"Technology" archive
Friday 8 April
- The nature of blogging was irrepressible... (07:11) - Phil Gyford has a really interesting post on his blog about the nature of blogging and how some blogs may need to accept more responsibility for the accuracy of their postings. He picks out BoingBoing for special criticism, mainly because... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 1 April
- Gmail offers Infinite+1 storage?! (08:42) - If this is an April Fool's joke, it's not very funny (unless you like really geeky jokes): Google is now promising to keep Gmail's storage limits ahead of every webmail provider. At least, that's what they're claiming on the Gmail... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 31 March
- Truly cyborg-like (15:28) - The Guardian has a fantastic report about some experiments in which a paralyzed person can control devices through implants in his brain.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- 95% of IT groups fail to deliver (15:11) - This report, stating that 95% of IT groups fail to deliver satisfactory products, is preaching to the choir. The fact of it is this: software is complicated and everyone wants to believe it isn't. It is, now get some processes... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 25 March
- Inside Google's s/ware development environment (20:18) - A developer at Google, Joe Beda, has posted some insights into Google's software development process on his blog. Google's policy of expecting staff to spend 20% of their time on personal projects has always been intriguing to me, and I've... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 24 March
- Sosumi - the backstory (20:50) - The weird name of the Mac noise? Yes, it is a legal reference.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- SOA Governance Tool (20:41) - As our company has been developing SOA capabilities for our customers (like USDA), the question of how to control the proliferation of standards across the business has reared its head. This great-sounding tool from WebLayers, as reported on ADTmag.com, may... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 23 March
- Firefox 1.0.2 is out (16:05) - Firefox continues to pave the way with rapid response to security threats by releasing 1.0.2. | 0 Trackbacks
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- Good summary of VCF disaster (14:25) - The FBI's Virtual Case File (aka "Trilogy") was a $176 million disaster. Who's to blame? The contractor (SAIC)? The customer? The complexity of technology today? Eric Knorr of InfoWorld provides a good overview of the situation and suggests some believable causes. | 0 Trackbacks
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- Human Area Network is a reality (07:42) - Unsurprisingly, NTT has developed a technology that turns human skin into a network device. As El Reg notes, "you can swap files by straight human contact, so two filesharers equipped with RadTacton devices can indulge in torrid illegal P2P activity... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 22 March
- UK TV channel 5 offers program downloads (09:11) - Five is the UK's newest terrestrial channel, known as being very scrappy and trendy-controversial (e.g. showing soft porn after pub hours). But there may be a glimmer of innovation entering their strategy, as they have begun to offer downloads of... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 24 February
- Tivo and Apple - an "a-ha" moment? (10:28) - If Apple buys Tivo, they won't do it to simply replicate the iTunes Music Store for video content. They'll do it to win another battle in the long war to capture the heart and soul of family life -- the content we produce and consume -- and they'll do it at Microsoft's great expense. | 108 Trackbacks
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Sunday 13 February
- GoogleMaps reveals inner truths (11:39) - Google identifies AOL as my local source of porn, and The Salvation Army as my nearest adult store. | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 4 February
- Expect blood in the control booth (07:17) - The Beeb has invented a new on-field tracking technology that has much broader applications than just rugby. | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 3 February
Tuesday 1 February
- Text chunking (16:06) - Text chunking is a neat idea that's popularity is overdue. In 2003, I helped put together a real-world text chunking content management system that simultaneously managed and supported online and offline publishing solutions. This is this project's story...or some of it, at least. | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 24 December
- This guy needs help (11:58) - The BBC reports today that a guy from Manchester has achieved the highest score ever on Galaxian, after practising for 2 hours every day for the last 24 years. Now I understand why my wife was so freaked out when... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 22 December
- The story of Apple's Graphing Calculator (11:18) - The best ideas, the ideas that last, attract their own resources. As the case of Apple's Graphic Calculator shows, the best ideas create enthusiasm in a broad base of people, given enough time. | 49 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 21 December
- Peter's crying 'Wolf'? (11:41) - Peter Torr's arguments about Firefox suggest a broader issue -- the need for open source advocates to think more broadly about the user experience, starting with how users think about and actually pursue acquisition of the software. | 112 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 14 December
