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Just picked this off of the web. It seems as though Intel have just made some sort of breakthrough with a new transistor. However, they don’t say what it is, when it will definitely be available, what the details of the process are or even what it might actually do. Wow, what a press release.…
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All roads point the same direction or at least all the signs of a non-existent downturn (put in perspective) seem to indicate the same thing. According to an interview last evening on the Last Word (radio show on Today FM) The latest ESRI poll in collaboration with an Irish financial institute shows that consumer confidence…
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Looks like Novell have invested seriously in their Linux interest by agreeing to acquire SuSE Linux, a world renouned distribution of the opensource platform. Competition for IBM perhaps? source: NOVELL
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The EU directive for electronic privacy was passed last Friday and it now looks as though horribly annoying spam will become illegal in all member states. Could this really be the end? source: EU Consilium (PDF download)
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Well, well. It would appear that in addition to my reports of various international companies gaining substantial growth and surging economic revival in the US that Ireland is also getting in on the act. A recent survey shows that the Irish manufacturing domain is growing sharply again. I guess this forms another link in my…
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Yes, it’s here. The end of silicone and the start of something great. An Israel-based organisation has developed processor that works on optics instead of silicone, allowing processing at the speed of light. Wow! source: Wired News
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Well for the last while I have been ranting about what I perceive as media farces with respect to global recessions and downturns, etc. Today I read in the papers that the US government has published figures that show the strongest economic growth since 1984. Enron type stats or the real story about the state…
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Having recently just purchased a new television and talking about the options with family and friends, we got chatting about old stories and advances in TV. Many, many years ago we remember our Dad being constantly critical of the depth of TVs and how much room they took up. He always said that some day…
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The game may be up for those web loggers out there who like to conceal their true identity under a nom de plume. This story from the US shows how the treat of legal action may force one such blogger to reveal their identity and may set the precedent that warrants all weblogs to be…
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If like me you have forgotten in the past to adjust your clock for daylight saving, only to find yourself wandering around wondering why there’s no traffic or why your boss is giving you socks for being late. You’ll be happy to know that the process isn’t really that simple, well at least for those…