Archive for the ‘Technology & the Web’ Category

Jamaican Cable Turf Wars: Allied cable crew barricade themselves from Flow crew attack

By First • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

Looks like its not just the disenfranchised who engage in garrison-like behaviour in Jamaica



Nawls: an interactive digital comic book

By First • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

Surprisingly easy to navigate (kind of like an actual comic book) and very nicely illustrated, Nawls is refreshingly weird and definitely an item we’ll be revisiting in a few days.



FREE iPhones! Live updates from the Apple keynote speech

By First • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

What everyone has been waiting for, the new and improved second generation iPhone. Now might finally be the time to trade in my trusty Nokia 1112.



Three old scientists: An oral history of the Internet.

By First • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

It’s something people take for granted, or make obvious breathless statements about. But the Internet has not been an overnight effort. Actually it dates back to the 1950s, and these three elderly scientists (see below).



NYPD takes Grand Theft Auto to a next level

By First • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

Committing a crime (and getting away with it) in NYC just got a little bit harder. The city’s finest have equipped a helicopter with a video camera that can recognise your face from two miles away and follow a suspect vehicle from 12 miles.



Grand Theft Auto IV: Brum, bang, bucks!

By First • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

Kids rampaging through the city in fast cars shooting everything that moves. No not Kingston, but news that the popularity of Grand Theft Auto IV has helped double sales for the game’s publishers Take-Two Interactive, up to $540 million for the second quarter.



Beware! USB thumbdrive that hacks into Macs

By First • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

When someone offers this USB device so you can innocently give them a file, shove it hard into their eye. This little b******* actually does a lot more than that, in fact it can extract all kinds of sensitive data.



How the Google money machine really works

By First • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

With Google swallowing up more and more of cyberspace the company doesn’t divulge much of it’s business. But here’s a rare look inside what Wall Street experts refer to as a little black box.



Gun crime in Jamaica got you down? Get a gun!

By First • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

In this unprecedented age of violent crime in Jamaica, the idea of having something to shoot back with is becoming increasingly attractive. Consequently, a new group calling itself: Jamaica crime plan? Let us have GUNS! has appeared in Facebook land.



How to write a business plan by William Henry Gates III

By First • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

Well not strictly Bill himself, but nonetheless this is available at his Microsoft Small Business Centre. Good simple advice if you want to make $.