Category: Technology

So Microsoft have finally named the long, long, long awaited follow up to Windows XP. It is to be called Windows Vista. I think it’s a crap name to be honest, but then what do you expect from Microsoft? They also had a little PR/hack do for the Xbox 360 in Dublin yesterday. The reports…

When I first tested Google Earth I immediately noted that you could zoom out quite far from Earth, perhaps a little more than I need. So I said to myself, this probably means they will do the whole solar system using the best available astronomy data. It has started with Google Moon.

I think the Economist have seen right through the mystique of Google: Now valued at more than $80 billion, Google has left in the dust the other three internet Wunderkinder—Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon—and even passed media stalwarts such as Time Warner. How does Google do it? At least in part by shrewdly manufacturing a winning…

Google continue to update their satellite image database, Ireland is now in higher resolution, along with large tracts of the the rest of the world. Cork, Dublin and other areas are in very high resolution. Here are some of the satellite maps websites: Google Maps – Ireland View Larger Map Microsoft Live Maps – with…

This seems to be the widespread perception anyway: Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.

Interesting news from the Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, according to people familiar with the matter. Exact details of the search company’s planned service are not known. But the…

It is a surprise to see France and Japan working together on this project – but I wish them the best of luck in it. New Scientist also has coverage.

This software looks amazing… I wonder after watching the webcast of their factory tour, whether they will succeed in their aim of organising the world’s information within about 300 years. With countries like France in the way I just can’t see it happening.

Old news now but Microsoft are going to try and take on Google in the maps game.. Microsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer. The service is promised to provide: * Satellite images with 45-degree-angle views of buildings and neighborhoods *…

I have seen the future, and it is incredibly cheap but high quality displays. “Motorola’s NED technology is demonstrating full color video with good response time,â€? said Barry Young, VP and CFO of DisplaySearch, a leading flat panel display market research and consulting company. “And according to a detailed cost model analysis conducted by our…