Category: Technology

The Beast’s website, Micrsoft.com was brought down by a suspected DOS attack on Friday. It looks like a concerted attack, I remember the Guardian not being available for over an hour that day. I think we are likely to see more of this, but how long before weblogs are brought down for saying something controversial…

Article over at the Guardian on the birth of the new Eurofighter Typhoon. I have been reading about this aircraft for over 15 years now I think, and played a flight sim for it designed by DID back in in 1995? LOL No, the pilot was not me: At the Royal International Air Tattoo on…

From El Reg Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID theft, Paul Mockapetris, the co-inventor of DNS warns. Waiting in the wings is a better security standard for the Internet’s Domain Name System. It’s called DNSSec, and it uses digital signatures to guard against impersonation. But political wrangles are holding up…

Chris used to work for Apple – this is an interesting idea. The iPod and downloaded music from Universal, seems like a natural combination.

The beautiful Concorde is to be grounded for good by the end of the year. I was in Heathrow last week – in a bus on a road beside the runway. At 18.55 I heard a roar from the runway and looked over to see Concorde just taking off – the noise was deafening and…

Wired is carrying this lengthy article on the sequel(s) to the Matrix. I honestly cannot wait. I was dumbfounded by the original Matrix, this article only serves to increase my anticipation.

John Markoff asks if Moore’s Law should be repealed. Hm.

The Motley Fool notes this about Google. When you’re so good at what you do that your brand becomes a verb, the competition starts to notice, big time. Uber-search engine Google is in this predicament, as both Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) are trying to cash in on search products of their own.…

The reader’s response on the Reg has been interesting too. You can read them here. Among them are: Why is Google shooting itself in the foot? In providing information, credibility is everything. Any source, whether of raw information or an index of it (like Google), loses mightily as soon as it’s known to be biased.…

I’ve been following this story over at the Register about Google. As many of my readers know I have something of an interest in Google as a company, and this latest news has really come as no surprise. I had never thought this might happen, but it has. Google, the world’s favourite search engine, have reconstituted press…