Some great news from Google… Privacy bodies have welcomed Google’s decision to anonymise personal data it receives from users’ web searches. Excellent news, one of my concerns around how Google was moving was in the amount of information it was capturing through its various applications and tools. I don’t quite see how some businesses can [...]
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Samsung new MH80 HDDs will be fully compatible with Windows Vista and will offer OneNAND Flash onboard in capacities of 128MB or 256MB. The onboard flash allows for up to 50% faster OS boots, quicker resume times and increases in battery life of up to 30 minutes. “As a leader in both hard drive and [...]
Apple PR? & Cisco PR Cisco® and Apple® today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the iPhone trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the iPhone trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any [...]
Taken from the BBC. AOL has joined Microsoft in supporting Open ID, giving the free identification scheme 63 million new users. OpenID is a decentralised identification system that lets individuals use a single password for any site that supports it. This is great news for Open ID which has been slow to take off despite [...]
Yahoo have released a service and it is one straight from the labs of Yahoo and not bought in for a change. It is also a first and a brilliant idea!! It is called pipes and is a free service that lets you catch popular feed types and then manipulate them and mix them up [...]
The Apple v Cisco battle isn’t over yet. Both companies have agreed to extend talks aimed at “reaching agreement on trademark rights and interoperability”. Apple launched it’s iPhone last month in San Francisco and immediately Cisco sued Apple for trademark infringement of its own line of internet-enabled iPhones. Cisco makes much of the hardware that [...]
Apparently the smell of the sea is more important than the cure for cancer!! Scientists from the University of East Anglia have discovered exactly what makes the seaside smell like the seaside and bottled it. The age-old mystery was unlocked thanks to some novel bacteria plucked from the North Norfolk coast. Bookmark to: Hide [...]
Well,? I first heard about it on one of the TWiT netcasts, but Apple have today posted the software that will unlock hardware that was fitted to Core 2 Duo-based Macs – well except the 1.83GHz 17in iMac but including the Mac Pro with an Airport Extreme add-in :s . The hardware was installed in [...]
The iPod shuffle just got that little bit more desirable… Bookmark to: Hide Sites
So what?! Should we all be rushing out to buy one or both of these products? In short yes. Office particularly is a fantastic product and much improved over the previous versions; if you only buy one of these Microsoft Office 2007 should be it. It has the brand new UI which makes things a [...]
