computers at the time
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo Indulge your taste for more slimline computers here. This is the Pilot Ace computer at NPL in 1950: one of the first modern computers in the world and the first in London. This Sony Reader promises to improve the breadth of holiday reading by... [02 Sep 2008]
Affective Medicine: Technology with Emotional Intelligence
White Paper This paper highlights research at the MIT Media Lab aimed at giving computers the ability to comfortably sense, recognize, and respond to certain aspects of human emotion, especially affective states such as frustration, confusion, interest... [02 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment To date we have seen task-specific machines outstrip our abilities at everything from numeric calculation, controlling an elevator, landing a plane, tuning a car engine in motion, assembling cameras and computers and decoding the genome. [28 Aug 2008]
Dell targets China, India with PC range
News Dell unveiled several new computers yesterday made specifically for emerging PC markets like China and India. Dell has traditionally derived the majority of its business in the US but for the first time ever its international business ticked above... [28 Aug 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News If the computers are in agreement on those questions, the surfer is sent directly to the site. Signing up with a Certificate Authority can be expensive and time-consuming, so some sites prefer to do it themselves, Andersen said. [27 Aug 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo This was one of the first modern computers in the world and the first in London. One is it influenced the people generating the Arpanet around that time - they effectively took on the key structures [Davies] proposed and fed them into the Arpanet. [06 Aug 2008]
Design of a Real-Time Remote-Access Engineering Laboratory Using Integrated Web Service and Wireless Technology for Distance Learners
White Paper This system eliminates the difficulties of transportation of automation workstations, the installation of costly software on multiple computers, and gathering distance students at a central location at a specific time in order to conduct their... [04 Aug 2008]
Nasa hacker loses extradition appeal
News McKinnon is accused of sabotaging vital defence systems after admitting accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers between 2001 and 2002.silicon.com Public Sector They alleged that McKinnon had been told he was unlikely to be able to serve his... [30 Jul 2008]
Police to get thousands more mobiles
News Back in May, policing minister Tony McNulty announced £50m to furnish 27 police forces with 10,000 mobile computers. The new funding will pay for an additional 15,000 handheld computers by March 2010, bringing the total number to around 30,000 by... [22 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment In some instances I had five active CRT screens as my workspace, backed up by the most powerful computers available at the time. The basic idea was to be able to roam the planet, communicating by all possible means, which at the time invariably... [22 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News These computers are increasingly being connected via a home network, the penetration of which has doubled in the same time period from 12 per cent to 24 per cent. Soon, the 500GB hard drive that comes as standard on most home computers today won't... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: How to destroy your hard drive
Photo For the more philanthropic or environmentally conscious among us, donating old computers to a good cause is an option. Obviously the previous approach depends on you having enough time to wait for acid to do its work but in some situations speed is... [17 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News Most organisations place the BES within key networks, such as email servers, giving it privileged access to other computers on that network. RIM is aware of this weakness and said in its advisory that the BlackBerry Attachment Service can be... [17 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment I tried three more times during the day on two computers with two different browsers. The next-generation approach would be to detect anomalous behaviour in real-time' - trust me this is not going to work. [15 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News Michael Wingert, vice president of Seagate's personal computer division, said: "Organisations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new... [15 Jul 2008]
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