Category: Technology

Google has managed to expand its web index to 6 billion items. Impressive stuff from that arch rival of online privacy.

Time to update Windows XP again! Sounds like this is a particularly serious one.

I’ve just noticed that I rank highly in a certain big search engine for the phrase (sony’s new minidisc). Interesting it is.

You know this site was bound to happen, but I thought some people might be interested in visiting – its basically what most people seem to do with their camera phones these days!

The Register is reporting that the Xbox 2 will use a 64nm CPU, just like the Playstation 3. IBM is making the chip for Microsoft, and some chips have already been completed. Looks like its going to be Sony versus Microsoft from now on.

So everyone is going crazy about the old iPods and the new smaller iPods. Sony are just releasing the newest versions of their MiniDisc players and recorders. The new ones are backwards compatible with their old 600mb discs, put also have newer 1Gb discs, meaning eash disc can store almost eight hours of music. Woah.…

Kazaa, one of the better filesharing companies, cannot be held liable for how their software is used. At least in Holland anyway. Developers of Kazaa cannot be held liable for the way people use their software, a Dutch court has ruled The Dutch supreme court threw out a challenge by a music copyright agency against…

The French have adopted video over DSL technology and it is gaining momentum. It is beginning to compete with digital cable companies. Eircom tested this for about a year and were getting throughput of 8Mb/sec, then they abandoned it.

Dan Gillmor, as ever, has some great stories. The first being that Bill Gates has denied that he ever entered into talks with Google – “We’ve never been in any talks with Google about any acquisition thing in any way, shape or form” This is after huge media coverage that said Google were going to…

Those guys have done it again. Nokia’s portable game console, the N-Gage has been cracked, and now Nokia games will work on the Siemens SX1. I wonder what action Nokia will take.