

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

The Austrian luxury designer and jeweler Peter Aloisson has created the most expensive iPhone (Princess Plus) with the price tag is $ 176,400. What make it so expensive because these ipod consist 319 diamonds with 138 Princess cut (where the name of the iPhone was derived) and 180 brilliant cut. Beside that there is a total of 17.75 carats of diamond set in 18k white gold around its rim. Russian Businessman is become the first customer for this product.

Are you dare to buy it? Haha..

BBC launch iPlayer for children

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

The BBC has launched a version of its popular iPlayer service specifically designed for children today.

The ‘child-friendly’ service is aimed at youngsters aged six to 12 – and there are plans for even younger children to take part in the service with their parents.

BBC iPlayer for CBBC will give children the chance to choose when they watch programmes such as Blue Peter, MI High and Sarah Jane Adventures.

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New alert: Koobface now looking for Bebo

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Have you remember about the treat of Koobface to Facebook? Now this virus looking for one more social  sites called Bebo. Actually Bebo is a social blogging site which so far having 45 million users worldwide.

As what happen to facebook, Bebo member also will received ‘messages’ from their friends with subjects such as ‘You look awesome in this movie’. Following the link prompts them to download updates, such as an updated video player.

ScanSafe detected the virus’s now jump to Bebo.Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, said: ‘Those who click on the link will be greeted with a message that they need to update their Flash player to view the ‘video’.  There is no video nor is there an update – it is all just a ruse to get users to infect their own system by installing the Trojan”

The same caution over the past half dozen years still remains true: don’t click on links in emails received unexpectedly, even if that email appears to be from someone you know.’

Earlier, Social network MySpace, owned by News Corp, was hit by a version of Koobface in August and used security technology to eradicate it. The virus has not cropped up since then.

Facebook where the second place to be their target has told members to delete contaminated e-mails and has posted directions at www.facebook.com/security on how to clean infected computers.

Robotic Pet easy to handle

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Pensonic taking a step in the field of robotic when launched their own pets. This Pet Robot is known as Pleo. Pleo has designed in form of dinosaur and ready to entertain you. If before this you’re looking for pets that easy to handle now here they are.

Pleo manufactured from 1800 component which control it to act like real animal. It got a feeling as what normal pets have like happy, scared, shocked, curious and sad. If you interested to have one please prepare about $7++ in your pocket. This can be an alternative for people who love pets but want something that easy to handle. The only cons is Pleo’s movement not really natural because as we all know it just a Robot.