Security Flaw in 4+ Million Hotel Keycard Locks
Remember the good old days when a hotel would give you an actual key to your hotel room door? Actually, I prefer the keycards – they are easier to keep in a wallet, and they …
Remember the good old days when a hotel would give you an actual key to your hotel room door? Actually, I prefer the keycards – they are easier to keep in a wallet, and they …
Good morning It is now a mere one week until the start of the 2012 Olympics. Last week I featured an article ‘London’s Olympic Sized Mess’ which chronicled many of the problems surrounding the staging …
Good morning It’s a Black Friday today. Superstition holds this to be an unlucky day for traveling, so be careful out there. I opened last week’s newsletter eulogizing Andy Griffith (which one reader mildly disagreed …
Good morning It has been more a tech than a travel week, with the exciting release of Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet being announced on Wednesday. One of the articles added to this weekly roundup …
Good morning Well, the summer solstice has already been and gone (it was Wednesday) and the days are getting shorter once more. I’m always flummoxed by the way that summer commences on the longest day …
Microsoft staged an event in Los Angeles late this afternoon. Indeed, it was late both in the sense of scheduled start time and actual even later start time, and even if it did start at …
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Good morning Happy 60th birthday this week to the illustrious Boeing B-52, still operational as a heavy bomber, sixty years after it first took to the skies on 15 April, 1952. 744 of the planes …
On Wednesday the Department of Justice announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers – Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin. The suit alleges an illegal conspiracy to …
On 20 February 1962, and after three previously failed launch attempts, John Glenn became the first American to fly into space – a five hour flight in a Mercury space capsule named Friendship 7 that …
Good morning Another year inexorably rolls to its close this weekend, with New Year’s Eve conveniently on a Saturday night, possibly encouraging more of us to stay up for midnight celebrations. If you choose to …
Good morning Are you starting to feel the Christmas spirit yet? Or just the Christmas cold (in my case, both weather-wise and health-wise too)! With little more than a week to go before the pre-Christmas …
Just this week, American Airlines took time off from its bankruptcy to proudly announce it has been given FAA approval to allow its pilots to use iPads in airplane cockpits. This is not a revolutionary …
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