Technology, Gadgets, the Online World
Helsinki will have the very first natural source of heat for their city infrastructure. According to Reuters the city is close to signing contract with one of the IT companies to lend them the underground anti-bomb bunker as a Data Processing Centre, which will be one of the best places that company with a big [...]
Google likes to push forward the web industry boundaries with new and fancy technologies. Nine months ago they have presented us with a new and incredibly fast web browser called Chrome. Since then Google promised us a brand new operating system that would be focused on web browsing and web applications, be super-fast and really [...]
Researchers in Missouri have developed tiny nuclear batteries that may have the potential to power a host of devices in the future. The big advantage of nuclear batteries is the amount of charge they can store, more than a million times that of conventional chemical batteries. Nuclear batteries are not new, they were used in [...]
Elite a computer space trading game has celebrated its 25th anniversary. The game was released on 20 September 1984 and was one of the first games to use 3D graphics. The original games was an overnight hit selling hundreds and thousands of copies and influenced the future of the game development. There is now hope [...]
Although the country is in political turmoil – Rwanda is now weeks away from completing a link to a high speed internet fibre optic network. New undersea cables in Kenya will be used to connect Rwanda’s capital Kigali by November. It’s hoped that in 2010 a new fibre optic ring is due to go online. [...]
One of the world’s largest computer companies Dell is buying IT service provider and fellow Texan firm Perot systems for £2.4bn pounds. The takeover should be completed between November and January and is hoped to provide a wide range of services to its customers. The cash deal will see Perot shareholders benefit from $30 per [...]
You Tube has lifted a block on users viewing official music videos after the website reached a agreement with songwriters group PRS for Music. Back in march You Tube blocked thousands of music videos to the UK after failing to reach agreement Over fees. The site which is owned by Google is now paying a [...]
The battle over Google’s effort to digitise the worlds books and create a vast online library has intensified. A settlement of $125m was made with authors and publishers. The settlement was reached last October stemmed from a 2006 legal suit that Google faced for scanning out of print works without explicit permission from rights holders. [...]
Figures on super fast broadband delivered by fibre to the home shows a 18% growth since the last survey compile in 2008. This equates to more than two million people in Europe and suggests that the global economic downturn has not hit plans to build a fibre infrastructure. Sweden is at the top of the [...]
A flight simulator site which was targeted by a hacker back in May has had a file presented to the UK police identifying the perpetrator. Avism said it had ‘incontrovertible evidence’ about the hackers identity. The attack itself wiped out data held on two servers and ‘effectively destroyed’ the site which is still undergoing a [...]
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