Category: Technology

  • Skynet’s mission

    The British military’s Skynet 5 satellite has been launched into space. The spacecraft is part of a £3.2bn system that will deliver secure, high-bandwidth communications for UK and allied forces. Skynet? Sounds familiar: Skynet is a machine network that has…

  • Summer time woes from US time change

    Summer time doesn’t officially start in Europe for another two weeks, when clocks go forward one hour in the early hours of Sunday March 25. In the US, though, they’ve started summer time early this year when clocks went forward…

  • Twitter could become compulsive

    Like a great many people, I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Twitter during the past few weeks. Although I signed up in December, it’s only in the past two weeks that I’ve got active with it. During this past week,…

  • Second Life: All you need is an open mind

    If you want to really understand all sides of the story about Second Life as a business platform – the genuine potential as well as the current drawbacks – a series of in-depth feature articles published last week by CIO…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 2-Mar-07

    34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog Cameron launches conventional blog Candidates Get TheirTube Computer glitch exacerbates Dow Jones plunge Hard disk test ‘surprises’ Google HP execs: Spy scandal was ethical wake-up call Is PR in the Spin, Wash,…