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OQO goes for 'world' record
Blog However, the new model uses Intel's 1.86GHz Atom Z540 processor with 2GB of RAM, runs Vista Business or XP (Professional or Home) and has 'world-capable' mobile broadband in the shape of Qualcomm's Gobi module, which supports HSPA and CDMA2000 EV-DO.
[January 8, 2009, 10:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Reports arrive that "New Hampshire, USA, gaming superstar Donald Haynes" has just broken the world Dig-Dug record, taking four hours forty minutes to rack up a score of 4,388,520 points. The previous record of 4,211,920 points was held for three...
[October 31, 2003, 14:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not that they've been trying to hide it -- they monitor the peer-to-peer music-swapping world, and report back to the record companies what are the most popular files by the most popular artists. After all, how can the record companies see the...
[November 21, 2003, 15:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The IT world tends to have men in suits battering on about subtle matters of intellectual property while the record biz has people like Prince appearing on telly with SLAVE written all over their tiny bods in ballpoint pen.
[February 27, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Will he ever get the world record for visiting all the London Underground tube stations? He obsesses about London Underground, to the extent of taking part in attempts to beat the all-stations-visited record.
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
Rwanda: On the leading edge of the mHealth frontier
Blog In Masaka it is being used to track and record the distribution of anti-retroviral medications, ensure drug adherence, electronically create and submit patient reports, and access the most up-to-date information about HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
[May 13, 2009, 18:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The world long distance record for unamplified Wi-Fi connections has been ground into dust by a team at the DefCon Wi-Fi Shootout: using unmodified cards, they managed to get a strong signal over 125 miles between Utah and Nevada.
[August 5, 2005, 18:35]
Is your boss a secret Bond?
Blog Bug-detectors disguised as fountain pens, keyboards that can secretly record everything typed on them and clock radios with hidden cameras - devices once only of interest to spies are now being bought by company chiefs that fear they are being...
[November 17, 2006, 10:04]
Harry Potter and the Interview of Doom
Blog My interrogator decided that he wanted somewhere to record that would have some resonance with the film industry -- he did ask me if I knew anywhere that had some resonance with the Internet, but I said it didn't work that way -- so picked...
[July 4, 2007, 0:40]
iPhone update...
Blog A criminal investigation has been started into Apple's stock options, most definitely including the world-record grant that Jobs got. Looks more like a port than a mystery Intel chip - but nobody who knows for sure is saying anything on the record.
[January 13, 2007, 22:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But congrats to Geoff for pulling it off, and congrats a second time for beating the world record for visiting all tube stations in one day (still to be authenticated, but it's looking good). The fifties flooded in from all over the world - the...
[June 25, 2004, 17:35]
Is this the start-up silly season?
Blog The company has just received the backing of real world entrepreneur Dragon Mr Oliver Rothschild who already has a successful track record in the corporate management of information technology firms. Entrants typically apply as teams and the 20...
[July 13, 2009, 8:38]
Intel Developer Forum - Day Zero
Blog I was so bemused by the futility of this that I failed to record the name of the idea or of its designer. A real life imaginary friend that invites parents to experience their child's world", according to the leaflet.
[September 22, 2009, 10:16]
ooVoo 1.5 Beta - In Depth
Blog Another new feature in this release is the ability to record video calls. It's simple to use (just click the new "record" button at the top of the video call window), it seems to work well (I haven't had any problem with it so far), and the...
[February 5, 2008, 13:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog OK, so he's not a small thing, but this erstwhile DJ has a record of messing with other people's technology. I know next to nothing about cars and care slightly less, although finding out that Top Gear comes second only to Baywatch as the most...
[October 24, 1998, 12:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They're blithering idiots with a track record of enormous incompetence in matters technical. On that basis, all Saddam has to do is put a bulk order into PC World's Web site for a handful of Wireless Lan Adaptors Of Mass Destruction, and that'll be...
[March 7, 2003, 14:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One of the big problems", said one, "is that there are so many fake files out there from the record companies. There is cause to think it might -- even Sony is now on record as saying it realises that its concentration on proprietary formats and...
[January 21, 2005, 15:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's sad that a company with such a track record for innovation and a great deal of persistence, one moreover that created portable music as we know it and was one of the parents of digital consumer media, has such a bad case of Not Invented Here.
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I can record Radios 1,3 and 4 all day and work out what I want to listen to when I get home. With these everywhere, you'll be able to find where your car keys are -- from anywhere in the world! IBM unveils the biggest disk in the world' (which I...
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
CloudMade Betas New Map Editing Tool
Blog Up until now, to mark a POI on OpenStreeMap, users had to record them via a GPS device and then connect that GPS device to a PC; or mark the POIs on a conventional paper map and manually input them via a PC to OpenStreetMap.org.
[December 2, 2009, 14:26]
