XP almost twice as fast as Vista
Reports have shown that the Windows XP (SP3) OS is almost twice as fast as Windows Vista for Office based tasks.
Future of Computing
Articles on the future of computing; a glimpse at our future computing technologies and how we will be effected by them.
Dec 04 2007iPhone UI so easy to use a 1 year old can use it
Amazing to watch, this video of a 1 year old successfully navigating through iPhone pictures truly is a testament to Apple.
Facebook users force Facebooks hand
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When Facebook users shopped online, Beacon told friends and businesses what they looked at or bought.
Wii named gadget of the year
Nintendo’s ground breaking Wii console has been crowned gadget of the year. The best-selling games machine walked away with the coveted top prize last night at technology website Pocket-lint.co.uk’s annual Gadget Awards, beating off competition from Apple’s much-hyped iPhone and Nokia’s N95 mobile.
Amazon Kindle sold out in hours
Although not hugely loved by the UK public, mainly for the way it forces people to pay for free content, the new eBook from Amazon has sold out within hours of going on sale. With a sale price of £194 ($400), some think it is far too high for what essentially is a digital screen that you can read books on.
90% of the UK now on Broadband
Information gathered by National Statistics (ONS) for September show that almost 90% of Britons are choosing to use broadband rather than dial-up.
The statistics show that 49.2% of those connections are for services advertised at two megabits per second or faster.
Early Playstation 3 Prototype
Made in Lightwave in 2003, this shows a Playstation 3 Prototype before it hit the drawing board.
