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The Weekly Round-Up: 24.04.09
Round-Up who don't purchase private "land" will be asked to migrate to the new continent if they wish to partake in adult-related activities, presumably involving virtual bits of their virtual bodies. From one tech fad to... [24 Apr 2009]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Each word in the RAM consisted of 32 bits and a total of 1,024 bits of memory. On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into... [20 Jun 2008]
National Carphones dials in to SaaS
Case Study Gordon Anderson, MD of National Carphones, told silicon.com: "Before we had those systems we were running disparate systems, bits here, bits there - using one accounting system, one booking system, one... [13 Mar 2008]
Recycled PCs posing data leak risk
News Wiping the disk or rewriting random bits over the existing data multiple times makes it impossible to retrieve the original information, according to experts, although it is worth making sure that any wiping method meets... [09 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scan my books
Comment During the ditching and destruction process my mind strayed to Gordon Bell's My Life Bits Project at Microsoft and the Google Books project - both are scanning all available documents and manuscripts... [02 Jul 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: I, Avatar
Comment You can see bits and pieces but not the whole. But then of course these were press conferences taking place in the virtual world Second Life - which aren't run by quite the same rules as real-world ones. [19 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The power of analogy - or not
Comment Most people seem to have figured out GDP is related to speed of movement of both atoms and bits. The number and the speed of bits is in no way related to all of our practical experiences in the world of... [09 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment In short the entertainment industry understands that the emotional bits of communication are the most important. Add a good video channel and a life-size high-definition display and you have it made. The... [26 Mar 2007]
Minority Report: Why I'm already dreaming of an iPhone
Comment In terms of product announcements, the keynote was pretty thin on the ground, no new Macs and no preview of the 'top secret' bits of Leopard. The battery life is paltry (five to 16 hours depending on... [11 Jan 2007]
Dan's China diary - day 1
Comment Huge loads of cardboard and other bits and pieces are carted around on the back of bikes. We talk about life, families, then move onto politics and human rights. Susan says everyone wants a better... [08 Jun 2006]
Photos: Future tech from HP boffins
Photo The saved footage is downloaded to a PC where sophisticated head motion detection algorithms determine which bits are most likely to be of interest to the user and whether a still, panorama or video clip is the most... [12 Apr 2006]
CIO Jury: Does 'geek' stereotype still dog IT execs?
News Yawar Murad, CIO at GE Life Insurance, agreed: "The barriers are mental - CIOs and IT directors must understand the business drivers and where the industry is heading and make sure they are included in the business... [26 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Here comes 1984
Comment While I no more wish to be blown to bits than anyone else, I would rather take my chance on it than give up any of my civil rights. Surely life is an adventure in which we have to accept some risks. I do... [01 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: A new 'soft' technology
Comment Sooner or later, the Jobcentre people are going to have to figure out what to do with the bits of paper they are writing things down on. That may lead to the reinvention of more advanced systems for handling... [04 Oct 2005]
'Cyberterrorists poised to attack', warns Labour peer
News Nobody's getting blown to bits," said Schneier. The CNI consists of key systems and networks whose loss would, in the UK government's view, have a serious impact on the economic, political and social... [28 Apr 2005]
