We Are Open Again

Ok folks so after this long and huge time, I decided to re-open the blog an start to post tech news like before.

So Stay tuned...

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Those who view Tech Oni blog must have noticed that there has not been any update for a very very very long time....

Thats due to the fact that i have left the IT Filed as a job and working in the Aviation Filed.

Due to that i have no free time to work on the blog, the only free time that i have i use it to keep myself updated in the Tech filed.

So Thank you all...

The first bionic eye

Doctor Mark Humayun, professor of the ophthalmology and biomedical engineering together with experts from the Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California initiated the first bionic eye.

Bionic eye consists of a video camera at the dimensions of the haricot bean grain implanted in the eyeball. The camera is connected to an artificial retina, which transmits moving images to the brain by the optic nerve.

The invention gives blind people the ability to see and scientists say that it may be launched in serial production in 3-5 years. Using this invention at the institute where he works, d-r Humayun has already tested the first artificial sight system called Argus.

This gadget is connected to a camera installed in the eyeglasses which catches images that are converted into electric signals which are transmitted by wireless technology to an implant situated behind the retina. Electrodes from the implant decode the signal and create a rudimentary black and white images, transmitted by the optic nerve to the brain.

By now the usage of 10 electrodes has been obtained. Afterwards, at the second stage in is supposed to use 60 electrodes, which offer the patients possibility to see clearer images, but the specialists try to create the third implant with 1000 electrodes, which will offer face recognition.

Google Phone

Evidence for the existence of the Google phone keeps piling up. It's pretty much confirmed though not officially official, between a fairly solid Boston Globe piece and Om Malik's five facts "from a reliable source." The down and dirty:

It's Linux-based, runs Java apps (the entire UI is in Java, as well as possibly the browser), plays multimedia files, and the OS is running on "3-to-5 devices, most of them likely made by HTC." Slightly disappointing is that the UI is "typical of mobiles phones," meaning it's not groundbreaking. But, the browser might be based on the same engine that's in Safari the iPhone (WebKit), and Google's supposedly been tweaking it to make it speedier

25 MHz of spectrum on auction

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin scheduled a vote on rules for another major spectrum auction, one that would encompass 25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz advanced wireless services band and require the winning bidder to offer free broadband service under an aggressive build-out schedule.

“We’ve had a variety of proposals that had come into the commission originally where some people wanted us to give them the spectrum,” said Martin in a briefing with reporters. The FCC chief said a vote may be held at the agency’s upcoming June 12 meeting, but added it is possible the measure could be approved before that date.

Martin said that a licensee of the 2155-2180 MHz spectrum (referred to as the AWS III band) would have to provide a free service tier, and would have to reach 50% of the population in four years and 95% of the population by the end of the license term.

Martin also said the agency will initiate a separate rulemaking on what to do with other AWS frequencies.

The FCC earlier this year auctioned 62 megahertz of 700 MHz spectrum, raising almost $20 billion.

It is unclear whether the FCC would hold the AWS III auction later this year, and if that auction will affect the agency’s plans to re-auction of the 700 MHz D Block. The D Block — whose rules currently call for a public safety-private sector partnership via a national license — was not claimed in the 700 MHz auction because no bidder met the $1.3 billion reserve price.

Interestingly, Martin’s plans for the AWS III spectrum draw on the free wireless broadband access proposal first advocated by M2Z Networks Inc. The FCC dismissed M2Z’s application for spectrum, and the company subsequently challenged the FCC ruling in federal appeals court.

Meantime, Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Christopher Cannon (R-Utah) are pushing a bill to foster deployment of a national, family-friendly wireless broadband network with open access. Their bill envisions one auction of airwaves in the 2155-2180 MHz band and another auction involving yet-to-be-determined spectrum below 3 GHz.

The mobile phone industry generally opposes conditions on spectrum auctioned by the FCC.

Also slated for action at the June 12 meeting is expected dismissal of Skype Ltd.’s petition to mandate an open-access rule for all mobile-phone and other commercial wireless spectrum. Martin also said the FCC will hold a hearing on early termination fees on June 12, a move that follows unsuccessful efforts by the FCC chairman and Verizon Wireless to find common ground on a national policy governing charges of $175 and more levied on consumers that break service contracts.

New Author

Tech Oni would like to welcome its new Autor to the blog family : Mohamed Kamal

Mohamed Kamal has been a very close personal friend for the past 6 years, we share allot of things with each other we we had also made we security website called Online-Tech.net wich we closed some years ago due to the lack of funding...

Welcome Bro.

Nationwide text message alert system approved

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators Wednesday approved a plan to create a nationwide emergency alert system using text messages delivered to cell phones.
Text messages have exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly among young people. The wireless industry's trade association, CTIA, estimates more than 48 billion text messages are sent each month.
The plan stems from the Warning Alert and Response Network Act, a 2006 federal law that requires upgrades to the nation's emergency alert system. The act tasked the Federal Communications Commission with coming up with new ways to alert the public about emergencies.

more info : MSNBC

Programmable Tattoos

Do you like Tattoos? But you get fed up from them easily?

