03 July 2008
It’s all up in the air! Now this is amazing; mid air views with users interacting with Google Earth using their hands. The potential for Human Computer Interface (HCI) is awesome. The holographic interface is being developed by lm3labs…I’m going to stop talking now, check it out here. Popularity: 1% [?]
03 July 2008
8,002,530 is the number to beat. That’s right, FF 3 was downloaded over 8 million times in the first 24 hours of availability following a campaign to mobilise the Open Source community. “As the arbiter and recorder of the world’s amazing facts, Guinness World Records is pleased to add Mozilla’s achievement to our archives,” Gareth Deaves, records [...]
03 July 2008
DoJ launches anti-trust investigation. It would seem the US Department of Justice is a little edgey about the deal which allows Yahoo to serve Google ads. To be honest, I’m not really surprised when you consider that the deal effectively wraps up 80% of the search market between two companies! Ok, the deal hasn’t actually gone ahead [...]
02 July 2008
Bad news for gamers. A new Trojan is spreading fast in World of Warcraft. The malware, which originated in Asia, is slowly spreading through the gaming world with the main activity being in China and Taiwan. The malware attempts to steal log-in details from YouXiChaYuan and Perfect World, two online games popular in China and some other [...]
01 July 2008
…hardware market to defy the economy. I said it yesterday and now Gartner have confirmed it (I feel really good when things like this happen). The predictions came out of the Gartner IT Hardware Insights forum, which was held at the company’s UK headquarters in Egham, Surrey. Senior research analyst Errol Rasit said the period from 2008 to [...]
01 July 2008
Trailing the US by a long chalk! Same old story; the US leads the way in yet another area. The business world is being driven by an information explosion which would have easily swamped traditional methods of computing. The virtualised world provided companies with the ability to side step issues associated with power requirements, physical space [...]