- Google brings offline to online (15:55) - Google has announced that it intends to scan books held in certain libraries and make them available online. This is a fantastic idea, and surprising that no-one has thought of it before. As one of the quoted librarians notes: It... | 39 Trackbacks
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Monday 13 December
Thursday 9 December
- Ellison to ISV's: "We're gonna slap you like your mama" (13:36) - So Larry Ellison has realized that Oracle needs to keep evolving its software to be competitive. This is not a new strategy for Oracle, or anyone else. As a product becomes commoditized (and database backup is a commodity product, let's... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 8 December
- A Linux PalmOS? (10:41) - Now this is something I would've expected to happen a while ago. My first PDA was a Palm V and while I use a Blackberry nowadays, I still prefer the Palm's flexibility. It just seems friendlier, somehow. If it weren't... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 6 December
- IBM and Apple alliance? (16:49) - Well, this is very scary. And also quite a delightful thought! Apple with IBM's dollars? My, what would Jonathan Ive do with their resources?... | 2 Trackbacks
Sunday 5 December
- Video games are not the end of rational thought (12:11) - ...although articles like this one in The Washington Post may well be. The author, a high school English teacher, bemoans the fact that many of his students and young people in general spend many long hours playing video games, shunning... | 35 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 30 November
- Movable Type 3.121 is up! (22:09) - Hurrah! Well, maybe now I can stop all this comment spam that's been coming my way. Bleurgh.... | 174 Trackbacks
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Friday 24 September
- Ceefax is 30! (22:50) - For 30 years UK TV viewers have had access to an online news service that made it possible to watch TV and read the news at the same time. Ceefax, as it is known uses spare lines on a regular... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 28 July
- CA Ingres going open source (15:38) - Now this is an interesting development! Ingres is indeed a great database -- a number of folks I know use it, and like it a great deal -- and potentially could massively disrupt the database market. This goes to show... | 134 Trackbacks
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Friday 23 July
- Gateway dives...and saves! (09:17) - So I finally made the leap and bought a decent-sized TV (as opposed to the multi-format 21" TV we've had since 1999). After a lot of hand-wringing, we decided on a large-screen TV from Gateway which was on sale. We... | 85 Trackbacks
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Friday 25 June
- Apple accelerates military computing (09:35) - FCW is reporting that the Army is paying $5.8 million for a cluster of Apple G5s that was create a 25 teraflop supercomputer. How cool is that?! Apple seems to be stealing brainshare from the top-end (supercomputers) and bottom-end (education... | 1 Trackbacks
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Monday 23 February
- Vodafone - down but definitey not out (14:30) - The Register echos a report in The Times (of London) that Vodafone is glad it lost the bidding for AT&T Wireless. It seemed strange to me that Cingular would pay $41bn for a company that's clearly been struggling for some... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 15 February
- OO.org in libraries (11:33) - The Guardian reported on chap in Scotland who has spent £5,000 of his own money to distribute CDs of OpenOffice to libraries around the country. Seems like this practice is spreading, too. In the past few days, I've seen three... | 2 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 10 February
- FCC says no to FBI on VoIP (09:41) - The FBI asked the FCC to delay discussions on rules to govern the use of Voice Over IP (VoIP), which is gaining significant ground against land-based telcos. The Government FCC said no, which is both positive and intriguing. It's positive... | 231 Trackbacks
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Monday 9 February
- New Mozilla browser, Firefox (09:37) - Get this now! http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ I have and -- whee! -- it's luvverly. The more I use the Mozilla browsers, the more I like them. Seems to me that the users are listening to the users and the results are phenomenally... | 198 Trackbacks
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- If you can't beat them... (09:34) - The Washington Post reported that Microsoft's associate general counsel, Richard J. Wallis, will chair the antitrust section of the American Bar Association! The Post ran a phenomenally short blurb in their Business section but a much longer piece was featured... | 129 Trackbacks
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Saturday 5 July
- High-speed walkway in Paris (13:06) - The French are sick and tired of walking, so they've invented a fast-moving walkway (check out the neat-o animation). Actually sounds like a great idea! Aside from the fact that it moves people around faster, it'll persuade people to walk...
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Friday 4 July
- SMS from AIM and iChat (15:31) - As seen on the Interesting People mail list, you can now SMS folks through AIM (and, by proxy, iChat on the Mac). Apparently you can't yet SMS non-US phones but that's bound to happen sooner or later. As it is,...
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