Posts made in August, 2005

Posted by Alex on 23 Aug, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/76650/bluray-and-hddvd-no-merger-in-prospect.html

bad news on format wars

Google Releases GDS 2.0 – Slashdot

Posted by Alex on 23 Aug, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/22/1139235&tid=217&tid=162&tid=185&tid=95&tid=218

Google the new MS? As one slashdotter put it “Two Microsofts fighting each other I can cope with. It’s when there’s only one I start to worry.”

Billboards beam adverts to passing cellphones – tech – 22 August 2005 – New Scientist

Posted by Alex on 23 Aug, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7883

Damnit, I thought of this about a year ago and people thought it would never work!

Pimplier Batgirls and Sawdusty Barmen • The Register

Posted by Alex on 22 Aug, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/20/google_word_whack/

From the page: “But strangely enough, some people do have a thing for strange combinations of words – and this week, it’s these very hobbyists who have been able to shed more light on the search giants’ internal operations than the academics.”

Looks like google whacking has a purpose after all!

Google squares up to Windows – Times Online

Posted by Alex on 22 Aug, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1745470,00.html

From the page: “Google today launches a product that will latch on Microsoft’s Windows software and may signal an ultimate intention to usurp the world’s most popular operating platform.”