Second Life
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White Paper The technology is well suited for a variety of use cases in everybody's life such as home entertainment system, instantaneous synchronization and file transfer. It is designed to operate in from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz... [11 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment They're incredibly powerful as mediums to connect and establish relationships with others in business and, more importantly, in life! The nvidia Ion based ones like the Samsung N510 or HP/Compaq Mini 311 where you get a... [11 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment Thus you can imagine the considerable frisson of excitement in the Janacek household last week as the Apple Store returned to life after an hour of downtime and revealed a new range of consumer Macs.... [03 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment The small screen size, while considered a plus to persons on the move, could prove a downer to some who like to view life in widescreen. What started back in 2006 as a niche product aimed at children in the developing... [02 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.10.09
Round-Up Think The Good Life, with ADSL and without the flares. But this is nothing compared to the life of a police gadget out on the mean streets of Britain. Londoners, another notoriously profane lot, were... [23 Oct 2009]
Avatars made to wear a suit to work as the style police arrive
News And businesses are increasingly experimenting with virtual worlds - such as Second Life - to cut costs by conducting meetings online. While workers might create outlandish avatars to escape the... [09 Oct 2009]
Photos: Tech wins big in US Army 'best inventions' awards
Photo Soldiers are renowned for finding ways to modify and improve their issued gear to meet the realities of life in the field. The second of the inventions in the Army's top 10 list for 2008 is the One... [30 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that started life back in 2006 as a side project for staff at a San Francisco start-up but has since mushroomed into a social networking juggernaut,... [29 Sep 2009]
Dell ditches the wires with Latitude Z for business
News The secondary processor - used mostly in smartphones - also draws much less power than a more robust desktop or notebook processor and so while it's running in the background it doesn't drain the battery as fast: using just the... [29 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. Novalia... [24 Sep 2009]
The PC is past it: Computing power is everywhere, says Intel
News Chip technology used to be focused around speed, size and improved battery life, Otellini noted. These 22nm manufacturing techniques will be the basis for future chips from Intel that will begin arriving in the... [24 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News Smith added: "It's amazing the number of people who have never heard of Second Life. More must be done to convince grey-haired business leaders to embrace web 2.0 developments, a panel of experts has... [23 Sep 2009]
Motorola joins the Android Cliq with T-Mobile device
News MotoBlur is certainly nice in that it brings together all a user's information, much like Palm's Synergy feature, but it'll be interesting to see the real-life user experience of it. Motorola did say it would announce a... [11 Sep 2009]
Google Gmail storms past AOL to breathe heavily down Hotmail's neck
News Still, there's no doubt that Gmail has breathed new life into the original killer application for the internet since it made its debut five years ago, and Yahoo! Microsoft's Hotmail is the second-most... [18 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo The World Map of Real Places in Second Life created by developer New Business Horizons provides an access point to all of the real-life locations that have been recreated in the virtual... [04 Aug 2009]
