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- Pigeons roosting and doing what pigeons do
- Pigeons roosting and doing what pigeons doYawn!Zzz...Zzzz...Zzzz...RE: Pigeons roosting and doing what pigeons doI agree with you paul. My last 13 years in IT have been spent working lots of overtime, contributing every ounce of my time and brain to test and make their computer systems work. All the QA...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Pigeon, have-I, ZZzz, software
- Discussion threads 2009-07-11
- Pigeons are as clever as 3-year-old children
- Pigeons are as clever as 3-year-old childrenPigeons?He shoulda tested parrots - they'd have been working the video equipment by the end of the test.Yes, yes. My plan is coming along nicely. ;) [nt][nt]
- Tags: Corporate communications, Pigeon
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Are Maps Mashups Patentable?
- Are Maps Mashups Patentable?Can vs. ShouldThis illustrates one of the reasons I really despise software patents. When some entity be it Google or an individual publishes an API it is [i]always[/i] for the express purpose of making their tool as flexible and useful as possible. The intent is to allow...
- Tags: patent, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, pigeon, technology patent, API
- Discussion threads 2006-09-03
- The new world of 'blogjects'
- With "Why Things Matter," Julian Bleecker, a researcher at the University of Southern California, has written a "Manifesto for Networked Objects" (PDF format, 17 pages, 939 KB). In this document, he describes what he calls "blogjects" or "objects that blog." The three major characteristics of a blogject are its sense...
- Tags: blogject, Things Matter
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- Of pigeons, rats and SMS
- New Scientist (February 4, 2006) reports that, continuing a tradition that goes back to ancient Egypt, pigeons may soon be used to transmit messages--specifically, SMS messages. UC Irvine researcher Beatrice da Costa is developing a miniature backpack with cell phone circuitry and sensors that detect carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide....
- Tags: pigeon, Costa
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
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- (NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)
- Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...
- Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Arcade Zone 4.51 (Mobile)
- Bring your A game and play your favorite arcade games such as Basketball Free Throw, Boxing, Clay Pigeon Shooting and Football. With Arcade Zone, you don?t have to go to the arcade room or the sports-themed joint to enjoy the ever-challenging sports-arcade games. 2 different yet equally fun modes challenge...
- Tags: Mobile, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-18
- Arcade Zone 4.52 (Mobile)
- Bring your A game and play your favorite arcade games such as Basketball Free Throw, Boxing, Clay Pigeon Shooting and Football. With Arcade Zone, you don?t have to go to the arcade room or the sports-themed joint to enjoy the ever-challenging sports-arcade games. 2 different yet equally fun modes challenge...
- Tags: Mobile, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-18
- Arcade Zone 4.5 (Mobile)
- Bring your A game and play your favorite arcade games such as Basketball Free Throw, Boxing, Clay Pigeon Shooting and Football. With Arcade Zone, you don?t have to go to the arcade room or the sports-themed joint to enjoy the ever-challenging sports-arcade games. 2 different yet equally fun modes challenge...
- Tags: Mobile, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-18
- News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Identity Theft, Phishing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband
- Translation: That's about 180KbpsFor the DSL speed. And given that they were uploading from another DSL connection, that's pretty close to a common upload cap of 256kbps in the US. Would that be called Beaker Net...instead of Sneaker Net?RE: In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadbandHmmm.Maybe Linux...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, carrier, bandwidth, broadband, latency
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?
- Or roadsOr how about roads so farmers can get there goods to the markets cheaper? The one laptop per kid is such a scam. Why should kids get cheap laptops overs small business owners. Who would be more productive. Um track sales, write, write e-mail, do books. I am so...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband
- In South Africa, the fast data delivery that broadband promises has yet to materialize. So much so, in fact, that a carrier pigeon can beat it. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Broadband, South Africa, Carrier, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Lazy & Water Birds Screen Saver 1.0 (Windows)
- The world's most cheerful bird is duck. Download this screen saver to see many kinds of ducks right on your screen. A beautiful fat duck resting on your monitor screen--an egret with a unique golden crown on his head--then a heron walking on a grassy land in front of you--romantic...
- Tags: Monitor, Screensaver, Duck, Microsoft Windows, Delta Downloads, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-08-15
- Company sues for defamation over tweet
- So Amanda Bonnen tweeted about her apartment, rented from Horizon Realty Group. She said: Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment is bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay. That made the realty company really mad. So they sued...
- Tags: Defamation, Apartment, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Are netbooks quietly driving us toward cloud computing?
- Are netbooks quietly driving us toward cloud computing?Both netbooks AND smartphonesNetbooks & smartphones are likely to cause companies to re-evaluate their computing strategies.By moving to browser-based/cloud applications, companies can:1. reduce their support costs software updates are propagated to all clients instantaneously.2. provide OS (Windows/Linux/OS X) & device (smartphone/netbook/notebook/desktop) flexibility.3. simplify...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- New York plane crash: online media spreads word within seconds
- Citizen journalism has taken off once again with the still-developing plane crash in New York city. Whilst I am keen to stress this is not deemed an act of terror (unless you consider the bird that flew into the engine as a "suicide pigeon"), showing the immense impact on-demand television,...
- Tags: Phone, Journalism, On-demand, British Broadcasting Corp., Online Media, Twitter, Citizen Journalism, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- 'IT has no inherent value'
- 'IT has no inherent value'Finally!After all these years the "pointy haired boss" gets outed.RE: 'IT has no inherent value'Wow, the title to this article is very misleading. Some IT projects do have inherent value and if the project pushers and the project benefit receivers both agree on an IT project...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, inherent value, IT HAS
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failedSimpleDo you really think that MS decided to do that on its own? Would that really make sense for them to make it alot more complicated? MS did not want to do that, their own emails to each other prove that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., top-five, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- The utility of Ubiquity
- It's a bit of a stretch to pigeon hole something coming out of Mozilla labs as appropriate to the start-up genre that Alley espouses but Ubiquity is such a useful Firefox add-in that I believe it is well worth attention on these pages. There's plenty of debate...
- Tags: Ubiquity, E-mail, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
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