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The first world map of happiness

According to a map built at the University of Leicester, UK, you have more chances to be happy if you're rich and in good health. This is also what my grandmother told me, but this map was built by aggregating the results of 100 studies from around the world, involving...

Tags: happiness, University of Leicester

Blog posts 2006-07-28

Flapless planes in the sky

Several universities in the UK have teamed up with BAE Systems to build a remote-controlled plane which has no wing flaps and no pilot, according to the University of Leicester. Two prototypes of such flapless 'fluidic' planes have already been taken their first flights. And the 5-year FLAVIIR project (flapless...

Tags: University of Leicester, unmanned air vehicle

Blog posts 2006-03-23

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Techies choose Obama - by a landslide

If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...

Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?

According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...

Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-04

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?

Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have now

Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowRE: Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowMy friend, you are correct. Kudos to you, and thanks for the heads-up.I think the slash in the C:/ prompt is backwards...C: instead of C:/ in PC...

Tags: Keyboards, nostalgia, Gadget nostalgia, C:","ZDDF.DT.29.52609

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Semantic guardians for our computers?

If your computer has never crashed, it's because it has been built on another planet. The microprocessors we use are faster and more complex year after year, increasing the risks of being hit by 'functional bugs.' This is why University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have started to develop a system...

Tags: Monitor, Researcher, Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-02

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages

China is running a massive operation to track and store text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, The New York Times reports. China has about one million censored messages, many of which contain personally identifiable information, according to...

Tags: Message, China, Monitoring, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Another setback for university P2P

Another setback for university P2PUm no.They should NOT kill P2P just because a criminal and inept organization wants to subpoena the daylights out of everyone. What they fail to realize is what ever they think they will produce from it will be negated by the fact they cannot conclusively prove...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Another setback for university P2P

Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...

Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots

According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...

Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Apple drops iPhone developer NDA

Apple drops iPhone developer NDAAbandoning the Titanic?I know three small outfits that have almost completely dropped development of iPhone projects to jump on Android now that there's a real product. I'm sure many others are sick and tired of Apple's perpetual chokehold and want to move to a better situation.Planned...

Tags: Development tools, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., NDA, iPhone developer

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up

Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...

Tags: Inspiration, Family, Huddle.net, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-01

44% of second hand mobile devices still contain sensitive data

According to a recent research conducted by BT, the Edith Cowan University, and the University of Glamorgan Wales, 44% of the 160 second-hand devices that they tested, still contained sensitive data such as bank accounts, board meetings, business plans, and financial data. Using the data obtained, their analysis indicated a...

Tags: Bank, Financial, Mobile, Data, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Services, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Pre-university jitters: join a student social network

Pre-university jitters: join a student social networkWhy another social networking site?To avoid the hassle of yet another social networking site, many seem to just create groups on facebook etc (e.g. "Starting at My University 2008")

Tags: Social networking, Pre-university, student social network, social networking site

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Pre-university jitters: join a student social network

I remember when I was about to start at university. It was a strange, perplexing time and wasn't sure if I'd make friends, know people, know what to do or where to go. Having said that, it made life that little bit easier having a unique medical condition - Tourette's...

Tags: Network, University, Yougofurther, TheClassConnection, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-30

CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome

Most members of a silicon.com CIO jury say they're not even testing Google's Chrome--choosing to stay with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Chrome, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, CIO Jury, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com

News items 2008-09-30

News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension

Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension$10 million dollars? Really?I'm in the wrong freakin business. A Firefox plugin that creates a document is worth $10 million dollars. Sheesh. Give them the injunction, but the money is a bit excessive. Now if you excuse me, I...

Tags: EndNote Styles, open-source citation extension, Thomson Reuters Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-29