News.COM.AU is reporting that some of the motorways in Sydney are incorrectly detecting some smaller cars as trucks. According to the story, when the cars are too close, it detects the car as a longer car based on the length and says that it is a truck. The report mentions 2m being the magic number. Two meters is too little separation for my liking…
TecheBlog has a a list of the top 10 strangest MP3 players. The Register is reporting that Transprt For London is making available logs for Pay As You Go transport cards available on the net if you know the persons mother’s maiden name. This does not sound all that secure.
According to The Business Online.COM, Microsoft is about to release a free VoIP service to challenge the mobile carriers. One assumes this is VoIP over GPRS… And it may as well be running SKYPE or any other VoIP software…