Twinity has recently decided to let a few more people into their virtual rendition of real world locations.
If you already know someone who is a member you could get onto them to ask if you can have one of their limited number of invites.
Author: Simon Perry
Gary McKinnon Gets European Court Date: Newsflash
You’ll remember that UK ‘hacker’ Gary McKinnon had lost his House of Lords Appeal at the tail end of July.
He’s attempting to stop his deportation to America to be tried on hacking charges.
He and those in his defence camp, including his lawyers, Kaim Todner LLP, will be breathing a sigh of relief, for the next two weeks at least.
We’ve just heard that the Presidents of the European Court Human Rights will hear his application, before the full Chamber, on 28th August 2008.
Niklas Zennstrom’s Ran Yacht Wins Cowes
What do you do if you’ve sold your business for X billion dollars?
Well if you’re Niklas Zennstrom of Skype and Kazza fame, you share a passion with other Tech billionaires, like Oracle’s Larry Ellison – Sailing.
If you’ve got large bundles of cash in your pockets, you don’t just get any old boat and hope that you might do quite well, you invest a ton of wonger and gather yourself a world-class crew.
The boat, a Transpac 52, was commissioned in 2006, designed by Reichel/Pugh, famed Yacht designers and runs under GBR 528R.
iPhone Apps: 60m In First Month
Steve Jobs has been chatting to the Wall Street Journal about the iPhone, its App Store and the ‘Kill Switch.’
Jobs confirmed that an impressive 60 million iPhone applications have been downloaded in the first month of the iPhone App Store.
Opera Lands O2 Germany Mobile Deal
Opera have been receiving more success in placing their Web browsing software on different platforms, particularly mobile phones.
The latest win is a big one.
iPhone “Kill Switch” Storm
Given the media’s initial blind obsession with the iPhone, writing about it as if it were the third-coming, it’s not surprising that, true to form, they’re now getting overheated with a possible bad news story.
It centers on an apparent “Kill Switch,” that _might_ be used to kill applications on the iPhone.
GoGo WiFi Across All Delta Airlines Planes
It looks like WiFi on planes is starting to be rolled out again.
US operator Delta Airlines is to offer WiFi Internet access across their fleet of planes using AirCell’s Gogo service.
Going mad in corporate-eez, Richard Anderson, Delta’s chief executive officer, blabbed, “Delta remains committed to providing a travel experience that maximizes the time our customers spend with us onboard by offering them even more productivity options” – translated – we’re going to offer WiFi to people who fly on our planes.
WordPress 2.6: Upgrade Causes Broken Categories: Fix Here
We’ve been users of WordPress for many years and are huge fans of the free-to-use publishing platform.
Yesterday was the first time that we’ve hit a major problem with it – and it was a significant one.
Background
We use it on many of our publications including VentnorBlog, that covers Isle of Wight News.
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China Restricts Olympic Journalist Web Access. At Least They’re Open About It
Western journalists are now complaining that their access to the World Wide Web is being limited.
The Times asserts that the International Olympic Committee has ‘disclosed,’ that “A deal with Beijing has allowed the Chinese authorities to block sensitive Internet sites.
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A Tough Week For YouTube
YouTube will be hiring more lawyers and policy wonks, we suspect, following a week of complaints and legal challenges to the content that is stored on their servers and show to people around the world.
Yesterday the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee published a report (PDF) with included “Risks from the Internet, particularly social networking sites and sites hosting user-generated content.” Most of the media used this to focus on YouTube and how evil it is.