Jawbone whips CES into a nerd frenzy with free headsets
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/214575419/
Filed under: CES, Peripherals
Friday, January 11, 2008
Penryn-based Mac Pro gets benchmarked
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/214613866/
Filed under: Desktops
It's just been a short two days since Apple rolled out its latest Mac Pro update, but that was apparently more than enough time for the folks at Primate Labs to get their hands on one and put it through its paces. They only got the 2.8GHz model, however, so they weren't quite able to fully back up Apple's claims that it's the "fastest Mac ever," but that's not to say they didn't find plenty to be impressed with. In particular, while the new system trailed the older, 3.0GHz model in floating point performance, it edged it out in integer, memory and stream performance -- a feat all the more impressive considering the new 2.8GHz Penryn system is a fair bit cheaper than its speedier predecessor. Of course, those less concerned with saving a few bucks can opt for the new, top-end 3.2GHz model, which should give you plenty of benchmark bragging rights until Apple dishes out its next update.
[Via AppleInsider]
Microsoft CES fashion show flaunts (some) good looking gear
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/214714614/
Filed under: CES
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
TV star publishes bank details in anti-privacy editorial, gets ripped off
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/213014874/tv-star-publishes-ba.html
Jeremy Clarkson, a presenter for Top Gear on British TV, wrote a newspaper editorial that accused privacy activists of being hysterical over giant data-leaks (such as the British government repeatedly losing CDs bearing the financial details for 25 million households). To prove that identity theft wasn't a big deal, he included his bank account details in the article.Whereupon someone promptly began making fraudulent withdrawals from his account.
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Clarkson, 47, writing in his column in the Sunday Times, decried the furore last year after CDs disappeared containing the banking details of 7 million families.The loss led to fears of mass identity theft with people's bank accounts open to internet scams.
At the time he wrote: "I have never known such a palaver about nothing. The fact is we happily hand over cheques to all sorts of unsavoury people all day long without a moment's thought. We have nothing to fear."
However, yesterday he told readers he had opened his bank statement to find a direct debit had been set up in his name and £500 taken out of his account.
"The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again," he said. "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."
(Image: crop from Books, a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike photo from William Hook's Flickr stream)
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