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Dragnet 2.0

In a social network connected world, it seems auto theft will be a thing of the past. A car dealer had a relatively rare Nissan Skyline GT-R stolen recently and posted this information with pictures on the internet. The next day someone spotted the car, snapped a picture of the thief and in short order followed him to his house where the thief backed in with his license plate exposed.

The directions to his house were subsequently posted online with a map and directions.

Needless to say, he was arrested and the video of him being taken away is online as well. Gotta love the Internet.

[NY Times]

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Next iPhone to Have Bluetooth Stereo, GPS, Nike Integration

What's on your wish list for the iPhone? The obvious addition is a keyboard and faster connection (well that is my personal wish list anyway.) But certainly stereo bluetooth and GPS are on my short list as well.

According to Gizomodo -- who weaved a story from numerous far-flung sites, the next iPhone will have GPS, stereo bluetooth, better security against those pesky hackers looking to unlock the device and integration with the world's leading sneaker company.

There is also talk of the phone acting as a remote control. For what you may ask? It is unclear but perhaps it could be Apple TV?

Personally, I am waiting for full sneaker remote control integration so I can just press a button that says "run" and have the sneakers do the work.

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Qwest Outage

Qwest is investigating an internet outage which took place yesterday. Apparently internet and VoIP service was interrupted for a number of customers yesterday afternoon.

Perhaps not coincidentally, some ISPs were also knocked offline which in turn took TMCnet down for about an hour last night.

Whether the incidents are related is not known to me at the moment but there seems to be a slim chance that numerous outages around the same time are unrelated.

To show you just how interconnected the nation's communications networks are, Verizon Wireless said 24 cell towers in western Colorado were off the air for more than an hour yesterday.

One would surmise Verizon is using Qwest fiber for backhaul from its cell tower sites.

[Rocky Mountain News]

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IPTV Growth

TMCnet's Eve Sullivan writes about the massive adoption rates of IPTV worldwide. Apparently IPTV services grew from 4.7 million households in 2006 to 14 million in 2007.

The growth rate in Europe actually hit 250%. Here is more information on the paper.

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