Posted by Steve Kennedy on 28 November 2008 | Tagged as: Open Source, Platforms, Reviews
If you’re like me, you won’t have heard of Arduino. Outside this sphere of ignorance there’s a whole lot of artists who not only love Arduino, but are passionate about it too. If you’re in the “What the hell is Arduino?”, this book gives you a good guide to what it it and what can [...]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 28 November 2008 | Tagged as: Photography, Platforms, Reviews
In yesterday’s instalment, we loved the Ricoh, Panasonic and Lumix. Read on for our conclusion today of the best high-end digital compact cameras.
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2008 | Tagged as: Cellular, Mobile, UK, Video on Demand (VoD)
The Met Office, well-know weather forecasters, are to offer a world’s first – a free-of-charge (beyond any of your own mobile data charges), video on-demand weather service to your mobile phone. Access will be via a branded portal (lovely to hear that phrase again :) ), giving access to weather forecasts that will be updated [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2008 | Tagged as: Events
I’m on my way to Amplified 08, a new UK event that brings together people who want to actively contribute to the conference/event that they’re going to – Think BarCamp/ unconferenced events. Essential to the event is the lack of hierarchy to the organisation of the event – you don’t have a self-appointed panel of [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, Networking
Cable subscribers in France, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium are in for a treat. Cable Europe, the self-described body representing leading Cable operators in Europe, have announced that they will be bring 100 Mbps Broadband services to their customers.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 27 November 2008 | Tagged as: Photography, Platforms, Reviews
In Part One of our search for the hottest high end digital cameras, we finished by looking for something to beat one of our favourites, the Olympus XA. That camera was the Ricoh GR, which, like the XA, offered a fixed, wide angle lens in a compact package.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 26 November 2008 | Tagged as: Cellular, Google, Mobile, Platforms
Great new apps are coming through, despite T-Mobile’s uselessness.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 26 November 2008 | Tagged as: Photography, Reviews
Join us in our never ending quest to find the perfect, high end digital compact camera.
Posted by Simon Perry on 25 November 2008 | Tagged as: Computer-Centric, Distribution, Industry Trends, USA
When you’re sitting at home or at work, tapping away in your Web browser, you hardly ever consider where your request queries are being dealth with. Sure they’re runing on a computer _somewhere_ on the Internet, perhaps in a data centre, but do you really know what goes on behind making that machine run?
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 25 November 2008 | Tagged as: Research, UK, Web
As smartphones hit the mainstream, mobile use soars.
