Category: technology

The US Supreme Court vote unaminously against Grokster and Streamcast with a ruling that means P2P software developers can be held liable for users actions. Via The Register, CNN, BBC and loads of other places.

Via Niall Kennedy (and lot’s of other places but he’s the one I read first), Microsoft announce RSS support in Longhorn. Not exactly a secret, following Dave Winer’s post the other day, plus Scoble’s hints at the London Geek Dinner. Go watch the video.

Love this. Google Maps UK now has satellite imagery. So here’s where I live; I’d do one of where I grew up, but it is not of a high enough resoltion for the Midlands area.

Browsing feeds today, I see that Microsoft are working to develop their own version of BitTorrent, with a codename of Avalanche. This appears to be currently a research project, with no immediate plans to commercialise it. The other interesting story was internet ‘Teleporting’, where cameras would capture the motion at one end of the connections […]

In the UK, the Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is launching a scheme to get more women working in technology and comouting. The embarassingly named Computer Club for Girls (the name is probably a barrier in itself) is being rolled out across England to give “girls the chance to take part in a wide range of […]

Google has, apparently, become quite big.

Despite having the new laptop for nearly a week, I’ve not had much chance to do much with it as not been able to set it up correctly. I’ve been out and about late, so have not had internet access (whilst awake enough!) If I was one to name my PCs I’d call it Kitty, […]

staring at this trying to write something….but instead working through the last 3 episodes of Desperate Housewives. Meanwhile, Apple move to Intel chips and Google launch Sitemap to help it keep updated..

CIO Today has a report about the spread of Linux and other open source software in developing countries, especially those whose politics are lean towards socialism, as “they see software development as community building and a way keep money in the country”. There seems to be two perspectives to the choice, the first being political […]

Following on from films to go, Mcdonald’s are now looking at doing music and photos to go. I agree with Engadget’s commenters – how long before they get covered in all sorts of crap. Bu there would be a market, I can see it used by people who own MP3 players and cameras but don’t […]

My new laptop, one of these Fujitsu ones, was supposed to be here today. It’s not 🙁 Guess I have to wait til tomorrow.

Via Om Malik I see that DVDStation are going to offer kiosk downloads of films and other content, direct onto your portable media carrier, in a variety of flavours. If they are doing deals with major studios, then DRM will be leading the way, but I see one vision of the future – media more […]

In my general reluctance to watch TV ads, I use Tivo. A lot. And now even my preference to fast forward through the breaks is under threat. Adrants is reporting that tests are underway for ‘fast-forward’ ads, in order to “provide viewers with better advertising” involving “the consumer even when they are in avoidance mode”. […]

Via David Weinberger found this neat trick of an embedded or popup mini browser – Scott Mathew’s Bitty Browser. Using iframes, it allows a window into another site, either embedded like the one below or via popup buttons. Not a new idea, but a branded wrapping. Recursiveness Open “Recursiveness” in a new window About Bitty […]

I don’t really use a mobile phone too much; it’s provided, and paid for, by my employer and is really a basic model from Nokia whose only real functions are texting and calls. So I look at the ever increasing market of phones that do everything and wish I could get mine updated (and I […]

The BBC have finally discovered Flickr….got reported on its Click Online programme this morning. They compared it to the social network sites that ‘were so popular last year’! Of course, the BBC have to say: “People put all sorts up on these pages, so obviously discretion should be used when surfing with minors.” Here and […]

have an extremely interesting article about downloading TV programmes. It references Battlestar Galactica, which aired in the UK 3 months before the US. The programme had been captured and loaded up on the web within a few hours of being broadcast, where many US-based viewers would download. According to the rhetoric from the entertainment industry, […]

Interactive learning:an online version of 20 Questions that provides hours of fun (or at least a few minutes over coffee)

More fun stuff with Flickrand GoogleMaps. Dan Catt on geobloggers is providing an interface place Flickr place images on Google maps, using appropriate tags, along with lattitude nad longitude. And to save the effort of trying to work out the lat/long and then adding the tags yourself to Flickr, Steeve has written a GreaseMonkey Script, […]

What does this say about Telewest customers? The BBC are reporting that nearly 1 million Telewest addresses have been blacklisted as the many of their customer machines have been utilised by spammers. Telewest are reported to be helping the customers gain back control of their machines.