Web browsing to be monitored
If the government get their way a massive data base will be built and no this is not going to be a list of names and addresses, this is going to be much more serious than that, in fact Big Brother will not be watching you, it will be monitoring your online activities.
It has been [...]
Google gets a second life
Google has recently been working on their next assault on the internet, this time it is a site that can only be described as a sort of Second Life.
But unlike Second Life maybe this time it will be policed in way that makes it both interesting and useful for business and individuals, this where Second [...]
New Mapping service top Google
A new map service threatens to rival and even overtake the seriously popular Google Maps. With Google it is quite possible to home in on you target location to see what is going around it, maybe it is house that the user is wanting to buy, you can have a look at the surrounding houses [...]
June 25, 2008Internet for everyone
The was jubilation when Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to launch a campaign “Internet for Everyone” the goals of which are to make open broadband available for every American.
Google’s involvement in this only part of the company’s strategy anyhow, which means they would have been pushing this programme [...]
The fifty year old digital TV
A television set made in 1957 that receives digital TV sounds rather suspicious! Well so it should because clearly a TV that in encased in a thick wooden case and sporting a seventeen inch black and white screen is not really going to be made for the digital age.
But for the owner it would have [...]
Games hit high sales targets
The threat of the credit crunch does not appeared to hit the games market, as the in the UK the first quarter of the year has seen manic buying of games in records that have been compiled by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) and compiled by Chart-Track.
In the first quarter of the [...]
Leisure time in work
There are quite few things that can get into trouble at work, but probably one of the more modern and most used tricks that employees use is going online and visiting their favourite social networking site.
But now as employers have become aware of these sites and in some cases have even blocked them form their [...]
Free Wi-Fi in Starbucks
But only the US for now it would seem. Regular visitors to the famous Starbucks coffee houses, will be able to surf the net free of charge in the Starbucks if the buy a Starbucks card, this is one of those cards which the user signs up for and charges up with money.
All the customer [...]
Cinema flops that became hits
Its amazing how some films really stand the test of time, it makes no difference if they are in black and white, poor quality or just simply really bad, but over the years these films have gained a cult following even thought when they were first released and shown in the cinemas these movies barely [...]
May 15, 2008Earth waits for alien reply in 2015
It was back in 1983 when the Japanese astronomers Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto sent a message to the Altair solar system, this would have reached the target location in 1999 and so if there was any life there and they did actually hit the reply button the message should reach earth by 2015!
Of course [...]