Tag: Hunting

Homeland Security gets radiation-hunting SUV

While we’re likely still quite a ways away from having nuke detectors in every cellphone, the Department of Homeland Security is apparently at least making some progress in other somewhat portable options, with it now showing off a radiation-hunting Chevy Suburban XL built with a little help from Raytheon. Intended specifically for the DHS’s [...]

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CBS Mobile simplifies news hunting on the Mobile Web

CBS Mobile is working with Aggregate Knowledge to add a technology that will suggest relevant stories to its mobile Web site users.

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600 Police Officers hunting for my stolen Nokia N95

Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, North London, is apparently — according to the Daily Telegraph — a one stop shop where up to 40% of stolen mobile phones in Britain are sold. I wonder if that’s where my phonejacked Nokia N95 headed up? Yesterday, 600 Police Officers swooped on the street and arrested over 70 people [...]

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Western Digital uncages ferocious VelociRaptor data hunting drive

Clever girl... Western Digital is today launching the first model of a new line of ultra-swift hard drives, which the company says is the fastest SATA HDD available.…

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IFPI Hunting ISPs for Not Banning Illegal File-Sharing Apps

IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, makes new efforts in its fight against illegal file-sharing services announcing that it plans to sue a Swedish ISP which refused to support its move. Unfortunately, the name of the ISP was not disclosed. TorrentFreak reports that one of the local Internet Service Providers which may be targeted by such an attempt may be Bahnhof. More specifically, IFPI wants to send to the judge the ISPs which refuse to support its anti-piracy b...

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Acer Aspire Predator: Remorselessly hunting down Alienware

... is coming along at the soon-to-open Sydney Apple store, although the high-security site is wrapped ... the Apple TV, amid an array of iPhone, iPod, and iTunes updates. A day before ...

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Are you hiring in the mobile industry? Are you hunting for a role?

I’m quite staggered by the response from people to the post I published the other day, titled, “Are you looking for a shit-hot product manager?” I posted after I got an email from a regular SMS Text News reader who wondered if I knew any companies who were hiring. We’ve had a veritable avalanche of companies interested. [...]

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Apartment Hunting: 50+ Tools for Renters & Landlords

The Internet is filled with websites and services that can help you find a new place, but sorting through them can be more frustrating than the apartment hunting process itself. Whether you’re planning a move across town, relocating for a job, or just need to find an apartment with cheaper rent, we’ve put together over 50 tools to help make the process easier. If, on the other hand, you’re a landlord looking to rent a property, we’ve included a few tools specifically for you. Also note that almost all of the listing sites we’ve provided for renters invite landlords to add vacancies, quite a few of them for free. Apartment Listings ApartmentHunterz.com - Focuses on smaller rental properties in Southern California. Apartments.com - Apartments.com tries to provide as many pictures as possible for each property, customizable searches, a moving center that lets you arrange movers and much more. BidRent.com - Allows you to bid on how much you wish to pay in rent for listed properties in the USA and Canada. CityCribs.com - While CityCribs has listings for most major US cities, their heaviest focus is on listings for New York City. Craigslist.org - The place where most people start their search for locating a rental property. EliteRenting.com - A Google Maps mashup showing you rental properties and their neighborhoods as well as offering you side-by-side comparisons of various properties to help with your selection. FlyRig.com - FlyRig is a Google Maps mashup focusing on just the 5 boroughs of New York City. ForRent.com - Features all kinds of rentals for singles, families, college students and military. GreenRenter.com - Limited to properties in the Portland, OR area, GreenRenter aids in telling potential renters how green a building is. HotPads.com - Highly customizable search for each city letting you select rooms, rent range, and more. Also has heat maps to show you where the most activity is. HousingMaps.com - Google Maps mashup that lets you easily visualize where a location is. HubBuzz.com - HubBuzz attempts to take your likes and dislikes into account while trying to help you find an apartment that best suits you. MyApartmentMap.com -A Cragslist/Google Maps mashup that lets you view the neighborhood and other data while also giving you a roommate finder, college apartments and more. MyNewPlace.com - An apartment search site that provides detailed photos and floor plan drawings, they also offer $100 or more cash back when you sign your lease. PeopleWithPets.com - Site specializing in pet friendly rental units. Rent.com - An eBay company providing rental searches and will give you a $100 gift card for a successful rental through them. RentalAds.com - Provides regular listings as well as specialized listings for pet owners, rent to own properties and more. Landlords can list their properties for free. Rentals.com - Find all sorts of rentals across the United States including apartments and houses. Rentals.NationalRelocation.com - A site focusing on people making long distance moves, will also help you locate all types of movers, including piano movers. RentalSource.com - A rental listing site with all of the normal search functions as well as roommate finders and tools to help you move. RentBits.com - Lets you search the entire country or region of your choice for rental properties. RentMineOnline.com - A social network enhanced rental system which focuses on friends referring friends to rental properties. Also has a Facebook app to ease referrals. TheRentMap.com - A mashup of Apartments.com’s listings with a Google Map. Zilpy.com - Zilpy will give you an amazing amount of information about an area by breaking a city down by region and then telling you the average rental price for various styles of apartments and information about the neighborhoods. Listings Outside the US FindMyCrib.com - A Google Maps mashup for finding rental properties located around the UK. FusedWorld.com - Apartment listings from countries all over the world. HouseFinderUK.com - Despite the site’s name, HouseFinderUK also features a large selection of properties to rent in the UK. Properazzi.com - Search all over Europe for properties in your own language and currency. RentRight.co.uk - A rental listings site based in the United Kingdom with everything from lofts to houses listed. Spyk.com - Search for rental properties throughout Australia. Surf4AProperty.com - A UK-only site for locating rental properties around the country. Rental Management GetPropertize.com - Geared to helping an individual with property to rent, Propertize helps you track income & expenses as well as helping you generate your tax reports.

