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News Burst: Electric chair auctioned online
News An electric chair used to execute 125 people was sold for £17,000 after being auctioned online at eBay, this week. The chair received more that 40 bids after antiques dealer Arthur Rosenblat submitted it for auction.
[December 7, 2000, 10:00]
Sitting Yoga - Exercise in your chair on a plane, a train, or anywhere else
Downloads Sitting Yoga Exercise in your chair on a plane, a train, or anywhere else.Featuring Yoga exercises designed to be performed in a chair. Chair Cat Asana10. Sitting Yoga includes 19 easy to follow exercises that help to stretch your hands, wrists...
[June 22, 2004, 8:00]
Briton appointed chair of IETF
News The Internet Society has announced that Brian Carpenter has been appointed the next chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body responsible for most of the standards that the Internet is built upon.
[March 4, 2005, 16:45]
Health committee chair backs database plans
News The chair of the Commons Health Select Committee has criticised the doctors campaigning against the development of the NHS electronic patient record system. Kevin Barron told a Westminster Hall debate on the subject he thought it sad that some...
[February 28, 2008, 15:47]
Nuggets: Remote control that will keep you in your chair
News For those couch potatoes out there whose worse nightmare is losing the remote control, relief comes in the form of the snappily titled Universal Programmable Control Unit. The Marantz RC5000AV (click here to take a look) is a versatile and snazzy...
[October 3, 2000, 13:15]
I almost fell off my chair laughing
Talkback This has to be my quote of the week : "Google has finally done it. It's taken its gaudy, chrome-plated, futuristic ray gun and pointed it straight at Microsoft's head. Lets hope that Chrome is as good as they are claiming!
[September 2, 2008, 15:17]
Former ICANN chair Esther Dyson invests in startup
News Former ICANN chairwoman Esther Dyson is backing a Washington, DC-based startup that aims to make passwords on the Internet obsolete. Real User, which has developed technology that replaces text passwords with a graphical system, said Thursday that...
[February 9, 2001, 11:17]
Celebrity sites defaced by Brazilian hackers
Talkback you make the brazilian hackers out like they are bad people.you, probably siting in your expensive leather chair and typing on your brand new laptop, make it seem like my country is full of bad people.most people who cant even dream of owning an...
[October 28, 2003, 12:24]
Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'
News The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization committee chair have both claimed that Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML accredited as an international standard in order to forward the company's...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
Resignation rush threatens Internet watchdog
News The former chair of the British Internet watchdog has resigned from the Board and from the Funding Council, a matter of days after the chief executive announced that he will not renew his five-year contract.
[January 8, 2002, 13:50]
IBM Hursley head gets key DTI role
News The government has appointed a chair for its Technology Strategy Board to oversee a £320m technology funding programme over the next four years. Graham Spittle, director of IBM's Hursely Laboratory, will be the first chair of the TSB, which will...
[September 14, 2004, 8:05]
The Office
Downloads Compete in seven different mini-games: basketball using a waste-paper basket, table mini-golf, a fun filled balance game; a paper-football field goal kick game, an all out paper-ball battle, a chair race around the office and a water cooler game.
[September 10, 2009, 8:00]
Top 10 storage pain points
News The survey was headed up by Laurence Whittaker, vice chair of the SNIA's End User Council (EUC). Whittaker and fellow EUC chair Rick Bauer incorporated the surveys results into a formal report entitled Top Ten Pain Points Survey.
[January 20, 2005, 17:20]
Microsoft's international man a mystery no more
News You served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force and are a member of the South African International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development.
[June 21, 2005, 16:40]
W3C challenges developers on mobile Web
News Speaking in a video recorded address to the event, W3C chair Tim Daniel Appelquist, senior technology strategist for Vodafone and chair of the working group said "We know we have a limited window of applicability for these guidelines and we want to...
[November 16, 2005, 17:20]
Ten Gigabit Ethernet standard approved
News The chair of the .3ae group, Jonathan Thatcher, who is also principal engineer at Worldwide Packets, thanked his colleagues for more than three years' work: "I sincerely hope that you and your companies will benefit greatly from this standard," he...
[June 13, 2002, 16:11]
Apple iMac G5: a first look
Talkback The reviewer is the type of person who would look at a Marcel Breur chair and say, 'It's too expensive I could make chair for £14'. As an I.T consultant I get to use dull pc after dull pc. Apple have transcended the gap between computing and life...
[September 6, 2004, 18:08]
Election leaves power vacuum in MP's tech group
News Richard Allan, former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, announced his decision to step down from politics back in April, and has left his position as joint vice-chair of APIG. Group secretary Nick Palmer retains his Broxtowe seat, and the...
[May 6, 2005, 14:30]
Authorities reach agreement on travel card spec
News Kevin Farquharson, co-chair of the SCNF, told GC News that the uncertainty arose when Itso indicated that from the beginning of next year it would change the specification for accreditation because of concerns over the security of the Mifare 4K...
[October 9, 2009, 8:55]
SMEs 'blind' to illegal software risks
News UK member committee chair of the BSA, Ram Dhaliwal said: "It's clear from the research that directors of many British businesses just don't realise the risks of using illegal software. The vice chair of the BSA's members committee, Julie Strawson...
[April 20, 2007, 12:24]
