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Microsoft researcher stores digital life
News Bell talked to ZDNet UK about the challenges posed in chronicling a life at the Digital Lives conference, hosted by the British Library in London on 10 February. Ten years ago, Gordon Bell, a principal researcher at Microsoft, set out to chronicle...
[February 12, 2009, 13:55]
Gordon Bell on life through a digital lens
News Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell talked to ZDNet UK on Tuesday about his project to document his entire life. This video shows him demonstrating part of this in 2007. Courtesy of CBS Evening News
[February 13, 2009, 9:37]
DEVONthink Pro
Downloads It's almost as if you need a second brain just to keep your digital life straight. From shopping receipts to important research papers, your life often fills your hard drive in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more.
[December 10, 2009, 14:57]
'Spider-Man' allowed to alter Times Square
News Upholding the rights of filmmakers to superimpose digital images on real-life buildings in their movies, a federal judge in New York has thrown out a suit filed by billboard and building owners against the creators of the "Spider-Man" movie.
[August 6, 2002, 8:36]
Second Life millionaire retracts DMCA claim
News The husband of Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung said filing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint with YouTube to delete a video of her avatar being attacked by a barrage of digital flying penises was a mistake.
[January 16, 2007, 8:30]
Microsoft backs Digital Pipeline to Africa
News Digital Pipeline, launched on Wednesday, began life in 2004 and developed out of Microsoft's ICT-in-schools project, African Pathfinder. Digital Pipeline maintains that, for every computer it provides to Africa, it ensures that another is collected...
[July 25, 2007, 17:34]
Tuesday
Blog Either Kodak has fixed this, or the life span of any digital camera is now so short that it doesn't matter. Life in plastic, it's fantastic. Does it deliver on the better battery life, wider colour spectrum and greater angle of view promised by the...
[March 7, 2003, 14:37]
IT @ Heart Of Next Industrial Revolution
Blog Others include bringing the past to life, virtually, to expose the circumstances and motivation of historical figures. Indeed, one of the challenges is to ensure the millions of mobile and other devices that will by then exist around the world are...
[March 13, 2009, 8:32]
Data retention strategies for SMEs review
Reviews Longevity is a major problem with systems used for long-term archiving, not only in terms of media storage life, but perhaps most critically in the turnover time of the software and hardware used to create and read the backups.
[March 22, 2007, 16:47]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog There was the Intel Video in support of the Digital Home - happy family living life of technocratic delights, check. We weren't told the name for this saviour of the silicon race, which makes it a bit difficult to write about, and for the life of...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
World's first all-digital film makes debut
News The thriller, starring Gerard Depardieu and Ines Sastre, recreates the Paris of the 1830s to tell a tale based on the life of Eugene Francois Vidocq, a real-life "Napoleon of the Police" who founded the first detective agency and inspired Arthur...
[September 19, 2001, 17:02]
TI and AMD team on next-generation mobile
News The convergence of communications and broadband-enabled applications like video streaming, Internet audio, and wireless digital photography requires that mobile systems deliver enhanced performance and battery life, while remaining small enough...
[October 3, 2000, 10:27]
Sklyarov reflects on DMCA case
News Speaking with the careful phrasing of someone communicating in a foreign language and still bound by an agreement to cooperate with the US government, Sklyarov talked with CNET News.com about life after his arrest, his impression of the case, and...
[December 20, 2002, 13:24]
Do your bit to bridge Africa's digital divide
News In association with Computer Aid International, the project is looking to raise enough money to fit out complete computer suites in several Kenyan schools where access to computers can make a massive difference to the quality of education and the...
[October 13, 2006, 17:20]
Gates to CES: Less is more - for MS, too
News Yet, at the same time Gates was striking the same broad -- and hopeful -- themes, he also seemed hard-bent on pushing his mighty Microsoft's software into every facet of home life. Among the skits on the big screen were "Austin Gates," who "put the...
[January 6, 2000, 15:03]
Apple unveils iPod
News But Ma said the iPod has significant advantages in terms of its size, battery life and anti-skip protection. The iPod also sports "a significant battery life and a fast recharge speed", he said. Joswiak said the memory also enables the device to...
[October 24, 2001, 8:54]
Music, photos, video: Kodak's mc3 does it all
News We're concentrating on this market as part of our youth effort to build products that they will use for everyday life where it's more about the moment than the memory. Kodak said its product has a longer battery life and is smaller than Fuji's.
[February 13, 2001, 10:13]
HP backs African recycling research
News However, unlike Europe, where the vendor has systems in place to take back IT equipment at the end of its life, there are no such schemes in place in Africa. By addressing the waste issue, and knowing that the equipment itself will not have a...
[September 18, 2007, 17:36]
HP Compaq tc4200 review
Reviews Balancing performance and battery life is the tc4200's strong suit. If that's not enough, HP's unique U-shaped add-on battery can extend battery life by a few more hours, giving you a full day's worth of mains-free computing.
[July 12, 2005, 12:55]
UK public embrace IT but shun tech hype
News Only a quarter of the UK adult population can be classed as "technology enthusiasts" who find new IT products fun and exciting, according to RealityIT -- Technology and Everyday Life, a study from the Work Foundation's iSociety project.
[July 24, 2002, 15:04]