Well here is the answer for you, Get a programmable tattoo. It's programmable tattoos.

more info : OhMyNews.com

Golden iPhone

As we all know when any product comes out in the market there has to be special editions for it.


As for the iPhone you can get the 24 Carat gold one. Thats if you are a rich show off idiot that likes to say : hey look at ma phone, its GOLD and its an iPhone...

You can get it from : Goldstriker in the UK

They Know !!!

Every Click you make and every site you visit, Your ISP (Internet Services Provider) knows about it, logs it and than harvests it.

What do they use it for ? Is it for security reasons ?!

Well they use it to send you advertisement.

When they collect the websites that you visit they can tell your hobbies or what you mostly look for on the internet, that way they can send you specific advertisement.

More info: Link

Viva FireFox

According to Forrester Research Enterprises are starting to love FireFox more than IE7.Enterprises are still using IE6 and not many of them have updated to IE7 instead they started to use FireFox.


In my opinion IE7 is not an evolution for Internet Explorer, When I first saw IE7 the first thing that I noticed were the TAB’s system, And I said to myself : Hey that’s just like FireFox WTF !!!

And I looked no further into IE7 just installed it on a PC at work and that’s all.
The reason that I like FireFox is because it does not use allot of the system resources and it’s light and above all it loads the pictures the last thing. Some will say IE can do that, I don’t know if it can or not but I like FireFox and I’m not going to switch to IE.

MacBook Air hacked under 2 min

At CanSecWest security conference's MacBook Air laptop was hacked under 2 minutes, the first day the contestants were not allowed to touch it (no physical access) on the 2nd day however they were granted physical access to it.

Miller was the winner, he went home with: Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook plus 10,000$ as his prize.

for more information : Click Here

Yuno PC

Do you work allot, Always using your laptop and food drops on it ?

Well here is the answer Yuno PC its still a concept, but look at it this way, Its a computer and it holds your coffee in it.

1 TeraByte Hard Drive

I remember back in the days when the 1 GB hard drive first came out i was like : WOW, 1 GB what am i gona put on all that space.... Well that was back in the days when we only had P1 computer.

That was a past era. Now we have the 1 TB hard drive. Western Digital has released this 1 TB.
1TB of capacity allows for storage of approximately 75 hours of uncompressed DV digital video, the equivalent of 212 4.7GB DVD video discs or up to 250,000 MP3 files.

Internet Tools That You Gotta Have

Here are some tools that i think each one should have :

1-RSS Ticker A Firefox add-on for serious news junkies.

2-Feedreader Read RSS news feeds with this free Windows utility.

3-Pidgin Open Source IM client lets you chat with friends on different networks.

No updates

I’m really sorry for not updating this blog for some time now. The reason is that I got a new job as an IT manager and I have to re-do the whole networking… So forgive me please and I promise you that I will update it before 13 march. Once again I’m really sorry.

Vista Cracked

All who have a pirated version of windows vista must have been trying so many different cracks, and almost non of them work, you can't update. but here is a tool that will embed the OEM keys of vista versions that are on Acer, HP, Lenovo laptops.

Will microsoft be able to block those keys ? well if they did they would block all the people who have the original vista that came with there laptops.

for more information : Link

Goodbye Netscape Navigator

Everyone that used the internet in the past 10 years or more must know Netscape. Well AOL is no longer providing support for it as of : 1st march 2008.
For more info on that you can check this link :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm

updated iphone to firmware 1.1.4

So you have updated your iphone to firmware 1.1.4, and its no more cracked, or you want to update it and don’t now how to crack it ?!

Well you can use : ZiPhone. A tool which allows you to crack the new firmware in just 4.5 minutes.

To download the ZiPhone and more info you can look at : http://www.ziphone.org/

Cheap Vista

Vista prices cut by as much as 48%,but not in U.S

It seems that Microsoft thinks that the price for vista is much over rated, so they decided to lower its price. UK is the only one with a good price cut down. Here is a table of the prices that windows vista will be sold in.





U.S. Vista Pricing
Old Price New Price Price Cut

-Home Premium, Upgrade $159.95 $129.95 18.8%

-Ultimate, Full $399.95 $319.95 20.0%

-Ultimate, Upgrade $259.95 $219.95 15.4%


U.K. Vista Pricing
Old Price New Price Price Cut


-Home Premium, Full £94.29 £50.20 46.8%

-Home Premium, Upgrade £60.97 £44.56 26.9%

-Ultimate, Full £233.60 £131.92 43.5%

-Ultimate, Upgrade £153.59 £122.11 20.5%

-Home Basic, Upgrade £60.97 £44.56 26.9%


EU Vista Pricing
Old Price New Price Price Cut

-Home Basic, Full € 188.27 € 124.19 34.0%

-Home Premium, Full € 223.24 € 147.26 34.0%

-Business, Full € 277.98 € 201.10 27.7%

-Ultimate, Full € 373.67 € 208.17 44.3%

-Home Basic, Upgrade € 97.26 € 64.16 34.0%

-Premium, Upgrade € 150.42 € 80.86 46.2%

-Business, Upgrade € 186.98 € 186.98 0.0%

-Ultimate, Upgrade € 245.03 € 194.04 20.8%