| Great deals on worldwide ecotourist hot spots
Earth Day is April 22, so we've turned our attention to ecotourist hot spots around the globe. For environmentally-conscious travelers a "green vacation" is the only way to go — luckily, it's easier than ever to travel responsibly and have a fabulous trip to boot. We've found four deals in some of the world's most pristine destinations: Pick between air-land deals to Borneo or Botswana that start at just $1,492, a hotel package in Dominica from $199/night per person with a slew of freebies, or an Antarctica cruise with savings of up to $2,550! For more information on ecotourism, check out the Top 10 Ecotourist Hot Spots and our Spotlight on Green Travel. Behold the natural bounty of Borneo for $1,492
Borneo, a captivating island off the coast of Malaysia, is one of the best-kept secrets on the ecotourist circuit.
Africa still has problems, but technology is making inroads
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Was anybody out there checking out jobs with the U.S. post office in 2005? Do you remember when you called that 800 number to get details? Sure you do. Do you remember how the voice on the other end of the line helping you had this soft British accent with a slight African lilt? Do you know why? Because you were routed to a call center in Kenya. So maybe you weren't looking for a job, but you had just bought a new computer. And when you turned it on, you clicked the icon for one of America's biggest Internet service providers to get broadband access. But you needed someone to talk you through getting it connected -- so you called that 800 number. The techie who helped you was also a Kenyan at that same Nairobi call center. It's called KenCall.
InfoWorld publishes false report on Apple Mac security
"Nancy Gohring, writing for InfoWorld, delivered a misleading report yesterday on a Mac security exploit contest held at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, BC," Daniel Eran writes for RoughylDrafted. Eran writes, "In her defense, it appears likely that Gohring did not write the headline ["Myth crushed as hacker shows Mac break-in"] for her InfoWorld article, which described the contest winner as being 'able to remotely break into a Mac as part of a contest designed to illustrate security flaws in OS X.' That part was simply wrong." "Whoever did write the headline must have been smoking weed in celebration of 4/20, because Gohring's article clearly described a local exploit. There's a big difference between the remote exploits that made Windows infamous for its insecurity and a local exploit of an application," Eran writes.
Pontiac brings back rear-drive excitement
By our count, the last time Pontiac sold a four-door car with rear-wheel-drive was 1988 or 1989, when the big-but-boring Safari/Parisienne wagon disappeared from Canadian showrooms. Now, nearly 20 years later, GM's so-called "excitement" division has a large sedan in the wings that may be capable of reviving that emotion. The rear-wheel-drive G8 was unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show recently, and while the car on display was a prototype, GM says it's "representative" of what the production G8 GT will bring to showrooms early next year. Notably, that includes a 6.0-litre small-block V-8 making 362 horsepower and 391 pound-feet of torque and mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. Even more notable will be the availability of a six-speed manual gearbox in that GT model shortly after the car's introduction.
Family safari deaths shock friends
One of the last things the Parker family did while packing up in Knysna and heading off on safari was write a note containing their contact details. "For all practical purposes we will be disappearing off the face of the earth from March 20th with no clear contact details or email probably until mid-June." At around 10.45am last Saturday, Kelvin Parker stood alone in the Zimbabwean bush with the crumpled bodies of his wife and daughter, who had been trampled to death by an elephant. Earlier that Saturday morning Parker, 54, his wife Veronica, 47 and daughter, Charlotte, 10, drove from their overnight safari camp, The Hide, to Kennedy 2 water hole in the southern part of Hwange National Park in north west Zimbabwe. .
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