The technological sector is constantly striving to make our world an easier, interesting and more accessible place to live and work. We thought that we would have a quick round up of technology developments that are looking to help maintain and improve the environment around us. Magnetic Soaps This is being developed to help combat [...]
January 24, 2012
Networks are something we make use of every day but very few people know exactly how they work or how they can be used for personal or business use. Today I’m peeling back the layers and helping you get to grips with networks… Networks Watch this video below to help you understand networks and how [...]
January 24, 2012
Blackberry maker Research In Motion’s co- CEO’s have announced they will BOTH be stepping down in an attempt to re-think the companies strategy. Following growing speculation of a company shake-up, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are resigning. They will be replaced by former Chief Operating Officer Thorsten Heins. Heins is a former Siemens executive [...]
January 23, 2012
This month, Google will be introducing a number of different products and services attached to their social network, Google+. According to Google themselves, the network which was launched in June last year already has over 80 million worldwide users, with 60 percent using the network on a daily basis. Obviously this isn’t a speck of [...]
January 20, 2012
Yesterday saw the file sharing site Megaupload being taken down by FBI. With the founder and several company officials facing charges facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content. Megaupload is also being accused of costing copyright holders $500 million in lost revenue. Despite Megaupload being based in Hong Kong they were leasing [...]
January 20, 2012
remember spending hours building things with LEGO bricks when I was a kid. I didn’t have many pieces but I liked to recreate famous buildings or even movies, though the results weren’t as cool as the videos shown in the playlist below. It’s amazing what some people can do. Did you know that the tallest [...]
January 20, 2012
Guest post by Rob Powell Batman had the Batmobile, Michael Knight had KITT, James Bond had an Aston Martin with an ejector seat, and even Harry Potter rode a bus that could squeeze through tight spaces with a pull of a trigger. Cars with gadgets have always fascinated us so it’s small wonder there is [...]
January 19, 2012
Although your bank has an obligation to safeguard all your personal financial details, there are constant security threats that can affect your bank account. Online banking is convenient and can save a lot of time in your transactions, on the other hand, illegal access to bank accounts is one of the fastest growing crimes nowadays. [...]
January 19, 2012
It’s quite amazing to think that this September will mark the 30th anniversary of the first use of the smiley face emoticon on the internet. In September 1982 Scott Fahlman, of Carnegie Mallon University proposed that the symbol :-) be used to signify a joke in online message boards and the symbol :-( be used [...]
January 18, 2012
So I comes into work this morning, and I find a strange thing has happened to the internet. Some of my favourite sites, like Reddit and Wikipedia, have gone down. But this isn’t a technical glitch – this is a form of protest that we have never seen before online. It turns out that the [...]
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January 26, 2012
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