Companies could generate own power
No business owner could have failed to have noticed that the price of oil has been roller coasting up and down over the last year of so, this should serve as warning to businesses that the price of power is always going to be a source for concern.
However for all businesses it not always practical [...]
Stolen PS3 tracked through PSN
Buying a second hand PS3 is not always the best way of obtaining a new games console as one person in the US found, when his girlfriend bought a PS3 from a second hand games store.
Having used the console several times the new owner was surprised to get a knock on the door by the [...]
Visiting SL with your mind
Researchers at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Keio University have developed a remarkable piece of engineering with a device that can enable a disabled person to chat and walk around the Second Life site by simply using their brainwaves.
In a demonstration a forty one year old male who suffers from a muscle disorder [...]
Two years after being raided, the Pirate Bay survives
It was the end of May two years ago when the Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish police and the two owners of the site were arrested, but not for long.
The sites servers were taken and to all intents and purposes the authorities may have thought that they had effectively closed down the Pirates [...]
Tell the boss if you use an Xbox as a server
IT departments will always make do and mend, it’s a natural thing to simply fix something and if it works ok, just leave it to run. But this is okay until the people in the department have left leaving a new team to fix any problems.
This particular organisation is a university and when all of [...]
Gmail the number one spam resource
The problem with email is spam, well actually its spammers. But with all of security features that have been installed on our computers and what the email hosting companies have put into their systems, why does spam keep getting through?
It is a question of where it comes from. Gmail as it comes from Google is [...]
Google works for CIA
As if Google did not control enough things, it seems that they have been recruited to help out the CIA and other security services to help them better understand how to process and share the information that these services appear to accumulate.
In order to get one step ahead of the people that they are [...]
Free Wi-Fi coming soon
We-Fi is a new product which once downloaded onto to a laptop will search out hot spots in the local area, this is done in conjunction with Google Maps, which will in time have a complete guide throughout the world of all hotspots, which is great for people who are travelling around and looking for [...]
February 6, 2008The two billion transistor chip
The computer chip giant Intel has launched what they call Tukwila a quad core chip which is the first to have more than two billion transistors contained within its tiny structure.
However before anyone gets too exited do not expect this to appear inside a PC as it has been designed for the high end server [...]
Hackers at war with Scientology
Scientology has been getting some very high profile publicity recently which has pushed some people over the edge with regards to the general attitude of the scientologists, especially the famous ones, and the way that they push their ideas onto people.
Naturally there is always going to an adverse reaction to this and so a group [...]