Tim has a piece up at Forbes talking about the relative costs of local storage and the cloud. I think it and the comments that follow at the time of writing miss an important point about the cloud. We’ve had … Continue reading
Speaking of smartphones, and adding tablets into the mix, you might consider avoiding Apple’s products in future.
For Android only, so far. But this is a good initiative: To mitigate the risks of misappropriation of the user’s data by today’s Android applications, the researchers of the study have developed a system, called AppFence, that implements two privacy … Continue reading
Apollo landing computer. I should have sent that one to David for his Friday Ephemera. Along with the dog with prosthetic paws.
This is exciting news, especially for men of a certain age: Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators from the UK have apparently cured mice with well-established prostate tumors with no visible side effects via a new kind of tumor vaccine. And … Continue reading
Your next computer but one will look a bit like this (I need to widen this template…): That’s a smartphone in a dock. Combine that idea with this research: Apple share falls less quickly as Google operating system [Android] takes … Continue reading
Worth noting that Google was founded using not one, but two successive code bases that were very poor, first in Java(!) then in Python (which together with a Django-like application development framework remains the language for the Google Apps platform). Moral: implementing … Continue reading
Interesting table here and visualisation here. The upshot is that nuclear remains the safest form of power – including what has happened so far in Japan. 0.04 deaths per TWh compared with, for example, 12 for biomass/biofuel. Hydro is second … Continue reading
These two stories: China trains army of messenger pigeons and North Korea Nears Completion of Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb
Microsoft are still fairly shy about releasing sales figures for Windows Phone 7 – saying they’ve shipped between 1.5 and 2 million copies to distributors (as opposed to end user take-up), and that they’re ‘happy’ with the ‘above target’ performance. … Continue reading