Category: Technology

The infamous Andrew Orlowski covers the story of Google buying a competitor. Can the Google train keep going? If it makes upwards of $15 billion from its IPO, what will it do with the money? Will Microsoft buy Google?

Sony has started to ship its new blue laser technology – how long before red lasers become defunct? Sony’s 23.3GB blue laser optical storage system will finally come to market next month, when the company ships products based on the technology. Those products were to have shipped in the summer. Aimed at the kind of…

William E. Howard the 3rd has quite a unique piece in today’s Tribune. He argues for human colonisation of the moon – and for greater cooperation between nations. I absolutely agree – if we do not get off this planet, we will not survive. What might we do on the moon? We can test applications…

Few Americans are even aware that the Chinese are preparing the launching of Shenzhou V. That it is likely to occur while the U.S. shuttle fleet is grounded will magnify how the United States and the world perceive China’s technological achievement. Certainly, some in Washington will react by claiming that the launching requires the United…

The BBC are reporting that some of the source code to Valve’s new game, Half-Life 2, has been leaked onto the net. Apparently the company have been a target of hackers for some time, keen to find out about the long awaited sequel. Key loggers and hacked email accounts are evident, and the company are…

I am all too familiar with US weapons technology, having been an avid play of flight sims in my younger days. I had actually already done this little test on a flight sim, flying an F22 Raptor, with infinite bombs on. JDAMs are scary weapons. You could take off, climb to a height, approach the…

Karlin has returned from Canada, and now she is off to Paris. Does she ever stop? 🙂 Interesting that Eircom have dropped the wholesale price of DSL in Ireland for the next three months. It should mean increased takeup.

God help us and save us. [via Bernie] Why do your inboxes get full of spam, asking you if you want a drug to enlarge your penis? Because it works. Thousands of dumbasses fall for it, and send off money only to receive a dud product or no product at all. An order log left…

Interesting that the Microsoft website was taken down just as these warnings were going out. US government computer experts have warned that hackers may be preparing a large-scale coordinated attack. This could involve the release of a virulent type of internet worm or use thousands of enslaved personal computers to bring down websites.

Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they need from Google’s cached versions of web pages, say experts in the US. One…