This Is What Happens When The GPS Is Wrong

Robert Ziegler, was doing what most people would do, driving his car and following the instructions of his GPS. The only problem? His GPS led him to a road where he couldn’t get out.

Ziegler kept hoping that he’d be brought back to the main road but the GPS kept saying to go forward. It wasn’t until he couldn’t go forward or turn back around, did he realize the diddily he got himself in. Stuck on top of a mountain, he called for help and got flown out via helicopter (the car too!). A fireman likened the road Ziegler got stuck on as a “glorified goat track”.

It speaks to our growing dependence on gadgets that make life super easy like GPS.

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Qualcomm’s Mirasol displays pushed back to 2011, Pixel Qi breathes a sigh

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Why is IBM declaring war on Cisco?

IBM is buying Blade Network Technologies (BNT) and people are bemused beyond belief, especially a correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous but is close-ish to IBM.

He thinks that the BNT purchase might be “Juniper on the cheap” and if so is “totally stupid.”

He characterises IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as a CEO who “doesn’t collect companies.” Instead he pursues “margin expansion with modest revenue growth,” and is “getting out of commoditising markets.”

He says “IBM has been building multi-processor systems for three decades, so [is] more than capable of glueing stuff together for low latency without having to buy anyone, at a development cost.” Also “IBM spending time on [IEEE 802.1]Qbg can only be to help commoditise this space.”

In the Z11 mainframe area it is “beyond curiosity why would anyone care who manufactures the LAN switch inside its cabinet.”

IBM’s networking strategy has been poor. O

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Blizzard purges 5,000 Battlenet accounts

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Blizzard has purged at least 5,000 Battlenet accounts belonging to players who were caught cheating and hacking maps in Starcraft 2.

As Tom Senior of PC Gamer points out, one of the most “prevalent problems” in Starcraft 2 is the practice of illicitly maphacking the game client, which allows users to view an entire map during multiplayer sessions.  

“The video is a replay from the perspective of a player using such a hack. A

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Beats by Dr. Dre launching Beatbox iPod dock, along with LeBron and Bieber-branded headphones

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