Category: Technology

Endgadget have the scoop on the new Xbox from Micrsoft. It is apparently to be called the Xbox 360.

Could the new Nokias be iPod killers? I really don’t think so. But they do look nice, and they finally have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Along with a 4GB hard drive. Before we know it we will be all carrying around tens of Gigs of capacity with us, what are we going to fill it…

A fellow Gavin writes in the Register that: Janco Associates found IE had 83.7 per cent of the market for this month, down from 84.85 per cent, while Firefox grew from 4.23 per cent to 10.28 per cent. Janco believes Firefox could take 25 per cent market share in the next quarter. Separately, Infocraft reported…

Slashdot have a pointer to the earlier examples Google’s homepage. Or even the redirect page when they moved to Google.com. Notice the initial use of exclamation! marks!, it! has! since! disappeared! I think they may have liked Yahoo! a bit too much. Ah does it bring back memories, I can’t remember the exact time, but…

I expect that somewhere within my natural lifetime, the oppurtunity not just to go on a sub-orbital space flight will be realised, but I might even get to orbit the Earth a few times. I just can’t wait. Burt Rutan is the guy making it all happen, he envisions franchising out his technology.

Well there are no satellite images yet, but Google have got a detailed map of the United Kingdom, but Northern Ireland and the Republic are more or less limited to Primary routes. All the major cities have been covered though, Cork being the most important one of course.

Thanks to American relatives visiting, I had the oppurtunity to try out the new Sony PSP. It is very impressive. I even did the Wipeout browser hack so I could browse the net via my 802.11g wireless network. The screen is extremely impressive, the quality of the graphics is quite literally shocking to someone like…

Speaking of which, Foreign Affairs have a preview up for some content in their May/June edition. The figures are pretty stark. In the first three years of the Bush administration, the United States dropped from 4th to 13th place in global rankings of broadband Internet usage….In the administration’s first three years, President George W. Bush…