News related material
Unless you live under a rock (on the moon), you should have heard about the court case against “The Pirate Bay” a torrent tracker site in Sweden, charges are piracy and aiding in committing piracy (well more or less).
If you find the case interesting you can follow it here;
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/yo_ho_ho/index.html
and here
http://live.piratpartiet.se/ (Swedish)
It is an interesting judicial dilemma, and I am quite entrigued in regard to what the outcome will be.
So the storyline from all those SciFi films are one step closer to fulfillment, it would seem that scienstists have optimized earlier effords in this field to provide a even better version of their ‘cloak’.
The technology is complex, but the basics are that you on the one side of an object capture the light and on the otherside re-emits this light, a little like having a camera on the one side and a monitor on the other just in a much larger scale (many small cameras and small monitors).
Read more;
http://news.cnet.com….
The show begins in 10 hours, but the news it out:
The keynote will be shown here in the morning [noon EDT]: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/virtualization/default.mspx
My hosting provider has had some major problems which caused my blog to be agonizingly slow, hence I more or less dropped the idea and stated looking for a new hosting provider.
But in the 11th hour I decided to give my current provider another chance, and now after moving my database to a different server it seem to be working much better.. Lets hope the improvement is permanent, or I’ll have to switch provider 🙁 ..
Atlas it would seem that the Iphone will find its way to Danish consumers, according to Business.dk – Berlingske (a Danish newspaper) Telia has landed an agreement with Apple regarding distribution of the Iphone in Denmark.
http://www.business.dk/article/20080527/techmobil/80527029/
This has however not stopped 8000 Danes in getting hold of an Iphone through alternate distribution channels, a quick search of www.qxl.dk also reveals several Iphones up for sale. These versions are/needs to be ‘jailbroken’ (buildin security lock bypassed) in order to be used in Denmark, and the price for being an ‘early’ user is skyhigh approx US$ 890.
There is no release date announced by Telia regarding their upcomming Danish launch.
A bit of old news here, but it would seem I’m a journalist – cool 🙂 maybe I’ll demand a raise 😉
For more on why that is and why this is a good thing
http://www.tranism.com/weblog/2007/10/
One of the great Sci-fi writers has passed away, Arthur C. Clarke was truly a visionary when it came to foreseeing the future, and will surely be remembered for the movies 2001 and 2010 based upon his books – excellent sci-fi movies even though the 2001 may seem somewhat antiquated by today’s cgi standards.
Virtualization now cross platform
Adobe has taken application virtualization one step further than Softgrid/Thinstall, now you can use the web aware Adobe Air applications on any compatible platform (basically any web-able os).
Its an interesting idea that surely will appeal to many web-service providers.
It’s official folks, the HD format wars is over..
Toshiba has dropped the HD-DVD format.
Pros: Finally we have one standard
Cons: The price war between Sony and Toshiba did a good job of bringing the prices down, then again maybe one standard will call for more hardware suppliers adding BlueRay which again will bring down prices.
Just read about an ingenious new technology “ShotSpotter“, imagine a person firing a handgun and automatically within minutes police arrive without anyone calling them..
How it works? Simple, a number of microphones are placed on top of buildings in larger cities, they detect the special sound pattern of gun shots and by triangulation they can determine the vicinity where the shooting took place.. Clever..
PDF presentation;
http://www.shotspotter.com/news/articles/2007/4%20-%20April/Wired%20Magazine/Wired%20Article%20Eprint%204.10.07.pdf
