News / Web Happenings:Windows Home Server v2 set to offer Time Machine-like backup UI, Media Center and Live Mesh integration
Game update notifications coming to Vistas Games Explorer
How A Botched Web Story Wiped Out UAL's Shares - I love it.
Going Zero G - and please update your Geekzone profile - Sunday around 9am NZ time Mauricio will be floating like an astronaut.
TVNZ7 Internet Debate in association with InternetNZ - participate through the Geekzone ICT Policy and Regulation forum.
Apple:
Apple September ’08 Keynote - watch it online.
Apple releases iTunes 8
7 Years of iPod: What You Paid and What You Got - Wow.. 7 years.
iPod Touch Version 2 Review
4th gen iPod Nano Review
General Interest:
Salling Media Sync Puts iTunes Music on Your Non-iPhone Cell
The Power User's Guide to Google Chrome
Esquire's E Ink-infused magazine cover shown on video
Interesting project which allows anyone to graph anything from their daily life
Tikitag promises to bring RFID tags to everything - interesting concept.
TeamViewer Desktop Sharing - Remote Control - Support tool - very handy for those times you need to play the family 'tech support' role remotely. Crossloop is another good one.
Tokyo's Robotic Bike Parking Garage is Awesome - this video did the rounds some time ago, but worth a look for those who missed it.
Dr. Pic: A no-Flash online image editor
What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying - interactive metrics graph on spending by country.
Fail of the week:
Phone fail
New LBS Competition Coming
We will be launching an exciting competition within a few weeks for the development of LBS applications. We will be running the competition along with some great partners including Geekzone.
We will have official announcements in a couple of weeks but if you are in Auckland, I will be making a prelaunch announcement at the Wireless and Broadband Forum's Wireless Wednesday this evening at the Floating Pavilon in Auckland.
Otherwise watch this space.
If you are in Auckland this evening, the guest speaker is Ghanum Taylor of The Hyperfactory, one of the pioneers of mobile applications and winner of the original Wireless Data Forum Mobile Application Competition of which I was a judge, back in the day.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Multiple (4) Buffer Overflows
The Microsoft Dynamics GP is vulnerable to four heap and stack-based buffer overflows. A remote attacker could overflow the buffer and execute arbitrary code or gain control of the affected system by sending malicious queries to the Distributed Process Server or Distributed Process Manager.
Apple announces iTunes 8, new and revammped iPod line, and 2.1 software update.
It's been about a year since Apples last iPod announcements, and since various fan boy YouTube users have flooded the popular video sharing site with speculations and other un-just nonsense. Hopefully now we can give our eyes and mind a rest from most conscious, speculation-causing, thought as, yes, Apple has spoken!
Earlier today, at the Let's Rock media event, a new 4th generation iPod nano was announced. Yes, it look far more like the old 2nd gen than the 3rd, but it now sports a nice wide screen display and, finally, an accelerometer. Making this the second iPod (not including iPhone) to have one. No word yet to how accurate it is, or how many there are in it, but I’m sure that iPhone (and iPod touch) will remain superior in that regard.
Another, less heard of announcement was the introduction of a redesigned iPod touch. It still has the same stuff on the inside, but now boast’s dedicated volume up/down buttons and a loud speaker, much like those on the iPhone. The casing has also been modified slightly, now sharing the same tapered edges as the iPhone 3G.
Further on the line of new iPods, Apple has now ditched the 80 160GB classic models, replacing them with but one 120gb model at the same price as the 80.
The last thing I’m going to mention here is that the 2.1 iPhone software update now has a release date. Yes, i'm sure many of you were a bit worried that we'd have to sit through another eight updates to get from 2.0.2 to 2.1. But rest assured that the 2.1 update will be released this Friday!
At this time, Apple has not ye posted a list of all the fixes, but for now we can expect, at least, improved battery life, less dropped calls and, of course, the usual performance tweaks.
(iTunes 8 was also released, however I am short of time and there isn't much worth mentioning)
TVNZ7 Internet Debate in association with InternetNZ
The TVNZ7 Internet Debate (in association with InternetNZ) will be broadcasted live, 23rd September 2008 9:10pm on TVNZ7 (Freeview).
This will be an organised debate on ICT issues, streamed live to the official website and TVNZ7’s site, directly from Avalon Studios.
The debate involves four politicians quizzed on major areas of ICT policy with questions coming from you through the online chat, a studio audience, and experienced journalists.
The politicians are Labour’s Minister of Communications Hon David Cunliffe, National ICT Spokesperson Hon Maurice Williamson, ACT Leader Hon Rodney Hide and Greens ICT Spokesperson Metiria Turei.
You can participate live through an IRC channel or by posting your questions in our Geekzone forums - we have created a special ICT Policy and Regulation forum specially for this event. There you will find the discussions for each topic (direct links below) and you will be submit questions:
* Broadband (includes infrastructure, productivity, sustainability)
* Convergence (includes broadcasting and mobile)
* Copyright (includes open source)
* Cybersafety (includes privacy and security as well)
* Digital Divide (includes rural and TSO as well)
You need to login to post in the Geekzone ICT Policy and Regulation forums or complete our quick registration to get started.
Oracle WebLogic Server Apache Connector Remote Code Execution
Oracle WebLogic Server (formerly known as BEA WebLogic Server) is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, which would cause a denial of service and potentially remote code execution.
Chrome roundup
I was going to post a few links about Googles new browser 'Chrome' in my weekly Linkification post - but as theres such a flood of information and articles this week I've decided to move them into their own blog post. So here it is: 
Bax IT takes on Panda Security - ARNnet
Standards Group to Release Metrics for Internet Information Security - eWeek
More on Orcon
I tried to add this as a comment to my previous post, but for some reason I couldn't, so:
So today I got my new Sky City Movies 2 for 1 pass from Orcon as promised. I was pleasantly surprised, given the previous experiences, I didn't think I'd hear from them again.
As to the service I've had 8 days in the last 3 weeks where it didn't break down at all. Last night however the wireless router was playing up and killed me off in the poker tournament I had worked so hard to qualify for. One hand I had pocket Kings and bet 2/3 of my chips, by the time the modem reconnected instead of doubling or trebling up they were gone. $300 I won't be seeing.
I did have 2 bad days last week, one with 79 disconnections and the other with 362 and I still don't have Caller ID, otherwise I would have to say it was pretty good.
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