Can Androids think and can they think BIG? Would you like a smart-phone heavyweight in your pocket this Christmas? How about having the might of the Google mobile operating system (OS) as your personal assistant and window on the information universe?
Well, the outcome is not clear yet on the omnipotence or otherwise of Google [...]
The crowded mini notebook market is often a little confusing to those wishing to move into truly mobile computing territory. There are too many options sometimes on the road to urban cool. City slick, portable notebook computing takes in some very unremarkable hardware these days – dull screens, shoddy keyboards, slow processors, underwhelming style over [...]
A new Google product is about to energise your email and online communication habits. Prepare for the surge.
In recent years Google’s meteoric rise from popular upstart search engine to global search advertising wealth generator and online services gatekeeper has been dizzying to watch. Since floating on NASDAQ in 2004 Google’s share price has travelled stratospherically [...]
In the incredibly crowded digital camera market there seems to be more cameras than situations to you use them. Would you like night time shooting? Super-sized zoom capability? As many mega-pixels as you can hope to carry? Do you need small, or is bigger better? How about becoming a paparazzi? Fancy yourself as photo-journalist extraordinaire, [...]
The sound of a B-52 bomber taking off close by is enough to make you spill your morning coffee all over the floor. The sound of several B-52’s taking off one after the other is enough to send you running for cover, and a relentless stream of B-52s screaming overhead all day and night just around the corner from your humble living quarters is enough to terrify your mortal soul. And that’s how it was in the sleepy environs of U-Tapao and Phala Beach during the Vietnam War. Taking off day and night from the U Tapao military airbase in Rayong the huge and deafening B-52s would fly sorties to the jungles of Vietnam in order to deliver their deadly 500lb and 750lb bomb cargo. To see why this approach might not be the right one please go and see Avatar at a cinema near you now – even better in 3D to witness why might is not always right in the jungle…
Back in the dim and distant past of the emergent global computing paradigm there was something called the ‘Network Computer’. This was the trade name for a computer created by an alliance of Oracle, Sun Microsystems and IBM. The idea was to manufacture diskless computers that would hook into local and wide area networks. The [...]