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‘Future of Computing’ Category

Feb 08 2008

5 times as much Malware

Reports suggest that there were five times as many malicious programs on the net in 2007 than in 2006. AV, a security software testing organisation saw over 5 million unique programs compared with under a million for 2006.

Feb 06 2008

Store 500 gigabit per square inch

An unbelievable half a terrabit per square inch, Crestec, the company behind the next generation hard drives have named the new technology ‘patterned media disks’

Feb 04 2008

Cool your computer with Vegetable Oil

Submersing your latest PC components in chip fat, is not something that readily jumps to our minds as a sensible thing to do.

But this is fast becoming a tried and tested way of creating a super quiet, energy efficient way to house and cool your computer.

Feb 03 2008

Free HP computers not so ‘Free’ after all

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HP who issued free computers to the remotest areas of China with each Broadband connection contract, have been under fire from users today.

Complaining of poor quality service, crashing computers and suggestions that they actually pay for the computers after all.

Jan 31 2008

Forget E-reader and Kindle, think Polymer

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The First Fold-able Screen Phone

A refreshable reading screen, the Readuis is a paper-toned film that rolls out of its mobile-phone-sized case to roughly the width of a paperback, launched in Italy later this year it has 4GB of memory and a remarkable 10-day battery life.

Jan 31 2008

Mirror Image LCD

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It requires no ventilation, laughs at humidity, can easily slip behind a mirror and yet projects crystal clear video onto glass - and when it is switched off, it vanishes completely.

Jan 29 2008

Support request 10 years too late

A US customer claims it took Microsoft an amazing 10 years to follow-up on a call he made in 1998. Supposedly, it was a clerical error where the receptionist had keyed a “08″ instead of a “98″ for the year that the call was to be returned.