Technology

Hmm, software patents; the debate has been going on for some time now. As somebody involved in IT you’d hope that a learned opinion and decision making process would be employed to make a judgement on such things. That’s exactly why I am delighted to say that the Eu’s final decision on this matter will… Read More »Software Patents – Something Fishy?

The FCC in the US have voted in favour of providing wireless hi-speed network access to passengers on flights. Now people will be able to surf the web and check e-mail while they fly between destinations. Makes sense really but would make you wonder about why they still tell you not to use mobile phones… Read More »Fly By Wire-less

Update on a previous posting about IBM’s sale of their PC unit. It has just been announced that a deal has been signed with a Chinese company (Lenovo) for $1.25 bn. source: The Irish Times Note: Irish Times article may require login

…lots of PC’s. In fact an entire business. Looks like IBM are set to sell out of the PC market in a deal that could be worth $1bn-$2bn. The increased pressure from low-cost manufacturers, such as Dell, in recent years seems to have taken it’s toll. source: Irish Times Note: Irish Times article may require… Read More »PCs for Sale…

Nice article on the Reg about the stupidity of computer users. A topic very close to me and a theme that I constantly sound. Computers and software are generally not that unsafe, it’s the users who are unsafe!! source: The Register

When Vodafone announced that they would be launching 3G in Ireland nobody ever even doubted that the cost to the consumer would be large. However, it has now emerged that the Irish customer base will have to pay significantly more than our British counterparts. Que sera, sera at this stage. It’s the same with everything… Read More »Vodafone 3G with Irish Pricing

Google have just announced the release of a new search interface. This time it’s not a Google toolbar type thing but rather the ability to perform searches via text message. It’ll be interesting to see how this one takes off. source: Irish Times Note: Irish Times article may require login

No it’s not related to Popeye but spinach power may soon be available to help power traditional battery devices such as mobile phones and laptops. Thanks to Sven for the link. A team of researchers at MIT have conducted investigations into using spinach-based cells as power cells for devices; using the biological network of the… Read More »Spinach Power

Just read this little snippet and accompanying photo on Mícheál’s weblog. It’s amazing, funny and frightening to think that people actually thought this back in 1954. When did the whole miniturisation thing become a sign of progress? At least the machine was to be programmed in Fortran so we can identify that the engineers were… Read More »Modern Computing as told by 1954

Back posting again after a brief rest from catching up with all the happenings in the world. Finally, nanotechnology is coming into play in the medical world (for reasons other than super-humans anyway). Scientists researching cancer fighting are planning to use nanotechnology to help tackle the disease. Could be a huge breakthrough in fighting one… Read More »Nanobots for President!