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Is The Book An Endangered Species?

By Anna Gruber in Technology on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 09:05

I love reading books. If I am on holiday for 2 weeks I can easily get through a good 4 or 5 books and then steal the one my husband has only got 30 pages into, and finish that off. It isn’t just reading the book itself, it is going into Waterstones with its creaky floors and spending hours... read more

Well, it's been debated whether Thomas J Watson, the Chairman of IBM, actually said this some 67 years ago, but I think that the quote is evidence of the mentality of the day. I-COM currently has more servers than this in-house, and it's been discussed, sometimes heatedly, as to whether we... read more

Wave Goodbye to Google Wave

By Adrian Berry in Technology on Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 10:57

Google announced yesterday on their official blog that they would be ceasing development of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration. It allowed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of... read more

Google Chrome OS - Microsoft Windows Killer?

By Adrian Berry in Technology on Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 00:00

So Google has finally showed us Chrome OS - Google's much anticipated operating system. So what's it like? Is it going to take over from Windows on your PC? Well the truth is no and it was never meant to do anyway.Chrome OS is Google's latest attempt to further its concept of "browser-based"... read more

The BBC has reported that the first video-in-print adverts will appear in an American entertainment magazine. The adverts will be featured on slim-line screens about the size of a mobile phone screen and can display up to 40 minutes of video time. Of course this will pave the way for movie... read more

Why you need Augmented Reality

By Paul Greenhalgh in Technology on Thursday, August 20, 2009 @ 10:14

When I first got a sat nav in my car I was really happy. It seemed that the world was getting one step closer to being just like Grand Theft Auto: I had a display in the corner of the windscreen that told me exactly where I was and where I was going. What more could I want - other than a vast... read more

ET iphone home

By Keir Gibson in Technology on Friday, July 24, 2009 @ 13:08

I was in my local supermarket picking up the usual items last week, having a debate with myself over an apple or an orange? Then I looked beyond the cherries and saw a young chap holding his iphone. So I made up my mind, apple! I popped around being careful not to wheel my seemingly drunk... read more

Is Google Chrome Really The Fastest Browser?

By Tino Triste in Technology on Thursday, September 4, 2008 @ 16:04

Let's (for a moment) put aside Google Chrome's privacy concerns and find out whether Chrome is really 10 times faster than any other browser as Google claimed. As pointed out by Adrian yesterday, Chrome's performance loading the Google Analytics pages were second to none, and seemed to load... read more

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