Looking at this video, you would think that Pixar or Disney had got their hands on it – but no! This video is brought to you by open source software, as good as – probably better (taking the cool & kudos factors into consideration) than their big-bucks hollywood counterparts. Check out the streaming animation (of [...]

Google Earth is soon to release a plug-in that will allow 3D content from the Google Earth archives to be displayed within your browser window – rather than using the stand-alone Google Earth app. The plug-in currently supports, in it’s Beta form, Firefox 2 and IE6/7. This is a move, I think, that spells the [...]

No sooner do I mention small laptops, and in particular the Eee PC’s from Asus, than Tech Radar report the Ebox, their soon-to-be-released desktop version. Completely different to the Xbox (which is what I keep saying as I read it), the Ebox is thought to be Linux based, supporting the same apps as the Eee [...]

Well, you can’t actually buy an open source laptop from VIA, but you can download the specs and get the chips from VIA. The laptop itself, featured in a techcrunch article, is another one of those “small form-factor & cheap” deals that everyone seems to be jumping up and down about. Laptops like the OLPC, [...]

Shocker, eh? But yes, Office 2007 is going to include some new formats that we can all find useful – the most important of these being PDF and ODF (Open Documents Format). They are to be covered with service pack 2 for Office 2007 and what is interesting is Adobe originally fought Microsoft to not [...]

I don’t know about anyone else here, but are you getting sick of this Microsoft-Yahoo stuff? I’m covering it because it would be silly of me not to, but does anyone really care that much anymore? Microsoft – If you want to buy them, front the cash. Yahoo – If you want to be bought, [...]

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is going to suggest a new board of directors for the shareholder’s meeting on the 3rd of July. Mr Icahn has said that the shareholders (himself included, owning $1 billion worth) should have been given the chance to vote on the future of the company during the Microsoft negotiations, and felt [...]

Spy equipment is within the reach of anyone now as technology has become cheaper and smaller, gone are the days when you would have to fork out £3,000 for a miniature video camera. Now you can simply visit our industrious friends in China to get your hands on some really cool gadgets. The “Spy Tie”, [...]

As the ad-campaign goes – PC World. Or maybe not for much longer by the look of things. The writing is on the wall for the UK computer chain PC World this morning, after the group DSGi, who look after PC World amongst other stores, announced massive losses. Struggling to keep up with the changing [...]

Every now and again, two of my favourite subjects come together (No, not blackmail and hard discs) – Technology and Motorsports. Formula 1 star of the McLaren-Mercedes team, Lewis Hamilton, has been the focus of a blackmail attempt by a man in Germany, named simply “Dieter.” Dieter somehow obtained a hard drive, that had supposedly [...]