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Microsoft wants to wire homes
News For example, in March the group launched a test kitchen project that allowed participants to experiment with interconnected kitchen devices, including a Polara refrigerated range from Whirlpool, a "flipscreen entertainment centre" from Icebox...
[July 9, 2003, 10:50]
Ultrawideband - nice words, shame about the action
Talkback If anything, you could arguably consider UWB a massive tragedy of the commons experiment - not a market failure. This article is completely off-base and portraits more of a pro-socialist political rant than a critical review of UWB.
[June 1, 2005, 4:20]
Scientists give parrot a Web browser
News The scientists say the experiment is not just a gimmick. Parrots can now browse the Internet courtesy of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. A four-year-old African grey parrot called Arthur has been given a...
[July 7, 2000, 9:07]
A Year Ago: Scientists give parrot a Web browser
News The scientists say the experiment is not just a gimmick. Parrots can now browse the Internet courtesy of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. A four-year-old African grey parrot called Arthur has been given a...
[July 7, 2001, 6:30]
Mozilla launches Snowl messaging prototype
News Snowl is an experiment to answer that question. Mozilla has launched a prototype messaging Firefox extension that it says could eventually enable users to keep track of all of their electronic communications, including email, RSS, social networks...
[August 7, 2008, 16:50]
Creative Focus: Creative sponsorship gives aid across the Web
News Web-site sponsorship encourages organisations not traditionally associated with Information Technology to experiment and explore the Internet's potential. Direct Connection's company ethos states: "The Internet is a medium to be exploited by all...
[August 14, 1998, 11:15]
Microsoft previews 64-bit operating system
News While the OS has been in the hands of beta testers for some time, the preview will allow businesses to experiment with it and prepare for the final version, which is still under development, the site said.
[February 5, 2004, 8:15]
UK and Korea converge on mobile TV
News Joe Public won't be able to join in with the experiment - which involves organisations including the UK and Korean governments, BT, LG and Samsung - as the trial is currently in the technical phase and closed to consumers.
[June 6, 2006, 11:15]
Reading with your ears
News Audible began a curious experiment in public service and alternative business promotion early this year by offering free recordings of major testimony from the 9/11 Commission hearings. For years, the best-seller list on Audible.com, a Web merchant...
[August 23, 2004, 10:40]
A Year Ago : Chips the size of Atoms
News Team leader Francois Grey told Reuters of the experiment in which a silicon chip was covered with a layer of hydrogen atom pairs. The atom-sized computer chip has been built, claimed scientists at the Danish University of Techology, reducing the...
[October 28, 1999, 6:00]
BushPanic
Downloads Experiment with the brain, heart, and bottle of rum to most effectively take out the bad guys and increase your score! The year is 2004. John Kerry, tied in a dead heat with the sitting president, decides to attempt the impossible: get rid of the...
[April 28, 2005, 8:00]
How about a BA in Quake?
News Given the amount of money in the gaming industry, you don't really have the flexibility to take risks and do alternative stuff, to experiment more," said Robert Nideffer, an assistant professor at UC Irvine who heads the gaming program.
[March 3, 2000, 10:03]
A List Apart - How to Grok Web Standards
Blog I know from my own experience that designing a site with CSS in mind can influence and affect design decisions, and the more you use CSS and experiment with it, the more intuitive and natural it becomes - as mentioned in the article, you will...
[January 22, 2007, 16:09]
BushPanic
Downloads Experiment with the brain, heart, and bottle of rum to most effectively take out the bad guys and increase your score! The year is 2004. John Kerry, tied in a dead heat with the sitting president, decides to attempt the impossible: get rid of the...
[October 29, 2004, 8:00]
Back in the world of infinite free energy...
Blog Comment To show whether or not this is true is almost a trivial experiment. Hi Malcolm, There may be thousands of way to get energy plentifully from the universe and some of those ways may be environmentally harmless.
[April 23, 2007, 19:22]
Five-Year-Old Boy Detained by the TSA
Blog A less extreme example is the famous Milgram obedience experiment, which was conducted to assess how willing people were to administer electric shocks of increasing intensity on the say-so of an authority figure, even though they were told that...
[January 11, 2008, 17:06]
No future for tempjobs.com
News However, on the day that it announced its financial results for the year 2000 the company was forced to admit that the experiment has failed. UK recruitment firm Reed Executive announced on Monday that it has decided to close www.tempjobs.com...
[April 23, 2001, 16:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This experiment shows, say the mainstream media, that we'll hit a brick wall in hard disk speeds. Wednesday 21/04/2004 News from Nature: researchers at Stanford have found what is being widely trailed as 'the speed limit of hard disks'.
[April 23, 2004, 17:50]
Who needs a word processor? review
Reviews So I'm trying an experiment. Can a modern computer user survive without an office suite, especially a user accustomed to using traditional, installed software? I've used Microsoft Word on every computer I've worked on since 1987.
[April 26, 2006, 11:00]
LHC on course for November restart
News Gillies said Cern planned to restart the giant experiment in incremental stages. The world's largest particle accelerator is on course for a November restart. Six out of eight superconducting sectors are down to working cryogenic temperatures...
[October 5, 2009, 14:05]
