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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK. Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
In an attempt to wean her students off of what she calls ‘white bread for the mind’ one University of Brighton professor has banned her students from using either Google or Wikipedia in their research for the first year of study. Instead, in what many will consider a neo-Luddite move, they get...
Read More | Jan 15th, 2008 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Feb 2nd, 2008
CES always provides plenty of great news, and plenty of juicy gossip, but I love it best when it mixes the two and you end up with a nice big fight. This would appear to be what is happening right now after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced that it and Microsoft were working to...
Read More | Jan 10th, 2008 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: 18 Days Ago
Yes, in a bizarre twist and turn of fate, the original bad boy of illegal MP3 downloads which then went legit and hooked subscribers into music with Microsoft's digital rights management system has changed tack and announced it is to sell MP3 format tunes. So, OK, maybe not a real return to its...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
There have been some odd items for sale on eBay over the years, but a million pound wall has to be amongst the most bizarre. The wall itself, of course, is not the reason for the high Buy it Now price tag. That can be accounted for by the graffiti upon it which happens to be a piece by that rising...
Read More | Jan 5th, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jan 7th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 465 | Views: 1,381,875 | Last Entry: 8 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 699 votes, 4.78 average
newsguy in a Nutshell
I live and breathe technology news, it is what turns me on. Sad, but hey I am a news nerd, what can I say? (Read Blog)
Microsoft and the US Army Sniper School have teamed up for a forthcoming Halo 3 tournament, and players will get a chance to participate in some US Army based pre-match training sessions. The special training videos provided by the army are to include sniper school training, heavy weapons training...
Read More | Jan 13th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 14th, 2008
A posting at Daily Dave, which is part of the Insecure.org security website, by the founder of a Moscow based security vendor called Gleg, would suggest that it's not a very good start to the new year for RealPlayer 11 users. Gleg Ltd chief technology officer Evgeny Legerov made a very brief...
Read More | Jan 7th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 163 | Views: 316,114 | Last Entry: 8 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 315 votes, 4.83 average
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Interesting news from a new study of 112 homes in the Seattle area that shows a 10% reduction in home energy bills through the use of "smart grid" technology. The study, conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy, and reported on CNet News this morning, says its GridWise Project not only saves...
Read More | Jan 10th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
There's an old saying in marketing that the consumer always gets what he or she wants. That's likely never been more true than with today's cell phones, where users are clamoring for more than just songs downloads, video, GPS, systems, and, increasingly, voice mail technologies. Voice mail? Did...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jan 9th, 2008
Warner Brothers certainly has a lot of weight to throw around the consumer technology - and their latest move landed squarely on increasingly frustrated HD-DVD providers. In a move that signals a tectonic shift in the consumer video industry, Warner Bros. Entertainment announced last week that it...
Read More | Jan 7th, 2008
The drum beat has already started for next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where you won't be able to swing a dead rotary dial phone without hitting a slick sales type breathing the word "wireless" into your ear. Elena Malykhina, writing in Information Week this morning, advises...
Read More | Jan 4th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 179 | Views: 150,880 | Last Entry: 1 Day Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 48 votes, 4.56 average
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