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Neil Young demos Java multimedia project Video icon

Neil Young demos Java multimedia project

Video At JavaOne, veteran rocker Neil Young shows off a multimedia project, using Java and Blu-ray technology, spanning his music career [07 May 2008]


Dialogue Box 3.9: JCB phone torture test Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.9: JCB phone torture test

Video Dialogue Box deconstructs Sonim's JCB-branded phone, first in the studio and then by running it over with a truck [07 May 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.8: Fake finger fools fingerprint reader Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.8: Fake finger fools fingerprint reader

Video Moulding plastic, jelly, milk and tea are all the ingredients Dialogue Box needed to get past one biometric security device [28 Apr 2008]


Dialogue Box 3.7: Place your bets on IBM's Racetrack Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.7: Place your bets on IBM's Racetrack

Video Can IBM's Racetrack memory unseat the current flash and hard disk favourites? Dialogue Box marks your card, with help from the 'could-o-meter' [22 Apr 2008]


Dialogue Box 3.6: IDF debrief Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.6: IDF debrief

Video What do the Atom processor, MIDs, a bio-sensing chip, fuel cells, Shanghai's traffic and a revolution in photography have in common? Answer: Intel's recent Development Forum [14 Apr 2008]


Dialogue Box 3.4: Are black websites really greener? Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.4: Are black websites really greener?

Video If you want to be green, you should give your website a black background. True or false? Dialogue Box investigates [31 Mar 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.3: Barbados or bust Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.3: Barbados or bust

Video Dialogue Box's Rupert Goodwins is on his own in the studio this week, as Charles McLellan jets off to the West Indies — or does he? [26 Mar 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.2: Why the wait for solid state? Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.2: Why the wait for solid state?

Video Dialogue Box finds out what's driving hard-disk replacements [18 Mar 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.1: Another fine Mesh... Video icon

Dialogue Box 3.1: Another fine Mesh...

Video To kick off series 3, Dialogue Box examines three low-power laptops and takes the OLPC XO into the field on a secret mission [11 Mar 2008]

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Managing Humans

Managing Humans

Review This is a rare species indeed: a fun and interesting book on management. Highly recommended reading. [22 Feb 2008]


The Cult of the Amateur

The Cult of the Amateur

Review In this book, Andrew Keen, an expatriate British 'digital media entrepreneur' living in Silicon Valley, goes on the attack against 'web 2.0' and all who sail in her. [01 Feb 2008]


Building a polycarbonate, all-in-one, LCD PC Camera icon

Building a polycarbonate, all-in-one, LCD PC

Photo George Ou, technical director of ZDNet.com, talks through his decision to build his mother an all-in-one PC and LCD display [24 Jan 2008]

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Valley Boy

Valley Boy

Review Venture capitalist Tom Perkins recounts stories from his eventful life, which includes several spells on HP's board, funding companies like Netscape and Google, marriage to a best-selling novelist, and a revolutionary video compression technology that got away. [18 Jan 2008]


Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine

Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine

Review Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven more difficult to create than its original proponents expected. This admirably accessible book explains why, and considers what it will take to get truly intelligent machines. [11 Jan 2008]


Homebrew: Tech project wins £20,000 car Video icon

Homebrew: Tech project wins £20,000 car

Video A Rugby web developer's home-automation project has nabbed him a Toyota Prius car [21 Dec 2007]

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Homebrew: Tea at the touch of a button Video icon

Homebrew: Tea at the touch of a button

Video Steve Goodwin's entry in ZDNet.co.uk's Homebrew Challenge is a home automation system that can control lights, entertainment units and even his kettle [13 Dec 2007]


Win top gadgets in our Christmas giveaway

Win top gadgets in our Christmas giveaway

News Some fantastic prizes are up for grabs over the 12 days of ZDNet.co.uk's Christmas competition. There's a different prize each working day, so plenty of chances to bag yourself some top tech gear [12 Dec 2007]

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Homebrew: A green spin on the tumble dryer Video icon

Homebrew: A green spin on the tumble dryer

Video For his entry into ZDNet.co.uk's homemade-tech competition, Gren Mercer has invented a cheap radio sensor device that should improve the efficiency of tumble dryers [07 Dec 2007]

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Digital Identity Management

Digital Identity Management

Review Understanding the principles, business issues and technologies behind digital identities is important for everyone. This book provides a good overview and backgrounder. [30 Nov 2007]


The tech they promised... and what we got

Feature From Microsoft's Vista to Web 2.0, technology often falls short of the grand visions spun by marketeers [29 Nov 2007]

Cracking open the 1974 Altair 8800 Camera icon

Cracking open the 1974 Altair 8800

Photo Follow step by step as vintage computer aficionado and collector Erik Klein carefully restores a 1974 Altair 8800 to working order [27 Nov 2007]


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After hours Toolkit Essentials

20 more writing mistakes that make you look stupid

Tutorial You've heard our top peeves when it comes to common errors in grammar and word selection. Now here are yours more

Win a car in ZDNet.co.uk's Homebrew Challenge

Competition Working on your own tech project at home? Tell us about it, and you could win a Toyota Prius hybrid car, courtesy of Intel. more

Photos: When Bill Gates met Steve Jobs

Photo With the two titans of tech due to share the stage at the D: All Things Digital conference this week, we look back at other occasions when they have appeared together more

The essence of a Geek

Feature A general rise in technical literacy driven by gadgets such as the iPod could be evidence that 'geekery' as a personality trait is becoming more pervasive. more

Video: ZDNet masterminds quizzed to the limit

Video The finals of the Intel-sponsored IT Challenge saw a hand-picked ZDNet UK team lock horns with IT outsourcing experts Nexus. Tune in to find out who were the Victory Vs — and who the broken biscuit assortment more

Ten Top Tech Tomes

Buyer's Guide Looking for an alternative kind of holiday reading? Why not brave the bafflement of fellow beach denizens and pack a tech tome in your luggage? At least you'll guarantee some space around you on the sand! more

Homebrew Blog

Hitch with the audio system

Today I started development of the software to control the whole-house audio system. It’s written in C# and based on the MiniHttpd project - a small but powerful implementation of a... More

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Successful test of audio over CAT5

I have just successfuly tested transmission of near-line-level audio over the cat5 cables I’ve recently finished installing. The amplifiers and matrix switcher have been installed... More

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Completing the data wiring

Today I added the final 4 network points - there are now a total of 24 around the house. The wiring project started about 14 months ago, with the plan to have at least 2 network... More

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