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Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo Besides GPS devices, the company has deals with netbook and laptop makers, e-book readers, and digital photo frames. The Vizit digital photo frame, seen here, is made by a small start-up Isabella. When... [09 Nov 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News But how can execs be confident that all these digital conversations are necessary and not just time-wasting? Should you be keeping a digital eye on your workforce? Unlike workers in the US, employees in... [22 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Minister for Digital Engagement Tom Watson commented: "Want to see British talent? An early success has been Tesco @ Home, a gadget which brings Outlook-style order to grocery shopping, allowing... [14 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet That's exactly what it is.e-book readers are typically small, thin devices - about the size of a paperback novel - that can store hundreds or thousands of books in digital form. Hold on, if I get a book in... [07 Oct 2009]
Livening Up Surround-Sound in Digital Television
White Paper The companies that offer solutions for broadcast, namely Dolby, DTS, and SRS will continue to innovate, and industry bodies will continue to standardize to ensure that content is delivered into the home in a responsible... [02 Oct 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News October will see the launch of the National Digital Resource Bank (NDRB), a digital store of educational materials for teachers, which is based on an open source platform. The UK government may have been... [29 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News Don't make my TV act like a PC," customers told Intel after its earlier forays into TV, said Eric Kim, general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, and Intel got the message. But it's coming, Rattner... [28 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property battles and digital rights management, and it looks as though the movie industry is intent on doing the same. Compiled at my home on a... [24 Sep 2009]
Photos: The hottest tech out of the UK's Silicon Valley
Photo CEO Ian Wilson said the technology could have uses in a range of areas, such as online games, virtual worlds such as Second Life, medical and military training simulators and digital advertising. Patients Know Best (PKB)... [24 Sep 2009]
The PC is past it: Computing power is everywhere, says Intel
News While there are consumer gadgets such as netbooks, portable gaming devices and web-enabled handhelds, there are also devices that are mission-critical in the medical field, features that are driving change in the automotive industry,... [24 Sep 2009]
Facebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
News Earlier this year, Sandberg keynoted the AdAge Digital conference to pitch Facebook's "active network" of friend connections as a powerful advertising tool, and two years ago Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg... [22 Sep 2009]
Apple's unspectacular launch: It's just a sign of maturity
News Among its new features are improvements to its Genius software, music-sharing capabilities, and the company's take on the digital album cover. These are not unimportant tasks, at least considering that to this point in... [10 Sep 2009]
Photos: Forget paper - meet the printer that can print your car parts
Photo Here's another bespoke item for the home designed using the Digital Forming service. A company called Digital Forming is about to launch software that large companies will be able to... [27 Aug 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment This conclusion is based on a major research project I led about a year ago on how the Millennials will change the world of work, as well as a series of short films I made in which children explore their vision of a future... [24 Aug 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News And now as more digital information is "virtualised" and accessed in the cloud, centralised datacentres are getting even bigger and are consuming even more energy. The idea of the "smart grid" is to modernise the... [19 Aug 2009]
