Andalucia.com's founder and managing director, Chris Chaplow, participated in "Get Connected", a weekly programme on OCI Radio (now part of the Costa del Sol's history). The show was started by Julie Thomosoro in 2004 and continued by presenter Brenda Padilla through 2008.
Following is an archive of Internet news that appeared on the show in 2005.
Monday 11th April 2005
Training a new breed of hacker
The traditional approach to fight hacking is to ban it. In Barcelona
however, the war against the hackers has taken a new turn.
Barcelona is home to an innovative new project designed to combat
hacking.
The Hacker High School is at the University of La Salle, in the
same department that churns out some of the best of Barcelona's
designers.
The scheme is not the "devil's workshop" it might sound
but, say its organisers, aims to tackle a modern-day taboo.
Likening current attitudes to hacking to old repressed
notions of sex, they say many are doing it, but few are talking
about it.
Pete Herzog, managing director of the organisation
that set it up, says: "If you go back 50 years ago what was
sex education? Sex education was 'sex is out there, don't do it,
you'll get diseases'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4423351.stm
MTV to launch internet 'channel'
MTV is launching a free "channel" on the internet that
will show some of the station's TV programmes, including reality
hit The Osbournes.
The MTV Overdrive website will let users with high-speed computer
connections watch music videos and extended programmes on demand.
The website is currently being tested and will launch fully on 25
April.
Other companies, including Walt Disney and Microsoft, already provide
content for online viewers.
Jason Hirschhorn, MTV's senior vice president of
digital music and media, said the channel was being launched in
response to the high number of young fans with broadband.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4419939.stm
Google to gather personal video clips
Co-founder outlines search expansion plans
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. plans to put out a call for personal
video clips as it moves to further expand the reach of its Web search
business, company co-founder Larry Page said Monday.
"We're going to start taking video submissions
from people," Page said at the annual cable industry convention
in San Francisco.
Google in January
rolled out the test version of its video search service that
allows users to find content in television programs from such providers
as Fox News, the NBA and PBS.
The service, called Google Video, allows users to see still images
from the video clips and associated closed-captioning.
Monday 4th April 2005
Anti-spam laws bite spammer hard
The net's self-declared spam king is seeking
bankruptcy protection.
Scott Richter, the man behind OptInRealBig.com
and billions of junk mail messages, said lawsuits had forced the
company into Chapter 11.
OptInRealBig was fighting several legal battles,
most notably against Microsoft, which is pushing for millions of
dollars in damages.
The company said filing for Chapter 11 would help
it try to resolve its legal problems but still keep trading.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4400335.stm
www.OptInRealBig.com
Sony wants an 'iTunes for movies'
Sony is to make its top 500 films available
digitally in the next year.
Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony
Pictures, said at a US Digital Hollywood conference that it wanted
to create an "iTunes" for films.
Films will be put onto flash memory for mobiles
over the next year, said Mr Arrieta, and it will develop its digital
download services for films.
Movie studios are keen to stop illegal file-sharing
on peer-to-peer nets and cash in on digital the download market.
Movie piracy cost the industry £3.7bn ($7bn)
in 2003, according to analysts.
The movie industry body, the MPAA (Motion Picture
Association of America) has started a campaign of legal action against
operators of BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect peer-to-peer
networks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4396481.stm
Laptops compete with home PC
Dual processors, improved battery life and bigger
screen sizes all mean that the laptop is becoming a viable alternative
to the PC, as Chris Long discovers.
In 2004 there were approximately 180 million PCs
sold around the world, of which nearly 50 million were notebooks.
Traditionally, notebooks are the problem child
of the computer industry.
Making them as powerful as a desktop is physically
impossible, and trying to get them to run for longer than five hours
is wishful thinking.
This is not to say that they have not been getting
better.
Emily Campbell, from Dell, says: "There have
actually been a lot of changes in the notebook environment in the
last five years.
"One of the key things that we've seen in
notebooks is the price of one to the average consumer - it's come
down dramatically.
"At the same time as costs have come down
so the performance has improved significantly."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4398507.stm
Mobiles and petrol stations do mix
It is well known to regular Register readers that
mobile phones very dangerous pieces of equipment. If they aren't
mashing your mojo, they'll be causing brain tumours or enticing
you to plunge ten floors to your death in search of a better signal.
Just. Plain. Evil.
Or so we thought. But it turns out that they are
not quite so diabolical as all that. There is at least one place
your mobile phone will not kill you: the forecourt of a petrol station.
We know, we know: a spark from the phone will ignite the fumes bringing
all life as you know it to a fiery end. You've read about it, the
petrol stations have those nice clear warning signs and you might
even have seen it happen on an episode of CSI.
But researchers at the University of Kent now say
this is not so. In the last eleven years there have been 243 petrol
station fires worldwide attributed to mobiles. But according to
a paper by Dr Adam Burgess, not a single one was actually caused
by a spark from a mobile.
Quench your thirst for knowledge
At Google our mission is to organize the world's
information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But
any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree,
from the cognitive ability of the user who's using it. That's why
we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™
(LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to
maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent,
and less thirsty.
Think fruity. Think refreshing.
Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all
3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second,
fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using
our patented Auto-Drink™ technology, and slamming a truckload
of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the
blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful
cerebral cortex. Plus, it's low in carbs! And with flavors ranging
from Beta Carroty to Glutamate Grape, you'll never run out of ways
to quench your thirst for knowledge.
How to get Gulped?
You can pick up your own supply of this "limited release"
product simply by turning in a used Gulp Cap at your local grocery
store. How to get a Gulp Cap? Well, if you know someone who's already
been "gulped," they can give you one. And if you don't
know anyone who can give you one, don't worry - that just means
you aren't cool. But very, very (very!) soon, you will be.
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
PodGear™ PodShave
A crisp white shaving clip on for iPod™ 3rd & 4th Generation,
iPod mini™ (PodShaveLady) and iPod™ Photo.
No battery required - simply plug and shave!
The launch of the PodShave enables iPod users to
free their stubble whilst listening to their favourite music, not
only this but as the shaving device runs directly from the iPod
battery, hairy friends are able to shave almost anywhere - be it
in the high street, on the Tube or just relaxing at home. PodShave's
superb design simply clips on to the top of the iPod and gives instant
shaving delight, not only this but it collects all loose hair via
its vacuum like stubble collector!
Also available: PodShaveLady exact specifications
as above, but for iPod mini™
Woman rebrands as GoldenPalace.com
Golden Palace Casino announced today that it has
added the latest acquisition to its manifest of preposterous eBay
purchases by paying a 33-year-old US woman $15,199 to legally change
her name to GoldenPalace.com.
Hot on the heels of the online gambling outfit's branding of a Glaswegian
woman's cleavage, and its eager consumption of a likeness of the
Virgin Mary in a toasted cheese sarnie, Golden Palace has secured
the lifelong advertising services of Terri Ilagan.
The mother of five explained: "I was driving
one day and I told my husband, I don't think anyone's tried to sell
their name on eBay yet. So I put it up for auction and I got all
kind of responses within 24 hours of it being listed."
http://www.theregister.com/2005/03/31/golden_palace_rebrand/
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