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Bill Gates… The Philanthropist

You have probably heard that Bill Gates is retiring, the extent to which he is ‘retiring’ is not crystal clear, nevertheless when he has time in between his new philanthropy goals he will most probably be going back to Microsoft on occasions, since he remains a large shareholder in Microsoft. You can hear a snippet [...]

MySpace redesign (a gradient header)

Maybe we are being a little simplistic here, but a look at the MySpace website shows very little in the way of a ‘redesign’ but instead a new header with a slight ‘web 2.0‘ gradient. Haikurious summed up the redesign in 5-7-5 syllables (we

You’re being watched by geeks

Apparently one in three of your ‘colleagues’ who work in the IT department at work are poking their nose in your private activities; this is according to U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark. They surveyed 300 senior IT professionals and found

Google Earth Pool Crashing Antics

What’s the world coming to? The average (middle class) British teenager can whip out their iPhone, use Google Maps to search for the nearest pool and set an event on Facebook while travelling the morning bus to school…

Panic! Firefox 3 is beyond reach

Maybe this should have been spread out a little; it seems that it isn’t just us who can’t download the latest edition of Firefox. Even TechCrunch is unable to download Firefox and they are even receiving the old Firefox 2 download page. This remi

1 minute… Firefox will set the record

Mozilla Firefox announced it would be aiming to break the world record for most software downloads in 24 hours back on May 28th. In just one minute (better hurry up and finish the article, this is literally last minute) the day will commence and F

Finally, Elonex ONE progress

After much delay we’ve received a promising email from Elonex, “Pre-ordered ONE or ONE+ deliveries are scheduled to commence towards the end of June. You will shortly receive a further e-mail advising you of your projected delivery date and requesti

Web analytics, AVG couldn’t care less

Grisoft have recently released the latest version of their AVG virus scanner, version 8. Back in December 2007 Grisoft purchased LinkScanner, this tool scans websites before the user has visited them. For example, when the user surfs Google, the tool

Religion is for the stupid, apparently

Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, will argue that there is a strong correlation between high IQ and lack of religious belief, reports The Times Higher Education. Lynn picks up on certain issues such as IQ

Want a pay rise? No… Facebook

A survey of 1,000 office staff has found that nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace, reports Vulnet. The study by Telindus showed that 39 percent of 18 to 24 year olds would be p

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