Category: Technology

Vernon Blake got the sack, apparently for doing his job. He was pissed off with his boss always playing solitaire and not doing any work. So he installed win-spy, software that secretly takes screenshots of users activity. Low and behold his boss was playing solitaire all the time – so Blake went to management and…

A Microsoft intern describes visiting Bill Gates’ home in Seattle, and having dinner with him and some fellow interns. Fascinating insight. Via AnOasis.

Bono says that if the new album appears on P2P networks, he will release it onto iTunes immediately, and bring forward the release of the album in shops.

Dan reports that CNN have hired Dave Sifry of Technorati as a talking head in the lead up to the conventions…interesting development.

IPV6 has been added to some root servers, it could take up to 20 years before its fully implemented: Vinton Cerf of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the next-generation protocol, IPv6, had been added to its root server systems, making it possible for every person or device to have an…

Thinking of getting the new Doom 3? You might need to buy a new computer first, the minimum spec (you will need alot more) is: • A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500. • 384 megabytes of memory. • Two gigabytes of hard drive space. • An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card…

I mentioned this story a while back, it seems that Google is trying its best to fight fraudulent ad clicking on its adsense program. As time goes on no doubt the clickers and the search engines will become much more sophisticated. Google declined an interview for this report, citing the mandatory “quiet period” before its…

Hmm. For some reason many of Microsofts sites appear to be down today. They include Hotmail, MSN.com, Micrsoft.com and the Messenger service. I have just pinged several MS websites and the results timed out. Maybe its just my ISP, but it is very unusual for all three services to be down. Anyone else having problems?…

Bad news for Bono. Good news for Kazaa users? Not sure if it has leaked out yet, but I imagine anyone hosting it will face some stiff legal action. A rough cut of a new album by U2 has gone missing from a photo shoot – prompting fears it may be posted on the internet…

Kathy Rittweger vs Google, or so thinks the Guardian’s online supplement. This is exciting technology, I wonder how much of our computers will be shared with the internet in 5 years time.