OnsitePropertyManager.com - Multi-featured property management software that also includes nightly back-ups of your data.

Property-Management.Buildium.com - A full-featured system that prints checks, makes work orders from online maintenance requests, allow residents to pay securely online and more.

Rentomatic.com - Offers both free and paid plans, can assist you in advertising, automating rent collection, track maintenance and more.

RentYield.com - Lets you manage your vendors as well as your tenants, track the performance of your properties and more.

TenantMarket.com - Helps landlords to locate tenants for their vacant properties.

Reviews

ApartmentRatings.com -Nearly 700,000 reviews of rental properties and their landlords, helping to save you some of the hassle of not knowing what you’ll get after you sign the lease.

IntroIn.com - Find people living in the complexes you are interested in and connect with people living there so you can get the inside track on what it’s like.

LandlordReview.com - Lets you review landlords and management companies in a dozen major cities in the USA such as Washington D.C. and San Francisco.

NeuLandlord.com - Rate and read reviews of landlords in all 50 states in the US, see who are the best and worst on their leader boards.

PickALandlord.com - A community based around reviewing landlords before you sign a lease.

RateMyStudentRental.com - A site devoted to renting your student housing, and if warranted, the site will send your landlord a note about problems with the property.

RottenNeighbor.com - When you rent a property, not only do you have a landlord to worry about, but also possibly annoying neighbors. Check out the neighborhood you’re moving into as well as look for sex offenders and more.

Roommates

EasyRoommate.com - Has over 190,000 listings in the United States for rooms to rent and people looking for rooms.

Gradspot.com - Use the website or their Facebook app to help you find roommates for your post-grad life.

MetroRoommates.com - Roommate referral service that focuses on major metropolitan areas in the USA.

RoommateClick.com - Focused on college and university students, RoommateClick will help you find a room or let others know you have a room to rent.

RoommateConnection.com - A roommate referral service for the northeast United States with a heavy focus on Boston, MA.

RoommateLocator.com - Assists you with you finding roommates across the USA as well as some oversea locations.

Roommates.com - Almost like a dating site for roommates, you set up a profile and start searching for your perfect roommate match.

Roommates4You.com - This one lets you set if you are looking for a room or have a room, in addition to price ranges you are looking for from the initial search.

Roomster.net - Helps match you with a roommate with a compatible personality, works for cities in the USA, Canada and the UK.

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News Feature: Weird Tech: The GPS-assisted cannabis-hunting tortoise

It's been a strange week for tracking tech. In an unlikely turn of events, police arrested a suspected marijuana-grower after a box tortoise with a GPS tracker attached to its shell accidentally strayed (slowly) into a secret cannabis patch. The tortoise was being tracked for "research purposes" in a park in Washington DC, local news reported Wednesday. A ranger in charge of the reptile made the discovery when he retrieved it from a remote area of the park. US Park Police set up surveillance and later arrested a 19-year-old teenager on suspicion of growing the plants. The week's strangest stories, all in one place…And as we've already reported today, tracking tech is making the news elsewhere. Affluent Mexicans are so scared of soaring kidnappingrates that they are paying thousands of dollars to have tiny transmitters implanted underneath their skin, to enable satellites to help find them. Ranking with Iraq and Colombia as being among the worst countries for abductions, kidnapping shot up almost 40 per cent between 2004 and 2007 in Mexico. Mexican security firm Zega, which designed the chip, claims its sales have leapt 13 per cent this year. The company says it has already injected over 2,000 clients with the crystal-encased chip.Sadly, critics have labelled the chip as "little more than a gadget that serves no real security purpose". For the chip to work, the client must also be carrying a larger device containing a global position system. This receives the radio signals transmitted from the chip, broadcasting them out to the nearest satellite, helping pinpoint the victim's location. It's brilliant, then, until the kidnappers remove the device. Gadget therapyThe Wii Balance Board/Google Street View device wasn't the only useful mod we saw this week: introducing the solar tie that recharges your phone. Having harnessed digital textile printing so that fabric can be printed that matches the pattern of solar cells, and then be attached via a 'liquid stitch' method, the end product is discretion personified. Not only does it function as a tie, it also charges your mobile. What a combo.However, all this could be eclipsed with the Bio Energy Discovery Kit. Able to directly convert alcohol into electricity, its makers have hailed it "the fuel cell industry's first direct ethanol product". The tech could be the first step towards replacing conventional batteries in portable devices, like your iPod or mobile phone charger. They'll run non-stop for days on end – if you're prepared to sacrifice your drinks cabinet, that is.And finally…< It seems that playing and talking about World of Warcraft can encourage scientific thinking. After studying a sample of 2,000 chatroom posts, researchers at the University of Wisconsin have concluded that "forum and game-based learning could supplement textbooks and science labs in fostering scientific thinking and problem-solving ability". < According to the results, WoW stimulates chats involving maths and problem-solving, encouraging scientific thinking. "These forums illustrate how sophisticated intellectual practices to improve game play mimic actual scientific reasoning," said researcher Sean Duncan this week. So next time you're up all night on WoW or the like, remember: gaming is good for you.

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Trulia for iPhone Makes House Hunting Easier

Finding the perfect house can be quite a chore, but there are a host of sites that can make finding that house a little easier. Trulia is one of those sites and now they've released an application for the iPhone. Trulia offers 80% of the listings you'd find on MLS (Multiple Listing Service), making it the biggest listing site with an iPhone application.  

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