Category: Technology
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Vanity searching
For years now I have watched where my first name is placed on the Google index. Yes it’s vain, but it also gives me an insight into Google’s indexing methods. Earlier this year during a Google Dance, I was completely dropped from the index for 3 weeks, for no apparent reason. It has returned, and…
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China Restores Google.com
It appears China have lifted a recent ban on Google, but will Google stay in China? China has lifted its online blockade of Google.com after a two-week crackdown that had prevented direct access to the site and temporarily thwarted popular workarounds, a media watchdog group reported Friday. The Paris-based journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders,…
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Google Earth update
The more I compare Google Maps to the recent Google Earth update, the more I see just how big it was. Huge stretches of countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Australia, Russia and Brazil have been added. Almost the whole of the UAE is now in high-res. And with the launch of more satellites this…
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Massive Google Earth update – Dubai updated
It’s taken a while, but we are finally seeing more of the world in high resolution via Google Earth. The changes were made last night and include areas of Russia, China, Africa, Taiwan, USA, Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands, many islands in the Pacific, Puerto Rico, South America, New Zeland, Australia. Of most interest to…
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Mac OSX appears on Dell website
Probably a mistake, but OSX appearing on a Dell website can create a stir. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that OSX will feature on PCs at some point in the future. [via Engadget]
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Web 2.0 prior art?
I was browsing comments on O’Reilly and came across a link to this. It’s from 1999. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop.
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Cloaking device
Yet another Star Trek device makes the move to semi-reality. The work provides a mathematical “recipe” for bending light waves in such a way as to achieve a desired cloaking effect. John Pendry, along with colleagues David Smith and David Schurig at Duke University in North Carolina, US, have been testing suitable metamaterials for the…
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Sony Ericsson W800i Review
After my reliable and much loved Nokia 6630 had an unfortunate run-in with a washing machine, it was written in the stars that I was destined to get a new phone. I eventually decided on the Sony Ericsson W800i, incidentally the same as Ryan’s who lauded the phone’s features. First off is the 2.0MP camera.…
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How Microsoft can shut down Mini-Microsoft
Damien and Tom have been on about a rollicking good post from Robert Scoble. He really does care. And his job is on the line now too.
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Bush breaks the law?
Not only did George Bush get a gift of an iPod from Bono, he apparently illegally rips CDs (or has someone do it for him) Video here. (via Boing)