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$100 laptop gets working model
News The Linux-based computers will not be for individual sale, but rather will be made available through large-scale government initiatives. The first 15 A-Test boards have been successfully assembled and tested, according to the OLPC site, and wide...
25 May 2006, 9:29
Where genius, art and gadgets mix
News Wurman, a 70-year-old architect, author and conference organiser is an impresario who creates events like the salons of a Gertrude Stein on a larger - -and at $4,000 (£2,300) a head, far more expensive -- scale.
6 February 2006, 9:42
Windows Live Mail goes Dutch
News It includes a completely new set of code we've done to re-architect the front end, and involves migration to a whole new back end, and storage that allows us to scale, index and search in ways that weren't possible before.
13 November 2006, 9:20
For fuel cell innovation, the tank is half full
News The most promising company among the large-scale stationary and baseload power players may be FuelCell Energy of Danbury, Connecticut. They have clearly distanced themselves from the pack as the world leader in large-scale stationary fuel cells.
19 May 2005, 10:23
Mobile phone viruses "massively over-hyped"
News One company which fields support calls for major mobile operators and manufacturers has also hit out at what it sees as a disproportionate amount of hype given the scale of the issue. However, Overton added that as smart phone penetration increases...
6 September 2005, 9:09
Online game makes a welcome comeback
News Indeed, some fans were so insistent on continuing their Uru Live experience, even in the game's absence, that in the weeks and months following the shutdown of Uru Live, groups of several hundred rabid fans set up small-scale versions of the game...
19 May 2006, 9:34
Academia's quest for the ultimate search tool
News Jaime Carbonell, director of CMU's Language Technologies Institute, said his research team is perfecting a technology for personalised search that would solve some of the privacy concerns surrounding the wide-scale collection of sensitive data...
16 August 2005, 9:04
Q&A: The guy who swapped a paperclip for a house
News And I really think that if something works on a small scale, it theoretically could work on a larger scale. Over the last year, the utility of a red paper clip has taken on a whole new meaning for many Web denizens.
13 July 2006, 10:40
Game developers take an E3 breather
News The Entertainment Software Association's decision on Monday to scale back the gaming industry's premier trade show, E3, and probably move it from May to July will spare game makers from preparing demos long before the titles are ready for shipping.
4 August 2006, 10:41
IBM's rent-a-supercomputer comes to Europe
News IBM has opened its first supercomputer-for-rent facility in Europe, though initially on a much smaller scale than its US counterpart. The Deep Computing Capacity on Demand facility is based in IBM's service and support centre in Montpellier, France.
13 May 2004, 16:40
Firefox goes mass market with 1.5
News Mozilla is gearing up to launch a large-scale marketing drive when Firefox 1.5 is released. Christopher Beard, the vice-president of products at Mozilla, said on Monday that there is a "strong likelihood" that Firefox 1.5, the next major version of...
28 November 2005, 10:36
News.blog: US teenager goes nuclear
News It reads like a movie plot: a suburban 17-year-old builds an intricate physics lab in his parents' basement, then creates small-scale nuclear fusion using a machine he spent two years constructing. If this movie had been made circa 2001, he...
22 November 2006, 8:22
Microsoft scales back Longhorn for 2006 launch
News Microsoft said on Friday that it is aiming to release Longhorn in the first half of 2006 -- a move that will require the company to scale back some of its more ambitious plans for the next version of Windows.
12 April 2004, 9:35
Scams threaten online gamblers
News A recent flurry of fairly small-scale threats has led some to suspect that online casinos may be targeted with increasing frequency as their popularity grows. Gamblers playing in online casinos are being warned that they may increasingly be...
19 May 2006, 9:10
'I'm on the train!' Shut up, says software
News New technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called the 'Jerk-O-Meter', measures stress levels in your voice and rates you on a scale of zero to 100 to let you know just how annoying you sound.
15 August 2005, 9:10


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