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ThinSight from Microsoft
Blog On the surface it appeared to be well just like Surface but it doesn’t work the same way, which I feel will ultimately give ThinSight more progression opportunities. By using this method the object could be weightless as long as it reflects the...
[May 13, 2008, 16:32]
Sony Customer Support
Blog I am now told by SONY that the word laptop only refers to it's physical size and that it should be used on a flat surface such as a desk.and not to use it on any polished surface. Has anyone else fell foul of the above mentioned "team"?
[May 20, 2009, 12:44]
The right to bear software for warfare
Blog In case you don’t follow (and I’ll admit that I didn’t until I read further), that’s an electro-optic system that allows greater flexibility in boat design and provides improved surface visibility without giving away the position of the submarine.
[May 1, 2008, 1:25]
Microsoft research does the PDC keynote
Blog The other fun technology on show was a Microsoft Research in Cambridge project called SecondLight which expands out the surface touch technology. Using an LCD shutter and a projector they sync up the shutter with the projector and project one layer...
[October 29, 2008, 17:12]
Pencil + sticky tape = desktop supercollider + post-silicon processors
Blog Then, by the insanely simple expedient of using adhesive tape to peel off layers from ordinary graphite, then rubbing those layers gently against an oxidised silicon surface, UK researcher Andre Geim from the University of Manchester's Mesoscopic...
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
Is embedded software just not sexy?
Blog Does embedded software just not seem to be as sexy and interesting as its surface-installed cousin? It could be the apparent lack of ‘tangibility’ that may be perceived with embedded. It could be the fact that embedded software often resides in...
[September 8, 2008, 12:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now and again, the faintest hint of pity for BT bubbles to the surface like a toddler's bathtime fart. Monday 11/02/2002 Sometimes, especially with the new management, it comes with the subtlest whiff that the company may yet reform and show it...
[February 18, 2002, 9:25]
Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog Having recently worked with Sun to provide a surface-level overview of its Java training facilities, a resource caught my eye this week that was labeled as 'A community site for Java developers' - nothing new there then.
[December 8, 2008, 12:00]
Attack Of The 64-Chip Mainframe
Blog If you look at the surface of your coffee as it sits quietly in its cup on the desk, you may spot some tiny, rhythmic ripples. In Jurassic Park, that's the sign of an incoming Tyrannosaurus Rex: in enterprise IT, it's the seismic early warning of...
[February 26, 2008, 11:13]
Intel servers and Chinese hackers
Blog It was a desirable little box on the surface - Linux-based, four drive bays, dual gigabit Ethernet ports - and I lost no time in installing it in the ZDNet UK Laboratory (Holloway). 18 months ago, Intel dropped off an SS4000-E NAS box for me to...
[March 20, 2008, 16:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So there I am, typing away, minding my own business, when some internal disruption deep in the Stygian darkness of my computer bubbles to the surface like the miasma from a decaying frog. Wednesday 26/4/2006
[April 28, 2006, 18:25]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Sunday's silliness is obviously still in the air, as BBC Lancashire is offering an acre of the moon's surface in some sort of competition frippery. Wednesday Flyyyy me to the moooon-ah.oh, 'scuse me. You've been able to buy chunks of lunar real...
[April 8, 2001, 22:20]
2009 Mobile Security Outlook: The Year of Mass Attack Mobile Viruses
Blog It’s that time of year when everyone is on the lookout for the trends that may surface in the year ahead. 2009 Mobile Security Outlook: The Year of Mass Attack Mobile Viruses Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com
[January 2, 2009, 21:47]
Fujitsu closes HDD head business
Blog The "head" on a disk drive is the part that flies across the surface of the disk "reading" or "writing" the data on the disk. Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that it was getting out of the hard disk drive (HDD) head business and handing it over to...
[January 30, 2009, 12:09]
Nasa and the virus
Blog OK, it's a nice silly season story on the surface, but what really got me was that NASA doesn't have antivirus on its laptops: Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity.
[August 28, 2008, 17:31]
Think you can do better? Come and work for us then...
Blog We're currently looking for a reviewer on ZDNet UK to get under the surface of products and write up their experience in an even-handed, logical but lively manner. If you think you can do a better job than we currently do of writing about the tech...
[November 2, 2006, 13:02]
Do we need a multi-touch gesture alphabet?
Blog It was only at Microsoft’s ReMIX 08 rich media conference last September that I first saw the company exhibit its ‘Surface’ table. Developers working in the touch screen arena are, it appears to me, wielding some of the greatest wow-factor...
[August 11, 2009, 8:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's Mars, which is at its most viewable for over a decade: peer at it through binoculars and you'll see surface features, perhaps -- if you're lucky and it's a clear night somewhere dark -- even the polar caps.
[June 1, 2001, 18:13]
Thursday
Blog Only when things have been going for a while and there's actual money there does the submarine surface and point its guns at the surprised businessmen. Thursday 6/2/2003 Another submarine surfaces on the Web.
[February 7, 2003, 17:02]
Google Dalvik Virtual Machine Goes Head to Head With Java & .NET
Blog Android includes an operating system, middleware and a set of core applications with reusable components and on the surface is billed as being capable of running Java applications on mobile phones under the Apache Licence 2.
[November 14, 2007, 14:33]
