I’m not sure if this is a Microhoo story or not, but I do know that Yahoo’s shares have dropped to a 5 year low – at what point does this equate to “Shareholder Value” exactly Mr. Yang? Of course, The Register were one of the first (even ahead of me!) to jump on that [...]
The micro-blogging app, Jaiku, has moved from it’s previous hosted servers to a Google data centre, following problems with the system. Jaiku, who had been acquired by Google in October of last year, had always planned to migrate their systems to Google’s servers, in readiness for integration with Google Apps. However due to some problems [...]
Training with a computer simulator is nothing new – pilots have been doing it for years. And to be honest, the Americans have had systems in place long before anyone else. However, what makes this system unique, is the attention to detail. “Virtual Battle Space 2″ (or VBS2) as it’s called, is an interactive area [...]
A post graduate master’s degree is available to students of the Abertay University, in Dundee, Scotland. The Master’s is being offered as a gateway into the security sector, with coursework enabling students to test security vulnerabilities, whilst at the same time learning about common techniques people use to gain unlawful access to computer systems. I [...]
A quick one for some gaming updates. Crytek’s sequel Crysis Warhead has now gone gold, the game follows on from the first Crysis taking control of the Brit Sergeant Michael ‘Psycho’ Sykes from the point you part in the first game. The game is all on track for a Sept 12th release in Europe and [...]
Just a quick note that the server is going through some updates & upgrades for the next couple of hours, so service may be interrupted – although I don’t expect any black spots for more than 5 minutes or so during this period up to 8pm UK Time (12pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern). Thanks for baring [...]
In a quick post, and anyone checking my youtube channel will know, I am eagerly waiting for Spore to hit the shelves – so imagine my happiness when today it was announced that Spore has gone Gold – the American coined term that means the software has been shipped to manufacturers for production. A good [...]
The Mozilla camp have announced the launch of their new add-on for Firefox, called Snowl. It can be thought of as a messaging aggregator, which takes all of the information you want to read from different sources and knits it all together. Just step back for a moment and think about that. Everything in one [...]
Rockstar have finally announced its release date for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV. Being released on the 18th November in North America and 21st November in Europe, Sam Houser, founder of Rockstar Games said, “We are very excited to be releasing the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, the whole team [...]
Intel have announced their new chip which is going to enter the market late next year. Code named “Larrabee”, the chip will be in addition to their on-board graphics offering they produce at the moment. With another entrant into the graphics card market, which is dominated by the giants of NVIDIA and AMD (ATi), it [...]