Nasa hacker petition presented to Number 10

Blog Sting's wife Trudie Styler and Janis Sharp have presented a petition to Number 10 calling for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon not to be extradited to the US. Styler, and Sharp, who is McKinnon's...

Increase Your Performance! No, I didn't mean it like that…

Blog Usually whenever I get an email with a subject line that contains the term “Increase Your Performance” - I tend to file it under junk, spam and filth if it hasn´t been directed towards that route...

Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID

Blog Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved, would...

NoSQL and the monster mutation

Blog Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle data in the...

RE:More on Moblin

Blog Comment Hi Moley, thanks for your frank comments. I would say in all honesty that I agree with your evaluation, but I do indeed try to be 'restrained' in what I write here, because I have learned over the...

Surrey, London and Peking get a yuan for spintronics

Blog Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping...

RE:Ubuntu Netbook Remix - An Acid Test

Blog Comment Oh my, yes. If you have a computer with only 1gb of ram on board and you apply readyboost under vista then there is a very noticable difference. It stops much of vista triping up over paving slabs...

Etymotic hf2 custom fit earphones

Blog It was way back last year that a guy called Andy Shiach came to my house and syringed a thick gloop into my ears. It was in a good cause. Andy is an ex musician who damaged his ears while playing....

Grey Army

Talkback I love the idea that the over 75s will leap at the chance to get their free ID card. In talking to people and campaigning against these things, it's that very age group that need no persuading....

Optical servers: at the heart of tomorrow's data centre?

Blog Servers of tomorrow will be optically powered, and consume a fraction of the power they do today. This means less heat, less energy consumption and, of course, data centres whose compute power is...

WiFi vs. Mobile Broadband (HSPA)

Blog I have to say first that I am mildly surprised to be writing this. I'm sitting in Starbucks, where I came to spend an hour drinking coffee and using their public WiFi access before going to an...

not for everyone in the same way as windows is not for every...

Talkback Well it's not for everyone ok. But I dont see myself going back on Windows personally. So I would say that windows is also not for everyone!! There are things that I can do on Linux and not on...

NYC launches municipal data mash-up contest

Blog Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, has announced NYC Big Apps, an annual contest to produce applications using data from the City to increase access and transparency. The City intends to release...

Zoho socialises Projects 2.0

Blog After a teaser campaign that mentioned integrated Zoho web-based services and a 'popular Microsoft product', Zoho has unveiled Zoho Projects 2.0, which brings together Microsoft Project and a...

HP Mini 2140 - I Get To Try One!

Blog I have been wanting to get my hands on an HP Mini 2140 netbook ever since I read the first announcement for it. I already own an HP 2133 Mini-Note (wouldn't it be nice if they would be more...

Nokia N97

Member Review i had E90 and IPhone before getting the new black Nokia N97. Even before the touch came into Nokia and since i had my hands on IPhone, I always wishing to do the regular and basic things in my E90...

London launch event

Blog Last night saw the launch party for the London event when a great crowd of 93 potential sleepers converged on the BDO Stow Hayward offices in Baker Street. We were treated to a stirring speech from...

To be Paranoid or NOT Paranoid?

Talkback I think he's most concerned with dilution of the base of experienced programmers available to work on GNU projects. Other than that, he might be paranoid. Maybe I missed something in all the...

RE:Gratification, instant and otherwise

Blog Comment A good way to get a grip on music software is to turn to the games consoles. Codemasters make music 3000 on the PS2, and whilst some may scoff this software is "powerful" It lets you get a feel...

What he said ..

Talkback The thing that bothers me is why they even wrote this tool in the first place. It bothered me when I first heard it announced. It bothered me when I realised people were actually using it and it...