ICT Enthusiast and photographer.
In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. Having been the internet’s instigator and, since 1998, its voluntary taskmaster, the US government finally agreed to transition its control over not-for-profit internet overseeing organisation ICANN,
The Facet Technology Mobile360 Van used for taking photos for Micrsoft’s Street-Side Technology Preview of Windows Live Local Beta has once again been spotted on the road but this time it wasn’t actually spotted in the Street-Site Imagery found at: http://preview.local.live.com/ But instead by kimopupule a Flickr user who spotted this black (normally white) Windows Live Local Van while driving, he says his first words when seeing it were
So you may have already heard that MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger is the World’s Largest IM (Instant Messaging) Network for May 2006, but have you actually seen the some of the stats from ComScore’s May 2006 Report where it reports MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger has 204m subscribers, Yahoo! Messenger 78m, AIM 34m and ICQ 33.9m. Well if not here’s a
According to PCAdvisor a new slim, wireless keyboard is being developed by Microsoft’s hardware division that will allow users of Windows Vista and Windows Live services to access key features more easily. This keyboard apparently dubbed The Ultimate Keyboard will be announced later this year as part of a desktop package which will include a wireless laser mouse. The keyboard
The Space Shuttle Discovery has now launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center on the 4th of July 2006 (US Independence Day) at 1438 EDT (1838 GMT) heading it’s way to the International Space Station (ISS). However though it was a successfully launch, NASA is luckey to be lauching at all as this is the first shuttle flight of 2006 and
Last week on the 26th July 2006 I was contacted by Emily Chipping a Web Marketing Representative from the ShieldZone Corporation, who asked me if I would like to do a review on one of their products. To be more specific their invisibleSHIELD product, which is a super-tough, thin, transparent film that is used to protect small electronic devices from
The Philips VOIP 433 Dual Phone for Windows Live Messenger that I won at the second Windows Live Session last month was delivered today, and I have to agree with what Robert Gale has already said about it in a blog post he made a couple of days ago, that being that it’s really good. It’s easy to install and ties
A degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish university in response to industry demand for IT security experts. The University of Abertay in Dundee will run the Bachelor of Science undergraduate course in “Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures” starting in the next academic year in October. Around 30 students will be enrolled in the course, which the
THE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a “code of ethics” for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. Dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years”. Keeping control New robo-ethics
Now I don’t normally blog about what events the BCS (British computer society) is holding as everybody else who probably already wants to attend BCS Events has probably already set themselves on the mailing list, but as this event looks quite interesting and Non BCS members are welcome to attend, I thought I might as well blog about it! Friday 28th