Tag archive: Hamilton

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the digital watch, Hamilton is releasing its own digital timepiece, the Pulsonic. The Pulsonic combines a Swiss automatic

Thor Walker, an 18-year-old from New Zealand, is lucky. At a court hearing in Hamilton, New Zealand, the young man known online as AKILL admitted hacking into computers as part of a group that took about $25 million from people around the world and created a massive botnet of machines. But, the Guardian reports, he was let off without a conviction and having to pay just $11,000 in damages and costs. When he was arrested last November,… Read More

Police in the Canadian city of Hamilton, in the southern portion of Ontario, did something unique to try to identify a murder suspect: the uploaded a one-minute, 12 second surveillance video clip to the popular video sharing site YouTube and asked the user community for help in identifying the suspect. So far as anyone knows, this is the first time a law enforcement agency has ysed a video sharing Web site as a tool in an active… Read More

Wi-Fi service provider Boingo Wireless today extended the number of hotspots their user base can roam to. A deal with Opti-Fi Networks adds wireless networks at 30 North American airports. This agreement, Boingo said, allows for high speed wireless Internet access at American and Canadian airports including "Albany, NY, International Airport; Edmonton, Alberta, International Airport; Hamilton, Ontario, International Airport; Jackson Hole,… Read More

DIRECTV has taken a signal thief, who has already been served a permanent injunction order, to court.  The complaint alleges that Elio Gino D'Amario, of Hamilton, Ontaro, resells pirate signal devices on a website despite a court order compelling him to stop.  D'Amario was first identified in 1999 as being involved with a network of online companies selling pirate cable box supplies. A raid in conjunction with the… Read More

Other recording companies are cautiously watching the technology, which will be used on a commercial release for the first time next week. Buyers of hip-hop star Anthony Hamilton's “Comin' From Where I'm From” will be able burn three copies per computer and even e-mail songs to a limited number of people, who can then listen to the recordings up to 10 times apiece. The BMG Entertainment album can also be played… Read More