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Device support in Windows vs. Linux

One of the highly debated subjects with Windows and Linux is with device support. The two have different methods of how drivers are created and implemented into the operating system. With... Read more

30 July, 2010 14:51 by apexwm

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How to open the OneNote cache file

Posted by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on 30 July, 2010 21:08

EverNote is great for using on smartphones but for keeping track of anything and everything on my PC, I love OneNote. I can write on my tablet screen and have my handwriting recognised, I can record audio that's time-synced to my typed notes, I can clip in sections of Web pages or dialog boxes I want to use as screen grabs, I can print in documents to annotate... I put everything in OneNote. And I've never lost... Read more

IDAPT i4 Universal Charger

Posted by First Take on 30 July, 2010 19:22

Given how many different gadgets we all use, dealing with the rats nest of cables and chargers around your desk could be well worth the £40 price tag on the IDAPT i4. This sleek slab of a charger claims to charge four devices at once (phones, PDAs, GPS devices, MP3 players, digital cameras, iPads, handheld gaming devices and the like rather than notebooks), and to do away with cables. For the first three... Read more

Privacy group criticises ICO Google Wi-Fi response

Posted by Tom Espiner on 30 July, 2010 17:24

Campaign group Privacy International has said that the Information Commissioner's Office was premature in giving Google the all-clear over its collection of Wi-Fi data. Simon Davis, the director of Privacy International, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the ICO had pre-empted the decisions of a number of privacy and law enforcement authorities around the world by saying that Google Wi-Fi data contained no... Read more

Scientists hear 'white graphene' bell toll for silicon circuits

Posted by Lucy Sherriff on 30 July, 2010 14:46

Researchers at Rice University's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science have successfully created single-atom sheets of an insulator: hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN). The breakthrough could help graphene kick silicon back into the 20th century, paving the way for nanoscale field-effect transistors, quantum capacitors or biosensors. The used vapour deposition to deposit a layer of h-BN... Read more

Photonic triplets hint at quantum comms three-way

Posted by Lucy Sherriff on 30 July, 2010 14:31

An international team of scientists have succeeded in splitting a single photon into three, beating some seriously long odd in the process. The work could pave the way for three-way quantum communications and according to lead researcher, Associate Professor Thomas Jennewein will "open a new frontier of quantum optics and allow a new class of experiments in quantum computing using photons." Scientists have been... Read more

Picochip curries favour with Indian infrastructure partners

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 30 July, 2010 12:41

Bath-based wireless company Picochip has done a multi-million pound deal with Indian R&D company Rancore Technologies. Rancore is developing 4G basestations, and has chosen PicoChip's multicore DSP chips and interface software for the main signal processing parts of the products. As part of the UK government's new focus on India as a political and trading partner, the deal was announced in New Delhi yesterday... Read more

Linux Mint 9 KDE Edition Released

Posted by J.A. Watson on 29 July, 2010 13:21

The final release of Linux Mint 9 KDE is available for download. It follows the Linux Mint tradition very well - derived from Kubuntu 10.04, with lots of additional good stuff included in the base distribution. The core distribution is the same as for Linux Mint 9 Gnome - Linux kernel 2.6.32, X.org 7.5 (X Server 1.8), custom Mint utilities, such as the Software Manager, and much more. On top of that it... Read more

Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 11

Posted by First Take on 29 July, 2010 12:27

The difficulty of typing on smartphone touchscreens is driving a resurgence of interest in voice recognition but desktop dictation and control has never really taken off, even though a reasonable version has been built into Windows for several years. Nuance hopes Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11 will get us talking to our PCs rather than shouting at them, with a 15% improvement in accuracy and voice shortcuts... Read more

Is tape dead?

Posted by manek on 29 July, 2010 11:59

Recent weeks have seen a fascinating discussion emerging in the storage area of the LinkedIn business networking site on the merits of disk versus tape. Its the old story: tape is old but reliable and uses zero energy while it's storing archived data. Coming up on the rails, assisted by a number of energy-saving and technologies, is disk technology which is being increasingly used for even archived storage because... Read more