Hot… or not?

How could these be anything but ‘hot’? Star Wars MIMOBOT USB Flash Drive – hopefully they’ll be coming to a store near you (i.e. in the UK) soon…
3D might be the next big thing in film, but is gaming a step too far? Gaming giants bet on 3D for next big boost – my bet [...]

BizSparkCamp for Windows Phone 7: Life’s a Pitch

It’s Tuesday 22nd June, it’s 4.30 and it’s time for the BizSparkCamp for Windows Phone 7 pitches to commence. Eight companies were ready and waiting to pitch their mobile phone application idea to a panel of ‘dragons’.
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Helen Keegan              Oded Ran                      Carlos Espinal             Joe N
MoMoLo                         Microsoft                        Doughty Hanson          M8 Capital
Pitch Number 1
Company: 21apps
Application: 21scrum
This [...]

State of Symfony 2, 3D Without the Glasses and Countdown to E3

Sensio Labs is holding the State of Symfony 2 online conference on 22nd and 23rd June. Speakers include Sensio Labs Fabien Potencier and François Zaninotto from national French TV Channel TF1.
3-D Without the Glasses – thanks to the latest Microsoft technology we won’t have to wear those ridiculous glasses (they’re fun at first but the [...]

Yahoo goes social, MSN gets a facelift and Chinese Supercomputer is No.2 Fastest

Yahoo to turn subscribers’ e-mail contact lists into social networking base – users get a week’s notice before Yahoo launches the new features and there’ll be a single button on the site for opting out entirely
Take a tour of Mars through the eye of a telescope (soon, anyway!)  – Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope Ready for [...]

Geek Pride Day, Back the Bid and Facebook gives back some control over PI

Today is Geek Pride day, so claim your right to be a geek or a nerd. Or not.
Microsoft edging Google out of iPad-like devices. Taiwanese laptop-maker Micro-Star International (MSI) is now the second major Taiwanese vendor to dump an anticipated Google-based tablet launch at Computex in favour of one with Microsoft Windows 7.
Want to stand [...]

Virtual Space Exploration, Google and Microsoft Round 2 and Death to the Console (Long Live the Console)…?

PreEmptive Brings Application Monitoring to Microsoft`s CodePlex – PreEmptive’s Runtime Intelligence Service means open-source developers visiting the CodePlex site will be able to see how applications on the site are performing in the real world, helping them decide if they want to use a particular application.
Death to the console! Long live the console! BT to [...]

3D jQuery Spheres

It’s almost enough to blow your mind (or peg your CPU at least) but over at http://www.devirtuoso.com/ they’ve created a 3D sphere effect in jQuery.

The effect is generated with some clever DOM manipulation rather than using the HTML5 <Canvas /> element which means it’s currently x-browser compatible (that said, though the sample works in IE8 [...]