Presence beats pressure and nobody can print it
Most touchscreens in shops work by pressure. Two conductive layers separated by a tiny gap, and pressing hard enough to push them…
Fifteen years of eight fonts
Every website you have ever looked at is set in one of about eight typefaces, and it has been that way for…
Symbian leads on share and that stopped mattering
Symbian still runs on more smartphones than anything else on earth and I no longer think that number tells you who is…
Metal Gear Solid 4 Launches as PS3 Exclusive Earning Perfect Scores From Critics
Konami and Kojima Productions launched Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots exclusively for PlayStation 3 on June 12, 2008, delivering…
Giving up joins only pays if you have the problem
There are two papers going round that everyone has an opinion about and rather fewer people have read. Google published one describing…
The screen works because of what it cannot do
The displays in the current reading devices cannot show video, cannot do colour, and take the better part of a second to…
The proxy becomes the target
Analytics that used to cost tens of thousands a year is now free, installs in five minutes, and is on a very…
VMware built the market Microsoft is about to walk into for free
I wrote a few weeks ago about the arithmetic behind server consolidation, and the number that keeps recurring in every conversation I…
Your VoIP phone doesn’t know where you are when you call 911
A friend's story highlights the vulnerability of internet phone services during power outages, which rely on home outlets and lack inherent power…
Mass Effect Launches on PC, BioWare’s Sci-Fi Epic Introduces Commander Shepard
BioWare released Mass Effect on May 28, 2008 for Windows PC following November 2007 Xbox 360 debut, introducing epic science fiction RPG…
Your perimeter goes home every Friday
The firewall model assumes there is an inside and an outside. Machines inside the building are trusted, traffic from outside is not,…
Your backup is eighteen inches from your computer
A five hundred gigabyte external drive costs about a hundred dollars, which means the storage problem in backup is finished. The backup…
Nintendo Launches Wii Fit with Balance Board Accessory, Establishing Exergaming Category Mainstream Success
Nintendo released Wii Fit on May 19, 2008 in North America (December 2007 in Japan) introducing fitness-focused software paired with Balance Board…
Every augmented reality demo has a marker on the table
Every augmented reality demonstration I have seen this year has the same object in it, and once you notice it you cannot…
More memory beats faster memory
The new memory standard offers more bandwidth than the one it replaces, costs considerably more, and will make almost no difference to…